Apparatus and method for cable management

• US 7,057,889 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2002
• Issued: 06/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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: Verstegen, Thomas, Mata, Rizaldy Buencamino
• Primary Examiner(s): DUONG, HUNG V
• Application Number:
  US10/065,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20040114313A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,279 Days
• Field of Search: 361679-687, 361/736, 361/752, 361826-827, 176 65- 66, 128/660.01, 242/85.1, 174/65.R, 174/50, 439501-502, 315/362
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/222 Electrical cables or leads therefor, e.g. coaxial cables or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 11/00 Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 11/02 using take-up reel or drum

Abstract

A monitoring device comprises a housing, a sensing device movable relative to the housing, and a cable having one end secured relative to the housing and another end secured to the sensing device. The housing includes a channel disposed therein and a portion of the cable is disposed in the channel for temporarily storing the cable. In one embodiment, a display screen is disposed in the housing, and the channel is disposed around at least a portion of a perimeter of the display screen. The cable may have a relaxed outside diameter greater than its stretched outside diameter, as in a coiled cable, thus allowing the cable to be stretched, inserted into the channel, and released to secure the cable in the channel. The cable may also be received in the channel in press-fit fashion.

Claims

1. A monitoring device comprising:

a sensing device;

a cable secured to the sensing device;

a display screen;

a housing for the display screen, the housing including;

a topwall;

a first side wall adjacent the top wall;

a second side wall adjacent the top wall, the display screen extending between the top wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall;

a first channel formed in at least one of the top wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall, the cable being removably received in the channel; and

a second channel disposed in the second side wall, the cable being removably disposed in the second channel.

2. The monitoring device of claim 1, further comprising:

a third channel disposed in the top wall, the cable being removably disposed in the third channel.

3. The monitoring device of claim 2 wherein the first, second, and third channels are contiguous.

4. The monitoring device of claim 3, wherein the cable has a relaxed outside diameter and a stretched outside diameter, the relaxed outside diameter being greater than a width of the channel and the stretched outside diameter being less than the width of the channel.

5. The monitoring device of claim 3, wherein the cable is received in the channel in press-fit fashion.