Carrier system for a medical apparatus

US7219864B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Stiftung · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Strauss · Senden, DE
• Franz Krug · Aalen, DE
• Fritz Zimmermann
• Alfons Abele · Trochtelfingen, DE
• Maren Lehmann · Oberkochen, DE
• Lauric Weber · Aalen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2004
• Grant date: May 22, 2007
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B21/24
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A carrier system (10) for a medical apparatus (11) is disclosed. The carrier system includes rotation joints (17, 18, 20). A supply line harness runs in the carrier system (10) and is run so that it is covered. The rotation joint (18) includes a tube-shaped holding member on which fingers are formed which hold a rotation joint. A joint element, which is rotatably journalled in a joint receptacle, is provided in the rotation joint (20). The joint element has a wave-shaped section which is connected via a connecting section to an annularly-shaped section functioning to accommodate a connecting arm.