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US 2026/0294413 A1Published application
Pre-tensioning pull wires in robotic surgical instruments
AssigneeAuris Health, Inc.
InventorsRobert Mason GLIDDEN, IV, Boney Charles MEJIA
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Abstract
A surgical system is disclosed that includes a housing, a scope extending from the housing, first and second wires operably coupled to the scope and extending into the housing, a pulley rotatably mounted within the housing and defining a slot extending between first and second supports of the pulley, and a wire anchor received within the slot and configured to receive the first and second wires, wherein joining the wire anchor to the first and second wires operably couples the first and second wires to the pulley.
Claims20
A surgical system, comprising:
- a housing;
- a scope extending from the housing;
- first and second wires operably coupled to the scope and extending into the housing;
- a pulley rotatably mounted within the housing and defining a slot extending between first and second supports of the pulley;
- and
- a wire anchor received within the slot and configured to receive the first and second wires,
- wherein joining the wire anchor to the first and second wires operably couples the first and second wires to the pulley.
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A method, comprising:
- feeding a first wire through a wire anchor positioned in a slot of a pulley rotatably mounted within a housing of a surgical instrument;
- feeding a second wire through the wire anchor;
- and
- joining the wire anchor to the first and second wires to operably couple the first and second wires to the pulley.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.