Patent ID: 8128041

Claim:
An electronic display and lighting arrangement for viewing by, and illumination for, a dental patient received in a resting position in a dental chair, comprising, (a) a first carriage coupled to an overhead track and movable along a translation axis, (b) a first pivot arm coupled to said first carriage such that said first pivot arm is variably positionable in different inclinations to a horizontal plane, (c) an electronic display including a display screen, said electronic display being coupled to said first pivot arm such that said display screen may be disposed in a horizontal orientation and such that said display screen is adjustably positionable both, (i) with said first carriage, along said translation axis, by movement of said first carriage, and (ii) with said first pivot arm, relative to said horizontal plane, by movement of said first pivot arm, (d) a light adjustably positionable in a direction parallel to the translation axis, and (e) a dental chair for receiving a dental patient in a resting position, said dental chair including a headrest for receiving a head of the dental patient, (f) wherein illumination by said light is provided for the dental patient in the resting position received in said dental chair, and (g) wherein said electronic display is adjustably suspendable vertically above said headrest of said dental chair, with said display screen disposed in a horizontal orientation, for viewing by the dental patient received in said dental chair, without said light obstructing viewing of said electronic display by the dental patient.