Pivotable stabilizer tool for total endoscopic coronary artery bypass
OwnerTakeshi Tsubouchiinventor
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Abstract
A stabilizer for minimally invasive cardiac surgery has a pair of stabilizer members which are individually inserted into a patient and assembled to a robotic arm internally. Each stabilizer member has a suction pod at a distal end and a mounting section at a proximal end. The mounting section includes a fixed tab and a rotatable lever arm with a movable tab on a first end of the rotatable lever arm. The tabs are configured to extend through an opening in a respective jaw of a robotic arm. A lever operator is coupled to the lever arm and is configured to pivot the lever arm between an expanded state of the tabs and a contracted state of the tabs.
Claims10
A stabilizer for minimally invasive cardiac surgery, the stabilizer comprising:
- a stabilizer member having a distal end, a proximal end, a suction pod at the distal end, a mounting section at the proximal end, and a lever arm that is rotatable, wherein the mounting section includes a fixed tab and a movable tab on a first end of the lever arm, wherein the fixed tab and movable tab are configured to extend through an opening in a respective jaw of a robotic arm;
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- a lever operator coupled to the lever arm and configured to pivot the lever arm between an expanded state and a contracted state,
- wherein when the stabilizer member is in the contracted state, the fixed tab and the movable tab are configured to pass through the opening in the respective jaw, and
- wherein when the stabilizer member is in the expanded state, the fixed tab and the movable tab lock the stabilizer member to the respective jaw.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.