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Current minimally invasive laparoscopic surgical tools are insufficient in their ability to grasp and hold a large amount of the bowel without causing injury to the patient when performing surgery. A new tool suited to this task by providing feedback (auditory or tactile) to the surgeon is necessary. The goal is to reduce injury due to excessive pressure to the bowel organs during laparoscopic surgery.
Adam Dahlen, Andrew Eley, Darshan Patel, Clara Zhang
Our design and prototype have been completed with a formal presentation given on May 5th. The prototype worked successfully though many improvements need to be made. We are currently looking into patenting our idea.
| Week | Reporting Period Beginning | Activities |
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| 1 | January 20 | Meeting with our client,, preliminary research. |
| 2 | January 27 | Materials, sensors, and jaw design research. |
| 3 | February 3 | Solid works design, and circuit research |
| 4 | February 10 | Solid works design, and midsemester paper |
| 5 | February 17 | presentation, solid works, midsemester paper, parts research |
| 6 | February 24 | parts research, midsemester paper, notebook |
| 7 | March 3 | final design ideas, methods of manufacturing |
| 8 | March 10 | parts materials reserarch, feasability |
| 9 | March 17 | aquire materials |
| 10 | March 24 | preliminary construction ideas. |
| 11 | March 31 | construction |
| 12 | April 7 | construction, testing, paper |
| 13 | April 14 | construction and testing, final paper |
| 14 | April 21 | final testing and presentation |
| 15 | April 28 |
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Midsemester Presentation (Feb 24 2006, 2094 kb) |
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PDS (Mar 3 2006, 12 kb) |
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Midsemester Paper (Mar 6 2006, 336 kb) |
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Final Paper (May 5 2006, 502 kb) |
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Final Presentation (May 6 2006, 478 kb) |
