SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND STEERING GEAR FOR SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240358389A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-31

    申请号:US18291770

    申请日:2022-07-25

    发明人: Sven Axel GRÜNER

    摘要: A steering gear for a surgical instrument includes two motorized drives and spatially orients a swash plate by way of the adjustment angles of the two drives, in order to control a deflection mechanism of the surgical instrument. The swash plate is arranged in a steering ring and each of the two motorized drives has a drive shaft driven by a motor and are operatively connected with the steering ring via a respective force transmitter. The first force transmitter contacts the steering ring on a first active portion, and the second force transmitter contacts the steering ring on a second active portion, wherein the steering ring is mounted cardanically around a gimbal center, wherein the active portions have a common sphere center at which a first tilt axis and a second tilt axis is defined by a contact point at a respective first transmitter and second transmitter.

    Force limiting mechanism for surgical instruments

    公开(公告)号:US12127889B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US17631008

    申请日:2020-07-28

    摘要: A force limiting apparatus for a surgical instrument to prevent too much force being applied to the jaws of the instrument. The instrument has a body with a drive shaft coupled to a pair of jaws, a bearing tube secured to the drive shaft, and a pair of tracks carrying a pivot pin that is biased into one end of the track. A lever is coupled to the pivot pin and abuts the bearing tube to move the bearing tube and close the jaws when squeezed by a user. If the lever is over actuated, the pivot pin will slide along the track against the bias of the spring assembly with the lever pivoting about the bearing tube rather than the pivot pin. As a result, the additional movement of lever does not result in any addition force being transmitted to the drive shaft via the bearing tube.