Patent ID: 9216064
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: A61B,B08B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for cleaning robotic surgical instruments, the apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic immersion tank having a transducer that emits ultrasonic waves; cleaning fluid within the ultrasonic immersion tank; a pump; a tool-end cleaning chamber fluidly interfaced to the pump through a suction attachment port on one side of a body of the tool-end cleaning chamber, the tool-end cleaning chamber filled with the cleaning fluid, whereas, as the pump pulls the cleaning fluid from within the tool-end cleaning chamber, the cleaning fluid is drawn into the tool-end cleaning chamber solely through a plurality of intake holes in body of the tool-end cleaning chamber, the intake holes aligned in linear fashion on a second lengthwise side of the tool-end cleaning chamber, the second lengthwise side of the tool-end cleaning chamber being opposite to the one side of the 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 and whereas the ultrasonic waves dislodge debris from the tool-end of the robotic surgical instrument; and a control box/shaft-end cleaning chamber and a second pump, the control box/shaft-end cleaning chamber has a fitting that interfaces into an orifice of a control box of the robotic surgical instrument such that the cleaning fluid is drawn into the control box of the robotic surgical instrument through a second orifice, the cleaning fluid is pulled through a shaft of the robotic surgical instrument, the cleaning fluid is pulled out of the orifice, then the cleaning fluid is pulled through the control box/shaft-end cleaning chamber by the second pump.