Surgical stapling instruments with rotatable staple deployment arrangements
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1. A surgical stapling instrument, comprising:
- an actuation system for selectively generating a plurality of control motions; and
a surgical end effector operably coupled to said actuation system, said surgical end effector comprising;
a surgical staple cartridge operably supporting a plurality of surgical staples arranged in at least two spaced staple lines; and
an actuation member operably interfacing with said actuation system such that upon application of said control motions thereto, said actuation member is axially driven within said surgical staple cartridge between a starting position and an ending position, said actuation member having rotatable staple camming members thereon corresponding to each one of said at least two staple lines such that as said actuation member is driven from said starting to said ending position, each said rotatable camming member is rotated into camming driving engagement with said surgical staples in said corresponding staple lines,wherein said surgical stapling instrument comprises a portion of a robotic surgical system configured to automatically extract the surgical staple cartridge from said surgical end effector and load an unfired surgical staple cartridge in said surgical end effector.
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Abstract
A surgical stapling instrument. Various embodiments include an actuation system for selectively generating a plurality of control motions. A surgical end effector is operably coupled to the actuation system. The actuation system interfaces with an actuation member configured to operably engage rotatable camming members to fire staples within the end effector into forming contact with an anvil portion of the end effector.
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1. A surgical stapling instrument, comprising:
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an actuation system for selectively generating a plurality of control motions; and a surgical end effector operably coupled to said actuation system, said surgical end effector comprising; a surgical staple cartridge operably supporting a plurality of surgical staples arranged in at least two spaced staple lines; and an actuation member operably interfacing with said actuation system such that upon application of said control motions thereto, said actuation member is axially driven within said surgical staple cartridge between a starting position and an ending position, said actuation member having rotatable staple camming members thereon corresponding to each one of said at least two staple lines such that as said actuation member is driven from said starting to said ending position, each said rotatable camming member is rotated into camming driving engagement with said surgical staples in said corresponding staple lines, wherein said surgical stapling instrument comprises a portion of a robotic surgical system configured to automatically extract the surgical staple cartridge from said surgical end effector and load an unfired surgical staple cartridge in said surgical end effector. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A surgical stapling instrument comprising:
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an actuation system for selectively generating a plurality of control motions; and a surgical end effector operably coupled to said actuation system, said surgical end effector comprising; an anvil that is movable between an open position and a closed position in response to closure motions applied thereto by said actuation system; a surgical staple cartridge operably supporting a plurality of linearly arranged pusher members therein, each said pusher member operably supporting at least one unformed surgical staple thereon; a plurality of linearly arranged staple drivers corresponding to said plurality of linearly arranged pusher members, each said staple driver being rotatably supported within said end effector; and an actuation member operably interfacing with said actuation system such that upon application of firing control motions thereto, said actuation member is axially driven within said surgical staple cartridge between a starting position and an ending position, and wherein said actuation member is configured to move each said staple driver into rotatable camming engagement with each said corresponding pusher member to drive said at least one unformed surgical staple supported thereon into forming contact with said anvil as said actuation member is driven from said starting position to said ending position, wherein said surgical stapling instrument comprises a portion of a robotic surgical system configured to automatically decouple said surgical end effector from said surgical stapling instrument and couple a different surgical end effector to said surgical stapling instrument. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A surgical stapling instrument comprising:
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an actuation system for selectively generating a plurality of control motions; and a surgical end effector operably coupled to said actuation system, said surgical end effector comprising; an anvil that is movable between an open position and a closed position in response to closure motions applied thereto by said actuation system; a surgical staple cartridge operably supporting a plurality of linearly arranged pusher members therein, each said pusher member operably supporting at least one unformed surgical staple thereon; an actuation member operably interfacing with said actuation system such that upon application of said control motions thereto, said actuation member is axially driven within said surgical staple cartridge between a starting position and an ending position; and camming means interfacing with said actuation member such that as said actuation member is driven from said starting to said ending position, said camming means are moved into rotatable camming engagement with each said pusher member to drive said at least one unformed surgical staple supported thereon into forming contact with said anvil when said anvil is in said closed position, wherein said surgical stapling instrument is couplable to a robotic surgical system configured to automatically replace said surgical staple cartridge with another surgical staple cartridge. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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