Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsNaoto Wakabayashi, Masayoshi Tsuchiko, Terufumi Akama, Hiromi Maekawa, Hiroyuki Shikata, Nobuo Yamazaki, Tomio Kawaguchi
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Abstract
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus transmits an ultrasonic wave to an object to be examined and forms an image of tomographic information in the object obtained through an ultrasonic probe. The apparatus measures a comulative operation time of the ultrasonic probe and output the cumulative operation time.
Claims15
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for transmitting an ultrasonic wave to an object to be examined and causing an apparatus main body to form an image of tomographic information in the object obtained through an ultrasonic probe for receiving a wave reflected by the body, comprising:
- storage means for storing a cumulative operation time of said ultrasonic probe;
- probe operation time monitoring means for measuring a continuous operation time of said ultrasonic probe, and adding the measured continuous operation time to the cumulative operation time stored in said storage means to update the cumulative operation time stored in said storage means;
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- output means for outputting the cumulative operation time updated by said probe operation time monitoring means.
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising:
- an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasonic wave to an object to be examined and receiving a wave reflected by the object;
- an apparatus main body for forming an image of tomographic information in the object obtained through said ultrasonic probe;
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- a probe connector connected to said ultrasonic probe through a cable and detachably connected to said apparatus main body,
- wherein said probe connector has a timer and display means, said timer being set in an operative time when said ultrasonic probe is used to measure an operation time, storing a measurement result when said ultrasonic probe is not used, and measuring an operation time using the stored measurement time as an initial value when said ultrasonic probe is used next, and said display means displaying the operation time measured by said timer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.