Pressure Catheter Charger With RFID Identification Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional pressure catheter and charger systems lack components to detect and identify specific catheters, which can lead to unsuitable catheter usage for procedures, potentially compromising safety and compliance with regulations.
Innovation Solution
The system employs RFID tags and antennas for wireless communication between catheters and charging ports, allowing for the detection and identification of catheters before insertion, ensuring correct catheter type and usage for procedures through radiofrequency communication and a processor that correlates unique codes with catheter information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional pressure catheter and charger systems are used without detection components, then the device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but the ability to detect and identify catheter details is lost, leading to potential unsuitable catheter usage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces wired electrical connection systems with wireless radiofrequency communication. RFID tags and antennas eliminate the need for physical electrical contacts, achieving catheter identification without compromising charger simplicity. This substitution maintains reliability while avoiding complex wired connections.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces RFID tags as intermediary components that store catheter information and antennas as mediators that enable wireless communication between the catheter and charger. These intermediaries facilitate accurate catheter identification without requiring direct electrical connections, thus improving reliability while keeping the charger design relatively simple.
2Loss of information
If wired electrical connections are added to detect and identify catheters, then catheter identification capability is improved, but safety compliance may be compromised and device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent substitutes wired electrical connections with wireless radiofrequency communication systems. RFID tags contain catheter information, and antennas wirelessly transmit this data without requiring electrical contacts. This eliminates safety compliance risks associated with wired connections while fully achieving catheter information detection.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a single charger is used for multiple catheter types without identification, then ease of operation is improved and device complexity is reduced, but measurement accuracy may be compromised due to unsuitable catheter usage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback through RFID reading and processing. The charger reads catheter information via RFID tags, processes this data to identify catheter type and suitability, and provides feedback through indicators (visual, audible, or tactile) to guide proper catheter selection. This ensures measurement precision while maintaining charger versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the charger universal by enabling it to handle multiple catheter types through RFID identification. The system can detect and verify different catheter types, ensuring each is used for its intended procedure. This achieves both adaptability and measurement precision through intelligent identification and verification.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables accurate identification and verification of catheters, ensuring they are correctly used for specific procedures, enhancing safety and compliance by preventing unsuitable catheter usage and optimizing charging processes.
Implementation Method 1
an antenna for receiving radiofrequency energy from the radiofrequency identification tag
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AI summary
A charger for charging a plurality of pressure sensing catheters is provided. The charger has a plurality of charging ports of which a first charging port and a second charging port receives a first connector and a second connector respectively. The first and second connectors each have a first and second radiofrequency identification tags respectively, having information indicative of identifiable information of a first and second pressure sensing catheters respectively. The charger has a plurality of antennas, of which a first antenna and a second antenna can be positioned proximate to the first charging port, and second charging port respectively. When the first connector is inserted into the first charging port, the first radiofrequency identification tag is guided to a predetermined orientation with respect to the first antenna to minimize a spacing therebetween, and to maximize absorption of radiofrequency energy therebetween.