Display screens for medical devices

A method for displaying information on a non-planar display screen fixedly attached around a portion of an electromechanical handheld surgical device, wherein the display screen has more than one display portion, the method comprising:

• obtaining an orientation with respect to a reference orientation from an orientation detector of the electromechanical handheld surgical device;
• determining a portion of the non-planar display screen based on the orientation and with respect to the reference orientation;
• retrieving status information from the electromechanical handheld surgical device;
• displaying information on the portion of the non-planar display screen based on the status information of the electromechanical handheld surgical device;
• moving the portion of the non-planar display screen displaying the information from a first display portion of the non-planar display screen to a second display portion, which is determined only based on a change in the detected orientation, and
• determining a starting location for displaying the information is determined based on a display direction setting entered by a user of the electromechanical handheld surgical device, wherein the starting location is at least one of a right side of the housing or a left side of the housing, wherein the non-planar display screen covers an upper surface of the housing by at least 15 degrees to the left side and to the right side of the housing, from a top of the upper surface of the housing.

An electromechanical surgical system comprising:

• a support immovably fixed to a surface;
• an electromechanical surgical device configured to perform a surgical operation;
• a plurality of arms serially connected to each other, one end of the plurality of arms being connected to the electromechanical surgical device and the other end of the plurality of arms being connected to the support;
• and
• a plurality of non-planar display screens, each one of the plurality of non-planar display screens being fixedly attached around a corresponding one of the plurality of arms,
• wherein each of the plurality of arms includes a sensor configured to periodically capture an image of a view under each arm, and an orientation detector configured to detect an orientation of each arm with respect to a reference orientation, and
• wherein the non-planar display screen corresponding to each arm displays a captured image on a portion of the display screen of each arm based on the detected orientation.