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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
May. 22, 2020
Applicant:
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Rumen Deyanov, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/12 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 1/012 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/128 (2013.01); A61B 1/00071 (2013.01); A61B 1/0008 (2013.01); A61B 1/012 (2013.01); A61B 1/121 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/4483 (2013.01);
Abstract
A surgical instrument comprises a heat generating component, a heat sink, an elongate shaft extending from the heat generating component to the heat sink, and an elongate thermal conduit extending within the elongate shaft between the heat generating component and the heat sink. The surgical instrument also comprises a movable contact structure thermally coupled between the elongate thermal conduit and the heat generating component. The elongate thermal conduit extends into the movable contact structure and the movable contact structure is movable relative to the heat generating component.