Bausch & Lomb Surgical, Inc.

Storz Instrument Co.

John Alan Ritter

Michael E Bisch

Peter Francis Appelbaum

Christopher Michael Eberhardt

Bruce Robert Cochran

Jeffery Alan Knight

Michael Evremonde Bisch

John A Painter

A system for controlling a plurality of ophthalmic microsurgical instruments connected thereto. The microsurgical instruments are for use by a user such as a surgeon in performing ophthalmic surgical procedures. The system includes a data communications bus and a user interface connected to the data communications bus. The user interface provides information to the user and receives information from the user which is representative of operating parameters of the microsurgical instruments. The system also includes surgical modules connected to and controlling the microsurgical instruments as a function of at least one of the operating parameters. The surgical modules are also connected to the data communications bus. The data communications bus provides communication of data representative of the operating parameters between the user interface and the surgical modules. Other features are also disclosed including a main control, an endo-illuminator system, a phacoemulsification handpiece, surgical scissors, a vitrectomy cutter, a surgical foot control, a remote control, a cart.

Ophthalmic microsurgical system employing surgical module employing flash EEPROM and reprogrammable modules

Surgical module with independent microprocessor-based communication

The invention is a linear transducer array having an axis of rotation parallel to the long axis of the array. Accordingly, each transducer element is analogous to the single transducer of the traditional B-scan. All the elements are pulsed in rapid sequence as the entire array is swept mechanically, and a series of B-scan planes, displaced from each other by the transducer element spacing, are created. Display control electronics interpret the multiple planes with the resultant solid volume represented in isometric or perspective views on a CRT. Ultrasonic transducer arrays of 16 or more elements can be fabricated which would cover the entire volume of the eye in a single angular sweep.

Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging system and probe

Vitrectomy timing device with microcontroller with programmable timers

Surgical system providing automatic reconfiguration

Remote control with varying codes

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Des Peres, MO, United States of America

John Alan Ritter