US 9,750,949 B2Granted

Dual-mode defibrillator with latched panel

AssigneeZOLL Medical Corporation

InventorsJohn Kubat, Frederick Faller, Ziad F. Elghazzawi, Peter A. Lund

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Abstract

A medical device includes a device housing and a door mounted to the device housing. The device also includes a first magnet mounted to the door, wherein magnetic force applied to the door exerts a moment on the door, and a second magnet mounted in the housing and positioned to hold the door shut by magnetic interaction with the first magnet. In addition, the device includes a user-movable mode-changing mechanism attached to a third magnet, and arranged to hold the third magnet out of proximity with the first and second magnets when the device is in a first mode, and to move the third magnet into proximity with the first and second magnets when the device is in a second mode so as to expel the first magnet away from the housing and open the door to expose items positioned behind the door.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An electronic medical device comprising:

a device housing comprising a first magnet;
a panel mounted to the device housing and comprising a second magnet wherein a magnetic attraction between the first magnet and the second magnet support the panel in a first panel position;
and
a device operation mode selection switch comprising a third magnet and having a first switch position corresponding to a first life-support mode of operation of the device, and a second switch position corresponding to a second life-support mode of operation of the device,
wherein the device operation mode selection switch is configured to cause movement of the panel from the first panel position to a second panel position in response to a change in a position of the device operation mode selection switch from the first switch position to the second switch position, and
wherein, when the device operation mode selection switch is in the first switch position, the device operates according to the first life-support mode of operation, and, when the device operation mode selection switch is in the second switch position, the device operates according to the second life-support mode of operation, and
further wherein the change in the position of the device operation mode selection switch is configured to change a position of the third magnet and further wherein the first magnet repels the second magnet in response to the change in the position of the third magnet.

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Facts

Application: 14/570,028Filed 15 Dec 2014 · continuation
Priority: 30 Nov 2009
Published: US 2015/0100102 A19 Apr 2015
Granted: 5 Sep 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

A61N 1/3968
Heart defibrillators: constructional arrangements, e.g. casings
A61N 1/3993
Heart defibrillators: user interfaces for automatic external defibrillators
E05B 17/0033
Devices for forcing the wing firmly against its seat or to initiate the opening of the wing: for opening only
E05C 19/16
Other devices specially designed for securing wings, e.g. with suction cups: devices holding the wing by magnetic or electromagnetic attraction

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Application61/265,299Us provisional application · filed 30 Nov 2009
Application12/956,906Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Nov 2010
US 2015/0100102 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Apr 2015
US 8,914,104 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2011/0130799 A1Published application
US 9,750,949 B2This patent

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