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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2005
Filed:
May. 02, 2003
Klaus M. Irion, Liptingen, DE;
Ralph Boehm, Bodman-Ludwigshafen, DE;
Stefan Kolberg, Friedberg-Bachern, DE;
Thomas Viebach, Pischertshofen, DE;
Klaus M. Irion, Liptingen, DE;
Ralph Boehm, Bodman-Ludwigshafen, DE;
Stefan Kolberg, Friedberg-Bachern, DE;
Thomas Viebach, Pischertshofen, DE;
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, , DE;
Abstract
A simulator apparatus with at least two degrees of freedom of movement for an instrument that has an elongated shaft, having a holding device for the instrument, the holding device being designed such that the instrument has at least a first degree of freedom of a swiveling movement about a first swivel axis and at least a second degree of freedom of swiveling movement about a second swivel axis, running perpendicular to the first swivel axis. The holding device has a cardanic suspension that has a spherical element which is suspended such that it can rotate about the first swivel axis and about the second swivel axis, and in which the shaft is partly held.