Patent ID: 7980521
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: A61M,F16M

Abstract:
1. A medical device support apparatus for mounting a medical device to a support structure so as to permit infinite reorientation of the medical device with respect to the support structure, the support apparatus comprising: a base mounting member configured to releasably mount the medical device support apparatus on the support structure; a medical device mounting member extending from the base mounting member, said medical device mounting member having a socket sized and shaped for receiving a cooperatively configured attachment portion of the medical device, a recess extending into an inner surface of the socket, and a threaded hole extending through the medical device mounting member and opening into the recess, said attachment portion having a smaller width portion and a larger width portion; and a lockdown member associated with the medical device mounting member, the lockdown member having a handle and a set-screw portion attached to the handle and threadably received in the threaded hole in the medical device mounting member for movement with the handle and adapted to extend into engagement with the attachment portion of the medical device in a first position in which the set screw portion bears against the attachment portion so as to resist relative rotating motion of the medical device and the medical device mounting member, and in a second position in which the set screw portion extends into the socket so the set screw portion is aligned with the smaller width portion and does not resist relative rotation of the medical device and the medical device mounting member as strongly as in the first position thereby permitting infinite rotation of the medical device with respect to the medical device mounting member, the set screw portion being disposed in the second position to prevent the larger width portion of the medical device mounting member from passing the set screw portion extending into the socket to prevent the attachment portion of the medical device withdrawing from the socket of the medical device mounting member.