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Mobile base and X-ray machine mounted on such a mobile base

  • US 9,545,235 B2
  • Filed: 09/28/2015
  • Issued: 01/17/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A mobile base configured to support a medical imaging machine comprising:

  • at least two drive wheels configured to be driven respectably by a traction motor and a direction motor;

    a processing unit in communication with the traction motor and the direction motor and configured to input instruction values corresponding to at least one of destination, trajectory, and orientation of the mobile base, and data on position of the medical imaging machine, and to generate as an output a respective direction and speed for each drive wheel to position and orient the mobile base; and

    an optical positioning system comprising a gyrolaser, a read system and a memory, the system configured to compute a position of the medical imaging machine in the predefined fixed referential system on the basis of reflections from reflectors positioned about a defined space, the positions of the reflectors stored in the memory, to move and orient the mobile base to one or more desired positions in the defined space.

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