US 11,890,013 B2
Stapler reload detection and identification
William Burbank, Sandy Hook, CT (US); Matthew A. Wixey, San Jose, CA (US); Nicholas Ragosta, San Francisco, CA (US); David W. Weir, San Carlos, CA (US); Emily Cooper, Mountain View, CA (US); and Melody Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on May 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/745,757.
Application 17/745,757 is a continuation of application No. 16/331,692, granted, now 11,364,029, previously published as PCT/US2017/050747, filed on Sep. 8, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/385,649, filed on Sep. 9, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0273309 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/072 (2006.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 34/35 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 17/07207 (2013.01) [A61B 34/00 (2016.02); A61B 34/30 (2016.02); A61B 34/35 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00017 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0023 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00075 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07278 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07285 (2013.01); A61B 2090/0814 (2016.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a manipulator, the manipulator being configured to have an instrument mounted thereto, the instrument including an end effector configured for mounting of a replaceable stapler cartridge and a pusher member configured to articulate a staple pushing shuttle of the replaceable stapler cartridge to deploy staples from the replaceable stapler cartridge;
an actuation mechanism drivingly coupled with the pusher member; and
a control unit configured to:
control operation of the actuation mechanism to move the pusher member from a first position to a second position, wherein at the second position, the pusher member makes contact with a portion of the replaceable stapler cartridge or a portion of the end effector;
determine a length that the pusher member moves from the first position to the second position; and
determine, based on the length that the pusher member moves, an operational status of the instrument relating to the replaceable stapler cartridge.