Patent ID: 9668708
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. An X-ray imaging apparatus, comprising: a cart; a supporting post that is disposed on the cart; an arm that is movable up and down along the supporting post; an X-ray tube that is disposed on the arm; an X-ray detector that detects an X-ray that is irradiated from the X-ray tube and passes through a subject; and a storage part for the X-ray detector, the X-ray imaging apparatus comprising: a fixing mechanism that fixes the arm at a fixing position that is a position where the arm should be arranged when moving the cart and lower than a height position where an X-ray image is taken; a storage detector that detects that the X-ray detector has been taken out of the storage part; and an up and down control part that when the storage detector detects that the X-ray detector has been taken out of the storage part, releases the arm from being fixed by the fixing mechanism.