Medical arm device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12558191-B2
Application number	US-202117999707-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 30, 2021
Priority date	Jul 9, 2020
Publication date	Feb 24, 2026
Grant date	Feb 24, 2026

Abstract

A medical arm device to support a medical instrument has a tip part with a structure in which three rotation axes are disposed in order of a rotation axis around a longitudinal axis of the medical instrument, a yaw axis that rotates the medical instrument left and right with respect to a tip of a link, and a pitch axis that rotates the medical instrument up and down with respect to the tip of the link, and a first wire for rotation transmission of the yaw axis, a second wire for rotation transmission of the roll axis, a first rerouting pulley that reroutes the first wire between the pitch axis and the yaw axis, a second rerouting pulley that reroutes the second wire between the pitch axis and the yaw axis, and a third rerouting pulley that reroutes the second wire between the yaw axis and the roll axis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A medical arm device comprising:
a first arm part including a tip part that holds a medical instrument and a link that supports the tip part; and a second arm part that supports the first arm part, wherein the tip part includes:
a structure in which three rotation axes are disposed in order of a roll axis around a longitudinal axis of the medical instrument, a yaw axis that rotates the medical instrument left and right with respect to a tip of the link, and a pitch axis that rotates the medical instrument up and down with respect to the tip of the link; and
a first wire for rotation transmission of the yaw axis, a second wire for rotation transmission of the roll axis, a first rerouting pulley that reroutes the first wire between the pitch axis and the yaw axis, a second rerouting pulley that reroutes the second wire between the pitch axis and the yaw axis, and a third rerouting pulley that reroutes the second wire between the yaw axis and the roll axis,
wherein the first wire, the second wire, the first rerouting pulley, the second rerouting pulley, and the third rerouting pulley are disposed on the link, and wherein the medical arm device further includes a plurality of motors disposed on a root side of the link of the first arm part, each of the plurality of motors is fixed such that its rotation axis is parallel to the pitch axis.

2 . The medical arm device according to claim 1 , wherein
the tip part includes a structure in which respective joint members corresponding to the three rotation axes is directly connected.

3 . The medical arm device according to claim 2 , wherein
the tip part includes a structure in which a distance between the joint member corresponding to the roll axis and the joint member corresponding to the pitch axis does not cause interference when the tip part rotates around the pitch axis.

4 . The medical arm device according to claim 1 , wherein
at least one of the first rerouting pulley or the second rerouting pulley includes a set of rerouting pulleys having different diameters disposed on an identical axis on an opposite side of a structure body rotating around the pitch axis.

5 . The medical arm device according to claim 4 , wherein
a shaft constituting an identical axis of the first rerouting pulley or the second rerouting pulley includes an interference avoidance part with a yaw axis pulley around which the first wire is wound to rotate around the yaw axis.

6 . The medical arm device according to claim 5 , wherein
the interference avoidance part includes a D-cut structure part in a central part of the shaft.

7 . The medical arm device according to claim 1 , further comprising
an interference avoidance structure that avoids interference between the second rerouting pulley and the third rerouting pulley during rotation around the yaw axis.

8 . The medical arm device according to claim 7 , wherein
the interference avoidance structure includes a set of rerouting pulleys constituting the second rerouting pulley and disposed such that rotation axes of the set of rerouting pulleys cross each other.

9 . The medical arm device according to claim 7 , wherein
the interference avoidance structure includes a structure in which a plurality of pulleys constituting the third rerouting pulley is disposed in a predetermined region.

10 . The medical arm device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one of a third wire for rotation transmission of the pitch axis, a link mechanism, a gear mechanism, or a motor that directly rotates the pitch axis.

11 . The medical arm device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of motors include:
a pitch axis actuator that supplies a driving force around the pitch axis; a yaw axis actuator that supplies a driving force around the yaw axis; and a roll axis actuator that supplies a driving force around the roll axis.

12 . The medical arm device according to claim 11 , further comprising
a one-rotation absolute encoder used for each of the pitch axis actuator, the yaw axis actuator, and the roll axis actuator to detect a rotation angle of each of the actuators.

13 . The medical arm device according to claim 12 , wherein
the roll axis has a rotation movable range larger than one rotation, and an attitude of the tip part is derived from a measurement value of the absolute encoder using a correction formula based on forward kinematics.

14 . The medical arm device according to claim 13 , wherein
a diameter of an output axis pulley of the roll axis actuator is larger than or equal to a diameter of a roll axis pulley around which the second wire is wound to rotate around the roll axis.

15 . The medical arm device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first two-groove pulley that changes a path of the first wire along the pitch axis; and a second two-groove pulley that changes a path of the second wire along the pitch axis.

16 . The medical arm device according to claim 1 , wherein
an output axis direction of at least one of the plurality of motors drives the tip part having a plurality of degrees of freedom and is disposed on the root side of the link so as to be aligned with a longitudinal direction of the link.

17 . The medical arm device according to claim 16 , wherein
the link includes a section in which the output axis direction of the at least one of the plurality of motors is aligned with the longitudinal direction of the link.

18 . The medical arm device according to claim 16 , wherein
a link rotating actuator that rotates the link with respect to another link is disposed such that a rotation axis of a joint part that rotatably couples the root side a of the link with the another link does not coincide with an output axis of the link rotating actuator.

19 . The medical arm device according to claim 18 , wherein
any one of the plurality of motors is disposed in the joint part.

20 . The medical arm device according to claim 18 , further comprising
a steel belt mechanism that transmits a rotational force of the link rotating actuator to the joint part.

Assignees

• Sony Group Corp
• Sony Group Coproration

Inventors

• Hongo Kazuo
• Arai Jun

Classifications

• A61B34/71

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• A61B34/70

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• A61B34/37

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• A61B90/50 Primary

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