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US 2026/0114870 A1Published application
End tool of surgical instrument, and surgical instrument comprising same
AssigneeLivsmed Inc.
InventorsJaeyeong LEE, Junghwan KIM, Jung Joo LEE, Heejin KIM, Dongkyu JANG
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an end tool of a surgical instrument and a surgical instrument including the same, and more particularly, to an end tool of a surgical instrument that may be mounted on a robotic arm or operable manually to be used in laparoscopic surgery or other various surgeries, wherein the end tool is rotatable in two or more directions and is moved in a way that intuitively matches a motion of a manipulation portion, and a surgical instrument including the same.
Claims18
An end tool of a surgical instrument, the end tool comprising:
- a first jaw and a second jaw that are rotatable independently of each other;
- a first jaw pulley coupled to the first jaw and formed to be rotatable around a first shaft;
- a second jaw pulley coupled to the second jaw and formed to be rotatable around a shaft that is substantially the same as or parallel to the first shaft;
- a first staple pulley formed to be rotatable around a shaft that is substantially the same as or parallel to the first shaft, and arranged adjacent to the first jaw pulley;
- a second staple pulley formed to be rotatable around a shaft that is substantially the same as or parallel to the first shaft, and arranged adjacent to the second jaw pulley;
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- a staple link assembly connected to each of the first staple pulley and the second staple pulley and reciprocating according to bidirectional rotation of the first staple pulley or the second staple pulley.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.