Device for protecting a display facility

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for protecting a display facility, comprising a protective element for covering an image surface of the display facility. As the protective element is designed to be transparent and the retaining means are provided for the exchangeable arrangement of the protective element in front of the image surface, a protective device is provided, which allows the image surface to be examined and is easy to operate.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims priority of German application No. 10 2005 032 028.7 filed Jul. 8, 2005, which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The invention relates to a device for protecting a display facility, comprising a protective element for covering an image surface of the display facility. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] In operating theatres, electronic display facilities are frequently available in the form of individual monitors or monitor lights, in order to obtain information about status changes in patients during a medical intervention. In this process, the screen surface of the display facility can be contaminated by an intervention carried out in the medical working environment, in which bodily fluids, such as blood or infusion solutions, can spray for instance. Attention must be paid to ensure a sterile environment particularly with medical interventions, in other words, a ...

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Benefits of technology

[0006] The object underlying the invention is thus to provide a protective device of the type mentioned at the start, which allows the image surface to be observed and is easy to operate.

[0007] This object is achieved with the protective device of the type mentioned at the start, in that the protective element is designed to be transparent, and that the retaining means are provided in front of the image surface for the exchangeable arrangement of the protective element. The transparent protective element ensures the usability of an image surface covered therewith. An exchangeable arrangement of the protective element in front of the image surface protects this against direct contamination. If the contamination of the protective element results in the legibility of the image information being impaired, the protective element can be renewed by means of exchange, since it is fixed in an exchangeable manner. The protective element can touch the surface, or can assume a fixable distance in front of it. The protective element is advantageously designed to be two-dimensional, approximately to the size of the image surface, and can be designed for instance as a plastic or glass plate.

[0008] In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the protective element is designed as a film. A film exhibits the characteristic here in that the spatial expansion in one direction of the room dimensions is considerably smaller than the spatial expansion in the other two directions. A film is thus thin, can be rolled, folded, placed, drawn, stretched and such like and thus represents a simple and favorable realization of the protective element.

Problems solved by technology

In this process, the screen surface of the display facility can be contaminated by an intervention carried out in the medical working environment, in which bodily fluids, such as blood or infusion solutions, can spray for instance.

The direct contact involved with wiping the screen surface with the known cleaning agent can easily lead to the sensitive screen surface becoming damaged.

This results in a deterioration in the image quality and thus a reduction in the quality of the status information about the patient.

The known covering is unsuitable particularly for applications in medical engineering, in monitor lights in operating theatres for instance.

Conversely, the image surface is not protected when the cover element is in the position releasing the display facility.

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