SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL MODULES

• US 20100130984A1
• Filed: 11/21/2008
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated (Bausch Health Cos., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated (Bausch Health Cos., Inc.)
• Inventors: Ritter, John Alan, Moore, Thomas G. JR.
• Application Number:
  US12/275,868
• Publication Number:
  US 20100130984A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/107
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/007 Methods or devices for eye surgery
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/23 The load being a medical device, a medical implant, or a life supporting device
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

An ophthalmic surgery system for wirelessly supplying power to at least one surgical module during ophthalmic surgery. The ophthalmic surgery system includes a power module having a power transmitter configured to generate an electromagnetic field in at least a space proximal to the power module, a surgical module including a power receiver, and a surgical console in communication with the surgical module. Power is wirelessly induced in the power receiver when the surgical module is within the space, such that at least one component included in the surgical module is substantially powered by the induced power.

Claims

1. An ophthalmic surgery system for wirelessly supplying power to at least one surgical module during ophthalmic surgery, the ophthalmic surgery system comprising:

a power module having a power transmitter configured to generate an electromagnetic field in at least a space proximal to the power module;

a surgical module including a power receiver;

a surgical console in communication with the surgical module; and

power being wirelessly induced in the power receiver when the surgical module is within the space, such that at least one component included in the surgical module is substantially powered by the induced power.

2. The invention of claim 1, wherein each of the power transmitter and the power receiver include a coil having a resonant frequency, said coils having substantially the same resonant frequencies.

3. The invention of claim 1, wherein the power module is disposed at least partially within the surgery console.

4. The invention of claim 3, wherein the surgical console is configured to communicate with the surgical module through a wireless network.

5. The invention of claim 4, wherein the surgical module includes one of a surgical handpiece and a foot-pedal.

6. The invention of claim 3, wherein the surgical module includes at least one of a scissor module, a light module, a pump module, and a phacoemulsification module.

7. The invention of claim 1, further comprising a second surgical module including a second power receiver, wherein power is wirelessly induced in the second power receiver when the second surgical module is within the space, such that at least one component included in the second surgical module is substantially powered by the induced power from the second power receiver.

8. A method of wirelessly supplying power from a power module having a power transmitter to at least one surgical module during ophthalmic surgery, the method comprising:

energizing the power transmitter for generating an electromagnetic field in at least a space proximal to the power module;

positioning at least one surgical module at least partially within the space such that power is wirelessly induced in a power receiver included in the at least one surgical module; and

enabling operation of the at least one surgical module such that at least one component included in the surgical module is substantially powered from the power induced in the power receiver of the at least one surgical module.

9. The invention of claim 8, wherein each of the power transmitter and the power receiver include a coil having a resonant frequency, said coils having substantially the same resonant frequencies.

10. The invention of claim 8, wherein enabling operation of the at least one surgical module includes wirelessly communicating with the surgical module through a surgery console.

11. The invention of claim 10, wherein the power module is disposed at least partially within the surgery console.

12. The invention of claim 8, wherein the surgical module includes one of a surgical handpiece, a foot-pedal, a scissor module, a light module, a pump module, and a phacoemulsification module.