Transparent Screen Ultrasonic Scanning Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current ultrasonic imaging devices have separate display and scanning components, requiring users to move their line of sight away from the scanning assembly to observe displayed information, which reduces operational convenience.
Innovation Solution
A scanning assembly with a transparent screen integrated onto the scanning unit, allowing users to view both the scanning unit and displayed information without moving their line of sight, enabling simultaneous observation of the subject and scan-related information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a separate display component is used to show scan-related information, then information display functionality is achieved, but the user cannot simultaneously observe the display and the scanning assembly, reducing operational convenience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the display component with the scanning assembly by integrating a transparent display screen directly onto the scanning assembly housing. This allows scan-related information to be displayed on the transparent screen while the user can simultaneously observe both the display content and the scanning assembly through the transparent material, eliminating the need to move the line of sight between separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The transparent screen acts as an intermediary element that combines the display function with the scanning assembly structure. The transparent material allows light to pass through, enabling the user to see both the displayed information and the scanning assembly simultaneously, thus mediating between the need for information display and the need for direct observation of the scanning process.
2Ease of operation
If a transparent screen is integrated on the scanning unit, then simultaneous observation of display and scanning assembly is enabled, but the structural complexity of the scanning assembly increases
Solution Approach 1:
The scanning assembly housing is given multiple functions: it serves as both the structural housing for the scanning components and as a transparent display surface. The transparent screen is integrated into the housing structure, allowing the same component to fulfill both structural and display functions, thereby reducing the need for additional separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The display function is merged with the scanning assembly housing structure. The transparent screen is incorporated as part of the housing rather than as a separate attached component, combining the protective/structural housing function with the information display function in a single integrated structure.
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AI summary
A scanning assembly of an ultrasonic imaging device including: a scanning unit configured to send an ultrasonic signal to a subject to be scanned and/or receives an ultrasonic signal reflected by the subject to be scanned; and a transparent screen disposed on the scanning unit, the transparent screen being configured to display information while the subject is being scanned and/or provide for observation of the scanning unit through the transparent screen.