Auto recognition of a shaver blade for medical use

摘要

A system for automatically identifying a blade that is connected to a hand piece based on data transmitted from the blade to the hand piece. The blade is provided with a first electronic coupler that communicates with a second electronic coupled positioned in the hand piece such that data related to the blade is transmitted to the hand piece and controllers/computers and in the case of reusable blades, updated data is transmitted to the blade to be saved in a memory coupled to the first electronic coupler. The coupling system can be either a hard wired or wireless coupling between the blade and the hand piece.

主权项

1. A system for monitoring a medical cutting device comprising:
a plurality of detachable blades configured to at least one of cut, shave, grind, and polish; a hand piece including controls positioned thereon configured to control the operation of one of said plurality of detachable blades attached to said hand piece, each of said plurality of detachable blades being coupleable to said hand piece; a plurality of first Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers, wherein each of said plurality of detachable blades has one of said first RF transceivers affixed thereto to transmit blade parameter data and blade use history data; a second RF transceiver affixed to said hand piece to receive the blade parameter data, said second RF transceiver coupled to a remote computer via a network; and a plurality of memory devices coupled respectively to each of said plurality of first RF transceivers, each of said plurality of memory devices having at least one memory location for storing data; wherein said hand piece is configured such that, when one of said plurality of detachable blades is attached to said hand piece, said hand piece automatically adjusts at least one operational setting in accordance with the received blade parameter data so that said hand piece is configured to control the attached blade, and modifies at least one blade use history data value indicating that a detachable blade has been attached to the hand piece, and provides modified blade use history data to the second RF transceiver for transmission to the first RF transceiver and storage in the memory device of the first RF transceiver, wherein the modified at least one blade use history data value is transmitted to the remote computer; wherein a wireless transmission format between the first RF transceiver and the second RF transceiver is RuBee format using IPv4 addresses.