Bucky warmer with holder
AssigneeMarvel Concepts, LLC
InventorsAnn Wallin Harrington, Paul A. Pilosi, Nathanial R. Hallee, Ted Klein
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Abstract
A portable device is provided that is used to warm a mammography machine and which comprises a warmer and a holder for the warmer, the holder having a charging mechanism for charging the warmer. The warmer includes an enclosed heating element and power source. The heating element is precisely regulated to ensure that the sensitive imaging elements are not damaged by an over-temperature condition, while at the same time permitting a rapid heating of the warmer for high cycle use. The warmer warms surfaces of the mammography machine that contacts human skin.
Claims23
A portable apparatus for warming one or more surfaces of a medical diagnostic or therapeutic instrument, comprising:
- a housing comprising a heat plate that forms a lower surface of the housing, the heat plate designed to contact a surface of the medical diagnostic or therapeutic instrument;
- a handle affixed to the housing;
- wherein the housing contains within:
- a heating element;
- a power supplying element that powers the heating element;
- a power terminal for providing power to the power supplying element;
- a temperature setting mechanism for setting a predefined temperature value;
- and
- a precision temperature regulator that precisely regulates a temperature of the heat plate to not exceed the predefined temperature value by ±2° F.
- wherein:
- the heat plate comprises:
- a first heat plate part that contacts a first surface of the medical diagnostic or therapeutic instrument;
- and
- a second heat plate part that is oriented in a substantially different plane than the first heat plate that contacts a second surface of the medical diagnostic or therapeutic instrument;
- and
- the heating element is comprised of at least two separate heating element units that includes a top heating element unit proximate and oriented parallel to the first heat plate part and a front heating element unit proximate and oriented parallel to the second heat plate part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.