IP Library Granted Patent US 10,653,494
Granted Patent B2
US 10,653,494 · App. 15/879,866 · Granted May 19, 2020

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

Inventor: Joachim Strölin (Rietheim, DE)
Assignee: Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & CO. KG
A61B90/30F21V21/30F21V21/40G10L15/26A61B90/361A61B2017/00203A61B2017/00907A61B2090/061A61B2090/308A61B2090/309F21V23/0471F21W2131/205
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Patent No.
US 10,653,494
App. No.
15/879,866
Granted
May 19, 2020
Kind
B2
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.

Claims (12)

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.

Assignments (2)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Sep 19, 2024
From: KARL LEIBINGER MEDIZINTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG
To: KARL LEIBINGER ASSET MANAGEMENT GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 068990/0670 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2018
From: STRÖLIN, JOACHIM
To: KARL LEIBINGER MEDIZINTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 045520/0939 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2015 113 338 · Aug 13, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2016067691 · Jul 25, 2016
Related Publication 20180147020A1 · May 31, 2018
Cited By (2)
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