X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Photographic detector support – Serial film or film pack changer
Patent
1993-02-16
1994-05-31
Church, Craig E.
X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
Photographic detector support
Serial film or film pack changer
378181, G03B 4202
Patent
active
053176197
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a film feeding mechanism for use during medical x-ray techniques, particularly angiography. Sheets of film are fed sequentially at high speed from a film magazine into a film exposure device, and then into a film receiving cassette, in a manner so as to reduce damage to the films, including the build-up and discharge of static charge on the films. In the film exposure device, a free-floating lower clamping assembly clamps each film against an upper clamping assembly from the center of the film progressively outward towards its leading and trailing ends, to eliminate wrinkling of the film. The upper clamping assembly is of thin construction so as to enable the locating of an object being x-rayed closely adjacent the x-ray film, to produce x-rays of exceptionally high resolution. Feed-in wheels and pinch rollers drivingly engage one of the exposed films after an exposure operation prior to the film being engaged by feed-out wheels and pinch rollers, so as to buckle or peel the exposed film away from the upper clamping assembly and thereby precluding sticking of the film to the assembly. Film jamming in the film exposure device is reduced by a sensing device for detecting film misfeeds, driving the feed-out wheels faster than the feed-in wheels, and by selectively deactivating a film feeding mechanism. An optical type indicia forming device, including an electronic display, produces readily readable white indicia on the films on a dark background. A film-receiving cassette, including a spirally arranged inner guide plate, receives and stores exposed films in a relatively small space for subsequent developing.
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Hellmick Mark
Johansson Leif A.
Weber Otto
Church Craig E.
Medrad Inc.
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