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

• Current Assignee: Insightra Medical, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Medical Vision Research & Development AB
• Inventors: Mollstam, Anders
• Granted Patent: US 7,661,582 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/80
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/273 preventing reuse, e.g. of disposables
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/60 with identification means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6072 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14232 Roller pumps
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/041 Constructional details G06K19/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

The present invention relates to a medical-technical identification device for identifying a sterile product (4, 62, 72, 82), and to a method of identifying such a product, for example a product intended for one-time-use only, when connected to a piece of medical equipment (1, 60, 70, 80), wherein 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).

Claims

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.

2. An identification device according to claim 1, characterised in that the information carrier (9) is mounted in or on one side of a holder (8) and in that the reading element (12) is mounted in or on one side of a fixation seat (7), wherein the exchange of information between the information carrier (9) and the reading element (12) does not take place until the holder is in place in the seat (7), i.e. until connection of the hose part (4) to the equipment has been completed.

3. An identification device according to claim 2, characterised in that the information carrier (9) and the reading element (12) are adapted to take fixed positions relative to one another when the hose part (4) is connected actively to said equipment.

4. An identification device according to claim 3, characterised in that the holder (8) of the information carrier (9) includes a planar slide surface (10) which is angled such that the normal to said surface will not extend parallel with the symmetry axis of said hose part (4) and in that said slide surface conforms to or fits with a correspondingly directed slide surface (11) in the seat (7).

5. An identification device according to claim 4, characterised in that both slide surfaces (10, 11) are directed so that an applied force intended to press the surfaces (10, 11) together will cause the information carrier (9) and the reading element (12) to be aligned mutually in the direction of an X-axis and Y-axis.

6. An identification device according to claim 5, characterised in that both slide surfaces (10, 11) are directed so that the information carrier (9) and the reading element (12) will also be mutually aligned in the direction of an Z-axis.

7. An identification device according to claim 1, characterised in that the transmission of information between the information carrier (9) and the reading element (12) is caused to take place with the aid of one or more of the following devices:

bar codes, Blue Tooth, radio waves, light waves, e.g. infrared light, electromagnetism, radioactivity or chemical transmission.