Detailed description of the invention
Probe bracket of the present invention possesses: mounting base; Be formed with the cradle portion of the probe maintaining part of storage probe; With the supporter that mounting base and cradle portion are linked.Cradle portion and supporter link and are integrated, and both are collectively referred to as to rack body.Supporter for example has the bottom with the roughly the same shape of shape of the installed surface of mounting base, be cross section from its bottom towards the cone-shaped diminishing with the linking portion of cradle portion, be the handle-shaped that operator easily grasps.For example, supporter has from bottom towards the shape of upper end bending that is fixed with cradle portion.
Below, with reference to accompanying drawing, embodiments of the present invention are described.
< the first embodiment >
With reference to Fig. 1~Fig. 3, the probe bracket of present embodiment is described.Fig. 1 is that overall perspective view, Fig. 2 are that top view, Fig. 3 are for representing the figure of the state that takes off mounting base (base portion).The support portion 3 that this probe bracket 10 links by cradle portion 1, base portion 2, by cradle portion 1 and base portion 2 as main composition forms.The material of probe bracket is not particularly limited, but be made up of products formeds such as plastics in the present embodiment, has to keep the tectosome of its intensity or for the parts that are connected with other key element etc. in the exterior inside of plastics of outward appearance that forms each key element.
Cradle portion 1 has upper surface 1A, bottom surface 1B, side 1C (Fig. 3), while seeing from upper surface as shown in Figure 2, the thinner parts of Thickness Ratio with the shape that multiple letter C words are combined, in the part of each C word shape, be formed with the probe maintaining part 11 of the goblet (not shown) for keeping storage probe., probe maintaining part 11 is the parts that form on the parts that form cradle portion 1, surround the through hole of part of opening, receives the goblet 5 shown in Fig. 4 (a) in this hole.The shape in hole (probe maintaining part 11) determines by the hypanthial shape of wherein receiving, and the shape of goblet 5 can be various shape according to the kind of probe.Fig. 4 (b) illustrates an example of probe.This probe 4 when top is seen built-in changer, there is the principal part 41 of elongate shape and the stem 42 continuous with it in the orientation of changer, in stem 42, be connected with the cable 43 that connects the adapter (not shown) on body.Probe bracket 10 shown in Fig. 1~Fig. 3 is an example, has the probe maintaining part 11 that is suitable for the stem 42 of receiving the probe 4 shown in Fig. 4 (b), and the shape of this probe maintaining part 11 is Long Circle or ellipse while seeing from top.
Goblet 5, as shown in Fig. 4 (a), is the shape of the tubular of upper surface and lower surface opening, is made up of resilient materials such as plastics.Upper surface form limit eaves portion 51, have diameter from upper surface to bottom tapered shape, between upper surface and lower surface, be formed with gap 52.Gap 52 is passed through with the flexible cord linking of popping one's head in for making, and therefore has at least the width being equal to flexible cord diameter.Although and gap 52 can vertically arrange with respect to upper surface, also can there is the angle beyond 90 degree with respect to upper surface.The diameter of limit eaves portion 51 is larger than the diameter of probe maintaining part 11, and the diameter of limit eaves portion part below 51 is less than the diameter of probe maintaining part 11.Thus, by goblet 5 from above pack probe into when maintaining part 11, goblet 5 is held in probe maintaining part 11 by limit eaves portion 51.
Goblet 5 is being fixed under the state of probe maintaining part 11, gap 52 is positioned at the part (patent part 11A) of the opening of probe maintaining part 11.In the time probe 4 being accommodated in to probe maintaining part 11, first cable section being put into goblet from the probe patent part 11A of maintaining part 11 and the gap 52 of goblet 5, thereby the probe of connection cord 43 4 can be accommodated in goblet 5.
Support portion 3 has people easily uses the shape of holds, in illustrated embodiment, be diameter from the coupling part of base portion 2 bottom 3A diminish gradually and bending shape towards the upper end 3B that is fixed with cradle portion 1.The upper end of this bending and variation in diameter links via connecting portion 31 and the side of cradle portion 1.The short transverse (direction vertical with respect to bottom surface) of this support portion 3 is orthogonal with the upper surface of cradle portion 1.And, on side cradle portion 1 side of the position of the fixed support portion 3 of cradle portion 1 in the patent part disjunction by probe maintaining part 11, long side., the residing side of connecting portion of support portion 3 and cradle portion 1, is positioned at a side relative with the patent part 11A side of living in of probe maintaining part 11., with respect to the projection image's non-overlapping copies face identical with the rack body installed surface of base portion 2, support portion 3 and cradle portion 1.Thus, be fixed in support portion 3 under the state of base portion 2, each patent part 11A of probe maintaining part 11 is positioned at the outside of the fixed pedestal portion 2 of device body, action from probe to the storage of probe maintaining part 11 that can pop one's head in swimmingly from the taking-up of probe maintaining part 11.
The bottom 3A of support portion 3, as shown in Fig. 3 (b), forms the exterior shape of its profile and the top profile of base portion 2 is consistent, link (combination) both time become the outward appearance with one sense.In illustrated embodiment, bottom 3A has the tetragon opened by one end, shape with the continuous circular-arc part encirclement in one end of this opening, is provided with differential between circular-arc part and tetragon part.By this structure, can carry out swimmingly the link of support portion 3 and base portion 2.To narrate in the back support portion 3 and the connect mechanism of base portion 2.
As shown in Figure 5, base portion 2 is by the top 2A of the bottom 3A of fixed support portion 3, bottom 2B parts structure, highly lower connected in side that are fixed on device body are formed.Rack body is being installed under the state of base portion 2 to the installed surface almost parallel of the upper surface of cradle portion 1 and base portion 2.
The top 2A of base portion 2 is parts overlapping with the bottom 3A of support portion 3, is the shape roughly the same with the bottom 3A of support portion 3, is formed with the connect mechanism engaging with the connect mechanism of the bottom 3A formation in support portion 3.Connect mechanism is the structure of mutually engaging and the mechanism of the state that preferably can be locked and fastened can adopt known mechanism.
In the illustrated embodiment, the connect mechanism of support portion 3 sides, as shown in Fig. 3 (b), formed by latch-release pawl 33, a pair of hook 35, near arrange the circular-arc limit relative with the limit that a pair of hook 35 is set hook 37, as shown in Fig. 5 (a), the connect mechanism of base portion 2 sides is by the hole 25,27 of these hooks 35 and 37 engagings, form for the sticking department 29 of hook latch-release pawl 33.By these hook 35,37 patchholes 25,27, latch-release pawl 33 hook sticking departments 29 and base portion 2 is fixing with respect to support portion 3.
For example, cradle portion 3 is slided from the rear of base portion 2, hook 35,37 is inserted behind each self-corresponding hole 25,27, and the latch-release pawl 33 of cradle portion 3 is out of shape and crosses the sticking department 29 of base portion 2, engages (Fig. 5 (d)) with sticking department 29.In the time that support portion 3 is taken off from base portion 2, latch-release pawl 33 is boosted upward, thereby latch-release pawl 33 is crossed sticking department 29.Under this state, by rearward being slided in support portion 3, hook 35,37 is deviate from from hole 25,27 respectively, can simply support portion 3 be taken off from base portion 2.
The bottom 2B of base portion 2 uses the known fixing means such as screw 21 to fix in the position of the regulation of device body.The shape of the bottom 2B of base portion 2 according to the relation of installation site can be arbitrary shape, and can not be smooth.In the present embodiment, the form fit circular with having of device body described later, while seeing, has 2 relative limits and is the tetragonal shape of circular-arc distortion from upper surface side.The shape (profile) of this bottom 2B is connected with the profile of the top 2A of aforesaid base portion 2 by curved side.
Then, with reference to Fig. 6~Fig. 9, the preference of the Portable ultrasonic diagnosing device of the probe bracket to fixing present embodiment describes.
This diagnostic ultrasound equipment 100 possesses: the body housing 60 that forms the roughly rectangular shape of the required electronic unit of storage ultrasound investigation; In one end of body housing 60, the operation housing 70 supporting rotationally centered by axle P1; By with the coaxial axle P2 of axle P1 centered by rotationally support demonstration housing 80.Independent separately with respect to the operation housing 70 of body housing 60 and the rotation of demonstration housing 80.Be accommodated in the electronic unit of body housing 60, specifically receive and dispatch the signal processing circuit of hyperacoustic transmission circuit, phase modulation circuit, processing echo-signal, generate the electronic unit that the general diagnostic ultrasound equipment such as image generative circuit, doppler processing circuit of the ultrasonography of B pattern or M pattern etc. possesses taking echo-signal as basis, omit the function declaration of each circuit.Be formed with the receptacle portion of the adapter 45 for connecting probe in the side of body housing 60.
Be provided with the guidance panel 71 that possesses the input medium such as keyboard or pushing button, trace ball at the upper surface of operation housing 70.Showing the display floater 81 that the ultrasonography or the input GUI etc. that show that diagnostic ultrasound equipment forms are installed on housing 80.Support the axle P2 that shows housing 80, by by with the orthogonal axle Q (Fig. 7) of axle P2 centered by be rotatably supported in the bearings of body, by this support structure, as shown in Figure 7, under the states that body housing 60 and operation housing 70 are opened as approximately 180 degree, can make to show that housing 80 erects as angle vertically or arbitrarily, only make to show that housing 80 rotates.
In the time that the probe bracket of present embodiment 10 is installed on to the diagnostic ultrasound equipment of above-mentioned structure, at the upper surface of body housing 60, show that the nonoverlapping position of the movable range rotatablely moving of housing 80 is pedestal installation portion.Pedestal installation portion is the preferred bight, rear at body housing 60 upper surfaces for example.When the base portion 2 of probe bracket 10 is installed on pedestal installation portion, the circular-arc part of the bottom surface of base portion 2 is along the circular mounting in body housing 60 bights.Cradle portion 1 is positioned at body outside thus, as shown in Figure 8, in the time that display floater is positioned at before the operator of guidance panel, support 1 also in operator within sweep of the eye and be to be shown the position that housing 80 hinders, be therefore easy in cradle portion 1 access.
And the patent part 11A of the probe maintaining part 11 of cradle portion 1 is positioned at outside, 4 discrepancy from probe maintaining part 11 of therefore easily popping one's head in.The particularly probe bracket of present embodiment, as shown in Fig. 4 and Fig. 9, with the gap 52 of the chimeric goblet 5 of cradle portion 1 from the upper surface of goblet 5 down, be formed obliquely to operator's side, therefore easily carry out the action of extracting probe cable from this gap 52.
In the time that the probe bracket 10 of present embodiment does not use, it is accommodated in together with Portable ultrasonic diagnosing device to storage place, but Portable ultrasonic diagnosing device is to possess in the situation of device of the body housing 60 shown in Fig. 6 at this moment, under the state that also can install in the base portion 2 that rack body (cradle portion 1 and support portion 3) is being fixed on to body housing 60, receive.Or, only rack body is taken off from base portion 2, in advance other the mounting base with the link identical with the base portion 2 that is fixed on body housing 60 structure is fixed on to storage place, on this mounting base, mounting bracket body is received.And, Portable ultrasonic diagnosing device 100 shown in Fig. 6 can will show that housing 80 is set to the closed condition parallel with operating housing 70 and receives from the open mode shown in Fig. 9 waits, close and show housing 80 and operation housing 70 sides, can receive with the state erecting with respect to body housing 60.No matter be which kind of receiving state, change when state or after changing probe bracket 10 can not interfere.
In the time checking, in cradle portion 1, pack under the state of required probe and take off rack body from storage place, hold support portion 3 with a handgrip, the flexible cord of probe is hung over to wrist first-class, another handgrip is held Portable ultrasonic diagnosing device 100, can move to the inspection place of regulation.Checking place, Portable ultrasonic diagnosing device is set to state shown in Fig. 6, in the base portion 2 that is fixed on body housing 60, support portion 3 is installed, and the adapter of probe 45 is inserted to the receptacle portion that base side face possesses.These actions are also easily carried out in the limited place, arrangement place of probe bracket etc., become thus the state that can check immediately.
According to present embodiment, the probe bracket that is suitable for Portable ultrasonic diagnosing device is provided, this probe bracket possesses: the base portion that is fixed on device body; There is the support portion of the bottom surface engaging with the upper surface of base portion; With the side cradle portion fixing with respect to support portion.The upper surface almost parallel of the bottom surface of base portion and cradle portion, while support portion being installed in base portion, cradle portion is level and the projected area in the plane identical with base bottom surface and the nonoverlapping position of base portion in upper surface.Thus, checking place, do not need the place that arranges for probe bracket, and the discrepancy operability of popping one's head in is good in the time that the probe bracket of present embodiment is installed on to body.
And, according to present embodiment, make being shaped as of support portion be bent into circular-arc shape from bottom to top, and make the bottom shape of base portion and body with circular form fit, therefore have and the integraty of the design of body, aesthetic appearance is also good.
But probe bracket shown in accompanying drawing is an embodiment, can in the scope that does not depart from the scope of the invention, carry out various changes.For example, although show in the drawings the cradle portion that 2 probe maintaining parts are set, the maintaining part of popping one's head in can be also more than one or 3.And in the situation that multiple probe maintaining part is set, the shape of the maintaining part of respectively popping one's head in can be identical, also can be different.And, although in the present embodiment, show make the upper surface of cradle portion smooth, situation that the maintaining part of respectively popping one's head in arranges at grade, also can make the upper surface of cradle portion there is angle in each probe maintaining part.Particularly, in the time that probe bracket is installed on to body, be arranged at horizontal plane apart from the operator of oriented manipulation housing probe maintaining part farthest, relatively in face of probe maintaining part can be arranged on that with respect to the horizontal plane angled of tool is upper, make thus operator's operability improve.
< the second embodiment >
The probe bracket of present embodiment, also possesses base portion, support portion and cradle portion as basic formation, is same with the first embodiment.The probe bracket of present embodiment is the probe bracket that is suitable for notebook type diagnostic ultrasound equipment, the shape difference of base portion.The structure of support portion 3 and cradle portion 1 can be the structure identical with the first embodiment, therefore description thereof is omitted and diagram, below by with the first embodiment distinctive points centered by describe.
The base portion of the probe bracket of present embodiment as shown in figure 10.In Figure 10, (a), for see the axonometric chart of base portion from top, (b) is the figure that rear is seen from the side, (c) axonometric chart for seeing from bottom surface side.
As shown in the figure, the base portion 20 of the probe bracket of present embodiment, upper surface be formed with the formation connect mechanism of the bottom 3A engaging of support portion 3 linking part 20A, be fixed on the fixed part 20B of diagnostic ultrasound equipment.The height (apart from the distance of bottom surface 20D) of linking part 20A is higher than the height of fixed part 20B, and the differential of them is the rake 20C that linking part 20A is connected with fixed part 20B.And fixed part 20B has rectangle in the shape of cutting off obliquely with the boundary of rake 20C in the time that top is seen, along rectangular minor face, is formed with for screw hole fixing on body 22.Linking part 20A is formed with the connect mechanism same with the first embodiment shown in Fig. 5 (a).The connect mechanism of the base portion 2 shown in Fig. 5 (a) of this connect mechanism and the first embodiment is identical, is formed with 25,27 of hook 35,37 engagings that form on the 3A of the bottom of support portion 3.And, with the curved surface of support portion 3 accordingly, the limit in the outside of linking part 20A be have differential circular-arc.
The probe bracket of present embodiment is suitable for the diagnostic ultrasound equipment of notebook type.It is installed shown in for example Figure 11 (a)~(c).In Figure 11, (a) is that axonometric chart, (b) are that front view, (c) are upward view.
Notebook type diagnostic ultrasound equipment as shown in the figure, possess the body housing 60 of the required electronic unit of storage ultrasonic measuring, the demonstration housing 80 connecting rotationally in one end of body housing 60, there is the structure at the upper surface setting operation panel 71 of body housing 60.For connecting the receptacle portion (not shown) of probe, with respect to the operator in the face of display floater 81, the side of body housing 60 left and right or with the side of operator's opposite face opposition side on arrange.
Probe bracket 10 is installed on the side of avoiding the position that this receptacle portion is set of body housing 60.In illustrated embodiment, be arranged on the side of the end near connection demonstration housing 80 of body housing 60.Therefore,, by the fixed part 20B of the base portion of probe bracket 20, as shown in the upward view of Figure 11 (c), upwards fix with screw etc. at the back side of body housing 60 with the linking part 20A of rack body.On this linking part 20A, link the bottom 3A of support portion 3, thereby as shown in Figure 11 (a), can compare the position of Proximity operation panel 71 and be cradle portion 1 and the nonoverlapping position configuration cradle portion 1 of guidance panel 71.The probe bracket of present embodiment, there is especially the shape that fixed part 20B is combined obliquely with linking part 20A, the distance that therefore can shorten linking part 20A and give prominence to laterally from body housing 60 sides with support portion 3 and the cradle portion 1 of its link, can realize the compact structure of the workability of considering under narrow place.
About the probe bracket of present embodiment, when storage, when carrying, operability while checking be also same with the first embodiment, can operate well by convenience.
The probe bracket of present embodiment is also not limited to illustrated shape or structure and can carries out various changes.For example, in Figure 10 and Figure 11, illustrate and in base portion 20, be provided for fixed part 20B fixing on device body, by screw clamp fixing structure on the bottom surface of device for this fixed part 20B, but also can adopt: the tetragon part of fixed part 20B is extended, and the socket of the fixed part 20B that inserts this prolongation is arranged to device body, fixed part 20B is inserted to socket and fixing structure; At the end of fixed part 20B fixing and holding mechanism, the structure being fixed with clamping device clamping device body; Hook is set in the end of fixed part 20B and forms the multiple structures such as the structure that holding section that this dogging closes is fixed in the end of device body.
Above, the situation that probe bracket of the present invention is mainly fixed on to diagnostic ultrasound equipment body is illustrated, but from above-mentioned embodiment, probe bracket of the present invention forms by base portion with respect to the detachable cradle portion of base portion, change according to installation site by the shape to base portion, thereby not only can on diagnostic ultrasound equipment body, install, also can install in the arbitrary site in the storage place that comprises diagnostic ultrasound equipment, and can combine multiple base portion with respect to a cradle portion.
The principal character that probe bracket of the present invention can possess is mainly as follows.
Probe bracket possess mounting base and on this mounting base rack body removably, rack body possesses: the cradle portion with the probe maintaining part for receiving probe; With supporting bracket portion, the support portion that cradle portion is connected with mounting base.
The bottom that supporter has while installation on mounting base and the installed surface of mounting base is overlapping, links by this bottom and mounting base.And, supporter have from bottom to the shape of the linking part bending of cradle portion.Preferably, cradle portion and supporter are with respect to projection image's non-overlapping copies of the vertical direction of the plane identical with the bottom surface of mounting base.
Cradle portion has upper surface, lower surface, side, and probe maintaining part is the open hole, one end that connects lower surface from the upper surface of cradle portion, links at side and the supporter of cradle portion.And, the installed surface almost parallel of the upper surface of cradle portion and mounting base.
And, possess the goblet chimeric with probe maintaining part.Goblet be the open tubular of upper surface and lower surface and along cylinder be axially formed with gap, the mode that probe maintaining part is positioned at the end of the opening in hole with hypanthial gap keeps support goblet.
Cradle portion possesses multiple probe maintaining parts.One end of the opening of multiple probe maintaining parts is positioned at a side relative with the side of the fixed support body of cradle portion.
Mounting base possesses the installation portion for this mounting base is installed on other tectosome.Other tectosome is for example diagnostic ultrasound equipment body or the chassis that carries diagnostic ultrasound equipment.
One embodiment of diagnostic ultrasound equipment of the present invention possesses: the body housing of electronic circuit for storage ultrasonic measuring; Can be arranged on rotationally one end of above-mentioned body housing, possess the operation housing of guidance panel; Can be arranged on rotationally above-mentioned one end of above-mentioned body housing, and can by with the orthogonal axle of turning cylinder centered by the demonstration housing that possesses display floater installed rotatably, possess the pedestal installation portion in the region the movable range for above-mentioned diagnostic ultrasound equipment probe bracket being fixed on to the rotation except showing housing.Pedestal installation portion is for example arranged at the other end relative with above-mentioned one end of body housing.
Another embodiment of diagnostic ultrasound equipment of the present invention, possesses: receive ultrasonic measuring electronic circuit, possess the body housing of guidance panel face; Possess display floater, in this display floater mode relative with guidance panel face, the demonstration housing being rotatably mounted in one end of body housing, body housing possesses for by pedestal installation portion fixing above-mentioned diagnostic ultrasound equipment probe bracket.
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1: cradle portion; 2,20: base portion; 2A: base portion top; 3: support portion; 3A: bottom, support portion; 3B: upper end, support portion; 4: probe; 5: goblet; 10: probe bracket; 11: probe maintaining part; 11A: patent part; 20A: linking part; 20B: fixed part; 25,27: hook is used hole; 35,37: hook; 60: body housing; 70: operation housing; 71: guidance panel; 80: show housing; 81: display floater.