Medical system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10182779-B2
Application number	US-201415024455-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2014
Priority date	Sep 24, 2013
Publication date	Jan 22, 2019
Grant date	Jan 22, 2019

Abstract

A medical system includes a plurality of movable elements, a first control element for controlling a first type of movement and at least one further control element for controlling a further type of movement. The first control element is assigned to a first number of movable elements for controlling the first type of movement and the further control elements are assigned to a further number of movable elements for controlling the further type of movement. The control elements each include an input unit having at least two selection elements for selecting the movable element to be controlled.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A medical system, comprising:
a plurality of movable elements;
a first control element for controlling a first type of movement of said plurality of movable elements, said first control element being a joystick;
at least one further control element for controlling a second type of movement of said plurality of movable elements, the first and the second type of movement being mutually different such that a movement of one of said plurality of movable elements controlled by said first control element cannot be controlled by said second control element;
a first number of said movable elements being configured to be controlled by said first control element according to said first type of movement;
a further number of said movable elements being configured to be controlled by said at least one further control element according to said further type of movement; and
at least two input units each having at least two selection elements for selecting said movable elements to be controlled, said input units each being permanently associated with a respective one of said control elements.

2. The medical system according to claim 1 , wherein each respective one of said movable elements is an x-ray tube, a compression element or a patient table.

3. The medical system according to claim 1 , wherein said at least one further control element is a joystick.

4. The medical system according to claim 1 , wherein said first type of movement is a rotational movement and said further type of movement is a planar movement.

5. The medical system according to claim 1 , wherein said at least two selection elements are usable simultaneously to select a plurality of said movable elements.

6. The medical system according to claim 1 , wherein said at least two selection elements associated with the same movable element to be controlled are placed at the same location on different control elements.

7. The medical system according to claim 1 , which further comprises display elements each being disposed on a respective one of said control elements for reproducing an associated type of movement.

8. The medical system according to claim 7 , wherein said display elements are each configured to visualize a respective one of said movable elements selected by one of said at least two selection elements.

9. The medical system according to claim 7 , wherein at least one of said control elements or said display elements can be adapted to different perspectives of an operator.

Assignees

• Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Inventors

• Dinse Franziska
• Fuhrmann Michael
• Langenbucher Alexander
• Ritter Juliane
• Schweizer Hans

Classifications

• A61B6/467 Primary

  characterised by special input means · CPC title

• G16H40/63

  for local operation · CPC title

• G06F19/00

  Physics · mapped topic

• A61B6/462

  characterised by constructional features of the display · CPC title

• G16Z99/00 Primary

  Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass · CPC title