Patent ID: 11918518
Assignee: WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A fail-safe table attachment subassembly for coupling a patient support
structure to a surgery table, the surgery table having a base with a first end support supported on a floor at a lower end thereof and an upper portion of the first end support having a rotation block and a rotatably detachable connector together with the rotation block forming the fail-safe table attachment subassembly, the fail-safe table attachment subassembly comprising:
the rotation block having a first side facing the first end support, a second side opposite to and parallel with the first side, a spring loaded locking mechanism engageable with the rotatably detachable connector and an open receiving channel facing away from the first end support so as to open onto the second side, without opening on the first side of the rotation block and;
the rotatably detachable connector including a protuberance at a first end thereof positionable into the open receiving channel and the detachable connector being rotatable relative to the rotation block around a structurally fixed pivot axis located in the rotation block in a direction toward the first end support so as to attach the rotatably detachable connector to the rotation block via engagement with the spring loaded locking mechanism,
wherein the rotatably detachable connector can only be detached from the rotation block when the spring loaded locking mechanism is disengaged from the rotatably detachable connector and at least a portion of the detachable connector is then rotated in a direction away from the first end support around the structurally fixed pivot axis in the rotation block and thereby removed from the rotation block so as to prevent the inadvertent uncoupling of a first outer end of the patient support structure from the surgery table.