Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Tojo

Tsuyoshi Tojo 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).

  • Patent number: 12324639
    Abstract: A controller of a surgical system is configured to: set a center point; set a reference point on a reference line that is an extension of a rotation axis of a proximal end roll joint or that is offset from the extension in a direction normal to the extension; and position joints of a manipulator arm such that a shaft passes through the center point and that a reference plane passes through the reference point, the reference plane including a rotation axis of a distal end roll joint that coincides with a central axis of the shaft and crossing a rotation axis of a pivotal joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tojo, Nobuyasu Shimomura, Tetsuo Ichii
  • Publication number: 20250152285
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes: a surgical instrument including a base disposed at a proximal end of the surgical instrument, a tool disposed at a distal end of the surgical instrument, and a shaft extending in an axial direction between the base and the tool; a manipulator configured to support the surgical instrument, the manipulator including an instrument interface to which the base of the surgical instrument is attached, an arm including rotational joints, and a prismatic joint coupling the instrument interface to a distal end of the arm; and a controller. including a memory that stores a remote center that is a center of motion of the surgical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Tetsuo ICHII
  • Publication number: 20250127582
    Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a surgical apparatus including a first robot arm to move a medical instrument, an arm base to support a proximal end of the first robot arm, and a second robot arm to move the arm base, and a monitoring controller configured or programmed to monitor whether or not a monitoring point set with respect to the arm base or the second robot arm is within a monitoring area, and change the monitoring area based on a posture of the second robot arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo ICHII, Ayataka KOBAYASHI, Tomohiro FUKUNO, Tsuyoshi TOJO
  • Patent number: 12245832
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes: a surgical instrument; a manipulator that supports a surgical instrument without holding a trocar and includes an instrument interface to which the surgical instrument is attached, an arm including rotational joints, and a prismatic joint; and a controller. The controller may store a center of motion of the surgical instrument and control motion of the manipulator such that with the shaft inserted through the trocar and the tool located in a body cavity of the patient, a relationship T1?L is established in a case of L?T0, wherein: L represents an intra-body cavity length of the surgical instrument; T0 represents a maximum possible linear movement amount of the prismatic joint from an origin position along the axial direction; and T1 represents a first linear movement amount of the prismatic joint from the origin position to a current position along the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tojo, Nobuyasu Shimomura, Tetsuo Ichii
  • Publication number: 20250064539
    Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a surgical instrument operation unit including a first substrate to which a signal received by the surgical instrument operation unit is input, and a controller connected to the first substrate by serial communication via a first wire line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Hirotaka KUNO, Koji MUNETO
  • Publication number: 20250057615
    Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a substrate in a robot arm or an arm operation unit, to which a signal received by the arm operation unit is input, and a controller. The controller is connected to the substrate by serial communication via a first wire line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Hirotaka KUNO, Tatsurou YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20250041008
    Abstract: A surgical robot (10) includes robot arms (130), an arm base (120), and a control device (30). Each of the robot arms includes a base portion (138), a tip portion (137) that can hold a medical instrument (150), and links (131 to 136). The link (131) adjacent to the base portion is connected to the base portion through a rotational joint (JA1). The control device controls the robot arm having at least seven degrees of freedom among the robot arms such that when viewed from a direction parallel to an axial direction of a rotation axis of the rotational joint, a first portion (134aa) of a first link (134) is located between a second portion (138a) of the base portion and a third portion (JA7a) of the tip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Tetsuo ICHII
  • Publication number: 20240415595
    Abstract: In a surgical robot, an operation unit includes an enable switch and an operation tool configured to control a moving direction of an arm, and the enable switch and the operation tool are arranged apart from each other within a range operable by fingers of one hand of an operator in the operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji KISHIDA, Tsuyoshi TOJO, Toshihiko TAKAGI, Hiroaki KITATSUJI, Koji MUNETO
  • Patent number: 12161437
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes robot arms, an arm base, and a control device. Each of the robot arms includes a base portion, a tip portion that can hold a medical instrument, and links. The link adjacent to the base portion is connected to the base portion through a rotational joint. The control device controls the robot arm having at least seven degrees of freedom among the robot arms such that when viewed from a direction parallel to an axial direction of a rotation axis of the rotational joint, a first portion of a first link is located between a second portion of the base portion and a third portion of the tip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tojo, Nobuyasu Shimomura, Tetsuo Ichii
  • Publication number: 20240390083
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes an arm base mover configured to move an arm base configured to support a plurality of arms, an imaging device provided on the arm base, the imaging device being configured to image a patient placed on a surgical table, and a display configured to display, in real time, the patient imaged by the imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Yuji KISHIDA, Takeshi KURIHARA
  • Patent number: 12102399
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes a first indicator configured to indicate a state of a system, and a plurality of second indicators configured to individually indicate states of a plurality of arms, and the state of the system includes a state of the surgical robot excluding the states of the plurality of arms and a state of a doctor-side operation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Kishida, Tomohiro Fukuno, Ryosuke Hida, Tsuyoshi Tojo
  • Patent number: 12102407
    Abstract: In a surgical robot, an operation unit includes an enable switch and an operation tool configured to control a moving direction of an arm, and the enable switch and the operation tool are arranged apart from each other within a range operable by fingers of one hand of an operator in the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Kishida, Tsuyoshi Tojo, Toshihiko Takagi, Hiroaki Kitatsuji, Koji Muneto
  • Patent number: 12082892
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes an arm base mover configured to move an arm base configured to support a plurality of arms, an imaging device provided on the arm base, the imaging device being configured to image a patient placed on a surgical table, and a display configured to display, in real time, the patient imaged by the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tojo, Yuji Kishida, Takeshi Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20240122664
    Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a controller configured or programmed to perform an arm interference avoidance control to move a second manipulator arm relative to a first manipulator arm such that a reference line moves along an outer edge of an approach prohibited range of a first manipulator arm when a second manipulator arm approaches within the approach prohibited range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi TOJO
  • Patent number: 11801103
    Abstract: A surgical system includes: a tool manipulator having a tool manipulator arm and a surgical tool; a console having a handling tool configured to receive a tool movement input of a surgeon for the surgical tool, the console being configured to transmit a tool movement command generated based on the tool movement input, the tool movement input including a translation amount and a rotation amount for the surgical tool; and a controller. The controller is configured to calculate an actual translation amount by multiplying the translation amount by a predetermined translation scale factor and move the surgical tool in accordance with the actual translation amount, and to calculate an actual rotation amount by multiplying the rotation amount by a predetermined rotation scale factor and move the surgical tool in accordance with the actual rotation amount. The translation scale factor and the rotation scale factor are different values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tojo, Kenji Noguchi, Tetsushi Ito, Tetsuya Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20230032548
    Abstract: In a robotic surgical system, a controller is configured or programmed to set a temporary pivot position based on an operation on a pivot position setter and store a position adjusted by a predetermined length from the temporary pivot position as a pivot position in a storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayataka KOBAYASHI, Tsuyoshi TOJO, Hirofumi YAMAMORI, Jota IDA, Hiroaki KITATSUJI
  • Publication number: 20230012535
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes robot arms, an arm base, and a control device. Each of the robot arms includes a base portion, a tip portion that can hold a medical instrument, and links. The link adjacent to the base portion is connected to the base portion through a rotational joint. The control device controls the robot arm having at least seven degrees of freedom among the robot arms such that when viewed from a direction parallel to an axial direction of a rotation axis of the rotational joint, a first portion of a first link is located between a second portion of the base portion and a third portion of the tip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Tetsuo ICHII
  • Publication number: 20230014033
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes: a surgical instrument; a manipulator that supports a surgical instrument without holding a trocar and includes an instrument interface to which the surgical instrument is attached, an arm including rotational joints, and a prismatic joint; and a controller. The controller may store a center of motion of the surgical instrument and control motion of the manipulator such that with the shaft inserted through the trocar and the tool located in a body cavity of the patient, a relationship T1?L is established in a case of L?T0, wherein: L represents an intra-body cavity length of the surgical instrument; T0 represents a maximum possible linear movement amount of the prismatic joint from an origin position along the axial direction; and T1 represents a first linear movement amount of the prismatic joint from the origin position to a current position along the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Tetsuo ICHII
  • Publication number: 20230000572
    Abstract: A controller of a surgical system is configured to: set a center point; set a reference point on a reference line that is an extension of a rotation axis of a proximal end roll joint or that is offset from the extension in a direction normal to the extension; and position joints of a manipulator arm such that a shaft passes through the center point and that a reference plane passes through the reference point, the reference plane including a rotation axis of a distal end roll joint that coincides with a central axis of the shaft and crossing a rotation axis of a pivotal joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TOJO, Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Tetsuo ICHII
  • Patent number: 11517384
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a surgical assist robot including a robot main body and a slave controller, and a console. The robot main body has an entry guide, an entry guide support device, and at least one manipulator having an end effector provided at a distal end. The entry guide includes an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder into which the inner cylinder is inserted in an insertion axial direction, and a guide advancing device that displaces the inner cylinder in the insertion axial direction with respect to the outer cylinder. While a position and a posture of the end effector that has advanced from the entry guide are maintained, the inner cylinder is caused to advance toward the end effector within a predetermined movable range along the insertion axial direction with respect to the outer cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tojo, Kenji Noguchi, Tetsushi Ito, Tetsuya Nakanishi