US 12,102,569 B2
Medical technology station and method of use
Robert Volek, Brooklyn, NY (US); Jack Finnerty, Cambridge (GB); Jin Chen, Somerset, NJ (US); Krzysztof Sosniak, Stirling, NJ (US); Marcel Ipince, North Plainfield, NJ (US); Charles Pfeiffer, Phillipsburg, NJ (US); Adam Piotrowski, Clifton, NJ (US); and Harry Tan, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Capsa Solutions LLC, Canal Winchester, OH (US)
Filed by Capsa Solutions LLC, Canal Winchester, OH (US)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/942,288.
Application 17/942,288 is a division of application No. 16/910,988, filed on Jun. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,439,555.
Application 16/910,988 is a continuation of application No. 15/975,860, filed on May 10, 2018, granted, now 10,751,239, issued on Aug. 25, 2020.
Application 15/975,860 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2016/061911, filed on Nov. 14, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/255,336, filed on Nov. 13, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2023/0000707 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61G 12/00 (2006.01); A47B 31/00 (2006.01); A47B 67/02 (2006.01); A61J 7/00 (2006.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01)
CPC A61G 12/001 (2013.01) [A47B 31/00 (2013.01); A61J 7/0084 (2013.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A47B 2031/003 (2013.01); A47B 2031/006 (2013.01); A47B 67/02 (2013.01); A47B 2067/025 (2013.01); A61G 2203/16 (2013.01); A61G 2203/20 (2013.01); A61G 2205/60 (2013.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical station comprising:
a movable cart;
a computer system comprising an input device, a display device, and a processor, the computer system positioned on the cart and including computer memory in communication with the processor;
a housing mounted on the cart;
at least one portable cassette system removably coupled to the housing, wherein the processor is in electronic communication with the input device, the display device, and the cassette system; and
wherein the cassette system comprises:
a cassette frame defining an interior divided into compartments;
drawers, each of the drawers occupying, and being slidably positioned in, at least one of the compartments;
each of the compartments having an actuator associated therewith in communication with the processor and associated with an actuator latch that is movable in response to operation of the associated actuator; and
each of the drawers having at least one drawer latch, and each of the drawers capable of moving from a locked and closed position to an unlocked position in response to movement from the associated actuator latch; and
a series of proximity sensors each in electrical communication with the processor, each of the drawers being associated with one of the series of proximity sensors;
wherein the computer system is configured to classify a respective one of the drawers as being in one of: an open position, a closed position, and a not quite closed position based on output of the series of proximity sensors.