Hitachi, Ltd.

Fujifilm Corporation

Hitachi Medical Corporation

Takashi Shimohira

Satoshi Arakawa

Kenji Takata

Tatsuo Iiyama

Miyuki Fuse

Jun Fukazawa

In order to provide a mobile X-ray imaging apparatus having less possibility that a cable comes into contact with an object, the apparatus has a carriage and an X-ray imaging unit mounted on the carriage, and the X-ray imaging unit is provided with an X-ray generator, an arm holding one end of the X-ray generator, a supporting post supporting the other end of the arm in a vertically movable manner, and a main body supplying electric power. Conductor filaments are arranged at intervals along an axial direction on the supporting post, conductor brushes coming into contact with the filaments respectively are arranged on the other end of the arm, the brushes move vertically along the filaments in a state of coming into contact with the filaments with the vertical movement of the arm, and the main body supplies electric power to the X-ray generator through the filaments and the brushes.

Mobile X-ray imaging apparatus

A mobile X-ray deviceis provided with a main bodyhaving an X-ray generating partand an image readerfor reading X-ray image information from an imaging plate storing the X-ray image information, a running partfor running the main body, a batteryfor storing direct current electrical energy to be supplied to the running partand discharging a direct current at a rated voltage of the running part, and a direct current power source voltage conversion partfor transforming direct voltage of the batteryto a rated voltage of the image reader, wherein the rated voltage of the image readertransformed by the direct current power source voltage conversion partis applied to the image reader

Mobile X-ray device

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Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Shimohira