Patent ID: 7148501
Filing Date: 2006-12-12
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
1. A storage phosphor reader apparatus, comprising: an outer frame assembly including a cassette handling assembly, located on the upper part of the outer frame assembly, for handling vertically oriented cassettes; an inner frame assembly; a first set of vibration isolators for mounting the inner frame assembly on the outer frame assembly, so as to minimize vibrations caused in the outer frame assembly from being transmitted to the inner frame assembly; a storage phosphor scanning assembly; a second set of vibration isolators for mounting the scanning assembly on the inner frame assembly, so as to minimize vibrations caused in the inner frame assembly frame from being transmitted to the scanning assembly; and a frame locker assembly for locking the scanning assembly to the outer frame assembly when a cassette is transferred between the cassette handling assembly and the scanning assembly and for unlocking the scanning assembly during scanning of a storage phosphor removed from the cassette, so that the first and second sets of vibration isolators isolate the scanning assembly during storage phosphor scanning.