Height-adjustable supply unit for receiving working devices, especially medical devices

US5113897A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• DRAGERWERK AKTIEGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

• Ryszard Kummerfeld · Dassow, DE
• Siegfried Baumgarten · Lübeck, DE
• Gerd Holzapfel · Lübeck, DE
• Wolfgang Falb · Krummesse, DE
• Ulrich Palm · Norderstedt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 27, 1991
• Grant date: May 19, 1992
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/6969
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A medical supply unit with a height-adjustable connection head, e.g., in the form of a ceiling-mounted supply unit or ceiling lamp, is able to receive a working device, e.g., an anesthesiological apparatus, while ensuring reliable coupling for this purpose, so that the user will be able to perform a procedure reliably, with the working device being correctly connected. This is made possible by a coupling part 34 equipped with guide faces 35, with which a receiving part 14 engages, which is provided with complementarily extending receiving jaws 15 and which actuates--in the case of correctly fitting engagement--electrical contacts 18, such that the control elements 10 provided on a control panel 9 for height adjustment of the connection head 1 and/or for supplying the working device 30 with the media needed for operation are released.