SLIDING CLOSURE

• US 20120315080A1
• Filed: 06/07/2012
• Published: 12/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: ZINK, STEPHAN
• Application Number:
  US13/491,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20120315080A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 403/110
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/0421 with immobilising means
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/18 using cams, levers, eccentrics, or toggles for connections of rods or tubes engaged telescopically F16B7/1418, F16B7/1427, F16B7/1454
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/0614 in angled relationship
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/0664 at least one of the sheets or plates having integrally formed or integrally connected snap-in-features
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/32 Articulated members
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/32532 Clamped members

Abstract

A belt fastening device for fastening a holder for a belt in a groove of a patient couch for an imaging device includes a slider that may be displaced relative to the holder of the belt fastening device from a first position in a first direction into a second position. The slider may be displaced in a second direction opposing the first direction from the second position into the first position.

Claims

1. A belt fastening device for fastening a holder for a belt in a groove of a patient couch for an imaging device, the belt fastening device comprising:

a slider that is displaceable relative to the holder of the belt fastening device from a first position in a first direction into a second position, the slider also being displaceable in a second direction opposing the first direction from the second position into the first position.

2. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the slider is displaceable relative to the holder of the belt fastening device in the holder in a longitudinal direction of the holder from the first position in the first direction into the second position, and

wherein the slider is displaceable in the holder in the second direction opposing the first direction from the second position into the first position.

3. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the belt fastening device is a belt fastening device for fastening the holder for the belt for fixing a local coil or an object to be examined above the patient couch for a medical imaging device.

4. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the holder of the belt fastening device comprises a recess for the belt, the belt extending through the recess.

5. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the holder of the belt fastening device comprises elements configured for insertion into a patient couch longitudinal groove of the patient couch.

6. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the elements comprise clamping catches.

7. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the holder of the belt fastening device comprises elements configured for blocking in a patient couch longitudinal groove of the patient couch.

8. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elements comprise clamping catches.

9. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein one or more clamping regions of the slider do not contact, press against, or contact and press against clamping catches of the holder in the first position, release clamping catches of the holder in a direction at right angles to a direction of movement of the slider, or a combination thereof.

10. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein one or more clamping regions of the slider only contact, press against, or contact and press against clamping catches of the holder in the second position, block the clamping catches of the holder against displacement, block separate clamping catches of the holder from one another, or block the clamping catches of the holder against displacement and block separate clamping catches of the holder against displacement, or a combination thereof.

11. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein regions of the slider without clamping regions respectively oppose clamping catches of the holder in the first position of the slider.

12. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein clamping regions of the slider oppose clamping catches of the holder only in the second position of the slider.

13. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein two clamping catches of the holder are each configured to be moveable in a resilient manner away from one another.

14. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein clamping catches of the holder are configured to be resiliently displaceable toward one another.

15. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the clamping catches of the holder are configured to be resiliently displaceable toward one another for inserting the belt fastening device into a patient couch longitudinal groove.

16. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein clamping catches of the holder comprise beveled surfaces.

17. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the beveled surfaces are configured for insertion of the belt fastening device into a patient couch longitudinal groove.

18. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein clamping catches of the holder are configured such that a distance between external surfaces of opposing clamping catches is greater than the smallest diameter of a patient couch longitudinal groove.

19. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the holder comprises a latching lug on one or both ends of the holder, an open position, a closed position, or the open position and the closed position of the slider of the belt fastening device being blockable using the latching lug.

20. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the holder comprises at least two subcomponents that are fastenable together, at least one part of the slider being located between the at least two subcomponents when the at least two subcomponents are fastened together.

21. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the belt fastening device is a patient couch belt fastening device.

22. The belt fastening device as claimed in claim 21, wherein the belt fastening device is a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) patient couch belt fastening device.