Medical testing system with an illuminating component

• US 6,862,472 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2001
• Issued: 03/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: GE Medical Systems Information Technologies Incorporated (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: GE Medical Systems Information Technologies Incorporated (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Secora, Gary J., Mikula, Patricia J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sykes, Angela D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BRADFORD, RODERICK D
• Application Number:
  US09/915,671
• Publication Number:
  US 20030023179A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• Field of Search: 600522-525, 600508-510, 600/520, 600/300, 128/920, 128/906
• US Class Current: 600/523
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0437 Trolley or cart-type apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/333 Recording apparatus specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/338 Recording by printing on paper
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/02 Measuring pulse or heart rate
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 3/063 using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/92 Computer assisted medical diagnostics

Abstract

A medical testing system includes an instrument for monitoring the electrical activity of a patient'"'"'s heart. The instrument includes a work surface and an illuminating component for illuminating the work surface.

Claims

1. A medical testing system comprising:

a. an instrument for monitoring the electrical activity of a patient'"'"'s heart, the instrument including a work surface and a printing device configured to print a graphical waveform representing the electrical activity of the heart on a medium moving across the work surface;

b. a monitor coupled to the instrument and configured to display images representing the heart; and

c. a light source, coupled to the instrument and positioned above the work surface, that directs light toward the work surface to illuminate the work surface;

wherein the light source includes at lest one LED.

2. A medical testing system comprising:

a. an instrument for monitoring the electrical activity of a patient'"'"'s heart, the instrument including a work surface and a printing device adjacent the work surface for printing on a medium a graphical waveform representing the electrical activity of the heart;

b. a monitor coupled to the instrument and configured to display images representing the heart; and

c. a light source, coupled to the instrument and positioned above the work surface, that directs light toward the work surface to illuminate the work surface and is adapted to illuminate the medium.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising a supporting component that includes a plate adapted to support the monitor at a position above the instrument, the plate including the light source.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the instrument includes a power source, the light source being coupled to the power source.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the instrument is an electrocardiograph.

6. A medical testing system comprising:

a. an instrument that monitors the electrical activity of a patient'"'"'s heart, said instrument including (1) a work surface, (2) a printing component configured to print on a medium, moving across the work surface, a graphical waveform representing the electrical activity of the heart, (3) a power source coupled to the printing component and (4) a monitor coupled to the instrument and configured to display images representing the heart; and

b. an illuminating component, coupled to the power source and positioned above the work surface, which illuminates the work surface.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising a supporting component engaging the instrument for supporting both the monitor and the illuminating component above the work surface.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the instrument includes a keypad adjacent the work surface.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the illuminating component illuminates the keypad.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the illuminating component includes at least one light emitting diode.

11. A medical testing system comprising:

a. means for monitoring the electrical activity of a patient'"'"'s heart, the means for monitoring including (1) a work surface, (2) a means for printing on a medium, moving across the work surface, a graphical waveform representing the electrical activity of the heart, (3) a power source coupled to the means for printing, and (4) means for displaying images representing the heart separate from the printed medium; and

b. means coupled to the power source for illuminating the work surface.