Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Healthineers Ag

Paul Weidner

Franz Fadler

Satchi Panda

Tobias Hoth

Franz Dirauf

Wolfgang Neuber

Klaus Hruschka

Kerstin Waldbach

Georg Walberer

Michael Koerth

Matthias Müller

Harald Graf

Konrad Pieger

Lutz Weiss

Roland Schoecklmann

A medical facility has a patient couch having a position that can be adjusted in the vertical direction via a drive. An operating method for a medical facility with a patient couch having a position that can be adjusted in the vertical direction via a drive includes actuating the drive in response to receiving, by a control facility, a travel command from an operator to move the patient couch upward, the actuating including, moving the patient couch downward during an initial period, and actuating the drive in a lifting period immediately following the initial period such that the drive moves the patient couch upward.

Optimized adjustment of a patient couch in the vertical direction

A mobile patient bed includes a bench that may be moved vertically via a lifting mechanism. Vertical movement may be effected via a first, electric drive mechanism including a drive device that may be operated when connected to an energy supply. As an alternative, vertical movement may be effected via a second drive mechanism that may be actuated by the operator using a foot pedal. The drive device is a drive motor that is coupled to the lifting mechanism via a motor shaft and is coupled to the second drive mechanism via a clutch. The clutch is closed with no connection to the energy supply and is opened with connection established. The motor shaft may be driven via the second drive mechanism when the clutch is closed.

Mobile patient bed

The present embodiments relate to a system for irradiating a patient. The system for irradiating the patient includes a horizontal guide and a vertical guide. The vertical guide is connected horizontally-adjustably to the horizontal guide. The system also includes a support element that is attached vertically-adjustably to the horizontal guide and a radiation unit including a radiation source. The radiation unit is arranged on the support element. The irradiation system may be expanded by three further degrees of freedom.

Irradiation system

A stand, especially a floor stand, with a movable arm with an attachment section provided at the end of the arm for an object to be held by means of the stand, especially an imaging device in the form of an ultrasound head, with the attachment section being supported movably on the arm via a ball-and-socket joint comprising a ball head carrying the attachment section and a head holder supporting the ball head on the arm side, with a locking device being provided for releasable locking of the ball head () in its adopted position in the head holder.

Stand for imaging

A stand, in particular a floor stand, having an arm for holding an object, in particular an imaging device in the form of an ultrasound transducer, said arm being mounted on a vertical column and movable vertically via a vertical guide, wherein a counterweight balancing the weight of the arm is provided on or in the vertical column, a device () being provided for moving the counterweight () counter to the weight force (F) for at least partially overriding the counterbalance.

Imaging system stand

A spindle drive and patient positioning system is provided. The spindle drive includes a drive that is operative to drive a spindle nut. An axially transportable spindle is circled by the spindle nut. A catch nut that is not in mutual engagement with the spindle has a predefined distance to the drive. When the spindle nut fails, the spindle is operative to move the catch nut into mutual engagement with the spindle. A switching element is fixed to the catch nut and includes an emergency off switch, which is activated by a switching sensor.

Spindle drive and a patient positioning system

A medical lifting device is provided. The medical lifting device comprises a lifting unit that is operable in a linear motion. A spindle drive is operable to adjust the lifting unit. A first ball joint is disposed in the lifting unit and a second ball joint is disposed where the spindle drive is respectively supported.

Growing community of inventors

Pressath, Germany

Paul Weidner