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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2023
Karl Storz SE & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Sven Axel Grüner, Tuttlingen, DE;
KARL STORZ S.E. & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a steering gear for a surgical instrument and the surgical instrument. The steering gear includes two drives for the spatial alignment of a wobble plate rotatively coupled to a main shaft rotatable about a gimbal. The steering gear includes two linear slides each displaceably arranged along a guide axis connected to the two drives. Each linear slide is operatively connected to the wobble plate by an engagement element pair having an engagement opening and a lever element having a rod portion, and a head portion. One of the engagement elements is present on a circumference of the wobble plate and the other engagement element of the engagement element pair is present on a surface portion of the respective linear slide facing the wobble plate, said surface portion being a surface portion on a longitudinal side of the linear slide parallel to the guide axis.