Switching DC converting device and portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing and method thereof

• US 8,506,491 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2009
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wu, Feng
• Primary Examiner(s): Cwern, Jonathan
• Application Number:
  US12/509,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20100022885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• Field of Search: 600/459, 327/145
• US Class Current: 600/459
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/4427 Device being portable or laptop-like
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/52017 particularly adapted to short-range imaging G01S7/53 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/44 Circuits or arrangements for compensating for electromagnetic interference in converters or inverters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/156 with automatic control of output voltage or current, e.g. switching regulators

Abstract

A switching DC converting device includes a switching DC converter and a synchronous clock circuit. The synchronous clock circuit is used to provide a wobbling synchronous clock input for the switching DC converter, and the central frequency of the wobbling synchronous clock avoids the operating frequency of a circuit powered by the switching DC converter.

Claims

1. A switching DC converting device comprising:

a switching DC converter; and

a synchronous clock circuit configured to provide a wobbling synchronous clock input for the switching DC converter, wherein a central frequency of the wobbling synchronous clock provided by the synchronous clock circuit is synchronous to a phase of and different than an operating frequency of a circuit powered by the switching DC converting device.

2. The switching DC converting device according to claim 1, which is used in a portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing.

3. The switching DC converting device according to claim 2, wherein the synchronous clock circuit is provided in a system controller of the portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing.

4. The switching DC converting device according to claim 3, wherein the system controller and the synchronous clock circuit are implemented by a Field Programmable Gate Array.

5. The switching DC converting device according to claim 2, wherein the circuit powered by the switching DC converting device comprises at least one of a Continuous Wave Doppler receiving circuit and a Pulsed Wave Doppler receiving circuit.

6. The switching DC converting device according to claim 1, wherein the circuit powered by the switching DC converting device comprises at least one of a Continuous Wave Doppler receiving circuit and a Pulsed Wave Doppler receiving circuit.

7. The switching DC converting device according to claim 1, wherein the central frequency of the wobbling synchronous clock is synchronous with the operating frequency of the circuit powered by the switching DC converting device.

8. A portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing, said portable system comprising:

a system controller;

a system receiving circuit;

a switching DC converter; and

a synchronous clock circuit configured to provide a wobbling synchronous clock input for the switching DC converter, wherein a central frequency of the wobbling synchronous clock is synchronous to a phase of and different than an operating frequency of the system receiving circuit powered by the switching DC converter.

9. The portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing according to claim 8, wherein the system receiving circuit comprises at least one of a Continuous Wave Doppler receiving circuit and a Pulsed Wave Doppler receiving circuit.

10. The portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing according to claim 9, wherein the synchronous clock circuit is provided in the system controller of the portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing.

11. The portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing according to claim 8, wherein the synchronous clock circuit together with the switching DC converter forms a switching DC converting device.

12. The portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing according to claim 11, wherein the synchronous clock circuit is provided in the system controller of the portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing.

13. The portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing according to claim 8, wherein the synchronous clock circuit is provided in the system controller of the portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing.

14. The portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing according to claim 13, wherein the system controller and the synchronous clock circuit are implemented by a Field Programmable Gate Array.

15. The portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing according to claim 8, wherein the central frequency of the wobbling synchronous clock is synchronous with the operating frequency of the system receiving circuit.

16. A method for reducing influence of radiation interference noise of a switching DC converter on an ultrasonic receiving circuit in a portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing, said method comprising:

inputting a wobbling synchronous clock to the switching DC converter; and

operating the wobbling synchronous clock at a central frequency that is synchronous to a phase of and different than an operating frequency of the ultrasonic receiving circuit in the portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the ultrasonic receiving circuit in the portable system for ultrasonic medical imaging and diagnosing includes at least one of a Continuous Wave Doppler receiving circuit and a Pulsed Wave Doppler receiving circuit.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein the central frequency of the wobbling synchronous clock is synchronous with the operating frequency of the ultrasonic receiving circuit.