Variable-Angle Patient Support Board for Modular Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing patient support systems for medical treatments, such as radiation therapy, lack flexibility and adaptability, often requiring complex setups that strain clinician skills and resources, while offering limited configuration options and compromising patient comfort and treatment quality.
Innovation Solution
A modular patient support system with a tiltable board and adjustable angle mechanism, featuring a universal lok bar system and interchangeable body support modules, allowing for customizable positioning and quick, accurate setup across various patient sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing patient support systems are used, then patient positioning is maintained, but the systems lack flexibility and adaptability, requiring complex setups that strain clinician skills and resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patient support system is divided into modular components including interchangeable body support modules (head support module, arm support module, leg support module) that can be independently selected and attached to the support table, allowing flexible configuration without complex integrated systems
Solution Approach 2:
The support table is designed with universal features including a universal lok bar system and standardized attachment mechanisms that work with all body support modules, enabling one table to serve multiple positioning functions through module interchangeability rather than requiring specialized complex systems
2Adaptability or versatility
If existing patient support systems are used, then basic support is provided, but they offer limited configuration options and compromise patient comfort and treatment quality
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates adjustable and interchangeable components that allow dynamic adaptation to different treatment requirements and patient needs, while standardized attachment mechanisms ensure reliable and consistent positioning across different configurations
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows changing of key parameters such as body position angles, support module types, and configuration settings to optimize treatment quality for different patients and treatment protocols while maintaining reliability through engineered attachment systems
3Measurement precision
If complex setups are used, then positioning precision is achieved, but it strains clinician skills and resources
Solution Approach 1:
The modular system with standardized interfaces enables clinicians to quickly assemble and configure the support system without requiring advanced mechanical skills, as the self-evident modular design and universal attachment mechanisms guide proper assembly
Solution Approach 2:
By segmenting the system into independent modules with standardized connection points, the complexity is distributed and simplified, allowing clinicians to work with individual modules rather than complex integrated systems, reducing skill requirements while maintaining positioning precision
Data Source
AI summary
A system for positioning a patient includes a tiltable patient support board, and an angle adjustment mechanism mounted to a lower surface of the tiltable patient support board and configured to adjust a tilt angle of the tiltable patient support board. The angle adjustment mechanism includes at least one leg coupled to an underside of the tiltable patient support board, and a bracket coupled to the underside of the tiltable patient support board at a first end of the bracket and coupled to the at least one leg at a second end of the bracket, wherein the bracket and the at least one leg form an acute angle with one another.