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US 8,998,487 B2Granted
X-ray imaging apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuhiro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Tokuda, Hitomi Ogasawara, Takashi Ogura, Jun Murata
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Abstract
An X-ray imaging apparatus comprises an X-ray source; a housing configured to accommodate the X-ray source; and a plurality of supporting legs each connected to the housing via a movable connecting portion and configured to support the housing, wherein each of the supporting legs can change, by the movable connecting portion, a support angle made by a ground plane and the supporting leg.
Claims7
An X-ray imaging apparatus comprising:
- an X-ray source;
- a housing configured to accommodate said X-ray source;
- and
- at least four supporting legs each connected to said housing via a movable connecting portion and configured to support said housing,
- wherein each of said supporting legs can change, by said movable connecting portion, a support angle made by a ground plane and said supporting leg and can stretch and contract along a longitudinal direction of said supporting leg,
- wherein contracting each of said supporting legs and bringing each of said supporting legs into contact with said vertical side of said housing by decreasing the support angle of said movable connecting portion places the X-ray imaging apparatus into a compact configuration for transport, and wherein stretching each of said supporting legs and increasing the support angle of said movable connecting portions places the X-ray imaging apparatus in a configuration for use for imaging.
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An X-ray imaging apparatus comprising:
- an X-ray source;
- a housing configured to accommodate said X-ray source;
- a plurality of supporting legs each connected to said housing via a movable connecting portion and configured to support said housing;
- X-ray shield members configured to adjust an X-ray irradiation range to irradiate an object;
- and
- transfer mechanisms each configured to transfer a rotary motion of a respective one of said movable connecting portions to said X-ray shield members,
- wherein each of said supporting legs can change, by said movable connecting portion, a support angle made by a ground plane and said supporting leg, and
- wherein the rotary motion is interlocked with an opening/closing operation of said X-ray shield members.
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