MEDICAL MANIPULATOR SYSTEM AND ADAPTER DEVICE

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MEDICAL MANIPULATOR SYSTEM AND ADAPTER DEVICE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240252269 titled 'MEDICAL MANIPULATOR SYSTEM AND ADAPTER DEVICE

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provided is a medical manipulator system that prevents a clean region and an unclean region from being mixed between a surgical instrument subjected to sterilization processing and a drive part not subjected to the sterilization processing. the medical manipulator system includes a surgical instrument unit including a surgical instrument at a front end, a drive unit that drives the surgical instrument, and an adapter that attaches the surgical instrument unit to the drive unit. the adapter includes: a translatory transmission part that transmits a driving force generated by the drive unit to the surgical instrument unit; and a drip-proof part that separates the surgical instrument unit side and the drive unit side in the translatory transmission part. the drip-proof part includes an air chamber between the surgical instrument unit side and the drive unit side in the translatory transmission part.