US 11,666,399 B2
Robotic surgical instrument including instrument rotation based on translation position
Elizabeth Gayle Shields, Somerville, MA (US); Chi Min Seow, New Haven, CT (US); Jaimeen Kapadia, Cambridge, MA (US); Eric J. Taylor, Southington, CT (US); Richard S. Lech, Hamden, CT (US); Mark Hamilton MacLeod, Southbury, CT (US); Michael Zemlok, Prospect, CT (US); and Vipul Agarwal, Brookline, MA (US)
Assigned to COVIDIEN LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Appl. No. 16/759,189
Filed by Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 28, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/062699
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 24, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/108564, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 6, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/592,450, filed on Nov. 30, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0323597 A1, Oct. 15, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 34/35 (2016.01); A61B 46/10 (2016.01); A61B 17/068 (2006.01); A61B 17/072 (2006.01); A61B 17/29 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 34/35 (2016.02) [A61B 17/0686 (2013.01); A61B 17/072 (2013.01); A61B 17/29 (2013.01); A61B 46/10 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A robotic surgical system, comprising:
a slide rail;
a surgical instrument defining a longitudinal axis; and
a robotic surgical assembly coupled to the slide rail and translatable along the slide rail between a first position and a second position, the robotic surgical assembly including an instrument drive unit and a sterile interface module coupled to the instrument drive unit, the surgical instrument selectively coupled to the sterile interface module, the sterile interface module rotatable with the surgical instrument about the longitudinal axis of the surgical instrument and relative to the slide rail to a predetermined orientation relative to the slide rail when the robotic surgical assembly is disposed at the first position, the surgical instrument removable from the sterile interface module when the sterile interface module and the surgical instrument are disposed in the first position.