System and method for phase shifted operation to achieve overall lower peak power
AssigneeGE Precision Healthcare LLC
InventorGoutam Maji
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for phase shifted operation of X-ray imaging systems includes monitoring, via a processing system, a status of a plurality of X-ray imaging systems coupled to an electrical grid. The computer-implemented method also includes facilitating, via the processing system, operation of the plurality of X-ray imaging systems in a phase shifted manner so that only a single X-ray imaging system of the plurality of X-ray imaging systems conducts an X-ray scan at a time so that total peak power demand from the plurality of X-ray imaging systems at the time of the X-ray scan does not exceed a peak power demand of the single X-ray imaging system.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for phase shifted operation of X-ray imaging systems, comprising:
- monitoring, via a processing system, a status of a plurality of X-ray imaging systems coupled to an electrical grid;
- and
- facilitating, via the processing system, operation of the plurality of X-ray imaging systems in a phase shifted manner so that only a single X-ray imaging system of the plurality of X-ray imaging systems conducts an X-ray scan at a time so that total peak power demand from the plurality of X-ray imaging systems at the time of the X-ray scan does not exceed a peak power demand of the single X-ray imaging system.
A system for phase shifted operation of X-ray imaging systems, comprising:
- a memory encoding processor-executable routines;
- and
- a processing system comprising one or more processors and configured to access the memory and to execute the processor-executable routines, wherein the processor-executable routines, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to:
- monitor a status of a plurality of X-ray imaging systems coupled to an electrical grid;
- and
- facilitate operation of the plurality of X-ray imaging systems in a phase shifted manner so that only a single X-ray imaging system of the plurality of X-ray imaging systems conducts an X-ray scan at a time so that total peak power demand from the plurality of X-ray imaging systems at the time of the X-ray scan does not exceed a peak power demand of the single X-ray imaging system.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium, the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising processor-executable code that when executed by a processing system comprising one or more processors, causes the processing system to:
- monitor a status of a plurality of X-ray imaging systems coupled to an electrical grid;
- and
- facilitate operation of the plurality of X-ray imaging systems in a phase shifted manner so that only a single X-ray imaging system of the plurality of X-ray imaging systems conducts an X-ray scan at a time so that total peak power demand from the plurality of X-ray imaging systems at the time of the X-ray scan does not exceed a peak power demand of the single X-ray imaging system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.