Apparatus and method for cable management

• US 20040114313A1
• Filed: 12/05/2002
• Published: 06/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GE Medical Systems Information Technologies Incorporated (General Electric Company)
• Original Assignee: GE Medical Systems Information Technologies Incorporated (General Electric Company)
• Inventors: Verstegen, Thomas, Mata, Rizaldy Buencamino
• Granted Patent: US 7,057,889 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/222 Electrical cables or leads therefor, e.g. coaxial cables or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 11/00 Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 11/02 using take-up reel or drum

Abstract

A monitoring device comprises a housing, a sensing device movable relative to the housing, and a cable having one end secured relative to the housing and another end secured to the sensing device. The housing includes a channel disposed therein and a portion of the cable is disposed in the channel for temporarily storing the cable. In one embodiment, a display screen is disposed in the housing, and the channel is disposed around at least a portion of a perimeter of the display screen. The cable may have a relaxed outside diameter greater than its stretched outside diameter, as in a coiled cable, thus allowing the cable to be stretched, inserted into the channel, and released to secure the cable in the channel. The cable may also be received in the channel in press-fit fashion.

Claims

1. A monitoring device comprising:

a housing;

a channel disposed in the housing;

a sensing device movable relative to the housing; and

a cable having one end secured relative to the housing and another end secured to the sensing device, a portion of the cable being removably disposed in the channel for temporarily storing the cable.

2. The monitoring device of claim 1, further comprising:

a display screen disposed in the housing, the channel being disposed around at least a portion of a perimeter of the display screen.

3. The monitoring device of claim 2, wherein the channel is disposed around three sides of the perimeter of the display screen.

4. The monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the cable has a relaxed outside diameter and a stretched outside diameter, the relaxed outside diameter being greater than a width of the channel and the stretched outside diameter being less than the width of the channel.

5. The monitoring device of claim 3, wherein the cable is coiled.

6. The monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the cable is received in the channel in press-fit fashion.

7. The monitoring device of claim 6, wherein in the cable includes a resilient material forming an outer surface thereon, the resilient material being compressed by a side of the channel to secure the cable within the channel.

8. The monitoring device of claim 6, further comprising:

a detent formed on a side of the channel, the detent releasably retaining the cable in the channel.

9. A monitoring device comprising:

a housing;

a cable secured to the housing and having a portion extending from the housing; and

means for releasably securing the portion extending from the housing to the housing.

10. The monitoring device of claim 9, wherein the means for releasably securing includes:

a channel disposed in the housing, the channel receiving the portion extending from the housing.

11. The patient monitor of claim 10, further comprising:

a display screen disposed in the housing, the channel is disposed around at least a portion of a perimeter of the display screen.

12. The monitoring device of claim 10, wherein the cable has a relaxed outside diameter and a stretched outside diameter, the relaxed outside diameter being greater than a width of the channel and the stretched outside diameter being less than the width of the channel.

13. The monitoring device of claim 12, wherein the cable is a coiled cable.

14. The monitoring device of claim 10, wherein the cable is received in the channel in press-fit fashion.

15. The monitoring device of claim 14, wherein in the cable includes a resilient material forming an outer surface of the cable, the resilient material being compressed by a side of the channel to secure the cable within the channel.

16. The monitoring device of claim 14, further comprising

a detent formed on a side of the channel, the detent releasably retaining the cable in the channel.

17. A method of storing a cable in a monitoring device, the method comprising:

extending a cable to reduce an outside diameter of the cable to less than a width of a channel formed in the monitoring device;

disposing the extended cable in the channel; and

releasing the extended cable to secure the cable within the channel.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the monitoring device includes a display screen and the channel is disposed around at least a portion of a perimeter of the display screen.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the cable is coiled.

21. The monitoring device of claim 19, wherein the cable has a relaxed outside diameter and a stretched outside diameter, the relaxed outside diameter being greater than a width of the channel and the stretched outside diameter being less than the width of the channel.

22. The monitoring device of claim 21, wherein the cable is coiled.

20. A monitoring device comprising:

a housing;

a sensing device movable relative to the housing;

a display screen disposed in the housing, the display screen being configured to display a graphical representation of a condition monitored by the sensing device;

a channel disposed in the housing, the channel extending around at least a portion of a perimeter of the display screen; and

a cable having one end secured relative to the housing and another end secured to the sensing device, a portion of the cable being removably disposed in the channel.

23. The monitoring device of claim 20, wherein the cable is received in the channel in press-fit fashion.

24. The monitoring device of claim 23, wherein in the cable includes a resilient material forming an outer surface thereof, the resilient material being compressed by a side of the channel to secure the cable within the channel.

25. The patient monitor of claim 23, further comprising

a detent formed on a side of the channel, the detent releasably retaining the cable in the channel.

26. A monitoring device comprising:

a sensing device;

a cable secured to the sensing device;

a display screen;

a housing for the display screen, the housing including;

a top wall;

a first side wall adjacent the top wall;

a second side wall adjacent the top wall, the display screen extending between the top wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall; and

a first channel formed in at least one of the top wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall, the cable being removably received in the channel.

27. The monitoring device of claim 26, further comprising:

a second channel disposed in the second side wall, the cable being removably disposed in the second channel.

28. The monitoring device of claim 27, further comprising:

a third channel disposed in the top wall, the cable being removably disposed in the second channel.

29. The monitoring device of claim 28 wherein the first, second, and third channels are contiguous.

30. The monitoring device of claim 29, wherein the cable has a relaxed outside diameter and a stretched outside diameter, the relaxed outside diameter being greater than a width of the channel and the stretched outside diameter being less than the width of the channel.

31. The monitoring device of claim 29, wherein the cable is received in the channel in press-fit fashion.