Robotic and navigated rod bending
AssigneeGlobus Medical, Inc.
InventorsDavid Leff, Timothy James, Douglas Mandell
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Abstract
Rod bending instruments, systems, and methods thereof for robotic and navigated rod bending of a rod for spinal surgeries. A system for bending a spinal rod includes a rod bending assembly and an automatic or navigated feeding system. The rod bending assembly includes a bender box having a fixed coupling member and an actuated coupling member. A rod cutter is attachable to the fixed coupling member and a bending mandrel is attachable to the actuated coupling member, for example, over a sterile drape. The automatic or navigated feeding system is configured to feed a spinal rod into the rod bending assembly to bend and contour the spinal rod into a complex three-dimensional shape.
Claims7
An automatic rod bender system comprising:
- a surgical robot comprising a base having transport handles and including a computer, a robot arm electronically coupled to the computer and moveable based on commands processed by the computer, and an end-effector coupled to the arm;
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- a rod bender assembly attachable to the transport handles of the surgical robot, the rod bender assembly comprising a bender box having a fixed coupling member and an actuated coupling member, a rod cutter attachable to the fixed coupling member, and a bending mandrel attachable to the actuated coupling member,
- wherein the end-effector is configured to hold one end of a spinal rod to automatically feed and rotate the rod through the rod bender assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.