Patent ID: 11864857
Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A direct blade guidance system, comprising:
a robot arm configured to be positioned by a surgical robot;
an end effector arm including a base configured to attach to an end effector coupler of the robot arm, wherein the end effector arm includes a plurality of linkages connected by a plurality of joints, including a proximal joint disposed at a proximal end of the end effector arm and a distal joint disposed at a distal end of the end effector arm;
a blade adaptor adapted to rotatably connect to the end effector arm about a rotation axis via the distal joint, wherein the distal joint is positioned on a horizontal plane that is below a horizontal plane defined by the proximal joint;
a blade adapted to be connected to the blade adaptor and having an oscillation axis aligned with the rotation axis when the blade adaptor is connected to the distal joint; and
a handpiece adapted to removably attach to the blade adaptor and oscillate the blade along the oscillation axis.