Patent ID: 6471363
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: A61B,A61G,E04B,F16M,F21V,F21W,Y10S

Abstract:
A surgical theater apparatus for suspending from a ceiling structural member of a hospital, the surgical theater apparatus comprising:a central hub mountable to the ceiling structural member to rotate about a rotation axis, the hub having at least two pivot axes spaced apart from the rotation axis, a first device selected from the group of a surgical light, a camera, and a monitor, a second device selected from the group of a surgical light, a camera, and a monitor, a first device arm coupled at a first end to the first device and mounted at a second end to the hub for movement about the rotation axis and about a first one of the at least two pivot axes, a second device arm coupled at a first end to the second device and mounted at a second end to the hub for movement about the rotation axis and about a second one of the at least two pivot axes, and wherein the pivot axes and the rotation axis are parallel.