Patent · US Active

Motion controllers for mobile X-ray devices

US10751010B2 · kind B2 · utility

0Cited by

8References

10Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Siemens Healthcare Limited · DE

Inventors

Alexander Gemmel · Erlangen, DE
Gerhard Kleinszig · Forchheim, DE
Wei Wei · Beijing, CN
Markus Weiten · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 27, 2017
Grant date	Aug 25, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 10, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B6/4476
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a mobile X-ray device having an equipment cart that is movable on wheels and has a lifting device on which a support assembly is arranged. A C-arm is mounted to the support assembly so as to be displaceable along the circumference of the support assembly, wherein the C-arm has an X-ray source and an X-ray receiver arranged opposite the X-ray source. In order to simplify the handling of a mechanical zoom on mobile X-ray devices, a motion controller is provided by which, in any given pose of the C-arm, a movement of the C-arm is controlled in such a way that the central axis extending between X-ray source and X-ray receiver is fixed in space.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.