Vieworks Co., Ltd.

Seok Jong Kim

Soon Gil Hong

Jung Han Seo

Disclosed is a mammography device capable of recognizing a target person, the mammography device including: a body unit; an arm frame connected to the body unit, and rotating in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction; an X-ray generator placed at a top of the arm frame, and emitting X-rays; a mammography plate provided at a position corresponding to the X-ray generator, and obtaining an X-ray image of a breast of a target person; a compression unit placed between the X-ray generator and the mammography plate, and moving vertically to compress a target part; a sensor unit placed inside the mammography plate, and detecting whether the target person is present; and a control unit controlling an operation of the arm frame on the basis of whether the target person is detected by the sensor unit. Accordingly, a safety accident that may occur in a mammography process using the mammography device is reduced.

Mammography device comprising multiple sensors on a front side of a mammography plate capable of recognizing target person

A mammography apparatus according to the present invention includes a mounting part coupled to an elevating part so as to be moved upward or downward and having rail parts, a fastening part inserted into the rail parts and slidably coupled to the mounting part and a sensing part installed on the mounting part and configured to generate an electrical signal by being brought into contact with the fastening part so as to detect information about the fastening part, in which the sensing part includes a contact part installed at an end at an entry side of the fastening part slidably coupled to the mounting part and a recognizing part installed on an inner surface of the mounting part which faces the contact part.

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Namyangju-si, South Korea

Seok Jong Kim