Treatment Table Swing Support Linkage for Patient Physique Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional treatment tables for vertebral joint treatments face difficulties in adjusting the head and waist supports to accommodate varying patient physiques, particularly those with large bellies or distorted spines, making it challenging for a single operator to perform effective treatments and record changes during surgical operations.
Innovation Solution
A treatment table design featuring swing units for the head, body, and waist supports, with adjustment operation units and a link mechanism, allowing for independent adjustment of these supports in a longitudinal direction, and optionally including driving units, sensor units, and a chest support to accommodate different patient sizes and physiques.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the body support is locked in conventional treatment tables, then the structure is simple and stable, but it becomes difficult to move the head support and waist support to appropriate positions for patients with large bellies or distorted spines
Solution Approach 1:
The body support is changed from a locked static structure to a dynamic structure capable of swinging in the width direction about a central position. This allows the body support to adapt its position according to patient physique variations, resolving the contradiction between structural simplicity and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The treatment table is divided into independently adjustable segments: head support, body support, and waist support. Each segment can swing independently in the width direction, allowing precise positioning for different patient conditions without requiring complete structural redesign.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the head support only swings in the width direction about a fixed point, then the structure is simple, but it cannot follow the swing of the head support and cannot accommodate distorted spine positions
Solution Approach 1:
The waist support is mechanically linked to the head support through a connection mechanism. When the head support swings in the width direction, the waist support follows the movement through this linkage, allowing coordinated adjustment without requiring separate independent mechanisms for each support.
3Ease of operation
If multiple adjustment operation units are distributed at different positions, then each support can be adjusted independently, but it requires multiple operators or makes adjustment difficult for a single operator
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple adjustment operation units are merged into a single location through a linkage mechanism. When one operator operates the adjustment unit, the motion is transmitted through linkages to simultaneously adjust multiple supports (head support, body support, waist support), making the system easy to operate while maintaining independent adjustability.
4Loss of information
If the treatment table cannot record body changes, then the structure is simple, but it is difficult to record changes resulting from surgical operations
Solution Approach 1:
Sensor units are integrated into the treatment table to detect and record changes in patient body position and morphology during treatment. The sensors provide feedback information about body changes, which can be stored and analyzed to document treatment effects and surgical outcomes.
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AI summary
A treatment table with which it is easy to perform treatments more appropriately and which is convenient to use is provided. The treatment table includes a head support for supporting the head of a patient, a body support for supporting the body of the patient, and a waist support for supporting the waist of the patient. The head support, the body support, and the waist support are arranged in a longitudinal direction. The head support and the waist support or the body support include a swing unit capable of swing in a width direction about a central position in the width direction. Adjustment operation units for adjusting the swing units are disposed at one concentrated position of the treatment table.