Patent 7566169 was granted and assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft on July, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A transportable flat X-ray detector includes a housing with a grip and an active surface with a scintillator layer and semiconductor layer including a multiplicity of pixel elements arranged in a matrix. Further, gripping elements such as gripping holes, depressions, pits or gripping troughs are provided in the housing at the edge of the flat X-ray detector, outside the active surface.