Abstract: An X-ray examination apparatus (1), includes a patient table (2) and an X-ray spotfilm device (4) which is reciprocatable in at least two spatial directions relative to the patient table (2), as well as sensors (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d) which are integrated in an operating grip (10) of the X-ray spotfilm device (4) and which serve to activate at least one servomotor (5,7) for the X-ray spotfilm device. In order to make a single operating grip (10) suffice for sliding the X-ray spotfilm device in at least four feasible of movement, the sensors are arranged in such a manner that when the operating grip is exposed to a force in an arbitrary one of the at least four feasible directions of movement, each time a different group (8a, 8b; 8c, 8d; 8a, 8c; 8b, 8d) of sensors (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d) is activated.

Abstract: An X-ray apparatus includes a hydraulic system for counterbalancing and for displacing an apparatus section; the hydraulic system includes; cylinder with two cylinder chambers whose volumes vary in the opposite sense upon displacement of the apparatus section, and which can be coupled to a hydraulic drive via two respective hydraulic lines. Reliable operation and simple construction are achieved in that the hydraulic drive includes a pump circuit with a flow line and a return line, a control device being provided for optionally blocking or connecting the flow line to one of the two hydraulic lines, the two hydraulic lines communicating with the return line via a valve device which is weighted so that the hydraulic line of higher pressure is still closed relative to the return line but the hydraulic line of lower pressure is open relative to the return line.