Abstract:
Various embodiments of a vacuum electronic device, a hybrid magnet for a vacuum electronic device and methods of making a hybrid magnet for a vacuum electronic device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a hybrid magnet for a vacuum electronic device includes a first magnet, a second magnet positioned in spaced-apart relation with the first magnet and defining a gap between the first magnet and the second magnet, and a non-magnetic spacer positioned in a portion of the gap between the first magnet and second magnet and connected to the first magnet and the second magnet.
Abstract:
An irradiation apparatus includes: a measurement device including a shield in which plural apertures are formed, and plural detectors configured to respectively detect plural charged particle beams respectively having passed through the plural apertures; a scanning mechanism configured to perform scanning of the plural beams and the measurement device relative to each other so that the plural beams respectively traverse edges of the plural apertures; and a controller configured to perform control of the scanning mechanism and the measurement device to obtain a characteristic of each beam. The controller is configured to perform the control such that in a period of the scanning, an energy, shielded by the shield, out of an energy of one beam increases with time, while an energy, shielded by the shield, out of an energy of another beam decreases with time.
Abstract:
The invention comprises a patient positioning method and apparatus used in conjunction with multi-axis charged particle or proton beam radiation therapy of cancerous tumors. The patient positioning system is used to translate the patient and/or rotate the patient into a zone where the proton beam can scan the tumor using a targeting system. The patient positioning system is optionally used in conjunction with systems used to constrain movement of the patient, such as semi-vertical, sitting, or laying positioning systems.
Abstract:
When an emission current is changed, a decrease in brightness of an electron beam is prevented. An electron gun includes a cathode that emits thermoelectrons, a Wehnelt electrode that focuses the thermoelectrons, a control electrode that extracts the thermoelectrons from a distal end of said cathode, an anode that accelerates the thermoelectrons and irradiates a powder with the thermoelectrons as an electron beam, and an optimum condition collection controller that changes at least one of a bias voltage to be applied to the Wehnelt electrode and a control electrode voltage to be applied to the control electrode, and decides a combination of the bias voltage and the control electrode voltage at which the brightness of the electron beam reaches a peak.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a method of controlling an electron gun without causing decreases in brightness of the electron beam if a current-limiting aperture cannot be used. The electron gun (10) has a cathode (11), a Wehnelt electrode (12), a control electrode (13), an anode (14), and a controller (22). The Wehnelt electrode (12) has a first opening (12c) in which the tip of the cathode is inserted, and focuses thermal electrons emitted from the tip of the cathode (11). The thermal electrons emitted from the tip of the cathode (11) are caused to pass into a second opening (13c) by the control electrode (13). The anode (14) accelerates the thermal electrons emitted from the cathode (11) such that the thermal electrons passed through the second opening (13c) pass through a third opening (14b) and impinge as an electron beam (B1) on a powdered sample (8). The controller (22) sets the bias voltage and the control voltage based on combination conditions of the bias voltage and control voltage to maintain the brightness of the beam constant.
Abstract:
This invention is advantageous in irradiating pallets which cannot be irradiated by conventional techniques, even by x-rays, throughout their complete volumes. In one embodiment, a scan horn scans electron beamlets through a sweep angle. A dipole bends the electron beamlets to focus the electron beamlets at the pallet center. After being bent, the beam becomes converted to x-rays which are irradiated through the pallet to the pallet center. During this irradiation, the pallet is moved in a direction substantially perpendicular to the irradiation. In this way, a quarter of the pallet is irradiated. When the quadrant radiation is completed, the radiation is interrupted and the pallet is rotated 90° to have a second side of the pallet face the radiation. The operation is sequentially repeated for each of the pallet sides. The four (4) irradiated quadrants define the pallet's complete cross-sectional area.
Abstract:
A multiple electrode field electron emission device is formed on an insulating layer disposed on a surface of an insulated flat substrate and has a cathode with multiple of emission projections each having a projection tip that overhangs the insulating layer. The device further includes an anode for collecting electrons ejected from the cathode emission projections formed on the surface of the substrate. Control electrodes, having one of several alternate configurations, are formed between the cathode and the anode. The device is fabricated using over-etching and directional particulate deposition techniques.
Abstract:
A grid gates a stream of ions when a D.C. potential is applied between two sets of interdigitated wires included in the grid to produce a D.C. field. The improved grid disclosed herein contains the two sets of interdigitated wires in a single plane so that the D.C. field is precisely normal to the ion current flow direction to prevent a residual ion current flow when the grid provides the gating effect.
Abstract:
A multi-gap inductor core includes magnetic lamination sheets made of magnetic core material arranged in a stack, and fixing layers made of a fixing material. Each fixing layer is arranged between a corresponding pair of adjacent magnetic lamination sheets. Each fixing layer also includes an embedded mechanical spacer that defines a gap having a predetermined thickness between a corresponding pair of adjacent magnetic lamination sheets.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a method of controlling an electron gun without causing decreases in brightness of the electron beam if a current-limiting aperture cannot be used. The electron gun (10) has a cathode (11), a Wehnelt electrode (12), a control electrode (13), an anode (14), and a controller (22). The Wehnelt electrode (12) has a first opening (12c) in which the tip of the cathode is inserted, and focuses thermal electrons emitted from the tip of the cathode (11). The thermal electrons emitted from the tip of the cathode (11) are caused to pass into a second opening (13c) by the control electrode (13). The anode (14) accelerates the thermal electrons emitted from the cathode (11) such that the thermal electrons passed through the second opening (13c) pass through a third opening (14b) and impinge as an electron beam (B1) on a powdered sample (8). The controller (22) sets the bias voltage and the control voltage based on combination conditions of the bias voltage and control voltage to maintain the brightness of the beam constant.