Patent ID: 8087584
Filing Date: 2012-01-03
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A read system ( 4 ) that is intended to cooperate with a transponder ( 2 ) placed on a surgical instrument having a body ( 10 ), so as to quickly identify the surgical instrument by bringing the read system ( 4 ) close to the transponder ( 2 ) of the surgical instrument and then reading the information, associated with the surgical instrument, contained in the transponder ( 2 ), and by communication with a computer system ( 5 ), wherein the transponder ( 2 ) is housed in a compartment ( 13 ), formed in the surgical instrument, which is intended to accommodate the transponder ( 2 ) within it, with said compartment ( 13 ) being closed off in a sealed manner by a lid ( 14 ), of substantially the same material as the surgical instrument, affixed ( 3 ) to the body ( 10 ) of the surgical instrument, the lid being housed in contact with a cavity, so that an outer surface of the body ( 10 ) of the surgical instrument has no projecting sharp points, with the transponder ( 2 ) communicating or recording, via the read system ( 4 ), information concerning a clinical history, with various positions of the surgical instrument in a box being displayed on the screen of the computer system ( 5 ) by displaying the data coming from a database and associated with a tracing process, the invasive surgical instrument forming a one-piece part that includes the compartment ( 13 ) formed by a machining operation in the body ( 10 ) of the surgical instrument in a smooth or set-back area of the body ( 10 ), which does not weaken the surgical instrument and does not impede the fitting of a handle, the lid ( 14 ) being affixed to the surface of the cavity of the body ( 10 ) of the surgical instrument so as to ensure sealing of the compartment ( 13 ), the diameter of the bore forming the compartment is less than the diameter of the bore forming the cavity of the lid.