US 12,324,640 B2
Medical robot
Naoya Morita, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to RIVERFIELD INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by RIVERFIELD INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/876,133.
Application 17/876,133 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/006364, filed on Feb. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0000575 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 34/30 (2016.02) [A61B 34/74 (2016.02); A61B 2034/305 (2016.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical robot comprising:
an arm unit;
a controller that controls driving of the arm unit;
a holding body that is connected to the arm unit at a connection portion of the holding body and that holds a held body; and
a selector switch provided on the holding body, the selector switch selectively switching between a control state in which the driving of the arm unit is controlled by the controller and a manual state in which control by the controller is released,
wherein the selector switch is disposed on one or both sides of a reference plane including an extending direction of the arm unit and an extending direction of the held body, and
the controller performs control to switch between the control state and the manual state based on an operation signal from the selector switch.