Patient supporting apparatus and medical image photographing apparatus
AssigneeGE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
InventorJinglei Zhang
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Abstract
With a view to attaining both easiness of position adjustment and sureness of position holding, a patient supporting apparatus comprises an arm for supporting a patient, the arm comprising a horizontal arm portion and a vertical arm portion, a rail for supporting the arm movably in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal arm portion and the vertical arm portion, and a brake for preventing movement of the arm along the rail by utilizing a moment of rotation with the vertical arm portion of the arm being as an axis.
Claims16
A patient supporting apparatus comprising:
- an arm for supporting a patient, the arm comprising a horizontal arm portion and a vertical arm portion;
- a rail for supporting the arm movably in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal arm portion and the vertical arm portion;
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- a brake for preventing movement of the arm along the rail by utilizing a moment of rotation with the vertical arm portion of the arm being as an axis.
A medical image photographing apparatus comprising a patient supporting unit and a photographing unit for photographing a medical image of a patient supported by the patient supporting unit, the patient supporting unit comprising:
- an arm for supporting a patient, the arm comprising a horizontal arm portion and a vertical arm portion;
- a rail for supporting the arm movably in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal arm portion and the vertical arm portion;
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- a brake for preventing movement of the arm along the rail by utilizing a moment of rotation with the vertical arm portion of the arm being as an axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.