Active trocar

• US 20030233102A1
• Filed: 01/30/2003
• Published: 12/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: University of Tokyo
• Original Assignee: University of Tokyo
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Yuki, Okada, Masafumi, Nakamura, Yoshihiko
• Application Number:
  US10/353,915
• Publication Number:
  US 20030233102A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/130
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3403 Needle locating or guiding means guides for suture needles A61B17/0482; guiding or tracking by nuclear magnetic resonance G01R33/285
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3476 Powered trocars, e.g. electrosurgical cutting, lasers, powered knives
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/506 using a parallelogram linkage, e.g. panthograph
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/30 Surgical robots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/70 Manipulators specially adapted for use in surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/11 with guides for needles or instruments, e.g. arcuate slides or ball joints

Abstract

Provided is a small-sized surgery support robot (active trocar), in which the occupied range of space within the operating room is reduced with hardly reducing any degrees of freedom. The active trocar includes a first parallel crank quadric chain 7 containing a base link 3 supported on a base 2, which is fixed to a surgical bed, to be swingable around a first swinging axis O1; a second parallel crank quadric chain 11 containing two links 4 and 6 respectively unitized with links 4 and 6 of the first parallel crank quadric chain 7, in which a support link 10 of the four links intersecting the base link 3 is swung around a second swinging axis O2 intersecting the first swinging axis O1 at a right angle at a position spaced from the base link 3, and the support link supports the tube 13 in such an orientation that a central axis OT of the tube passes an intersection point P so as to be able to freely advance and retract the tube; a first swing drive means 16 for swinging the base link 3 around the first swinging axis O1 with respect to the base 2; a second swing drive means 17 for swinging the link 4 with respect to the base link 3; and an advancement and retraction drive means 18 for advancing and retracting the tube 13 with respect to the support link 10.

Claims

1. An active trocar for swinging a tube inserted in a hole around a vicinity of a center of the hole and advancing and retracting the tube, the hole being opened in an abdominal wall of a body on a surgical bed, comprising:

a first parallel crank quadric chain, including four links containing a base link supported on a base to be swingable around a first swinging axis, the base being relatively fixed to the surgical bed, the four links being coupled to each other to be individually rotatable around rotating axes parallel to each other and orthogonal to the first swinging axis, lines each connecting the two rotating axes of the respective links forming a parallelogram;

a second parallel crank quadric chain, including four links containing two links respectively unitized with the link of said first parallel crank quadric chain rotatably coupled to said base link and with the link thereof in which a line connecting two rotating axes thereof is parallel to the line connecting the two rotating axes of said base link, the four links being coupled to each other to be individually rotatable around rotating axes parallel to each other and parallel to the rotating axes of said first parallel crank quadric chain, lines each connecting the two rotating axes of the respective links forming a parallelogram,

wherein a support link among the remainder other than said two links in the four links, in which a line connecting the two rotating axes thereof intersects the line connecting the two rotating axes of said base link, is swung around a second swinging axis intersecting the first swinging axis at a right angle at a position spaced from said base link, and

said support link supports the tube in such an orientation that a central axis of the tube passes an intersection point of the first swinging axis and the second swinging axis so as to be able to freely advance and retract the tube in an extending direction of the central axis of the tube;

a first swing drive means for swinging said base link around the first swinging axis with respect to the base to swing said support link around the first swinging axis;

a second swing drive means for swinging the link of said first parallel crank quadric chain rotatably coupled to said base link with respect to the base link to swing said support link around the second swinging axis; and

an advancement and retraction drive means for advancing and retracting the tube in the extending direction of the central axis of the tube with respect to said support link.

2. The active trocar according to claim 1, further comprising,

a rotation drive means for rotating an instrument inserted through the tube around the central axis of the tube.