US 11,925,486 B2
Apparatus and method for operating a medical imaging device
Kathrin Friederike Hamilton, Hallstadt (DE); Hans-Jürgen Müller, Pretzfeld (DE); and Sebastian Schneider, Schaafheim (DE)
Assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/704,487.
Claims priority of application No. 21166034 (EP), filed on Mar. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0313175 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/7455 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0033 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0475 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0487 (2013.01); A61B 2560/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for operating a medical imaging device, the apparatus comprising:
a connection unit having a control-element-side region, an edge region and a flexible region, the control-element-side region being flexibly mounted relative to the edge region via the flexible region;
a control unit having a contact region, the contact region being fixed relative to the control-element-side region, and the control unit being configured to generate a contact signal based on a contact with the contact region; and
a vibration unit configured to induce a vibration of the contact region relative to the edge region during the contact with the contact region.