In-Ceiling Focus Located Surgical Lighting

• US 20080192483A1
• Filed: 07/20/2006
• Published: 08/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Optimus Services AG
• Original Assignee: Optimus Services AG
• Inventors: Mangiardi, John R.
• Application Number:
  US11/996,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20080192483A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/319
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/302 having rotary tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/40 Parts or details of machines not provided for in groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, or not restricted to one of these groups, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 2201/00 Robotic cleaning machines, i.e. with automatic control of the travelling movement or the cleaning operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2051 Electromagnetic tracking systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/005 with a lid or cover
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/314 Flexible bags or pouches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/13 Trolleys, e.g. carts
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/36 for collecting or disposing of used articles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/362 for sharps
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/30 Devices for illuminating a surgical field, the devices having an interrelation with other surgical devices or with a surgical procedure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/35 Supports therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 1/50 for storing hazardous materials in the laboratory, e.g. cupboards, waste containers sample containers B01L3/50
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/0093 specially adapted for collecting refuse from arrangements in buildings
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 1/06 with flexible inserts, e.g. bags or sacks B65F1/0073 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 5/48 Special adaptations of floors for incorporating ducts, e.g. for heating or ventilating in block-shaped elements E04C1/39; in slab- or sheet-shaped elements E04C2/52
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/005 Electrical coupling combined with fluidic coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 27/02 for simultaneous co-operation with two or more dissimilar counterparts
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

An invention that provides improved means for automatic illumination of a surgical site is disclosed. By way of utilizing a wireless radio-frequency transmitter adapted to transmit a distance signal to a receiver, which provides adjustment, by way of an actuator, of a single light source or an array of light sources, an illuminating field is provided with the further advantage that shadows are minimized. In addition, the transmitter, in one embodiment, is of a small profile and constructed in biocompatible materials. The device may be either sterilizable for reuse or disposable, thereby allowing packing of the transmitter in a sterile container thereby further allowing placement of the device in, on, or by a surgical site. The present invention also discloses an array of lights that are arrayed more distant from each other than typical and yet provides a focused, intense illumination field with maximal line of sight approach owing to the discrete (recessed) housing of the light sources. Lastly, the recessed housing allows more efficient use of overhead working space.

Claims

1. A hospital operating room illumination apparatus comprising

at least one housing recessed into a ceiling of an operating room;

a control box which controls at least one powered actuator;

a locator adapted to transmit a distance signal,

substantially in the radio-frequency electromagnetic spectrum,

representative of the actual distance between said housing and said locator;

a communications device on said control box which receives said distance signal wirelessly from said locator;

at least one light in any said housing with no other lights in said housing,

adapted to provide a focused beam of light of substantially at least 100,000 Lux, with a color temperature around 5600 K, and with said light of a metal-halide type, and

adapted, when used with at least one other light, to provide a light source directed at a point from at least two spatially separate regions.

a positioning system in said control box which includes a servo control circuit adapted to receive a distance signal from said locator device and adapted to interpret said distance signal and then activate any said actuators coupled to any said housing, thereby adjusting at least one powered swivel, joint, castor, or bushing to illuminate said locator device by reference to said distance signal;

2. The hospital operating room illumination apparatus of claim 1 in which the number of lights is at least two and said lights are arrayed about a central point.

3. The hospital operating room illumination apparatus of claim 1 in which said locator is a Bluetooth device.

4. The hospital operating room illumination apparatus of claim 1 in which said locator is composed of biocompatible materials.

5. The hospital operating room illumination apparatus of claim 1 in which said locator is sterilizable.

6. The hospital operating room illumination apparatus of claim 1 in which said locator is disposable and interchangeable with like locators.

7. A method of using a means for illuminating a point in an operating room, comprising:

providing an operating room light as in claim 1;

placing said locator on a point to be illuminated;

allowing said locator to communicate with said control box;

allowing said control box to activate the servo control circuit in response to communication by activating said actuator;

allowing said actuator to use the position means, such as said swivel, joint, castor, or bushing, to position said light such that said light illuminates said point to be illuminated.

8. The hospital operating room illumination method of claim 7 in which the number of lights is at least two and said lights are arrayed about a central point.

9. The hospital operating room illumination method of claim 7 in which said locator is a Bluetooth device.

10. The hospital operating room illumination method of claim 7 in which said locator is composed of biocompatible materials.

11. The hospital operating room illumination method of claim 7 in which said locator is sterilizable.

12. The hospital operating room illumination method of claim 7 in which said locator is disposable and interchangeable with like locators.