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Medical instrument having an installed transponder module, and medical transponder communication system

US12197979B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Aesculap AG · DE

Inventors

Roland-Alois Hoegerle · Tuttlingen, DE
Frederick Lenzenhuber · Tuttlingen, DE
Ralf Pfister · Trossingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 22, 2021
Grant date	Jan 14, 2025
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 22, 2041

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06K19/07749
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A medical instrument and a medical transponder communication system. The medical instrument has an instrument body, which has a prepared depression or opening in an instrument body surface, and an installed transponder module having: a transponder, preferably an RFID transponder, particularly preferably a glass transponder, a housing which has an upper side and a lower side and in which the transponder is accommodated and which is provided and designed to be installed or inserted into the prepared depression or opening in the medical instrument with its lower side facing towards the depression so that the lower side is set back relative to the upper side and the instrument body surface, and a screen that is signal-opaque to electromagnetic waves and has a signal-transparent screen opening. The transponder is spaced from and set back relative to the screen towards the lower side.

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