Patents Assigned to GE Medical Systems
  • Patent number: 9204860
    Abstract: An apparatus for automatically controlling a state of operation of an ultrasound detecting system is provided. The apparatus comprises a first sensor disposed in a probe of the ultrasound detecting system and connected to a device main body, wherein the first sensor is configured to detect if the probe is being operated, and a control unit configured to control the state of operation of the ultrasound detecting system based on the detecting results of the first sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Kai Ji, Linhai Xue
  • Patent number: 9204846
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention discloses a LED lamp as well as a X-Ray device and a collimator comprising the LED lamp. The LED lamp comprises a single LED chip serving as the light-emitting member of the LED lamp for emitting light beams; and a convex lens mounted in front of the LED chip for converging the light beams emitted from the LED chip. Embodiments of the invention can save power, reduce cost, and facilitate mass production and assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Wenwen Xiu, Wen Gao, Yuqing Li
  • Patent number: 9200750
    Abstract: A wall stand comprising a column, a detector box, a support arm configured to support the detector box, a rotary shaft mounted on the support arm, a rotary bracket attached to the detector box, wherein the rotary bracket is rotatable around the rotary shaft, and a drive mechanism configured to move the detector box on a plane supported by the rotary bracket in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Xiumin Lui, Bin Ye, Yannan Huang
  • Patent number: 9188665
    Abstract: A medical image display apparatus for displaying medical images of a biological tissue includes a physical quantity calculator that calculates a first physical quantity related to elasticity of the biological tissue, and a display image control unit that displays a first elastic image having a display form corresponding to the first physical quantity calculated by the physical quantity calculator and a second elastic image having a display form corresponding to a second physical quantity related to elasticity of the biological tissue calculated by other another medical image display apparatus as the medical images. The display image control unit displays images in which portions having a same elasticity in the biological tissue in a same display form as the first and second elastic images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Shunichiro Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20150320386
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device is provided. The ultrasonic diagnostic device includes an ultrasonic probe configured to acquire an echo signal by transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves to and from a test object, a probe identification part configured to identify information about a position and orientation of the ultrasonic probe, a biopsy needle identification part configured to identify information about a position and orientation of a biopsy needle to be inserted into the test object, and a control part which controls at least one of two processes based on positional relations between the ultrasonic probe and the biopsy needle, the positional relations identified by the information from the probe identification part and the information from the biopsy needle identification part, wherein one of the two processes is the transmission and reception of the ultrasonic waves, and the other of the two processes is data processing based on the echo signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Lei Liu
  • Patent number: 9182377
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer drive circuit for driving an ultrasonic transducer by outputting pulses including a positive pulse and a negative pulse to an output line is provided. The ultrasonic transducer includes a positive voltage supply circuit, a negative voltage supply circuit, a current-inflow-type ground clamp circuit configured to operate when voltage in the output line is positive voltage, and a current-outflow-type ground clamp circuit configured to operate when voltage in the output line is negative voltage, wherein the current-inflow-type ground clamp circuit is configured to enter an operation state at a time of generating the negative pulse in a state where the voltage in the output line is positive voltage, and the current-outflow-type ground clamp circuit is configured to enter an operation state at a time of generating the positive pulse in a state where the voltage in the output line is negative voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Shinichi Amemiya
  • Patent number: 9179532
    Abstract: A cross arm for X-ray equipment. The cross arm comprises a guide on the cross arm, a tube on the guide, and a linkage device, wherein the tube is configured to move along the guide when the cross arm rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Zhenggang Ling, Zhengjun Wang, Yicheng Wang, Yong Xu
  • Patent number: 9173278
    Abstract: A gravity balance device for a cross arm of X-ray equipment, the gravity balance device is mounted within the cross arm for maintaining gravity balance of the cross arm, the gravity balance device comprises a counter weight module, configured to move along in a direction opposite to a moving direction of a tube of the X-ray equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Zhenggang Ling, Yicheng Wang, Zhengjun Wang
  • Publication number: 20150272427
    Abstract: A display device configured to display an endoscopic image obtained by an endoscope for observing an object is provided. The display device includes a projecting unit configured to project coordinate axes set to the object onto the endoscopic image, and a display unit configured to display thereon the endoscopic image and the coordinate axes projected onto the endoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicants: SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Hasnine Haque, Shigeyuki Naka, Shigehiro Morikawa, Tohru Tani
  • Patent number: 9146288
    Abstract: A method for implementing a switching between a body coil and a head coil in a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging system comprising the body coil, the head coil and a power amplifier component, wherein the power amplifier component comprises sets of power amplifiers, each set of power amplifiers comprising channels of power amplifiers combined by a Wilkinson circuit, a combiner configured to combine signals from the sets of power amplifiers and to connect the sets of power amplifiers to the body coil, a first switching device comprising a first terminal configured to be grounded, a second switching device connected in series in a resistor branch of the Wilkinson circuit, and a ΒΌ wavelength transformation transmission line located between the second switching device and the head coil, the method comprising connecting the power amplifier component to the body coil or the head coil by setting states of both switching devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Haoyang Xing, Yu Liu, Anmou Liao, Kai Wang, Chenxing Zhao, Qibin Peng
  • Patent number: 9141521
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of automatic testing of a graphical user interface in the technical field of software testing. Embodiments of the invention provide a method for automatically generating a test script for a graphical user interface. This method comprises defining information of each component in a tested graphical user interface, writing a test case file, and generating a file of combined values of components, and adding an operation type to each component in each file of combined values. The method further comprises determining a sequence of operations in each of the files of combined values, and generating a test script. This method reduces the tester's workload when manually programming test scripts and facilitates maintenance of test scripts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Yun Zhang, Jing Luo, Yuanji Wang
  • Publication number: 20150247911
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance apparatus for performing a scan for generating a first magnetic resonance signal from an imaged part including a moving part is provided. The magnetic resonance apparatus includes a coil having a plurality of channels configured to receive the first magnetic resonance signal, a channel selecting unit configured to select a first channel disposed near an end of the moving part from the plurality of channels, and a generating unit configured to generate a biological signal including motion information indicating a movement of the imaged part in the scan, based on the first magnetic resonance signal received by the first channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Yuji Iwadate
  • Publication number: 20150208997
    Abstract: Nuclear medicine (NM) imaging system including first and second NM cameras having camera surfaces that are configured to face each other while imaging patient tissue therebetween. The NM imaging system also includes an immobilization plate that is configured to be positioned between the first and second NM cameras and extend parallel to the camera surface of the first NM camera. The immobilization plate is movable to and from the camera surface of the first NM camera to compress the patient tissue, and the second NM camera is movable to and from the immobilization plate. The second NM camera is oriented with respect to a roll axis that extends parallel to the immobilization plate. The second NM camera is rotatable about the roll axis while the immobilization plate and the first NM camera have fixed positions with respect to each other with the patient tissue therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: GE Medical Systems Israel, Ltd. (IL)
    Inventors: Riyad Mahameed, Michael Kogan, Raed Khamaisi
  • Patent number: 9091749
    Abstract: A reception circuit disposed within an ultrasound probe is provided. The reception circuit includes, at least one amplifying unit configured to amplify echo signals received by ultrasound transducers, and at least one delay unit connected to the amplifying unit and including a first circuit and a second circuit each configured to apply a delay time to an output from the amplifying unit, wherein the first and second circuits each have a plurality of capacitor banks. Each capacitor bank includes two or more capacitors each configured to write therein a signal amplified by the amplifying unit, wherein the two or more capacitors are different from one another in capacitance, write switches configured to write an output current into the first and second capacitors of the two or more capacitors, and read switches configured to read the output written into the first and second capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventor: Shinichi Amemiya
  • Patent number: 9089302
    Abstract: A locking mechanism for probe connector that is connected to a shaft of the probe connector, includes a door and a drive assembly for releasing or locking the probe connector by opening and closing of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventor: Zhensong Zhao
  • Patent number: 9081082
    Abstract: A system for wireless detector application in a medical system is provided. The system includes at least three host wire adapters configured to receive beacon messages broadcast periodically by a wireless detector, and obtain information about the wireless detector based on the received beacon messages. The system further includes a controller configured to receive information about the wireless detector from the at least three host wire adapters, and determine a position of the wireless detector based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Xinyu Zhang, Bin Ye
  • Patent number: 9072441
    Abstract: An imaging system comprises a plurality of imaging detectors for acquiring imaging data. The plurality of imaging detectors is configurable to be arranged proximate to an anatomy of interest within a patient. Each of the plurality of imaging detectors has a field of view (FOV) and at least a portion of the plurality of imaging detectors image the anatomy of interest within the respective FOV. A processor receives the imaging data and processes the imaging data to form a multi-dimensional dataset having at least three dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Israel, LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Shai, Yaron Hefetz, Ira Micah Blevis
  • Publication number: 20150182199
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe that performs ultrasound transmission/reception in Doppler mode and ultrasound transmission/reception in other mode than Doppler mode; and a Doppler processing unit that performs quadrature detection on an echo signal generated from the ultrasound transmission/reception for Doppler mode and then generates a Doppler spectrum signal. The Doppler processing unit includes a signal estimation unit that performs an extrapolation process to estimate missing part of the Doppler spectrum signal resulting from the ultrasound transmission/reception for other mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventor: Masafumi Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 9071228
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of RF circuits, and in particular, to a balun. In an embodiment of the present invention, a balun is provided which comprises at least two coaxial cables, each of which is wound into at least one loop, and the inner and outer conductors of one end of all coaxial cables are connected respectively to each other and the inner and outer conductors of the other end are also connected to each other. The novel balun according to the embodiments of the present invention has a small size but a large power capacity and low cost, and can be used in a magnetic field environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Yu Liu, Qibin Peng, Anmou Liao, Haoyang Xing, Chenxing Zhao, Hai Huang
  • Publication number: 20150173717
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device is provided. The device includes a transmission control unit configured to generate a first ultrasonic wave and a second ultrasonic wave for detecting movement of a physical object in a biological tissue, wherein values of transmission parameters of repetitively transmitted first ultrasonic waves that are relevant to movement of the physical object are different from one another. The device further includes a decision unit configured to determine presence or absence of movement of the physical object, and a display image control unit configured to generate an image according to the value of the transmission parameter of the first ultrasonic wave in a case where the decision unit decides that movement is present, or a predetermined value in a case where the decision unit decides that movement is absent and the value of the transmission parameter of first ultrasonic wave has reached the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Shunichiro Tanigawa