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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2018
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alec Paul Robertson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Simon Peter DiMaio, San Carlos, CA (US);
Kollin Myles Tierling, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Theodore W. Rogers, Alameda, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A surgical system drape includes: a sheath having an interior cavity sized to cover a portion of a surgical system manipulator; an adaptor coupled to the sheath and including a manipulator interface and an instrument interface, the manipulator interface configured to couple with a drive interface of the manipulator, the instrument interface being configured to couple with a drive interface of a surgical instrument mounted to the manipulator; and a fluid conduit coupled to the sheath and extending within the interior cavity of the sheath, the fluid conduit configured to receive a flow of cooling fluid at a fluid port and convey the fluid along the interior cavity of the sheath to cool a component of a portion of the manipulator.