Surgical face guard, surgical frame, surgical polarization shield, and surgery system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10702345-B2
Application number	US-201615128268-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 14, 2016
Priority date	Feb 6, 2015
Publication date	Jul 7, 2020
Grant date	Jul 7, 2020

Abstract

[Solution] Provided is a surgical face guard, including a frame configured to be worn on a head of a medical worker, and a polarization shield configured to cover at least an in-front-of-eyes part and a part of a side-of-face surface of the medical worker, and have a predetermined polarization property with respect to a three-dimensional image.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A surgical face guard, comprising:
a frame configured to be worn on a head of a medical worker; and
a polarization shield configured to cover at least an in-front-of-eyes part and a part of a side-of-face surface of the medical worker, wherein
the polarization shield has a predetermined polarization property with respect to a three-dimensional image,
the polarization shield includes a left hole, a left notch portion, a right hole, and a right notch portion for connecting the polarization shield to the frame, wherein the polarization shield extends between the left hole and the left notch portion and extends between the right hole and the right notch portion, and
an arrangement of the right hole and the left hole is not symmetric, an arrangement of the left notch portion and the right notch portion is symmetric, and at least one characteristic of the left hole and the right hole is different, the at least one characteristic being an orientation configured such that the polarization shield is attachable to the frame in only one orientation of the polarization shield.

2. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein
the polarization shield is provided so as to be attachable to and detachable from the frame, and
the frame includes a right-fixing member with a right protrusion that connects the polarization shield at a right-side part of the frame and a left-fixing member with a left protrusion that connects the polarization shield at a left-side part of the frame.

3. The surgical face guard according to claim 2 , wherein
the right hole fits over the right protrusion of the right-fixing member, and
the left hole fits over the left protrusion of the left-fixing member.

4. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein the polarization shield is a shield for three-dimensional viewing that has a polarization property of enabling three-dimensional viewing three-dimensional images.

5. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein the polarization shield is a shield for two-dimensional viewing that has a polarization property of enabling two-dimensional viewing three-dimensional images.

6. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein the polarization shield is provided with an identification mark indicating the predetermined polarization property.

7. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein an inner surface of the polarization shield is treated with an anti-fog coating that prevents fogging, the inner surface facing a face of the medical worker.

8. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein an outer surface of the polarization shield is treated with a water-repellent coating, the outer surface being an opposite side of an inner surface of the polarization shield, the inner surface facing a face of the medical worker.

9. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , further comprising another shield configured to be superimposed on the polarization shield.

10. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein the frame is made of a material that is resistant to sterilization or the frame is processed to be resistant to sterilization.

11. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein the polarization shield covers a substantially entire part of the in-front-of-face surface of the medical worker.

12. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein the three-dimensional image is an endoscopic image related to a surgical site of a patient.

13. A surgical polarization shield, comprising:
a polarization area configured to have a predetermined polarization property with respect to a three-dimensional image;
a right hole and a right notch portion configured to fit over a right protrusion of a right-fixing member of a frame to be worn on a head of a medical worker; and
a left hole and a left notch portion configured to fit over a left protrusion of a left-fixing member of the frame, wherein
the surgical polarization shield is connected to the frame when the left hole and the right hole are fitted over the left protrusion and the right protrusion,
an arrangement of the right hole and the left hole is not symmetric,
an arrangement of the left notch portion and the right notch portion is symmetric, wherein the polarization area extends between the left hole and the left notch portion and extends between the right hole and the right notch portion, and
at least one characteristic of the left hole and the right hole is different, the at least one characteristic being an orientation configured such that the surgical polarization shield is attachable to the frame in only one orientation of the surgical polarization shield.

14. A surgery system, comprising:
a display device configured to display a three-dimensional image; and
a surgical face guard including
a frame configured to be worn on a head of a medical worker, and
a polarization shield configured to cover at least an in-front-of-eyes part and a part of a side-of-face surface of the medical worker, wherein

the polarization shield has a predetermined polarization property with respect to the three-dimensional image,
the polarization shield includes a left hole, a left notch portion, a right hole, and a right notch portion for connecting the polarization shield to the frame,
an arrangement of the right hole and the left hole is not symmetric, an arrangement of the left notch portion and the right notch portion is symmetric, and
the left hole and the right hole have a same shape with different orientations.

15. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein
the polarization shield has a notch between the left hole and the right hole, and
the left hole and the right hole are asymmetrical with respect to a centerline passing through the notch.

16. The surgical face guard according to claim 15 , wherein the orientation of the left hole is different from the orientation of the right hole.

17. The surgical face guard according to claim 16 , wherein
the polarization shield is a single film including a left-eye polarization area and a right-eye polarization area,
the single film is seamless between the left-eye polarization area and the right-eye polarization area, and
the centerline is a boundary between the left-eye polarization area and the right-eye polarization area.

18. The surgical face guard according to claim 17 , wherein the polarization shield is provided with an identification mark indicating a front or a back of the single film.

19. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one characteristic of the left hole and the right hole is different to prevent the polarization shield from being fixed to the frame inside out.

20. The surgical face guard according to claim 1 , wherein the left hole is formed in a first side of the polarization shield with a first predetermined polarization and the right hole is formed in a second side of the polarization shield with a second predetermined polarization.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Saito Kazuya
• Higo Tomoyuki
• Nakayama Atsushi

Classifications

• G02C7/12 Primary

  Polarisers · CPC title

• G02C11/00

  Non-optical adjuncts; Attachment thereof (G02C7/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• A61B34/25 Primary

  User interfaces for surgical systems · CPC title

• G02C2200/32

  Oblong hole · CPC title

• H04N13/337

  using polarisation multiplexing · CPC title