US 12,133,775 B2
Adapter for a robotic surgical tool cleaning system
Ryne Derrick Radermacher, Liberty Township, OH (US); Mark Ronningen Burchnall, Cincinnati, OH (US); Bradley Jacob Sabo, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Nicholas Martin Kloppenborg, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Assigned to Cilag GmbH International, Zug (CH)
Filed by Cilag GmbH International, Zug (CH)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/920,989.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/871,963, filed on Jul. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0007828 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 90/70 (2016.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.01); A61L 2/18 (2006.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 90/70 (2016.02) [A61B 34/37 (2016.02); A61L 2/18 (2013.01); A61B 2034/301 (2016.02); A61B 2034/302 (2016.02); A61L 2202/15 (2013.01); A61L 2202/17 (2013.01); A61L 2202/24 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An adapter for a robotic surgical tool autowasher system, comprising:
a frame matable with a drive housing of the robotic surgical tool;
a shoulder defined on the frame and at least partially circumscribing a basin defined in the frame;
one or more fluid apertures defined in the basin and extending through the frame from a top surface to a bottom surface; and
one or more alignment features protruding from the frame and arranged to align with and extend into a corresponding one or more apertures defined in a bottom of the drive housing,
wherein at least one of the one or more alignment features only partially plugs an associated aperture of the corresponding one or more apertures.