Cryogenic Interface Display Modes for Clear Device State Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cryogenic devices lack intuitive and effective user interfaces, leading to non-optimal use by operators and potential misunderstandings of critical device information.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a cryogenic device with a display device capable of presenting a variety of user-interfaces, including a cycle state, charging state, standard state, and error state, along with a processor to determine the device's state and generate appropriate user-interfaces, providing real-time information such as battery status, cryogen levels, and treatment progress.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a cryogenic device is provided without an intuitive user interface, then the device structure remains simple, but the ease of operation deteriorates and operators may misunderstand critical device information
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface is segmented into multiple distinct display modes (standard display mode, cycle display mode, charging display mode, error display mode) that present information in organized segments according to device state. This segmentation makes complex information more manageable and easier to understand for operators.
Solution Approach 2:
The user interface dynamically adapts its content and layout based on the current device state. The processor automatically determines which display mode should be active and generates corresponding interface elements, making the interface responsive and adaptive rather than static, thereby improving ease of operation.
2Loss of information
If real-time device information is displayed on a single interface, then the interface remains simple, but the loss of information increases due to inability to convey all critical state details effectively
Solution Approach 1:
Critical device information is segmented across different display modes that each focus on specific aspects (standard mode for general status, cycle mode for treatment progress, charging mode for battery status, error mode for fault information). This segmentation prevents information overload and ensures comprehensive information conveyance without sacrificing interface manageability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides continuous feedback about device state through the dynamically updated interface. The processor monitors device parameters and automatically updates the display to reflect current status, ensuring operators receive timely and accurate information about device conditions, cryogen levels, treatment progress, and potential errors.
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
Enhances the usability of cryogenic devices by effectively conveying relevant information to operators, ensuring optimal use and reducing errors through intuitive and accessible user interfaces.
Implementation Method 1
Other cryogenic probes may include closed needle tips, in which case the needles may be cooled (e.g., by a flow of the cryogen), and the target tissue adjacent to the cooled needles may thereby be cooled by conduction
Implementation Method 2
A cryozone may be a volume of tissue that is cooled so as to freeze the tissue within the volume (e.g., the cryozone may be defined by an approximately 0°C (or other suitable temperature) isotherm that may form around a needle of the cryogenic probe)
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AI summary
The disclosure describes a cryogenic device with a display device for displaying one of a plurality of user-interfaces associated with a plurality of cryogenic device states. The cryogenic device is configured to: generate an initial user-interface for display on the display device; determine that the cryogenic device is in a first state; generate, in response to determining that the cryogenic device is in the first state, instructions for rendering a first user-interface, wherein the first user-interface is associated with the first state; and cause the display device to display the first user-interface. In this way, the cryogenic device may have a dynamic user interface that is configured to response to states of the cryogenic device.