US 11,740,648 B2
Surgical footswitch having elevated auxiliary buttons
Geoffrey C. Jawidzik, Mission Viejo, CA (US)
Assigned to Alcon Inc., Fribourg (CH)
Filed by Alcon Inc., Fribourg (CH)
Filed on Jul. 17, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/931,532.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/881,662, filed on Aug. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0035747 A1, Feb. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. G05G 1/30 (2008.04); H01H 3/14 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC G05G 1/305 (2013.01) [H01H 3/14 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00973 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical footswitch comprising:
a footswitch base;
a treadle mounted on the footswitch base, wherein the treadle comprises a heel cup directly attached to the treadle;
a first primary button positioned on an upper surface of the footswitch base along a first lateral side of the treadle and extending along a first length of the treadle;
a first auxiliary button housing positioned along a lateral side of the first primary button, opposite the first length of the treadle;
a first auxiliary button mounted on an upper surface of the first auxiliary button housing, wherein an upper surface of the first primary button is sloped upwards from a lower height adjacent the treadle to a higher height adjacent the first auxiliary button and an upper surface of the first auxiliary button is sloped upward from a lower height at a point on the first auxiliary button closest to the heel cup to a higher height at a point on the first auxiliary button most remote from the heel cup;
wherein the treadle is configured to activate a first function of a surgical console, the first primary button is configured to activate a second function of the surgical console, and the first auxiliary button is configured to activate a third function of the surgical console;
wherein the upper surface of the first auxiliary button is elevated in relation to the upper surface of the first primary button; and
wherein a proximal end of the first primary button is situated closer to the heel cup than to a distal end of the treadle most remote from the heel cup, wherein the proximal end of the first primary button is situated closer to the heel cup than a proximal end of the first auxiliary button is situated in relation to the heel cup, wherein the proximal end of the first auxiliary button is situated closer to the heel cup than to the distal end of the treadle most remote from the heel cup, and wherein a distal end of the first primary button is situated closer to the distal end of the treadle than a distal end of the first auxiliary button is situated in relation to the distal end of the treadle.