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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2020
Applicant:
Covidien Lp, Mansfield, MA (US);
Inventors:
Todd A. Ballantyne, Nashua, NH (US);
Stefan Joerg, Munich, DE;
Paul M. Loschak, Somerville, MA (US);
Assignee:
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/37 (2016.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/37 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2048 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2059 (2016.02); A61B 2090/371 (2016.02); A61B 2090/376 (2016.02); A61B 2090/378 (2016.02);
Abstract
A process for determining a pitch angle of a support arm for a linkage of a robot includes receiving accelerometer readings from an inertial measurement unit of an instrument drive unit (IDU) within a frame of the IDU and calculating the pitch angle of the support arm from a horizontal of a base of the robot.