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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2021
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Kirby M. Neihouser, Portage, MI (US);
Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Nicholas S. Brajak, Portage, MI (US);
Michael Harry Lau, Bristol, IN (US);
Jerald A. Trepanier, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US);
Abstract
A portable configuration tool for configuring a headwall unit that is adapted to be electrically coupled to an outlet on a headwall communicates with a room device positioned within a common room with the headwall unit. The tool includes a housing, a transceiver for communicating with a portable computer, IR and RF transceivers for communicating with the headwall unit, and a controller adapted to receive a command from the portable computer that instructs the controller to transmit an initial message to the headwall unit using the infrared transceiver, receive an identifier from the headwall unit via the infrared transceiver that uniquely identifies the headwall unit, establish a communication link between the RF transceiver and the headwall unit, receive a configuration setting from the portable computer via the transceiver, and transmit the configuration setting to the headwall unit via at least one of the infrared or RF transceivers.