HANDLE DEVICE FOR A SURGICAL LIGHT WITH VOICE CONTROL, AND SURGICAL LIGHT

• US 20180147020A1
• Filed: 01/25/2018
• Published: 05/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GmbH & Co KG
• Original Assignee: Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GmbH & Co KG
• Inventors: STRLIN, Joachim
• Granted Patent: US 10,653,494 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00203 with speech control or speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00907 for light
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/061 for measuring dimensions, e.g. length
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/308 Lamp handles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/309 using white LEDs
• 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 90/361 Image-producing devices, e.g. surgical cameras
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/30 Pivoted housings or frames
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/40 Hand grips
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 23/0471 the sensor detecting the proximity, the presence or the movement of an object or a person
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/205 for operating theatres
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to a handle device for a surgical light, which comprises a handle element, prepared for attachment to a receiving body of the surgical light and forming a handle surface in an exterior region. A voice control module that has at least one acoustic sensor is detachably connected to the handle element. The invention further relates to a surgical light having said handle device.

Claims

1. A handle device which is prepared for attachment to a receiving body of a surgical light, the handle device comprising a handle element forming a handle surface in an exterior region, wherein a voice control module having at least one acoustic sensor is detachably connected to the handle element.

2. The handle device according to claim 1, wherein the voice control module includes a housing in which the at least one acoustic sensor is received.

3. The handle device according to claim 2, wherein the housing includes a disk-shaped hollow portion inside of which the at least one acoustic sensor is arranged.

4. The handle device according to claim 2, wherein the housing is transmissive to an acoustic signal to be detected by the at least one acoustic sensor in the area of the at least one acoustic sensor.

5. The handle device according to claim 1, wherein the voice control module includes a handle receiving portion which is detachably connected to the handle element.

6. The handle device according to claim 5, wherein the handle receiving portion forms a receiving pivot to which a sleeve portion of the handle element (3) including the handle surface is attached in at least one operating state of the handle device.

7. The handle device according to claim 1, wherein the handle element is connected to the voice control module by form fit and/or force fit in at least one operating state.

8. The handle device according to claim 1, wherein the voice control module includes a computer unit which is electrically connected to the at least one acoustic sensor and generates control signals for controlling the surgical light depending on the measuring data determined by means of the at least one acoustic sensor.

9. The handle device according to claim 1, wherein at least one distance sensor designed for detecting a position of an object is contained in the voice control module.

10. The handle device according to claim 8, wherein the at least one distance sensor is electronically connected to the computer unit.

11. The handle device according to claim 1, wherein the voice control module is connected to an image-recording device.

12. A surgical light comprising a handle device according to claim 1, wherein the handle device is at least partially detachably connected to a receiving body of the surgical light.

13. The surgical light according to claim 12, wherein the voice control module is detachably attached to the receiving body.

14. The surgical light according to claim 12, wherein a computer unit of the voice control module is wire-connected to a central control unit of the surgical light.

15. The surgical light according to claim 12, wherein a computer unit of the voice control module is connected to a central control unit of the surgical light by means of wireless data communication.