US 11,944,475 B2
System and method for mobile radiography deployment
Michael R. Spaeth, Webster, NY (US); Anthony Dirisio, Rochester, NY (US); Dennis J. O'Dea, Victor, NY (US); and Jean K. Alexandre, Rochester, NY (US)
Assigned to Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US)
Appl. No. 17/436,089
Filed by CARESTREAM HEALTH, INC., Rochester, NY (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/022217
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/205189, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/827,890, filed on Apr. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0047233 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/10 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/4405 (2013.01) [A61B 6/105 (2013.01); A61B 6/4476 (2013.01); A61B 6/54 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0437 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile radiography system comprising:
a base including wheels and a transport drive system for driving the wheels to transport the mobile radiography system;
a movable support arm attached to the wheeled base;
an x-ray assembly attached to the movable support arm;
an electronic control system configured to receive operator input to selectively operate the transport drive system;
a detector to sense either one or both of a tilt angle and a pitch angle of the mobile radiography system; and
a stored control program executable by the electronic control system to receive one or both of the tilt angle and the pitch angle sensed by the detector, the stored control program configured to automatically lock the wheels if the received tilt angle or pitch angle exceeds a pre-set threshold.
 
11. A method of operating a mobile radiography system having a base with wheels, the method comprising:
electronically sensing a pitch or a tilt angle of the wheeled base of the mobile radiography system;
preventing the wheels of the base from turning in response to determining that the sensed pitch or tilt angle exceeds a pre-set threshold.