Medical instrument cart

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019328477-A1
Application number	US-201716468223-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 8, 2017
Priority date	Dec 8, 2016
Publication date	Oct 31, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

A cart for dispensing, storing, and tracking medical instruments is provided. The cart has a housing, a first motor, a second motor, one or more trays, and a processor. The trays hold one or more medical instruments, and have a door and door opening assembly. The processor is in communication with the motors for rotating the housing and opening the doors. The processor has a storage medium for storing the cart's instrument dispensing history. The processor also has a user interface for capturing user input.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A cart for medical instruments, comprising:
a housing having a longitudinal axis; a first motor configured to rotate the housing about the longitudinal axis; and one or more trays removably disposed within the housing, each tray having one or more retainers, each of the one or more retainers configured to hold a medical instrument, and wherein each tray includes a door; an actuator configured to open the door; and a processor operably connected to the first motor, wherein the processor is programmed to:
receive a request for a medical instrument;
cause the first motor to rotate the housing until a tray containing the requested medical instrument is at a working position; and
record a use of the requested medical instrument on a storage medium.

2 . The cart of claim 1 , wherein the actuator is a part of the tray such that each of the one or more trays include an actuator.

3 . The cart of claim 1 , wherein the actuator is a part of the housing and configured to cooperate with a door of a tray in the working position.

4 . The cart of claim 1 , wherein the actuator is a mechanical linkage actuated by manipulation of a user.

5 . The cart of claim 1 , wherein the actuator is an electric actuator.

6 . The cart of claim 5 , wherein the actuator is operably connected to the processor.

7 . The cart of claim 1 , further comprising a touch-sensitive display in electronic communication with the processor, and wherein the processor is further programmed to display a user interface on the display.

8 . The cart of claim 1 , wherein the housing further comprises one or more shelves to support the one or more trays.

9 . The cart of claim 1 , wherein the housing further comprises one or more vertical dividers for separating each tray of the one or more trays from others of the trays.

10 . The cart of claim 1 , wherein each tray includes a moveable platform to which the one or more retainers are affixed, and wherein the moveable platform is configured to move instruments held by the retainers to a user position when the door of the tray is opened.

11 . The cart of claim 1 , wherein the housing is substantially cylindrical.

12 . The cart of claim 1 , further comprising a second motor configured to translate the housing along the longitudinal axis.

Assignees

• Health Research Inc

Inventors

• Guru Khurshid
• Titus Albert
• Weeks Kyle

Classifications

• A61L2103/15

  Laboratory, medical or dentistry appliances, e.g. catheters or sharps · CPC title

• A61B50/13 Primary

  Trolleys{, e.g. carts} · CPC title

• A61G12/001

  Trolleys for transport of medicaments, food, linen, nursing supplies (carts specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis A61B50/13; hand carts B62B3/00) · CPC title

• A61L2202/17

  Combination with washing or cleaning means · CPC title

• A61L2/26

  Accessories · CPC title