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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2008
Atsushi Nishikawa, Suita, JP;
Fumio Miyazaki, Suita, JP;
Mitsugu Sekimoto, Suita, JP;
Kazuhiro Taniguchi, Suita, JP;
Kohei Kazuhara, Izumi, JP;
Takeharu Kobayashi, Izumi, JP;
Takaharu Ichihara, Izumi, JP;
Naoto Kurashita, Izumi, JP;
Atsushi Nishikawa, Suita, JP;
Fumio Miyazaki, Suita, JP;
Mitsugu Sekimoto, Suita, JP;
Kazuhiro Taniguchi, Suita, JP;
Kohei Kazuhara, Izumi, JP;
Takeharu Kobayashi, Izumi, JP;
Takaharu Ichihara, Izumi, JP;
Naoto Kurashita, Izumi, JP;
Osaka University, , JP;
Daiken Iki Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Abstract
A clean and inexpensive medical manipulator device can be provided in which a risk of failure caused by current leakage or disconnection is eliminated and reliability is higher than in a manipulator device using an electrically driven actuator or electric motor. The medical manipulator device includes a stage sectionthat can hold a medical instrument; a plurality of actuatorseach linked at one end to the stage section; and a base sectionlinked to the other end of each of the plurality of actuatorsand serving as a base for the plurality of actuators, wherein each of the actuatorscauses the medical instrumentand the stage sectionto displace with respect to the base sectionby extending or contracting in the longitudinal direction of the actuatorin response to a pressure of a liquid