Stryker Corporation

Michael R Wildgen

Michael Dale Dozeman

Paul M Hoekstra

Donald W Malackowski

Don Malackowski

A powered surgical tool system capable of providing energization signals to plural powered surgical handpieces. The system includes a console to which at least one footswitch is attached. The footswitch can be mapped to control any one of the handpieces connected to the console. The console includes a display on which representations of the footswitch and handpieces connected to the console are presented. The representations of the handpieces are in different colors. When the footswitch is mapped to a specific handpiece, the representation of the footswitch is presented in the same color as the representation of the handpiece to which the footswitch is mapped. When plural footswitches are attached to the console, the representation of each footswitch is presented in a color corresponding to the color of the representation of the handpiece to which the footswitch is mapped.

Surgical tool assembly including a console, plural surgical tools and a footswitch, wherein the console is able to custom map the footswitch to each surgical tool

A surgical tool system including plural powered surgical handpieces. The handpieces are removably connected to a single control console. The control console has a power supply. A controller internal to the control console simultaneously supplies power to the plural handpieces. In the event the handpieces collectively draw more power than the power supply can provide, the control console temporarily stops the application of power to one of the handpieces.

Control console to which powered surgical handpieces are connected, the console configured to simultaneously energize more than one and less than all of the handpieces

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Portage, MI, United States of America

Michael R Wildgen