US 12,220,287 B2
Surgical device with integrated RFID readout antenna
Roland-Alois Hoegerle, Tuttlingen (DE); Frederick Lenzenhuber, Tuttlingen (DE); Ralf Pfister, Trossingen (DE); André Buerk, Villingen-Schwenningen (DE); and Martin Machill, Rietheim-Weilheim (DE)
Assigned to Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/767,651
Filed by Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/078410
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/069662, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 127 468.0 (DE), filed on Oct. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0081945 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 90/98 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); H01R 13/03 (2006.01); H01R 13/66 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 90/98 (2016.02) [A61B 17/00 (2013.01); A61B 90/08 (2016.02); H01R 13/03 (2013.01); H01R 13/66 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00221 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00398 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2090/0803 (2016.02); A61B 2090/0804 (2016.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical device comprising:
a surgical application part with an electric motor having motor windings;
an electrical supply cable having a plurality of lines; and
at least one readout antenna which is integrated in the surgical application part or the electrical supply cable,
the electrical supply cable being connectable at a first end to the surgical application part and at a second end to a control unit for controlling the electric motor,
the at least one readout antenna being capable of being supplied with voltage and being designed as an additional element separate from the motor windings,
the at least one readout antenna adapted to excite and read out an RFID chip arranged or arrangeable near the at least one readout antenna to transmit data bidirectionally between the RFID chip and the control unit via the electrical supply cable.