Mount interface for a medical device
AssigneeMaquet Cardiopulmonary GmbH
InventorWilliam James REPKA
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Abstract
A mount interface is described that includes a latch; and a latching assembly configured to receive the latch so as to lock the latch at a set position with respect to the latching assembly, wherein the latching assembly includes a housing provided with an irregular orifice configured to receive the latch; a first plug disposed in the housing so that a first portion of the irregular orifice overlies the first plug; and a second plug disposed in the housing adjacent the first plug so that a second portion of the irregular orifice overlies the second plug. Such a mount interface provides rapid and secure locking of a latch to the latching assembly.
Claims20
A mount interface comprising:
- a latch;
- and
- a latching assembly configured to receive the latch so as to lock the latch at a set position with respect to the latching assembly, wherein the latching assembly includes
- a housing provided with an irregular orifice configured to receive the latch;
- a first plug disposed in the housing so that a first portion of the irregular orifice overlies the first plug;
- and
- a second plug disposed in the housing adjacent the first plug so that a second portion of the irregular orifice overlies the second plug.
A method of locking a latch to a latching assembly of a mount interface, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
- engaging a latch with a spring-biased first plug of the latching assembly;
- pressing the latch against the spring-biased first plug so as to insert the latch into a first portion of an irregular orifice of a housing of the latching assembly while moving the spring-biased first plug from a spring-biased rest position to a second position and while moving a spring-biased second plug from a spring-biased rest position to a second position;
- and
- sliding the latch from the first portion of the irregular orifice to a second portion of the irregular orifice so the latch presses against the spring-biased second plug and not against the spring-biased first plug.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.