X-ray device

• US 20050281378A1
• Filed: 06/08/2005
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schmitt, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 7,406,155 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 378/117
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/00 Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment instruments measuring radiation intensity for application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting, G01T1/161; apparatus for taking X-ray photographs G03B42/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4291 the detector being combined with a grid or grating
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/548 Remote control of the apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/56 Details of data transmission or power supply, e.g. use of slip rings

Abstract

X-ray device with at least one switch for triggering a signal and at least one receiver for the signal, said receiver being arranged remote from the switch, the switch (6) comprising an energy converter for converting the mechanical energy expended in the event of the switch being triggered into electrical energy, by means of which the signal can be wirelessly transmitted to the receiver (15) by means of a radio link.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. An X-ray device, comprising:

at least one mechanically actuatable switch for generating at least one signal;

at least one receiver arranged remotely relative to the switch, the receiver configured to receive the signal generated by the switch;

an energy converter included in the switch for converting a mechanical energy used to actuate the switch into electrical energy; and

at least one transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the signal to the receiver using the electrical energy.

12. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein the switch is configured to be actuated manually.

13. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein the switch is configured to be actuated contactlessly.

14. The X-ray device according to claim 13, wherein the switch is a proximity switch or a magnetic field switch.

15. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein the transmitter is included in the switch.

16. The X-ray device according to claim 15, wherein the transmitter is a high-frequency transmitter, and the receiver includes a high-frequency receiver.

17. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein the switch includes a first processor adapted to signal preprocessing, and the receiver includes a second processor adapted to signal evaluation.

18. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein the X-ray device comprises a plurality of mechanically actuatable switches.

19. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein a unique identifier is assigned to each mechanically actuatable switch and each receiver.

20. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein the signal is a digital radiogram configured to include pieces of information.

21. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein the mechanically actuatable switch includes a first sensor for acquiring a quantity to be measured, and the signal is a first sensor signal generated by the first sensor.

22. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein the mechanically actuatable switch is configured to be connected to a second sensor for acquiring a quantity to be measured, and the signal is a second sensor signal generated by the second sensor.

23. The X-ray device according to claim 11, wherein the wireless transmission is executed on a wireless communication channel using a frequency within the public domain.