Instrument Device Manipulator and Surgical Drape

• US 20170065357A1
• Filed: 09/09/2016
• Published: 03/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Auris Health, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Auris Surgical Robotics, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Schuh, Travis
• Granted Patent: US 9,737,373 B2
• 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 2034/305 Details of wrist mechanisms at distal ends of robotic arms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/00 Computer-aided surgery; Manipulators or robots specially adapted for use in surgery
• 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 46/00 Surgical drapes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 46/10 specially adapted for instruments, e.g. microscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/50 Supports for surgical instruments, e.g. articulated arms

Abstract

An instrument device manipulator (IDM) is attached to a surgical arm of a robotic system and comprises a surgical tool holder and an outer housing. The surgical tool holder includes an attachment interface that can secure a surgical tool in a front-mount configuration (where the attachment interface is on a face opposite of a proximal extension of the surgical tool) or a back-mount configuration (where the attachment interface is on the same face as the proximal extension of the surgical tool). The surgical tool holder may rotate continuously within the outer housing. In a back-mount configuration, the surgical tool holder may have a passage that receives the proximal extension of the tool and allows free rotation of the proximal extension about the rotational axis. A surgical drape separates the IDM and robotic arm from a tool, while allowing electrical and/or optical signals to pass therebetween.

Claims

1. A surgical drape comprising:

a sheet configured to cover at least portions of a surgical robotic system;

a first protrusion and a second protrusion connected to the sheet, the first and second protrusions insertable into opposite openings of a passage of a surgical tool holder; and

a securing interface on the first protrusion configured to mate with a reciprocal securing interface on the second protrusion when the first protrusion and the second protrusion are inserted into opposite openings of the passage of the surgical tool holder.

2. The surgical drape of claim 1, wherein the first protrusion and the second protrusion are each structured as a tube.

3. The surgical drape of claim 1, wherein the first protrusion and the second protrusion are configured to receive a portion of a proximal extension of a surgical tool.

4. The surgical drape of claim 1, wherein the securing interface on the first protrusion is structured as two concentric tubes including a space between the tubes that is configured to receive the reciprocal securing interface.

5. The surgical drape of claim 1, wherein the reciprocal securing interface on the second protrusion is structured such that the distal portion of the second protrusion tapers inwards relative to the second protrusion.

6. The surgical drape of claim 1, wherein the securing interface and the reciprocal securing interface are configured to mate when the first protrusion and the second protrusion are inserted into opposite openings of the passage.

7. The surgical drape of claim 1, wherein the sheet is further configured to cover at least portions of a surgical tool holder that is configured to rotate.

8. The surgical drape of claim 1, wherein a rotational axis of the surgical tool holder is collinear with a longitudinal axis of the passage of the surgical tool holder when the surgical drape is installed on the surgical tool holder.

9. The surgical drape of claim 1, wherein the surgical drape creates a sterile boundary between the surgical tool holder and the surgical tool.

10. The surgical drape of claim 1, wherein the sheet further comprises:

a sterile adapter connected to a portion of the sheet and to the first protrusion such that the sterile adapter covers a tool attachment interface at a first end of the surgical tool holder.

11. The surgical drape of claim 10, wherein the sterile adapter is positioned between the surgical tool holder and a surgical tool attached to the surgical tool holder via the tool attachment interface.

12. The surgical drape of claim 10, wherein the sterile adapter comprises an outer ring connected to the sheet and an inner disk connected to the first protrusion such that the inner disk is rotatably secured within the outer ring.

13. The surgical drape of claim 12, wherein the surgical tool holder is configured to rotate, such that the inner disk rotates with the surgical tool holder.

14. The surgical drape of claim 10, wherein the tool attachment interface comprises a plurality of torque couplers protruding outwards from the attachment interface, and the inner disk comprises a coupler for each torque coupler.

15. The surgical drape of claim 14, wherein each coupler is configured to couple a torque coupler to an instrument input of a surgical tool, such that movement of the torque coupler causes movement of the instrument input.

16. The surgical drape of claim 10, wherein the inner disk is a membrane that sheaths the plurality of torque couplers on the attachment interface.

17. The surgical drape of claim 10, wherein the sheet further comprises a second sterile adapter connected to a portion of the sheet and to the second protrusion such that the second sterile adapter covers a second end of the surgical tool holder.

18. The surgical drape of claim 10, wherein the sterile adapter is capable of transmitting data, power, and electrical signals from the surgical tool holder to the surgical tool.

19. The surgical drape of claim 10, wherein the sterile adapter is capable of transmitting data, power, and electrical signals to the surgical tool holder from the surgical tool.