MEDICAL DEVICE PROVIDED WITH AN INNOVATIVE MARKING SYSTEM ENABLING RAPID, MULTIPLE AND REMOTE IDENTIFICATION

• US 20140088570A1
• Filed: 04/24/2012
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Marc Antoine Sergeant
• Original Assignee: Marc Antoine Sergeant
• Inventors: Sergeant, Marc Antoine
• Application Number:
  US14/113,848
• Publication Number:
  US 20140088570A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/2911 rings
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/39 Markers, e.g. radio-opaque or breast lesions markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/90 Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/92 coded with colour
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/98 using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07728 the record carrier comprising means for protection against impact or bending, e.g. protective shells or stress-absorbing layers around the integrated circuit
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

A medical device includes a reusable or non-reusable surgical instrument made from metal, polymer or plastic, or any implant or prosthesis substitute made from metal, polymer or plastic, which is equipped with a marking system enabling rapid identification of the instrument. The marking system includes: an RFID component; and a resin protuberance which is rigidly connected to the surgical instrument or implant substitute to be marked, the protuberance containing, and completely surrounding the tag.

Claims

1. Medical device, comprising a reusable or non-reusable surgical instrument made from metal, polymer or plastic, or any implant or prosthesis substitute made from metal, polymer or plastic, which is equipped with a marking system enabling rapid identification of the instrument, implant or prosthesis substitute, wherein the marking system comprises:

an RFID component, and

a resin protuberance rigidly connected to the surgical instrument or the implant or prosthesis substitute to be marked, said protuberance containing and completely surrounding said tag.

2. Medical device according to claim 1, wherein the resin of the protuberance is an EPOXY type resin.

3. Medical device according to claim 1, wherein the protuberance integrating the tag is fixed on the surgical instrument or on the implant or prosthesis substitute to be marked in a location corresponding to a part forming a means of gripping the instrument.

4. Medical device according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of resin surrounding the tag is greater than or equal to 1 mm.

5. Medical device according to claim 1, wherein the part of the protuberance coupled to the surgical instrument or the implant or prosthesis substitute to be marked hugs the shape of said instrument or said implant substitute.

6. Medical device according to claim 1, comprising an additional protuberance.

7. Medical device according to claim 6, wherein the additional protuberance is adapted to balance the surgical instrument or the implant or prosthesis substitute.

8. Medical device according to claim 6, wherein the additional protuberance contains a tag.

9. Medical device according to claim 1, wherein a protuberance contains two tags, said two tags being oriented along different directions.

10. Medical device according to claim 1, wherein a protuberance contains a radio-opaque element.

11. Medical device according to claim 1, wherein a radiofrequency insulator is arranged between the instrument or the implant or prosthesis substitute to be marked and the protuberance.

12. Medical device according to claim 1, wherein a protuberance is coloured according to a colour code making it possible to identify said medical device.