Surgical machine with removable display

• US 20080033404A1
• Filed: 08/03/2006
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcon Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Alcon Incorporated
• Inventors: Horvath, Christopher, Romoda, Laszlo O.
• Application Number:
  US11/498,401
• Publication Number:
  US 20080033404A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00199 with a console, e.g. a control panel with a display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 46/10 specially adapted for instruments, e.g. microscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/10 Furniture specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments

Abstract

A surgical system includes a main surgical unit, a display in communication with the main surgical unit, and a cradle for receiving the display when the display is removed from the main surgical unit. The display is removable from the main surgical unit so that the display can be located inside a sterile field of an operating room and the main surgical unit can be located outside the sterile field of the operating room.

Claims

1. A surgical system comprising:

a main surgical unit; and

a display in communication with the main surgical unit;

wherein the display is removable from the main surgical unit so that the display can be located inside a sterile field of an operating room and the main surgical unit can be located outside the sterile field of the operating room.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the display is in wireless communication with the main surgical unit.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the display communicates with the main surgical unit via a cable.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the display communicates with the main surgical unit via a Bluetooth signal.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the display communicates with the main surgical unit via an infrared signal.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the display is a touch screen display.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the main surgical unit further comprises a first connector adapted to couple with the display.

8. A surgical system comprising:

a main surgical unit;

a removable display; and

a cradle for receiving the display when the display is removed from the main surgical unit.

wherein the display is removable from the main surgical unit so that the display and the cradle can be located inside a sterile field of an operating room and the main surgical unit can be located outside the sterile field of the operating room.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the cradle communicates wirelessly with the main surgical unit.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein the cradle communicates with the main surgical unit via a cable.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the cradle communicates with the main surgical unit via a Bluetooth signal.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein the cradle communicates with the main surgical unit via an infrared signal.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein the display is a touch screen display.

14. The system of claim 8 wherein the main surgical unit further comprises a first connector adapted to couple with the display and the cradle further comprises a second connector adapted to couple with the display.

15. A surgical system comprising:

a main surgical unit with a first connector for receiving a first signal, the main surgical unit adapted to perform a surgical procedure;

a touch screen display removable from the main surgical unit, the touch screen display adapted to couple with the first connector, and when coupled with the first connector, the touch screen display transmitting the first signal to the main surgical unit via the first connector; and

a cradle for receiving the touch screen display when the touch screen display is removed from the main surgical unit, the cradle having a second connector for receiving a second signal, and when the touch screen display is coupled to the cradle via the second connector, the touch screen display transmitting the second signal to the cradle through the second connector and the cradle transmitting the second signal to the main surgical unit;

wherein the touch screen display is removable from the main surgical unit so that the touch screen display and cradle can be located inside a sterile field of an operating room and the main surgical unit can be located outside the sterile field of the operating room.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the cradle communicates wirelessly with the main surgical unit.