Hand-held medical imaging system with dedicated power source devices and associated apparatuses and methods
AssigneeFujifilm Sonosite, Inc.
InventorsCraig Chamberlain, Paul Danset
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Abstract
A portable ultrasound system having dedicated power source devices is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a portable ultrasound system can include transducer electronics and a base unit having base-unit electronics configured to receive user input and to operate the transducer electronics to perform ultrasound scanning based on the user input. The portable ultrasound system further includes a first power source device configured to power the transducer electronics and a second power source device configured to power the base-unit electronics without powering the transducer electronics.
Claims6
A method executed by a processor to power a portable ultrasound system, the method comprising:
- powering base-unit electronics of a base unit with a first power source;
- and
- independently powering transducer electronics of the base unit with a second power source device to perform ultrasound scanning via the base unit electronics and the transducer electronics;
- detecting that the second power source device is at a charge level below a threshold;
- in response to detecting the charge level has fallen below the threshold, temporarily disabling ultrasound scanning without powering down the base-unit electronics;
- detecting that charge has been restored to a level above the threshold;
- and
- in response to detecting the restored charge level, re-enabling ultrasound scanning.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.