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Medical indication device and identification method

  • US 20060058804A1
  • Filed: 10/09/2003
  • Published: 03/16/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A medical-technical identification device for identifying a sterile product (4, 62, 72, 82), for example a product intended for one-time-use only, when connected to a piece of medical equipment (1, 60, 70, 80), and in that the sterile product (4, 62, 72, 82) includes a fixedly mounted information carrier (9, 63, 73, 83) which is adapted to deliver or to offer specific product information in a contactless fashion to a reading element (12, 64, 74, 84) connected to the equipment (1, 60, 70, 80), and that the reading element (12) is connected to a registering unit (13) which, in turn, is connected to both a storage unit (14) and an analysing unit (15), characterised in that the product is a sterile elastic hose part (4) or a sterile saw blade (62) or a sterile drill bit (72) or a sterile shaver blade (82) and that the analysing unit (15) functions to deliver signals to an equipment-actuating control unit and in that the device includes a presentation unit (16) which functions to present information from both the analysing unit (15) and the storage unit (14) and in that a programming unit is connected to one of said units.

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