Destructive battery closure

• US 9,065,107 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2013
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc. (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc. (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Bennett, Michael J., Ryan, Phillip A., Yarbrough, Paul E., Roth, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Ruddock, Ula C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BARROW, AMANDA J
• Application Number:
  US14/012,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20140065459A1
• Time in Patent Office: 664 Days
• Field of Search: 429 96-100, 429/121, 429/151, 206703-705, 224/902, 607/63
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/26 Tonsillotomes, with or without means for stopping bleeding
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/32002 with continuously rotating, oscillating or reciprocating cutting instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/00 Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body eye surgery A61F9/007; ear surgery A61F11/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/04 by heating by applying electromagnetic radiation A61B18/18; hyperthermia using electric or magnetic fields, radiation or ultrasound A61N
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/148 having a short, rigid shaft for accessing the inner body transcutaneously, e.g. for neurosurgery or arthroscopy
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0023 disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00734 battery operated
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00571 for achieving a particular surgical effect
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2217/007 with irrigation system
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2218/002 Irrigation
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/30 Batteries in portable systems, e.g. mobile phone, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/204 Racks, modules or packs for multiple batteries or multiple cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/247 specially adapted for portable devices, e.g. mobile phones, computers, hand tools or pacemakers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/262 with fastening means, e.g. locks
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/298 characterised by the wiring of battery packs
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/574 Devices or arrangements for the interruption of current
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0086 portable, e.g. battery operated apparatus casings for switching devices H01H9/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

An article comprising: (a) a battery support containing battery lead wires, (b) an opposing battery support attached to the battery support to create a battery closure, and (c) one or more batteries; wherein the batteries are secured in the battery closure, wherein the batteries are secured to the opposing battery support, the batteries supply energy to a device, and removing the opposing battery support from the battery closure disables transmission of electricity from the batteries via the battery lead wires to the device.

Claims

1. An article comprising:

(a) a battery support containing battery lead wires,

(b) an opposing battery support attached to the battery support to create a battery closure, and

(c) one or more batteries,

(d) a battery bulkhead,

(e) a first battery bulkhead joining member, and

(f) a second battery bulkhead joining member;

wherein the one or more batteries are secured to the opposing battery support, the one or more batteries supply energy to a device, and removing the opposing battery support from the battery closure disables transmission of electricity from the one or more batteries via the battery lead wires to the device;

wherein the first battery bulkhead joining member attaches the battery bulkhead to the battery support, and the second battery bulkhead joining member attaches the battery bulkhead to the opposing battery support;

wherein the battery support allows mechanical release of the opposing battery support from the battery closure once coupled in either a first or a second position; and

wherein the battery bulkhead stays engaged to the battery support by the first battery bulkhead joining member when the opposing battery support is in the first position, and the battery bulkhead is retained in the second battery bulkhead joining member and released from the first battery bulkhead joining member when the opposing battery support is in the second position.

2. An article according to claim 1, further comprising a barb that prevents movement of the opposing battery support from the second position to the first position.

3. An article according to claim 1 wherein the opposing battery support further contains at least one arm.

4. An article according to claim 3, wherein the opposing battery support further contains at least one pin and the battery support further contains at least one sidewall with at least one track for the at least one pin, the at least one track engages the at least one pin when a user sets the opposing battery support on the battery support, and the at least one arm engages into an undercut in the battery bulkhead when the user moves the opposing battery support from the first position to the second position, thereby coupling the battery bulkhead to the opposing battery support.

5. An article according to claim 4, wherein the at least one track contains at least one barb which engages the at least one pin preventing movement of the opposing battery support from the second position to the first position.

6. An article according to claim 3, wherein the at one least arm contains at least one barb which engages the battery bulkhead preventing movement of the opposing battery support from the second position to the first position.

7. An article according to claim 1, wherein a user can dispose of the opposing battery support with the one or more batteries separately from the device.

8. An article according to claim 1, wherein the battery closure does not avow electrical reconnection after the opposing battery closure is removed.

9. An article according to claim 1, wherein the device is a disposable medical device.

10. An article according to claim 1, wherein a first section of the battery lead wires is attached to the battery support.

11. An article according to claim 10, wherein a second section of the battery lead wires is attached to the battery bulkhead.

12. An article comprising:

(a) a battery support containing battery lead wires,

(b) an opposing battery support attached to the battery support to create a battery closure, and

(c) one or more batteries,

(d) a battery bulkhead,

(e) a first battery bulkhead joining member, and

(f) a second battery bulkhead joining member;

wherein the one or more batteries are secured to the opposing battery support, the one or more batteries supply energy to a device, and removing the opposing battery support from the battery closure disables transmission of electricity from the one or more batteries via the battery lead wires to the device;

wherein the first battery bulkhead joining member attaches the battery bulkhead to the battery support, and the second battery bulkhead joining member attaches the battery bulkhead to the opposing battery support; and

wherein the battery bulkhead further contains a blade, and wherein the blade severs the battery lead wires when a user removes the opposing battery support.

13. An article comprising:

(a) a battery support containing battery lead wires,

(b) an opposing battery support attached to the battery support to create a battery closure, and

(c) one or more batteries,

(d) a battery bulkhead,

(e) a first battery bulkhead joining member, and

(f) a second battery bulkhead joining member;

wherein the one or more batteries are secured to the opposing battery support, the one or more batteries supply energy to a device, and removing the opposing battery support from the battery closure disables transmission of electricity from the one or more batteries via the battery lead wires to the device;

wherein the first battery bulkhead joining member attaches the battery bulkhead to the battery support, and the second battery bulkhead joining member attaches the battery bulkhead to the opposing battery support; and

wherein there is an intermediate section of the battery lead wires between a first section attached to the battery support and a second section attached to the battery bulkhead, the intermediate section contains a solder joint, and the solder joint ruptures when a user removes the opposing battery support from the battery closure which disables and severs the battery lead wires.

14. An article according to claim 13, wherein the battery closure contains at least one activation tab.

15. An article according to claim 13, wherein the battery closure is external to the device.

16. An article according to claim 13, wherein a user engages the one or more batteries and the battery lead wires by moving the opposing battery support from a first position to a second position.

17. A disposable medical device comprising:

(a) a housing,

(b) a powered element within the housing,

(c) a battery support containing battery lead wires,

(d) an opposing battery support attached to the battery support to create a battery closure,

(e) one or more batteries;

(f) a battery bulkhead,

(g) a first battery bulkhead joining member, and

(h) a second battery bulkhead joining member;

wherein the first battery bulkhead joining member attaches the battery bulkhead to the battery support, and the second battery bulkhead joining member attaches the battery bulkhead to the opposing battery support;

the battery support allows mechanical release of the opposing battery support from the battery closure once coupled in either a first or a second position;

the battery bulkhead stays engaged to the battery support by the first battery bulkhead joining member when the opposing battery support is in the first position;

the battery bulkhead is retained in the second battery bulkhead joining member and released from the first battery bulkhead joining member when the opposing battery support is in the second position;

a first section of the battery lead wires is attached to the battery support, a second section of the battery lead wires is attached to the bulkhead, and an intermediate section of the battery lead wires between the first section and the second section contains a solder joint that ruptures when a user removes the opposing battery support from the battery closure which disables and severs the battery lead wires.