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Electronic controller for use with a surgical laser system

  • US 4,572,189 A
  • Filed: 10/11/1983
  • Issued: 02/25/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A combination of an electronic controller and a laser system which includes a mechanical triggering device and which generates a beam of light energy in the infrared spectrum and which is electrically coupled to said electronic controller so that said electronic controller not only controls the pulse width of said beam of light energy within a range of 0.005 seconds to 0.100 seconds, but also limits the maximum number of pulses to a number which a surgeon may select for use in surgical procedures, said electronic controller comprising:

  • a. modulating means for turning said laser system on and off at a freqency rate of in the range of two hundred cycles per second to twenty cycles per second;

    b. a triggering circuit which is electrically coupled to said mechanical triggering circuit and which provides a trigger signal in its triggered state and a reset signal in its untriggered state;

    c. a clock circuit which is electrically coupled to said triggering circuit and which provides clock signals in response to said trigger signal;

    d. a one-shot monostable, multivibrator circuit having an RC timing circuit which is electrically coupled to said clock circuit and which controls the pulse width of its output signal in a range of 0.005 seconds and 0.1 seconds in response to said clock signals;

    e. a counter which is electrically coupled to said one-shot monostable, multivibrator circuit and which counts each of said clock signals;

    f. a comparator which is electrically coupled to said counter in order to compare the number of said counted clock signals to said number which the surgeon has selected and to said clock circuit and which is electrically coupled to said clock circuit, so that, when the number of said counted clock signal equals said number, said comparator provides a clock inhibit signal in order to inhibit said clock circuit from providing any more clock signals.

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