Medical technology device and medical technology device arrangement

• US 8,911,437 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2012
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Hrlle, Andreas, Roggan, Andr, Fischer, Uwe, Strauss, Timo, Schiddel, Stefan, Sprenger, Christopher, Khne, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): DELLA, JAYMI E
• Application Number:
  US13/591,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20120316588A1
• Time in Patent Office: 846 Days
• Field of Search: 439135-136, 439138-140, 439/190, 439/199, 439/271, 439/909, 439/700, 606/34, 606/39, 606/40
• US Class Current: 606/34
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1206 Generators therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1823 Generators therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5213 Covers
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5224 for medical use
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/74 Means for mounting coupling parts in openings of a panel
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/909 Medical use or attached to human body

Abstract

The invention concerns a medical technology device for treatment of the human or animal body, comprising at least one electrical plug connector which is adapted to be connected to a complementary counterpart plug connector of a further medical technology device and which in an active position is arranged projecting upwardly at the top side of the device. To provide a medical technology device which can be used both as an individual device and also in conjunction with a second device as a device arrangement and which in that respect satisfies existing safety and aesthetic demands, it is provided in accordance with the invention that the plug connector is adapted to be movable from the active position into a passive position, wherein in the passive position the plug connector is removed from the top side of the device and the top side is closed in substantially fluid-tight relationship.

Claims

1. A medical technology device arrangement for treatment of a human or an animal body, comprising:

at least two medical technology devices which are electrically and mechanically connected together by way of a plug connector arrangement, the at least two medical technology devices including first and second medical technology devices, each having a respective bottom wall and a respective top wall, the top wall of the first medical technology device is structurally configured to support directly thereon the second medical technology device in a state when the first and second medical technology devices are electrically coupled via said plug connector arrangement,

the plug connector arrangement comprises an electrical plug connector provided at the top wall of the first medical technology device and a counterpart electrical plug connector which is arranged in the bottom wall of the second medical technology device, the bottom wall of the second medical technology device being configured to enable its stacking on the top wall of the first medical device, and the counterpart electrical plug connector being of a complementary configuration relative to the electrical plug connector and being configured to be connected thereto, and

wherein the electrical plug connector is configured to be in an active position for connection to the counterpart electrical plug by being arranged to be aligned with and to project in an upward direction from the top wall of the first medical technology device, and configured to be movable from the active position into a passive position, wherein, in the passive position, the electrical plug connector is configured to be removed from the top wall of the first medical technology device and the top wall is configured to be closed in a substantially fluid-tight condition, and

wherein the electrical plug connector in its active position is arranged so as to project into the counterpart electrical plug connector for electrically coupling the two medical technology devices when the second of the medical technology devices is stacked directly upon the first medical technology device.

2. The medical technology device arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first medical technology device is an ultrasound generator and the second medical technology device is a high-frequency (HF) generator.

3. The medical technology device arrangement according to claim 2, wherein the medical technology device arrangement is so configured that in operation a high frequency current signal and a signal for an ultrasound instrument can be taken off are simultaneously provided at the ultrasound generator.

4. The medical technology device arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first medical technology device comprises a lift unit positioned to movably connect the electrical plug connector to the second medical technology device, and the lift unit is configured to be able to be immovably arrested in the active position to thereby prevent unwanted lowering movement of the electrical plug connector, wherein the lift unit comprises a prismatic joint configured to allow the electrical plug connector to move from the active position into the passive position and from the passive position to the active position with such movement being substantially linearly in a direction in which the counterpart electrical plug connector is inserted into the electrical plug connector that is moveably connected to the lift unit.

5. The medical technology device arrangement according to claim 4, wherein the first medical technology device is an ultrasound generator and the second medical technology device is an HF generator.

6. The medical technology device arrangement according to claim 5, wherein the medical technology device arrangement is so configured that a high frequency current signal and a signal for an ultrasound instrument are simultaneously provided at the ultrasound generator.