Surgical theater system having light, monitors, and cameras

US6471363B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Hill-Rom Services, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Charles A. Howell · Batesville, US
• Jonathan D. Turner · Quakertown, US
• Howard Reed · Warsaw, US
• Richard H. Heimbrock · Batesville, US
• Scott Manlove · Osgood, US
• Gary A. Gray · Fairport, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 22, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 29, 2002
• Expiry date: Jan 5, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S362/804
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A surgical theater apparatus for suspending from a ceiling structural member of a hospital includes a central hub mountable to the ceiling structural member to rotate about a rotation axis. The hub has a pivot axis spaced apart from the rotation axis. First and second devices, such as surgical lights, a cameras, and monitors, are mounted to a first end of a first device arm and a first end of a second device arm, respectively. A second end of the first device arm is mounted to the hub for movement about the rotation axis and about the pivot axis. A second end of the second device arm is mounted to the hub for movement about the rotation axis. The pivot axis and the rotation axis are parallel.