RADIATION IMAGE DETECTING DEVICE AND RADIATION IMAGE RADIOGRAPHING SYSTEM

• US 20080169420A1
• Filed: 01/09/2008
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: EGUCHI, Yoshihiko
• Application Number:
  US11/971,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20080169420A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 250/370.09
• CPC Class Codes: G01T 1/2928 using solid state detectors

Abstract

A radiation image detecting device is provided with a flat panel detector constituted with a plurality of elements arranged in a plane configuration so as to detect radiation having transmitted through a radiographic subject; a signal processing section to process signals outputted from the flat panel detector; a radiation shielding section to shield the signal processing section from radiation having transmitted through the flat panel detector; a power source section to supply electric power to the flat panel detector and the signal processing section; and a non-contact power receiving section to receive electric power supplied with a non-contact way in a form of a magnetic flux and to supply the electric power to the power source section. The non-contact power receiving section is arranged on a location where the magnetic flux is not blocked by the radiation shielding section.

Claims

1. A radiation image detecting device, comprising:

a flat panel detector constituted with a plurality of elements arranged in a plane configuration so as to detect radiation having transmitted through a radiographic subject;

a signal processing section to process signals outputted from the flat panel detector;

a radiation shielding section to shield the signal processing section;

from radiation having transmitted through the flat panel detector;

a power source section to supply electric power to the flat panel detector and the signal processing section; and

a non-contact power receiving section to receive electric power supplied with a non-contact way in a form of a magnetic flux and to supply the electric power to the power source section;

wherein the non-contact power receiving section is arranged on a location where the magnetic flux is not blocked by the radiation shielding section.

2. The radiation image detecting device described in claim 1, further comprising:

a box to accommodate the flat panel detector, the signal processing section, the radiation shielding section, the power source section and the non-contact power receiving section therein,

wherein the non-contact power receiving section is arranged in a space between an inner side surface of the box and the radiation shielding section.

3. The radiation image detecting device described in claim 2, wherein the radiation shielding section is a shielding plate provided between the flat panel detector and the signal processing section, and the non-contact power receiving section is arranged in a space between the inner side surface of the box and an end of the shielding plate.

4. The radiation image detecting device described in claim 3, wherein a cushioning member for an impact force is provided to the inner side surface of the box, and the non-contact power receiving section is arranged in a space between the cushioning member and the end of the shielding plate.

5. The radiation image detecting device described in claim 2, wherein the non-contact power receiving section is arranged so as to oppose to a non-contact power transmitting section provided at the outside of the radiation image detecting device, and wherein the non-contact power transmitting section includes a primary side coil and the non-contact power receiving section includes a secondary side coil and an alternating voltage is induced on the non-contact power receiving section by a magnetic coupling between the primary side coil and the secondary side coil.

6. The radiation image detecting device described in claim 5, wherein the non-contact power transmitting section is provided in a box holding device having a concave portion, and when the box is held in the concave portion of the box holding device, the non-contact power receiving section is arranged in the box so as to oppose to the non-contact power transmitting section in the box holding device.

7. The radiation image detecting device described in claim 5, wherein the primary side coil of the non-contact power transmitting section is a pair of coils provided in the concave portion so as to oppose to each other, and when the box is held in the concave portion of the box holding device, the secondary side coil of the non-contact power receiving section is arranged in the box so as to position between the pair of coils.

8. The radiation image detecting device described in claim 7, wherein the secondary side coil of the non-contact power receiving section is arranged so as to form a magnetic path in a radiation irradiating direction.

9. The radiation image detecting device described in claim 7, wherein the secondary side coil of the non-contact power receiving section is arranged so as to form a magnetic path in a direction perpendicular to a radiation irradiating direction.