Surgical system with electro-mechanical interfaces to mount robotic surgical arms
AssigneeIntuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
InventorsWilliam A. Burbank, Scott Luke, Dean F. Hoorneart
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Abstract
In one embodiment of the invention, a method of mounting a surgical robotic arm to a set-up arm of a robotic surgical system is provided that includes sliding a pair of guide slots of the surgical robotic arm over a pair of guide tabs in the set-up arm; aligning electrical connectors in the set-up arm to electrical connectors of the surgical robotic arm; and coincidentally mating male electrical connectors to female electrical connectors while finally mating the guide tabs in the set-up arm to flanges of a housing of the surgical robotic arm.
Claims9
A robotic surgical system comprising:
- a set-up arm including
- a first housing;
- a first mounting bracket coupled to the first housing, the first mounting bracket having a left mounting rail with a left guide tab coupled thereto and a right mounting rail with a right guide tab coupled thereto, the first mounting bracket adapted to couple a surgical robotic arm to the set-up arm and support the surgical arm in a suspended position;
- a first electrical connector slidingly coupled to the first mounting bracket to float into alignment;
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- a second electrical connector slidingly coupled to the first mounting bracket to float into alignment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.