Patent ID: 9649020
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A control assembly for manipulating a movement of an endoscopic instrument, the control assembly comprising: a support structure including a mounting member; an endoscopic instrument mounting arrangement adapted to receive the endoscopic instrument and offer only three independent degrees of freedom of movement of the endoscopic instrument received by the arrangement, each degree of freedom of movement being about or along a respective axis; three driving arrangements, each being configured to drive the endoscopic instrument in only one of the degrees of freedom of movement and each driving arrangement including a motor; and a control unit including three pairs of switches providing three independent control elements configured to receive user input, the switches being coupled to the motors to control movement of the control assembly, such that the actuation of each of the three independent control elements regulates one of three corresponding control signals which each control a respective one of the driving arrangements independently of the other two driving arrangements in accordance with the user input by direct control of the driving arrangement based on the user input without kinematic calculations, wherein the endoscopic instrument mounting arrangement comprises: