US 12,440,179 B2
Method for operation of a docking arrangement and docking arrangement
Verena Schmidt, Erbendorf (DE); Andreas Deinlein, Bayreuth (DE); Matthias Müller, Bamberg (DE); Günther Gambke, Weidenberg (DE); Rolf Schmidt, Bayern (DE); Josef Zeidler, Marktredwitz (DE); Patrik Schwingenschlögl, Fürth (DE); and Thorsten Gecks, Weidenberg (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/813,398.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2023 208 129.6 (DE), filed on Aug. 24, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0064412 A1, Feb. 27, 2025
Int. Cl. A61B 6/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/0407 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operation of a docking arrangement for establishing a docking position of a patient table necessary for docking, the docking arrangement having a docking facility for the patient table, a controller, and the patient table, the docking arrangement being connectable, by docking of the patient table at the docking facility, to a medical engineering facility associated with the docking facility, the method comprising:
determining, by the controller and based on sensor data, position information describing a position of the patient table, wherein determining the position information includes detecting, by a sensor arrangement of the docking arrangement, sensor data corresponding to: the position of the patient table relative to the docking arrangement, and/or to an environment feature describing a movement trajectory to the docking arrangement;
performing, by the controller and in response to a switchover condition indicative of a handover situation and a purely manual operation of the patient table by an operator, a switch into an assistance operating mode of the docking arrangement;
in the assistance operating mode, determining, by the controller and based on the sensor data, at least one guidance measure for the patient table adapted to establish the docking position by evaluating the sensor data, and activating and controlling a functional component of the patient table adapted to assist the operator; and
determining by the controller, a steering intervention and/or longitudinal guidance intervention based on at least one comfort boundary condition related to comfort of a patient supported on the patient table;
wherein the comfort boundary condition comprises a maximum permitted curve radius.