Surgical systems including a power loss mitigation subsystem
AssigneeNovartis AG
InventorFred Mercado
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Abstract
Systems, circuits, and methods to mitigate effects of short-term power losses in medical systems are provided. An exemplary surgical system includes a fluidics subsystem, a surgical instrument subsystem that couples to a surgical instrument and a power supply subsystem coupled to the surgical instrument subsystem. The power supply subsystem includes a main power supply connectable to AC mains to generate a voltage, a power bus connected to the main power supply, an alternate power supply, and a circuit that monitors the voltage on the power bus for powering the surgical instrument subsystem. The circuit automatically connects the power bus to the alternate power supply when the voltage drops below a reference voltage due to a power loss from the main power supply.
Claims20
A surgical system comprising:
- a fluidics subsystem;
- a surgical instrument subsystem that couples to a surgical instrument, wherein the surgical instrument is coupled to the fluidics subsystem;
- and
- a power supply subsystem coupled to the surgical instrument subsystem, the power supply subsystem comprising:
- a main power supply connectable to AC mains to generate a voltage;
- a power bus connected to the main power supply;
- an alternate power supply;
- and
- a circuit that monitors the voltage on the power bus for powering the surgical instrument subsystem and automatically connects the power bus to the alternate power supply when the voltage drops below a reference voltage due to a power loss from the main power supply.
A surgical system comprising:
- a surgical instrument subsystem, the surgical instrument subsystem comprising a connection to a surgical instrument;
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- a power supply subsystem coupled to the surgical instrument subsystem that comprises:
- a main power supply connectable to AC mains to generate a voltage;
- a power bus connected to the main power supply;
- an alternate power supply;
- and
- a circuit that monitors the voltage on the power bus and automatically connects the power bus to the alternate power supply when the voltage drops below a reference voltage due to a power loss from the main power supply.
A method of mitigating a short-term power loss in a surgical system, the method comprising:
- detecting, at a first point in time, a difference between a power supply voltage on a power bus in the surgical system and a reference voltage;
- connecting the power bus to an alternate power supply contained within a housing of the surgical system;
- detecting, at a second point in time that is subsequent to the first point in time, that the power supply voltage is greater than the reference voltage;
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- disconnecting the alternate power supply from the power bus of the surgical system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.