Transportable X-ray apparatus

Patent · Tue Sep 15 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6008013

Tashjian, R J; Moreland, C E

This patent describes a transportable X-ray apparatus which is adapted to be transported in a motor vehicle and to be mounted externally on the transport vehicle. The transportable X-ray apparatus consists of: (a) a support assembly which includes a horizontal support base and an elongated vertical mast, (b) a carriage which is mounted on the mast for sliding vertical movement; (c) a radiation assembly which includes a collimator and a tube unit assembly which is operatively connected to the collimator; (d) first mounting means for supporting the radiation assembly on the carriage for vertical movement with the carriage, and (e) second mounting means for supporting the support assembly on the transport vehicle so that the transportable X-ray apparatus extends externally of the transport vehicle, the second mounting means comprising: (1) a vertical bracket which is fixed to the horizontal support base and which has a free top end, (2) an anchoring fixture at one end of the vehicle, and (3) an attaching fixture which is fixed to the vertical bracket for operatively engaging the anchoring fixture so that the entire transportable X-ray apparatus is suspended from the anchoring fixture.

• Assignee: New England Institute of Comparative Medicine, West Boylston, MA
• Patent Number(s): US 4694481
• OSTI ID: 6008013
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
420800* -- Engineering-- Electronic Circuits & Devices-- (-1989)
ANCHORS
COLLIMATORS
DESIGN
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
EQUIPMENT
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LAND TRANSPORT
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
PORTABLE EQUIPMENT
RADIATIONS
RESTRAINTS
ROAD TRANSPORT
SUPPORTS
TRANSPORT
X RADIATION
X-RAY EQUIPMENT