Handle device for a surgical light with voice control, and surgical light

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10653494-B2
Application number	US-201815879866-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 25, 2018
Priority date	Aug 13, 2015
Publication date	May 19, 2020
Grant date	May 19, 2020

Abstract

The invention relates to a handle device for a surgical light, which comprises a handle element, prepared for attachment to a receiving body of the surgical light and forming a handle surface in an exterior region. A voice control module that has at least one acoustic sensor is detachably connected to the handle element. The invention further relates to a surgical light having said handle device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A handle device which is prepared for attachment to a receiving body of a surgical light, the handle device comprising a housing including a disk-shaped hollow portion with a front wall and a rear wall being distanced to the front wall via a side wall, a handle receiving portion being tightly connected to the front wall and forming a receiving pivot that extends with its longitudinal axis perpendicular to and away from the front wall, a handle element including a sleeve portion that forms a handle surface in an exterior region and is detachably arranged on the receiving pivot in such a way that a voice control module comprising the housing is detachably connected to the handle element, wherein inside the disk-shaped hollow portion of the housing an electronic housing is placed and inside this electronic housing at least one acoustic sensor and a loudspeaker as an acoustic output unit are enclosed.

2. The handle device according to claim 1 , wherein the housing is transmissive to an acoustic signal to be detected by the at least one acoustic sensor in the area of the at least one acoustic sensor.

3. The handle device according to claim 1 , wherein the handle element is connected to the voice control module by form fit and/or force fit in at least one operating state.

4. The handle device according to claim 1 , wherein the voice control module includes a computer unit which is electrically connected to the at least one acoustic sensor and generates control signals for controlling the surgical light depending on the measuring data determined by means of the at least one acoustic sensor.

5. The handle device according to claim 1 wherein at least one distance sensor designed for detecting a position of an object is contained in the voice control module.

6. The handle device according to claim 4 , wherein the at least one distance sensor is electronically connected to the computer unit.

7. The handle device according to claim 1 , wherein the voice control module is connected to an image-recording device.

8. A surgical light comprising a handle device according to claim 1 , wherein the handle device is at least partially detachably connected to a receiving body of the surgical light.

9. The surgical light according to claim 8 , wherein the voice control module is detachably attached to the receiving body.

10. The surgical light according to claim 8 , wherein a computer unit of the voice control module is wire-connected to a central control unit of the surgical light.

11. The surgical light according to claim 8 , wherein a computer unit of the voice control module is connected to a central control unit of the surgical light by means of wireless data communication.

12. The handle device according to claim 1 , wherein the loudspeaker is positioned directly behind a wipeable membrane.

Assignees

• Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Strölin Joachim

Classifications

• A61B2017/00907

  for light · CPC title

• F21V21/30

  Pivoted housings or frames · CPC title

• F21V23/0471

  the sensor detecting the proximity, the presence or the movement of an object or a person · CPC title

• A61B90/30 Primary

  Devices for illuminating a surgical field, the devices having an interrelation with other surgical devices or with a surgical procedure · CPC title

• A61B2090/308

  Lamp handles · CPC title