US 12,357,342 B2
Scalpel guide
Jorn Richter, Oberdorf (CH); Roman Lomeli, Raynham, MA (US); and Philippe Lindenmann, Raynham, MA (US)
Assigned to Medos International Sarl, LeLocie (CH)
Filed by Medos International Sarl, LeLocle (CH)
Filed on Dec. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/061,779.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/385,288, filed on Nov. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0173047 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 17/3211 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 17/3211 (2013.01) [A61B 34/37 (2016.02); A61B 2017/320052 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A scalpel guide, comprising
a body having a first face and a second face, the body sized and shaped to be at least partially inserted into an aperture of a tool guide of a surgical system, the body having a shoulder extending outwardly from a portion of the body, the shoulder having a lower face, the body having a first central axis extending through a center of the body, the body having an outer peripheral surface extending from the upper face to the lower face;
the body having spaced apart first side and a second side forming a first guide slot extending through the body from the first face to the second face, the first guide slot having a second central axis substantially coaxially aligned with the first central axis of the body, the first guide slot sized and shaped to receive a body of a scalpel and guide a blade of the scalpel along the second central axis; and
the body having spaced apart sides forming a second guide slot having a third central axis substantially coaxially aligned with the first central axis of the scalpel guide and the second central axis of the first guide slot, the second guide slot having an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion of the second guide slot formed in and extending through the body and the shoulder from the first face of the body to the lower face of the shoulder and not intersecting the outer peripheral surface of the body, the lower portion having a channel extending through the body from the lower face of the shoulder to the second face of the body with sides of the channel defined by opposing sides, the channel defining a trajectory plane that extends through a center of the channel transversely and intersects the third central axis, wherein the second guide slot is arranged such that the body of the scalpel inserted in the second guide slot is guided vertically by the sides of the second guide slot and allowed to move horizontally across the channel along the trajectory plane.