Holding Mechanism for X-ray Imaging Apparatus and X-ray Imaging Apparatus
AssigneeShimadzu Corporation
InventorsTomoharu OKUNO, Shinji HAMASAKI
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Abstract
This holding mechanism (3) for an X-ray imaging apparatus includes a switching means (36) that switches between a state of permitting movement of a moving body (4) including an X-ray tube (1) or an X-ray detector (2) and a state of prohibiting the movement, a force direction detection means (38) that detects a direction of a force applied to a moving mechanism (31), and a permission direction determination means (7) that determines a direction in which the movement is permitted by the switching means among a plurality of directions based on a detected direction of the force.
Claims29
A holding mechanism for an X-ray imaging apparatus, the holding mechanism comprising:
- a moving mechanism that holds a moving body including an X-ray tube or an X-ray detector such that the moving body is movable in a plurality of directions;
- a switching means that switches between a state of permitting movement of the moving body and a state of prohibiting the movement in each of the plurality of directions;
- a force direction detection means that detects a direction of a force applied to the moving mechanism;
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- a permission direction determination means that determines a direction in which the movement is permitted by the switching means among the plurality of directions based on a detected direction of the force, wherein the permission direction determination means:
- acquires imaging method information selected from two or three options among imaging in an upright position, imaging in a recumbent position, and general imaging;
- and
- switches, according to the imaging method information, between automatic determination control of determining the direction in which the movement is permitted based on the detected direction of the force and manual determination control of determining the direction in which the movement is permitted based on an operation input by an operator.
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An X-ray imaging apparatus comprising:
- a moving body including an X-ray tube;
- an X-ray detector;
- a moving mechanism that holds the moving body such that the moving body is movable in a plurality of directions;
- a locking mechanism that releasably locks movement of the moving body in each of the plurality of directions;
- a force detector that detects a direction of a force applied to the moving mechanism;
- and
- a controller that controls the locking mechanism to unlock the movement in the direction of the force detected by the force detector among the plurality of directions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.