CONTROLLER FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF AN ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS DETECTOR

• US 20130237819A1
• Filed: 08/31/2012
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dao Zhou, Jianguo Zheng, Jie Sun, Ningmei Liu, Qishun Gu, Xingjie Feng, Yafang Cheng
• Original Assignee: Jie Sun
• Inventors: SUN, Jie, Liu, Ningmei, Feng, Xingjie, Gu, Qishun, Zhou, Dao, Zheng, Jianguo, Cheng, Yafang
• Application Number:
  US13/601,852
• Publication Number:
  US 20130237819A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/437
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/4433 involving a docking unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/4444 related to the probe
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/4472 Wireless probes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/461 Displaying means of special interest
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/467 characterised by special input means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/54 Control of the diagnostic device

Abstract

A controller comprising one or more control units, one or more triggering components arranged on the one or more control units, wherein the one or more triggering components are used for triggering the one or more control units to generate a corresponding control instruction, thereby controlling operations of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is configured to be fixed on a portion of a body and/or a probe of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

Claims

1. A controller for controlling operations of an ultrasonic diagnosis detector, comprising:

one or more control units; and

one or more triggering components arranged on the one or more control units,

wherein the one or more triggering components are configured to trigger the one or more control units to generate a corresponding control instruction to control operations of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is configured to be fixed on a portion of a body and/or a probe of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

2. The controller according to claim 1, wherein the portion of the body is a finger, a palm or an arm of an user, and the operations of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector controlled by the one or more triggering components comprise controlling image display of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

3. The controller according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is an annular control unit, and is configured to be put on the portion of the body and/or be placed around the probe of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

4. The controller according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is a belt-like control unit, and is configured to be wound around the portion of the body and/or the probe of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

5. The controller according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more control units comprises:

a processing unit configured to generate a corresponding control instruction when the one or more triggering components are triggered;

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the corresponding control instruction to a host machine of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector; and

a power supply module configured to supply energy to the processing unit and the transmitting unit.

6. The controller according to claim 5, wherein at least one of the one or more control units further comprises:

a baseband unit configured to perform a baseband processing on the corresponding control instruction generated by the processing unit to obtain a baseband signal, which carries the corresponding control instruction, and

the transmitting unit further comprises;

an RF unit configured to process the baseband signal to obtain an RF signal; and

an antenna configured to transmit the RF signal to the host machine of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

7. The controller according to claim 5, wherein the power supply module comprises:

a battery;

an induction coil; and

a charging circuit for wirelessly charging the battery through the induction coil.

8. The controller according to claim 1, wherein the one or more triggering components are configured in such a way that a single triggering component or a combination of a plurality of triggering components triggers different control instructions.

9. The controller according to claim 1, wherein at least a part of the one or more control units communicates with each other or forms a control system network.

10. The controller according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is provided with an indicator configured to indicate a working status of the controller.

11. The controller according to claim 10, wherein the indicator comprises an indicator light and/or a vibrator.

12. The controller according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is provided with one or more triggering components.

13. The controller according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more triggering components is a button.

14. The controller according to claim 1, wherein the one or more control units is individually replaceable.

15. The controller according to claim 5, wherein at least one of the one or more control units comprises a housing made of a flexible material, and at least a part of the processing unit, the transmitting unit and the power supply module is sealed in the housing.

16. An ultrasonic diagnosis detector, comprising:

an ultrasonic diagnosis detector host machine;

a probe;

a console configured to control the ultrasonic diagnosis detector host machine so as to emit ultrasonic wave through the probe, wherein the ultrasonic diagnosis detector host machine generates an image based on an echo signal of the ultrasonic wave;

a display configured to display the image; and

a controller configured to control operations of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector;

wherein the controller is configured to be fixed on a portion of a body and/or the probe.

17. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 16, wherein the controller comprises:

one or more control units;

one or more triggering components arranged on the one or more control units,

wherein the one or more triggering components are configured to trigger one or more control units to generate a corresponding control instruction to control operations of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is configured to be fixed on a portion of a body and/or the probe.

18. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 17, wherein the portion of the body is a finger, a palm or an arm of a user, and the operations of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector controlled by the one or more triggering components comprise controlling image display of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

19. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 18, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is an annular control unit, and is configured to be put on the portion of the body and/or placed around the probe of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

20. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 18, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is a belt-like control unit, and is configured to be wound around the portion of the body and/or the probe of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

21. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 16, wherein at least one of the one or more control units comprises:

a processing unit configured to generate a corresponding control instruction when the one or more triggering components are triggered;

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the corresponding control instruction to the ultrasonic diagnosis detector host machine; and

a power supply module configured to supply energy to the processing unit and the transmitting unit.

22. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 21, wherein at least one of the one or more control units further comprises:

a baseband unit configured to perform a baseband processing on the corresponding control instruction generated by the processing unit to obtain a baseband signal, which carries the corresponding control instruction, and

the transmitting unit further comprises;

an RF unit configured to process the baseband signal to obtain an RF signal; and

an antenna configured to transmit the RF signal to the ultrasonic diagnosis detector host machine.

23. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 22, wherein the ultrasonic diagnosis detector host machine is coupled to a wireless unit configured to receive the RF signal and to regenerate the control instruction from the RF signal to control operations of the ultrasonic diagnosis detector.

24. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 21, wherein the power supply module comprises:

a battery;

an induction coil; and

a charging circuit configured to wirelessly charge the battery by the induction coil.

25. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 16, wherein the one or more triggering components is configured in such a way that a single triggering component or a combination of a plurality of triggering components triggers different control instructions.

26. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 16, wherein at least a part of the one or more control units communicates with each other or forms a control system network.

27. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 16, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is provided with an indicator configured to indicate a working status of the controller.

28. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 16, wherein the indicator comprises an indicator light and/or a vibrator.

29. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 16, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is provided with one or more triggering components.

30. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 16, wherein at least one of the one or more triggering components is a button.

31. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 16, wherein the one or more control units is individually replaceable.

32. The ultrasonic diagnosis detector according to claim 21, wherein at least one of the one or more control units comprises a housing made of a flexible material, and at least a part of the processing unit, the transmitting unit and the power supply module is packaged in the housing.

33. A controller, comprising:

one or more control units; and

one or more triggering components arranged on the one or more control units, wherein the one or more triggering components is configured to trigger the one or more control units to generate a corresponding control instruction,

wherein at least one of the one or in more control units is configured to be fixed on a portion of a body.

34. The controller according to claim 33, wherein the portion of the body is a finger, a palm or an arm of a user.

35. The controller according to claim 34, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is an annular control unit, which is configured to be put on the portion of the body.

36. The controller according to claim 34, wherein at least one of the one or more control units is a belt-like control unit, and is configured to be wound around the portion of the body.

37. The controller according to claim 34, wherein the controller comprises a wireless transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit a corresponding control instruction.

38. The controller according to claim 33, wherein the controller comprises a power supply module, wherein the power supply module comprises:

a battery;

an induction coil; and

a charging circuit configured to wirelessly charge the battery by the induction coil.

39. The controller according to claim 33, wherein the one or more triggering components is configured in such a way that a single triggering component or a combination of a plurality of triggering components triggers different control instructions.