MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY DEVICE AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY DEVICE ARRANGEMENT

• US 20100093226A1
• Filed: 08/07/2009
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Celon AG Medical Instruments
• Original Assignee: Celon AG Medical Instruments
• Inventors: FISCHER, Uwe, ROGGAN, André, STRAUSS, Timo, KÜHNE, Wolfgang, SPRENGER, Christopher, HÖRLLE, Andreas, SCHIDDEL, Stefan
• Application Number:
  US12/537,319
• Publication Number:
  US 20100093226A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/668
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1206 Generators therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1823 Generators therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5213 Covers
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5224 for medical use
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/74 Means for mounting coupling parts in openings of a panel
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/909 Medical use or attached to human body

Abstract

The invention concerns a medical technology device for treatment of the human or animal body, comprising at least one electrical plug connector which is adapted to be connected to a complementary counterpart plug connector of a further medical technology device and which in an active position is arranged projecting upwardly at the top side of the device. To provide a medical technology device which can be used both as an individual device and also in conjunction with a second device as a device arrangement and which in that respect satisfies existing safety and aesthetic demands, it is provided in accordance with the invention that the plug connector is adapted to be movable from the active position into a passive position, wherein in the passive position the plug connector is removed from the top side of the device and the top side is closed in substantially fluid-tight relationship.

Claims

1. A medical technology device for treatment of the human or animal body, comprising at least one electrical plug connector which is adapted to be connected to a complementary counterpart plug connector of a further medical technology device and which in an active position is arranged projecting upwardly at the top side of the device, wherein the plug connector is adapted to be movable from the active position into a passive position, wherein in the passive position the plug connector is removed from the top side of the device and the top side is closed in substantially fluid-tight relationship.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device has at least one lift unit by which the plug connector is movably connected to the rest of the device.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the lift unit has a prismatic joint, by which the plug connector is adapted to be movable substantially linearly from the active position into the passive position.

4. the device according to claim 1, wherein the device includes at least one cover means which closes the top side of the device in the passive position in substantially fluid-tight relationship.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the plug connector is connected to the cover means and arranged in the interior of the device in the passive position.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device has at least one drive means which urges the plug connector from the passive position in the direction of the active position.

7. A medical technology device arrangement for treatment of the human or animal body, comprising at least first and second medical technology devices which are electrically and mechanically connected together by way of a plug connector arrangement, wherein the plug connector arrangement includes a plug connector connected to the first device and a counterpart plug connector which is connected to the second device and which is of a complementary configuration to the plug connector, wherein the first medical technology device comprises at least one electrical plug connector which is adapted connected complementary counterpart plug connector of a further medical technology device and which in an active position is arranged projecting upwardly at the top side of the device, wherein the plug connector is adapted ted to be movable from the active position into a passive position, wherein in the passive position the plug connector is removed from the top side of the device and the top side is closed in substantially fluid-tight relationship.

8. The device arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the first device is an ultrasound generator and the second device is an HF generator.

9. The device arrangement according to claim 8, wherein the device arrangement is so adapted that in operation both a high frequency current signal and also a signal for an ultrasound instrument can be taken off simultaneously at the ultrasound generator.