Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Peter Rauh

Thomas Dippl

Claus-Günter Schliermann

Dieter Wöhrl

Wolfgang Neuber

Klaus Hruschka

Michael Koerth

Josef Rupprecht

Jochen Miguel Löseken

Mario Ring

Alfred Ott

A medical examination facility is provided, wherein the facility includes an imaging apparatus and a mobile patient table. Mechanical coupling devices to be connected to each other are provided on both the imaging apparatus and the mobile patient table for the purpose of mechanically coupling the patient table to the imaging apparatus in an end position. The mechanical coupling device of the imaging apparatus includes a pulling device that is movable to a locking position via a controllable drive motor. In order to automatically move the patient table, the pulling device engages a driver provided on the patient table, before the end position is reached, and carries it by moving to the locking position, in which the patient table is in the end position.

Medical examination facility

An X-ray detector drawer, into which an X-ray detector is insertable in two alternate orientations, has guide elements by which an inserted X-ray detector is fixedly positioned and oriented. The X-ray detector drawer has a securing device, by which an asymmetrical insertion of an X-ray detector with respect to either one of the two alternate orientations is hindered. The securing device includes a blocking element, whose position is altered as a function of the removal of the X-ray detector drawer. A receptacle for the X-ray detector drawer is configured to facilitate a removal the X-ray detector drawer from either of two opposite directions.

Drawer for X-ray detectors

A telescoping rail for an X-ray detector drawer, which rail has at least three rail elements movable relatively to one another, namely a basic rail element, an intermediate rail element that is displaceable relative to the basic rail element, and an end rail element that is displaceable relative to the intermediate rail element. At least one driver is disposed between the rail elements. the driver is pivotably supported about a shaft oriented transversely or in inclined fashion to the displacement direction of the end rail element, and as a function of the intermediate rail element having been displaced out of the basic position, the driver is pivotable about the shaft into a slaving position which displaces the intermediate rail element along in the direction of the basic position until the basic position is reached, as a function of a displacement of the end rail element. As a function of a displacement of the intermediate rail element, the driver is pivotable past the basic position, out of the slaving position into a fundamental position which does not displace the intermediate rail element along. Moreover, in the fundamental position, the driver can enter into mutual engagement with the basic rail element so as to firmly hold the intermediate rail element in the basic position.

A detector drawer for an X-ray detector has at least one stop () by which the mobility of an inserted X-ray detector in at least one direction is restricted. The mobility of the inserted X-ray detector is hindered by the at least one stop to two alternate stop positions with respect to that direction; and that the respective stop position becomes operative as a function of the motion of the X-ray detector upon its insertion, for instance as a function of the direction of the motion. By using the alternate stop positions, which automatically become operative, portable digital X-ray detectors, which are constructed asymmetrically, are automatically positioned centrally in the detector drawer regardless of their orientation or the desired orientation of the image to be made. The detector drawer is advantageously used in an X-ray system, and desirably in an X-ray system with a detector that is pulled out from opposite sides of a patient examination table.

A detector drawer is provided in which an X-ray detector can be placed, and so as to be inserted from both sides of an examination table into a detector drawer receptacle that is open on both sides. The detector drawer has a stop actuator, which as a function of the insertion of an X-ray detector can be put into an actuation position that enables the actuation of a stop of the detector drawer receptacle and as a function of the removal of the X-ray detector into a position of repose that minimizes the actuation of the stop. A detector drawer receptacle is also provided, which is open on both sides and into which a detector drawer can be inserted from both sides of the receptacle. The receptacle has a stop which is actuatable by a stop actuator of the detector drawer as a function of an insertion of the detector drawer. The stop may include a sliding stop, which is actuatable by the stop actuator in a thrust position that is dependent on the direction of insertion of the detector drawer. The sliding stop may be supported displaceably in the thrust direction of the detector drawer receptacle.

X-ray detector drawer

In a safety arrangement of a cable-supported component of a medical device that can be adjusted via a cart at a column, a force acts on the cable via at least one clamping lever that is adjustably supported at the cart, and the cart is free for purposes of adjustment along the column given action of the force, and the clamping lever is moved such that it blocks displacement of the cart relative to the column when the force is reduced.

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Schnabelwaid, Germany

Peter Rauh