Patent ID: 8620462
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: A61B,A61C,A61G,G16H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus in a dental care environment, which apparatus includes at least one device adapted for use in dental care work in a dental care environment, said device selected from the group consisting of a dental unit, a patient chair, a dental x-ray device and a computer, and at least one user interface remote from the at least one device and adapted to send control commands to at least one of said devices used in connection with dental care work, wherein at least one of a fixed and a detachable means is arranged to said user interface to detachably connect the user interface to a person working in the dental care environment, to clothing of the person or to the dental unit, or said user interface is arranged as a fixed or a detachable part of clothing or a structure arranged to be dressed on a person or of some other structure to be dressed on the person and wherein, either, i) the user interface comprises a means containing an identification code and a means for sending a signal including the identification code to the at least one device, which code individualizes the user interface or a type of the user interface, or ii) the user interface comprises a means to receive and forward a signal including an identification code from or to the at least one device, which signal has been arranged to be received from a device or an identification card carried along by a user of the user interface and sending an identification signal, and further wherein the apparatus contains at least two devices which are arranged in functional connection with said user interface in such a way that each of the devices provides an identification signal of substantially equal intensity, and wherein the user interface contains means to recognize, which of the identification signals received from the devices is the strongest, and means for locking the user interface to control the device sending the strongest signal, or wherein the apparatus includes means based on a GPS-technique for locating the location of the user interface with respect to at least two devices included in the apparatus.