| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reliable footswitch that functions to communicate with a surgical system while avoiding potential hazard or a restrictive environment created by entangled cables. <P>SOLUTION: The surgical footswitch includes a base, a pedal, an encoder assembly, a wireless interface, and an internal power generator. The wireless interface sends control signals from an encoder to a surgical controller and then instructs surgical equipment based on the control signal. This wireless interface eliminates the tangle of wires or tethers, which may be a hazard in a surgical theater. The internal power generator converts footswitch movement into stored energy, in order to eliminate potential failures of the footswitch during a surgery and to overcome the need to replace batteries of the footswitch. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
