• Mobile C-arm

    Study

Mobile X-ray unit

The mobile C-arm X-ray unit is an internal design study from 2009 on the subject of “mobile X-ray units”. This was created with a few key data, detached from technically detailed specifications, in order not to influence the creativity of the design team in any way for the time being. All the more astonishing were the new ideas and approaches for new generations of mobile C-arm X-ray machines that emerged in the process. A few examples include the integrated brake pedals with luminescent visual feedback or the integral handle connection made of autoclavable plastics, which are helping to provide new design approaches in the medical technology of “tomorrow”.

Implementation

In the implementation phase of the ideas that emerged, there was no claim to develop a functioning design from today’s technical point of view, but rather to break away from it for the time being in order to perhaps once again completely reinvent the wheel. For us, the result itself is not a futuristic, off-the-wall construct, but primarily a formal-aesthetic design study with a few interesting new aspects and approaches for this typical area of medical technology, as we know it quite well, and the design was formally adapted to the XS ultrasound device in order to represent a separate product family within the design studies. Corporate Industrial Design (CID) is always an important task within the design brief for many of our customers and always our special expertise within medical technology.