Safety arrangement for a cable-supported component of a medical device

US6354406B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Mario Ring · Bayreuth, DE
• Peter Rauh · Schnabelwaid, DE
• Alfred Ott · Gäufelden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 19, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 12, 2002
• Expiry date: Jun 19, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16M2200/027
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a safety arrangement of a cable-supported component of a medical device that can be adjusted via a cart at a column, a force acts on the cable via at least one clamping lever that is adjustably supported at the cart, and the cart is free for purposes of adjustment along the column given action of the force, and the clamping lever is moved such that it blocks displacement of the cart relative to the column when the force is reduced.