Device for protecting a display facility

• US 20070009698A1
• Filed: 07/06/2006
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Hoheisel, Martin
• Application Number:
  US11/481,665
• Publication Number:
  US 20070009698A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/40.100
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 46/10 specially adapted for instruments, e.g. microscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/40 Apparatus fixed or close to patients specially adapted for providing an aseptic surgical environment
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 63/0056 Provisional sheathings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/14 Layer or component removable to expose adhesive

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for protecting a display facility, comprising a protective element for covering an image surface of the display facility. As the protective element is designed to be transparent and the retaining means are provided for the exchangeable arrangement of the protective element in front of the image surface, a protective device is provided, which allows the image surface to be examined and is easy to operate.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A device for protecting a display facility used in a medical procedure, comprising:

an image surface of the display facility;

a transparent protective element for covering the image surface; and

a retaining device for removably exchanging the protective element with a further protective element, the retaining device arranged in front of the image surface.

14. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the protective element is a film.

15. The device as claimed in claim 14, wherein an anti-reflection coating is applied to the film to prevent a disturbing reflection of a light source on the protective element.

16. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the protective element is sterilized.

17. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the protective element comprises a self-cleaning surface.

18. The device as claimed in claim 17, wherein an anti-adhesive coating is applied on a side of the protective element facing away from the image surface for providing the self-cleaning surface.

19. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the protective element comprises a development-inhibiting effect for a germ.

20. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein an optical characteristic of the protective element is conditioned.

21. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the retaining device comprises a dispenser.

22. The device as claimed in claim 21, wherein the dispenser is a roller which rolls a film reel with the film used as the protective element.

23. The device as claimed in claim 22, wherein a fixing device cooperatively operating with the dispenser to stretch the protective element is provided.

24. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein a device for separating a used protective element is provided.

25. The device as claimed in claim 24, wherein a roll-up facility for collecting the used protective element is provided.

26. The device as claimed in claim 25, wherein a facility for cleaning the used protective element is provided.

27. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the retaining device is an adhesive layer which is removable from the image surface.