Connecting device for selectively connecting a patient support means with the support column of an operating table

US5611638A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Stierlen-Maquet AG · DE

Inventors

• Holger Dorr · Rastatt, DE
• Hermann Kieferle · Gaggenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 28, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 18, 1997
• Expiry date: Jun 28, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T403/602
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

At least two connecting elements are fastened to the patient support and are insertable into pin receivers of the column and carriage. Each connecting element has two latching elements each movable between a latching position and an unlatching position, and during relative movement between the transport carriage and the support column resulting in the transfer of the patient support from the column to the transport carriage, or the reverse, each connecting element becomes received at the same time in a column pin receiver and a carriage pin receiver. Each receiver has a detent recess for receiving one of the latching elements of a received connecting element in its latching position and a control surface associated with the other latch element of the received connecting element which control surface upon the reception of the connecting element transfers this latching element to its unlatched position. Each of the latching elements has associated with it a sensor for detecting the latching position of the latching element.