Patent ID: 9144469
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: A61B,B08B

Abstract:
1. A method of cleaning robotic surgical instruments, the method comprising: inserting a tool-end of a robotic surgical instrument into a tool-end cleaning chamber that is fluidly interfaced to a pump; fluidly interfacing a suction orifice of a control box of the robotic surgical instrument to a second pump; submerging the robotic surgical instrument in cleaning fluid within an ultrasonic immersion tank, the ultrasonic immersion tank having a transducer that emits ultrasonic waves; pulling the cleaning fluid from within the tool-end cleaning chamber by the pump, thereby drawing the cleaning fluid into the tool-end cleaning chamber through a plurality of intake holes in a body of the tool-end cleaning chamber, thereby creating turbulence for cleaning a tool-end of a robotic surgical instrument that has been inserted into the tool-end cleaning chamber; pulling the cleaning fluid into the control box of the robotic surgical instrument by the second pump, the cleaning fluid entering the control box of the robotic surgical instrument through another orifice, thereby pulling the cleaning fluid from the another orifice and then out of the suction orifice; and generating ultrasonic waves to dislodge debris from the tool-end of the robotic surgical instrument.