X-ray Detector Housing Integrated Control Handle
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing X-ray apparatus with vertically arranged flat-panel detectors has a cumbersome and costly design, requiring separate handle elements for height adjustment and tilting, leading to suboptimal control ergonomics, increased material investment, and prolonged assembly times, with patient grab handles not integrated with control elements.
Innovation Solution
An integrated control concept for the X-ray apparatus with a common handle for both height adjustment and tilting, featuring side-mounted control elements that allow simultaneous grasping and operation, reducing material costs and assembly time, and providing improved ergonomics and bilateral control access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If separate handle elements are used for height adjustment and tilting, then the detector housing can be controlled, but the device complexity and material costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the patient grab handle with control elements for height adjustment and tilting operations into a single integrated handle structure. This merging eliminates the need for separate handle elements, reducing device complexity while maintaining full control functionality. The integrated design allows one handle to perform multiple functions: stabilizing the patient and controlling detector positioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated handle serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a patient grab handle for stabilization, a control element for height adjustment, and a control element for tilting operations. This multi-functionality reduces the total number of components needed while preserving all necessary control capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If separate handle elements are used for height adjustment and tilting, then the detector housing can be controlled, but the material costs and assembly time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate handle elements into a single integrated handle structure that combines patient grab handle functionality with height adjustment and tilting controls. This consolidation reduces the number of parts that need to be manufactured and assembled, thereby reducing material costs and assembly time while maintaining full control capability.
3Reliability
If patient grab handles are mounted on both sides of the detector housing, then patient stabilization is improved, but the handle design becomes more complex and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates control elements directly into the patient grab handles mounted on both sides of the detector housing. By merging the stabilization function with control functionality in the handle structure itself, the design provides bilateral control access without requiring additional separate control mechanisms, thus improving reliability while avoiding increased complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
The present embodiments relate to an X-ray apparatus having a movable detector housing, in which a radiation detector is arranged. The X-ray apparatus includes at least one releasable interlock device configured to inhibit or enable the maneuverability of the movable detector housing. At least one control element is arranged on the movable detector housing, using which the at least one releasable interlock device is actuated. At least one grab handle element is also arranged on the movable detector housing. The movable detector housing is movable by hand and is holdable by a patient using the at least one grab handle element.