Dental x-ray diagnostic installation for producing panorama x-ray exposures of the skull of a patient

US5500884A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Werner Guenther · Bensheim, DE
• Dieter Molitor · Wiesbaden, DE
• Leonhard Werner · Hemsbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 1, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 19, 1996
• Expiry date: Feb 1, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H05G1/26
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A dental x-ray diagnostics installation for producing panorama x-ray exposures of the skull of a patient has a rotary unit and a positioning unit mounted so as to be pivotable boom-like around a horizontal axle shaft and are arranged so as to be fixable in individual swiveled positions. The individual swiveled positions thereby correspond to different physical sizes of a seated patient. For preparing an exposure, the positioning unit is first adjusted to the patient and the rotary unit is subsequently adjusted in a fixed allocation to the positioning unit.