Signal Connector for Sterile Barrier Between Surgical Instrument and Teleoperated Actuator

摘要

An instrument sterile drape includes a plastic sheet and an instrument sterile adapter (ISA) coupled to the plastic sheet. The ISA includes bottom and top plates located on opposite sides of the plastic sheet plate and joined together. A passage in the bottom plate allows an instrument carriage flux connection to pass through the plastic sheet and the bottom plate to be adjacent to the top plate. The top plate includes a signal transmission area that will be adjacent to an upper surface of the flux connection of the instrument carriage. A flux connector may close an opening in the signal transmission area of the top plate and provide a path for an electrical or optical signal. The signal transmission area of the top plate may be thinned to allow an RFID sensor to be closer to an RFID device in a surgical instrument attached to the instrument sterile adapter.

主权项

1. An instrument sterile drape comprising:
a plastic sheet; and an instrument sterile adapter (ISA) coupled to the plastic sheet, the ISA including a bottom plate located on a first side of the plastic sheet and a top plate located on a second side of the plastic sheet and joined to the bottom plate, the bottom plate including a passage that allows a flux connection of an instrument carriage to pass through the plastic sheet and the bottom plate to be placed adjacent to the top plate, the top plate including a signal transmission area that will be adjacent to an upper surface of the flux connection of the instrument carriage.