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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2016
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuharu Fukushima, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Kokubo, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To make it possible to configure a medical support arm apparatus which does not impair operability for the surgeon, and which is also compact. Provided is a medical support arm apparatus including: an arm section configured so that a medical tool is provided on a front end, and movable axes are arranged so that the arm section has at least six degrees of freedom. Among the movable axes, a movable axis provided on the front end side that prescribes an attitude of the medical tool is a passive axis that rotates by following an external force, and at least one axis provided on a base end side that prescribes a position of the medical tool is a drive axis driven by an actuator.