SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS

• US 20080027464A1
• Filed: 07/26/2007
• Published: 01/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hansen Medical Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Hansen Medical Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Carlson, Christopher, Moll, Frederic, Wallace, Daniel, Stahler, Gregory, Barbagli, Frederico
• Application Number:
  US11/829,076
• Publication Number:
  US 20080027464A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/130
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/307 for the urinary organs, e.g. urethroscopes, cystoscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0218 for minimally invasive surgery A61B17/0281, A61B17/0469, A61B17/12013, A61B17/1285, A61B17/29, A61B17/320016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/22004 using mechanical vibrations, e.g. ultrasonic shock waves A61B17/225 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/22031 Gripping instruments, e.g. forceps, for removing or smashing calculi A61B17/221 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/221 Gripping devices in the form of loops or baskets for gripping calculi or similar types of obstructions surgical snare instruments A61B17/32056
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/29 Forceps for use in minimally invasive surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1445 at the distal end of a shaft, e.g. forceps or scissors at the end of a rigid rod
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/26 for producing a shock wave, e.g. laser lithotripsy
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00557 inflatable A61B2017/22051 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/22051 with an inflatable part, e.g. balloon, for positioning, blocking, or immobilisation A61B2017/22048, A61B2017/3486 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/22069 Immobilising; Stabilising
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00577 Ablation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/301 for introducing or steering flexible instruments inserted into the body, e.g. catheters or endoscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/306 using optical fibres
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/373 using light, e.g. by using optical scanners
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/30 Surgical robots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/35 for telesurgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/37 Master-slave robots A61B34/35 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/12 in body cavities or body tracts, e.g. by using catheters catheters per se A61M25/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/1081 having sheaths or the like for covering the balloon but not forming a permanent part of the balloon, e.g. retractable, dissolvable or tearable sheaths
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0105 : Steering means as part of the catheter or advancing means; Markers for positioning systems for detection of markers A61B
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/10 : Balloon catheters A61M25/0125 takes precedence; embolectomy A61B17/22032; retractors A61B17/02; inflatable balloons for placing stents or stent-grafts A61F2/958 ; stomach balloons for treatment of obesity A61F5/0003; oesophagal tubes A61J15/00

Abstract

A robotic surgical system (100) includes an instrument driver (106) that is mounted on an operation table (104), and an instrument assembly (108) is operatively coupled to the instrument driver (106), wherein the instrument assembly (108) includes a flexible guide instrument and a component instrument carried in a lumen of the guide instrument, the component instrument including a light source, camera and laser energy fiber.

Claims

1. A robotic surgical system, comprising:

an instrument driver;

an operator control station operatively coupled to the instrument driver via a remote communication link, wherein user inputs received at the operator control station control movements of mechanisms in the instrument driver;

an instrument assembly operatively coupled to the instrument driver such that the mechanisms of the instrument driver operate or control movements of components of the instrument assembly, the instrument assembly including a flexible elongate guide instrument and a component instrument carried in a lumen of the guide instrument, the component instrument comprising a light source, an image capture device, and an optical tissue treatment fiber.

2. The robotic surgical system of claim 1, the instrument assembly further including an elongate sheath instrument, wherein the guide instrument is carried in, and movable relative to, the sheath instrument.

3. The robotic surgical system of claim 1, wherein the optical tissue treatment fiber comprises a laser fiber.

4. The robotic surgical system of claim 1, wherein the component instrument further comprises a grasper.

5. The robotic surgical system of claim 4, wherein the grasper is movable relative to the guide instrument.

6. The robotic surgical system of claim 1, wherein the component instrument further comprises a basket apparatus.

7. The robotic surgical system of claim 6, wherein the basket apparatus is movable relative to the guide instrument.

8. The robotic surgical system of claim 1, wherein the component instrument further comprises an inflatable balloon carried on a distal end thereof.

9. The robotic surgical system of claim 8, wherein the light source and image capture device are located in an interior of the balloon.

10. The robotic surgical system of claim 1, wherein the component instrument further comprises a cuff apparatus carried on a distal end thereof.

11. The robotic surgical system of claim 8, wherein the light source and image capture device are located in an interior of the cuff apparatus.

12. The robotic surgical system of claim 3, wherein the laser fiber is a lithotripsy laser fiber.

13. The robotic surgical system of claim 12, wherein the lithotripsy laser fiber is a Holmium YAG laser.