APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ROBOTIC MICROSURGERY

• Main Authors: TSAO, TSUIN, PRINCE, STEPHEN W, HUBSCHMAN, JEAN PIERRE, WILSON, JASON T, BOURGES, JEAN-LOUIS, SCHWARTZ, STEVEN D
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 17.11.2011
• Subjects: CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; DIAGNOSIS; HAND TOOLS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MANIPULATORS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; SURGERY; TRANSPORTING

A system for microsurgery includes a first assembly and a second assembly, each including: (1) a planar remote center of motion (RCM) device configured to constrain motion of a surgical instrument attached to the planar RCM device such that an axis of the surgical instrument passes through the RCM w...