Abstract: A device positions and/or orients in the body of a patient, a surgical tool carried by a tool-holder, including a platform capable of being placed on the body of the patient, an orientable carrier, at least one part of which is rigidly connected to the tool-holder, means for guiding the orientable carrier rotationally relative to the platform in two directions of a plane parallel to the platform, at least 2 pneumatic actuators which engage with the orientable carrier such that a variation in pressure of at least one of the pneumatic actuators causes the orientable carrier to rotate in the first direction and/or the second direction, in which the pneumatic actuators are volumes that can deform in a predetermined direction as a function of the internal pressure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 28, 2009
Date of Patent:
November 3, 2020
Assignees:
Universite Joseph Fourier—Grenoble 1, Universidad Autonoma Del Estado De Mexico
Inventors:
Philippe Cinquin, Juan Carlos Avila Vilchis, Adriana Herlinda Vilchis Gonzalez, Angel Mariano Cruz Abud, Jocelyne Troccaz
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for positioning and/or orienting, in the body of a patient, a surgical tool carried by a tool-holder, including a platform capable of being placed on the body of the patient, an orientable carrier, at least one part of which is rigidly connected to the tool-holder, means for guiding the orientable carrier rotationally relative to the platform in two directions of a plane parallel to the platform, at least 2 pneumatic actuators which engage with the orientable carrier such that a variation in pressure of at least one of the pneumatic actuators causes the orientable carrier to rotate in the first direction and/or the second direction, in which the pneumatic actuators are volumes that can deform in a predetermined direction as a function of the internal pressure.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 28, 2009
Publication date:
June 2, 2011
Applicants:
UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER-GRENOBLE 1, UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DEL ESTADO DE MEXICO
Inventors:
Philippe Cinquin, Juan Carlos Avila Vilchis, Adriana Herinda Vilchis Gonzalez, Angel Mariano Cruz Abud, Jocelyne Troccaz