US 11,911,241 B2
Device for performing a radiological examination
Damiano Fortuna, Rignano Sull'Arno (IT); and Leonardo Manetti, Montevarchi (IT)
Assigned to EPICA INTERNATIONAL, INC., San Clemente, CA (US)
Filed by Epica International, Inc., San Clemente, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/020,505.
Application 17/020,505 is a continuation of application No. 15/778,221, granted, now 10,772,593, previously published as PCT/IB2016/056949, filed on Nov. 18, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. UB2015A005854 (IT), filed on Nov. 24, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0405252 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
Int. Cl. A61D 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61D 3/00 (2013.01) [A61B 6/04 (2013.01); A61B 6/508 (2013.01); A61D 2003/003 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1097 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for performing a radiological examination on a patient having a part of the body examined, comprising:
a housing having an openable containment portion and an examination portion,
wherein:
the containment portion and the examination portion together substantially enclose the patient; and
the examination portion is substantially transparent to X-rays and is configured to contain the part of the body to be examined, and
wherein:
the housing is substantially parallelepiped in shape;
the containment portion substantially defines three walls of the parallelepiped;
the examination portion defines the remaining part of the parallelepiped; and
two walls of the containment portion are openable.