HOLDING DEVICE FOR A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND A SHEATH AND METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR OPERATING A ROBOT WITH SUCH A HOLDING DEVICE

• US 20160000512A1
• Filed: 01/30/2014
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG (ABB Limited)
• Original Assignee: Gomtec Gmbh (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Gombert, Bernd, Rothfuss, Patrick, Schautt, Martin, Krausen, Leopold
• Application Number:
  US14/768,806
• Publication Number:
  US 20160000512A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00477 Coupling A61B2017/0046 takes precedence
• 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 2034/305 Details of wrist mechanisms at distal ends of robotic arms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/30 Surgical robots

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (10) for holding a surgical instrument (11), which is designed to be introduced through a sheath (12) into the body of a patient (2), and a sheath (12). The holding device according to the invention comprises a first holder (26) for the surgical instrument and a second holder (18) for the sheath. Furthermore, a drive unit (27) is provided by means of which said second holder (18) can be moved relative to said first holder in the longitudinal direction (15) and/or the direction of rotation of the surgical instrument (11).

Claims

1. A device for holding a surgical instrument having a shaft which extends in a longitudinal direction and a sheath, comprising a first holder for the surgical instrument and a second holder for the sheath, and a first drive unit, by which the second holder is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the surgical instrument, relative to the first holder, wherein a guide is provided which is fixed in relation to the first holder and which connects the first holder and the second holder mechanically with one another, and wherein the second holder can slide on the guide such that it is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the surgical instrument.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first drive unit is designed as a motor-transmission unit comprising an electric motor and a mechanical transmission.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first drive unit is integrated in the first holder.

4. The device according to claim 1, with a second drive unit which is integrated in the second holder and drives the sheath in rotation about its longitudinal axis.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first drive unit comprises a nut and lead-screw drive.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein the second drive unit is designed as a motor-transmission unit having an electric motor and a holding unit, in particular a sleeve, rotatably driven by the electric motor.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein it includes a device for fixing to a robot.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the instrument is moved according to the motion of the robot and the sheath is moved relative to the robot.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein it comprises an electrical and/or mechanical interface, via which forces, torques, electrical power and/or data may be transmitted.

10. (canceled)

18. The device according to claim 10, wherein the first drive unit is integrated in the first holder.

19. The device according to claim 10, with a device for fixing on a robot, wherein the instrument is moved according to the motion of the robot and the sheath is moved relative to the robot.

11. A device for holding a surgical instrument having a shaft which extends in a longitudinal direction and a sheath, comprising a first holder for the surgical instrument, a second holder for the sheath and a first drive unit, by which the second holder is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the surgical instrument relative to the first holder, wherein an arm is provided which mechanically connects the first holder and the second holder with one another, the second holder is fixed on the arm, and wherein the arm is movably arranged relative to the first holder such that the arm together with the second holder is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the surgical instrument relative to the first holder.

12. A method for operating a robot having a robotic head to which a holding device for holding at least one surgical instrument or tool and a sheath is attached, wherein the surgical instrument has a shaft extending in a longitudinal direction, with the following steps:

Displacement of the robotic head and/or a patient treated by the robot and/or the instruments guided by the robot and;

Simultaneous execution of a counter-movement by the sheath, wherein the sheath is displaced in the longitudinal direction of the surgical instrument and/or rotated about its longitudinal axis so that the relative motion of the sheath at the point of incision of the patient caused by motion of the robotic head and/or of the patient and/or of the instrument can be compensated as much as possible.

13. The method according to claim 12, with the following steps:

Displacement of the robotic head in the longitudinal direction of the surgical instrument, and/or

Rotation of the robotic head about the longitudinal axis of the surgical instrument, and/or

Pivoting of the robotic head about the point of incision and/or

Rotation of the surgical instrument about the longitudinal axis of the surgical instrument.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the sheath is displaced in the opposite direction of the movement of the robotic head by means of a drive unit.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the sheath is displaced in the longitudinal direction of the surgical instrument by means of a first drive unit and/or is rotated about the longitudinal axis of the surgical instrument by means of a second drive unit.

16. The method according to claim 12, with the following steps:

Altering of the position of the patient in the longitudinal direction of the surgical instrument and/or

Rotation of the body of the patient about the longitudinal axis of the surgical instrument, and

Adjusting of the sheath such that the relative movement of the patient to the sheath is compensated at the point of incision of the patient.

17. A control unit comprising a device for performing the methods according to claim 13.