Patents by Inventor Bruno Fournier

Bruno Fournier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240058081
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catheter robot including: a base, at least two catheter translation modules supported by the base, each catheter translation module including: only one set of movable parts so as to translate longitudinally at a time only one flexible elongated medical element, a group of several crossing tracks within which several corresponding flexible elongated medical elements can translate through the catheter translation module, a switch to direct the single set of movable parts in any of the crossing tracks so as to then translate longitudinally the corresponding flexible elongated medical element, the first and second catheter translation modules being longitudinally spaced apart from each other so that: respective groups of crossing tracks of both catheter translation modules are facing each other so that a given flexible elongated medical element which translates within a crossing track of one group also translates within a crossing track of the other group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Bruno FOURNIER, Marc BOULANGÉ, Alexis BELOUIN
  • Publication number: 20240050170
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catheter robot including: a base supporting at least three catheter translation modules, each module including a pair of movable pads: the pads of a pair at least partly facing each other, the pair clamping therebetween a flexible elongated medical element to then translate longitudinally the such element, the catheter translation modules being successively longitudinally disposed so that: first module has its pairs of pads performing a longitudinal translation of a first flexible elongated medical element which is a catheter guide, second catheter translation module: can translate longitudinally with respect to the first module, its pairs of pads performing a longitudinal translation of a second flexible elongated medical element, third catheter translation module: can translate longitudinally with respect to the first catheter translation module, its pair of pads performing a longitudinal translation of the second flexible elongated medical element or a third flexible elongated medical elemen
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: Bruno FOURNIER
  • Publication number: 20220387132
    Abstract: An articulated arm for support of an extended flexible medical instrument includes: a segment rotationally mobile around an axis of rotation, where the mobile segment can either be rotationally locked or unlocked, a handgrip including: a distal holding part to be hand held, a proximal support part connecting the distal holding part to the remainder of the structure, and an actuator on the distal holding part locking and unlocking mobility of the segment in rotation around the axis. The locking and unlocking actuator extends over the main part of the length of the distal holding part such that: pressure of the user's hand griping the distal holding part directly creates contact with the actuator, sufficient for automatically unlocking mobility of the segment in rotation and release of the distal holding part terminates contact with the locking and unlocking actuator, sufficient for automatically locking mobility of the segment in rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Bruno FOURNIER, Philippe BENCTEUX
  • Patent number: 11337764
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cassette comprising a sterile barrier. The sterile barrier comprises attachment brackets each attached to a drive member for driving an elongate flexible medical device, and flexible portions between two adjacent attachment brackets. The flexible portions are connected to the attachment brackets. The drive surfaces of the attachment brackets come into contact with the elongate flexible medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ROBOCATH
    Inventors: Sébastien Deboeuf, Fabien Destrebecq, Bruno Fournier, Philippe Bencteux
  • Patent number: 11298198
    Abstract: A robotic module for driving an elongate flexible medical member includes: movable drive members alternately positioned in a drive configuration in which the drive members are sufficiently close together to be able to drive the elongate flexible medical member, and in a free configuration in which the drive members are sufficiently far apart so as to no longer be able to drive the elongate flexible medical member, a control member controlling movement of the movable drive members into the drive configuration in which the elongate flexible medical member is driven, and a reverse movement into the free configuration, a stress sensor measuring stress on at least one of the drive members, and a user interface linked to the stress sensor so as to receive the measured stress from the stress sensor and suitable for providing a signal representative of the measured stress to the user of the robotic module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ROBOCATH
    Inventors: Bruno Fournier, Julien Maurel, Sébastien Deboeuf, Phillippe Bencteux
  • Publication number: 20220061933
    Abstract: The robotized module for actuating an elongated flexible medical device comprises a pair of actuation members that are either in an actuation configuration or in a free configuration. The pair of actuation members is movable between a first position and a second position. A control member acts in repeated cyclical manner to cause the actuation member, when in the actuation configuration, to move from the first position to the second position, and when in the free configuration, to move from the second position to the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: ROBOCATH
    Inventors: S¿bastien Deboeuf, Bruno Fournier, Jacques Marignier, Ines Ouali, Philippe Bencteux, Fabien Destrebecq
  • Publication number: 20210330411
    Abstract: The protective envelope for a robotic module for driving a flexible elongate medical element, intended to form a barrier between the robotic driving module and the flexible elongate medical element, includes: —a mechanism for attachment to the robotic module, and —a guide track for the flexible elongate medical element including a longitudinal axis and a main portion having a free surface of concave shape, the main portion including a longitudinal groove for receiving the flexible elongate medical element, extending along the longitudinal axis and hollowed out in the free surface having a concave shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Fabien DESTREBECQ, Bruno FOURNIER, Philippe BENCTEUX
  • Publication number: 20200297434
    Abstract: A robot for insertion of an elongate flexible medical instrument into a patient includes drive modules for driving the elongate flexible medical instrument in this patient. A drive module for an elongate flexible medical instrument transmits to the instrument a movement of translation and/or a movement of rotation which may be subject to a slack effect. The main aim of the invention is to reduce this slack effect by acting at several locations along the transmission chain between the distal end of the elongate flexible medical instrument, the last section to undergo the rotational movement originally imparted by the user at a human-machine control interface of the drive module. The advancement of the elongate flexible medical instrument is thus rendered more effective for the process of this advancement, safer for the patient, and more ergonomic for the practitioner who is the user of the elongate flexible medical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Philippe BENCTEUX, Sébastien DEBOEUF, Fabien DESTREBECQ, Julien MAUREL, Marc BOULANGE, Bruno FOURNIER
  • Patent number: 10695533
    Abstract: Disclosed is a robotic method for driving a catheter and a catheter guide, controlling a group of driving members and including: —a first operating mode in which the group of driving members moves the guide forward in translation; a second operating mode in which the group of driving members turns the guide about itself, the method also including a third operating mode in which the group of driving members simultaneously moves the guide forward in translation and turns the guide about itself, alternating between one direction and another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: ROBOCATH
    Inventors: Sebastien Deboeuf, Fabien Destrebecq, Bruno Fournier, Philippe Bencteux
  • Patent number: 10653490
    Abstract: Disclosed is a movement transmission chain including: a base of a driving member for driving a movable element; and three actuators controlling the base of the driving member in three movement directions orthogonal to one another, by element of three interfaces with the base of the driving member, the mid-surfaces of the three interfaces intersecting in a central region of the base of the driving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: ROBOCATH
    Inventors: Sebastien Deboeuf, Fabien Destrebecq, Bruno Fournier, Philippe Bencteux
  • Patent number: 10449007
    Abstract: The robot for arteriography comprises a fixed base and a movable receptacle. The receptacle comprises a recipient receiving an elongate flexible member. A drive system drives the receptacle relative to the base. The receptacle comprises a drive module rigidly connected to the elongate flexible member in translation in operational configuration of the robot. The drive module is actuated in order to generate a rotational movement of the elongate flexible member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: ROBOCATH
    Inventors: Sébastien Deboeuf, Jacques Marignier, Julien Maurel, Bruno Fournier, Philippe Bencteux
  • Publication number: 20180353250
    Abstract: A robotic module for driving an elongate flexible medical member includes: movable drive members alternately positioned in a drive configuration in which the drive members are sufficiently close together to be able to drive the elongate flexible medical member, and in a free configuration in which the drive members are sufficiently far apart so as to no longer be able to drive the elongate flexible medical member, a control member controlling movement of the movable drive members into the drive configuration in which the elongate flexible medical member is driven, and a reverse movement into the free configuration, a stress sensor measuring stress on at least one of the drive members, and a user interface linked to the stress sensor so as to receive the measured stress from the stress sensor and suitable for providing a signal representative of the measured stress to the user of the robotic module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Bruno FOURNIER, Julien MAUREL, Sébastien DEBOEUF, Phillippe BENCTEUX
  • Publication number: 20180185616
    Abstract: Disclosed is a robotic method for driving a catheter and a catheter guide, controlling a group of driving members and including: —a first operating mode in which the group of driving members moves the guide forward in translation; a second operating mode in which the group of driving members turns the guide about itself, the method also including a third operating mode in which the group of driving members simultaneously moves the guide forward in translation and turns the guide about itself, alternating between one direction and another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Sebastien DEBOEUF, Fabien DESTREBECQ, Bruno FOURNIER, Philippe BENCTEUX
  • Publication number: 20180185108
    Abstract: Disclosed is a movement transmission chain including: a base of a driving member for driving a movable element; and three actuators controlling the base of the driving member in three movement directions orthogonal to one another, by element of three interfaces with the base of the driving member, the mid-surfaces of the three interfaces intersecting in a central region of the base of the driving member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Sebastien DEBOEUF, Fabien DESTREBECQ, Bruno FOURNIER, Philippe BENCTEUX
  • Publication number: 20170156802
    Abstract: The robot for arteriography comprises a fixed base and a movable receptacle. The receptacle comprises a recipient receiving an elongate flexible member. A drive system drives the receptacle relative to the base. The receptacle comprises a drive module rigidly connected to the elongate flexible member in translation in operational configuration of the robot. The drive module is actuated in order to generate a rotational movement of the elongate flexible member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: ROBOCATH
    Inventors: Sébastien Deboeuf, Jacques Marignier, Julien Maurel, Bruno Fournier, Philippe Bencteux
  • Publication number: 20170151024
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cassette comprising a sterile barrier. The sterile barrier comprises attachment brackets each attached to a drive member for driving an elongate flexible medical device, and flexible portions between two adjacent attachment brackets. The flexible portions are connected to the attachment brackets. The drive surfaces of the attachment brackets come into contact with the elongate flexible medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: ROBOCATH
    Inventors: Sébastien Deboeuf, Fabien Destrebecq, Bruno Fournier, Philippe Bencteux
  • Patent number: 9589689
    Abstract: Installation comprising at least one glove box (2) provided with a box ring (8) comprising an RFID chip (28), a glove change device (22) provided with an RFID reader (34) and an electronic board (36), a used glove (10, comprising an RFID chip (32) in the box ring (8) and a new glove (110) comprising an RFID chip (132) in the glove change device (22) for the purposes of replacing the used glove (10), a computer (46) intended to gather and process the information read by the RFID reader (34) and stored temporarily in the electronic board (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: GETINGE LA CALHENE
    Inventor: Bruno Fournier
  • Publication number: 20150243392
    Abstract: Installation comprising at least one glove box (2) provided with a box ring (8) comprising an RFID chip (28), a glove change device (22) provided with an RFID reader (34) and an electronic board (36), a used glove (10, comprising an RFID chip (32) in the box ring (8) and a new glove (110) comprising an RFID chip (132) in the glove change device (22) for the purposes of replacing the used glove (10), a computer (46) intended to gather and process the information read by the RFID reader (34) and stored temporarily in the electronic board (36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventor: Bruno Fournier
  • Publication number: 20150059144
    Abstract: Device (12) for mounting a glove (106) in a cell flange (4) of a containment cell including a sleeve (14) configured to be attached to the cell; a piston (16) sliding in the sleeve (14); a first seal (18) between the piston (16) and the sleeve (14) so as to ensure tight sliding of the piston (16) in the sleeve (16) and seal the internal passage of the sleeve (14) tightly; control means configured to sliding the piston inside the sleeve; a second seal (20) between the sleeve (14) and the cell wall; the sleeve (14); the piston (16), the first (18) and second seals (20), the cell and the glove (6, 106) forming a detection volume (V); and a sensor (22) of the pressure (22) of the detection volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Bruno Fournier, Bernard Chavrot