Instrument release
AssigneeIntuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
InventorsBram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht, Robert E. Holop
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Abstract
A medical instrument includes a backend and a pair of release elements. The backend includes a docking feature shaped to engage a docking structure such as a docking port of a surgical robot or a sterile adaptor for a surgical robot. Each release element is coupled to the backend and may include an activation feature on one side of the backend and a push tab extending from either an opposite side or the same side of the backend. Movement of the activation features moves the push tabs from being aligned with the docking feature to pushing on the docking structure, permitting the medical instrument to be disengaged from the docking structure. Optionally, a coupling of the release elements limits a movement of the activation features.
Claims20
A medical instrument comprising:
- a backend including a docking feature shaped to engage a docking structure;
- a first release lever coupled to the backend and including a first activation feature on a first side of the backend and a first push tab extending from a second side of the backend, the second side being opposite to the first side;
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- a second release lever coupled to the backend and including a second activation feature on the second side of the backend and a second push tab extending from the first side of the backend;
- wherein a movement of the first and second activation features moves the first and second push tabs from being aligned with the docking feature to pushing on a portion of the docking structure to separate the portion of the docking structure and the backend.
A medical instrument comprising:
- a backend including a docking feature shaped to engage a docking structure;
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- a release mechanism including:
- a first release element including a first activation feature on a first side of the backend,
- a second release element including a second activation feature on a second side of the backend opposite the first side,
- a first push tab extending from the first side of the backend, and
- a second push tab extending from the second side of the backend,
- wherein the first release element and the second release element are coupled together to limit a movement of the first and second activation features, and
- wherein the movement of the first and second activation features moves the first and second push tabs from being aligned with the docking feature to pushing on a portion of the docking structure to separate the portion of the docking structure and the backend.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.