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AssigneeCarl-Zeiss-Stiftung
InventorsUlrich Lemcke, Hartmut Gartner
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A medical therapeutic and/or diagnostic appliance includes an arrangement that senses its position and attitude at any given time, and that includes a first sensing unit on the therapeutic and/or diagnostic appliance and a second sensing unit having a fixed location and attitude and arranged to be separated from the first sensing unit by a signal path. The first sensing unit is constructed, for reasons of sterilization and of position sensing, as an attachment that can be detached from the medical therapeutic and/or diagnostic appliance when in use. A coupling device is provided on the medical therapeutic and/or diagnostic appliance for installation of the attachment over a sterilizing sheath surrounding the therapeutic and/or diagnostic appliance.
An arrangement (5, 7) which at any given time senses the position and attitude of a medical appliance surrounded by a sterilizing sheath, comprising
An arrangement which at any given time senses the position and attitude of a medical appliance (1) surrounded by a sterilizing sheath, comprising:
Sensing units that at any given time sense the position and attitude of movable medical appliances having a coupling device surrounded by a sterilizing sheath, comprising:
A coupling device on a movable medical appliance surrounded by a sterilizing sheath, wherein
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.