DEFIBRILLATOR WITH A NORMALIZED ELECTRODE INTERFACE AND DEFIBRILLATING ELECTRODE

• US 20090234403A1
• Filed: 01/08/2009
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. (Excelsior Union Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. (Excelsior Union Ltd.)
• Inventors: LUO, Hu, LIU, Bin
• Granted Patent: US 8,265,748 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 607/5
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/046 Specially adapted for shock therapy, e.g. defibrillation
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0472 Structure-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0492 Patch electrodes A61N1/0412, A61N1/0428 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3925 Monitoring; Protecting
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3993 User interfaces for automatic external defibrillators

Abstract

A defibrillator includes a defibrillator mainframe and a defibrillating electrode. The defibrillator mainframe includes a main control unit and a master device electrically connected to the main control unit. The defibrillating electrode comprises a slave device supporting a bus protocol, the master device and slave device being interconnected through a bus.

Claims

1. A defibrillator with a normalized electrode interface comprising:

a defibrillating electrode; and

a defibrillator mainframe comprising;

a main control unit; and

a master device connected to the main control unit;

wherein the defibrillating electrode comprises a slave device, and the master device and the slave device are connected through a bus.

2. The defibrillator according to claim 1, wherein the master device is a 1-wire master device, the slave device on the defibrillating electrode is a 1-wire slave device, and the 1-wire master device and the 1-wire slave device are connected through a single wire.

3. The defibrillator according to claim 2, wherein the 1-wire slave device comprises a 1-wire control module for controlling one or more indicator lights on the defibrillating electrode and collecting key information on the defibrillating electrode, the 1-wire control module being connected to the 1-wire master device through the single wire.

4. The defibrillator according to claim 3, wherein the 1-wire slave device further comprises a 1-wire storage module, the 1-wire storage module being connected to the 1-wire master device through the single wire.

5. A defibrillator with a normalized electrode interface comprising:

a mainframe unit, and

a master device connected to the mainframe unit, the master device being connected to an externally connected slave device through a bus.

6. The defibrillator according to claim 5, wherein the master device is a 1-wire master device.

7. A defibrillating electrode comprising:

an electrode terminal; and

a slave device supporting a bus protocol, the slave device being connected to a master device through a bus.

8. The defibrillating electrode according to claim 7, wherein the slave device on the defibrillating electrode is a 1-wire slave device.

9. The defibrillating electrode according to claim 8, wherein the 1-wire slave device comprises a 1-wire control module for controlling one or more indicator lights on the defibrillating electrode and collecting key information, the 1-wire control module being connected to a 1-wire master device through a single wire.

10. The defibrillating electrode according to claim 9, wherein the 1-wire slave device further comprises a 1-wire storage module, the 1-wire storage module being connected to the 1-wire master device through the single wire.