Plural Chambers Or Three Or More Electrodes Patents (Class 250/385.1)
  • Patent number: 11899233
    Abstract: The invention provides a light generating system (1000), comprising a plurality of light sources (10), an elongated luminescent body (100), and a body holder structure (2000), wherein: the plurality of light sources (10) are configured to provide light source light (11), wherein the light sources (10) are solid state light sources, wherein the plurality of light sources (10) are configured in a light source array (15); the elongated luminescent body (100) has a length (L) and a width (W), wherein the elongated luminescent body (100) comprises luminescent material (120) configured to convert at least part of light source light (11) into luminescent material light (8), wherein the elongated luminescent body (100) and the light source array (15) are configured parallel; the body holder structure (2000) comprises an elongated slit (205) for hosting the elongated luminescent body (100), wherein the elongated slit (205) has a cavity wall (1205) defining the elongated slit (205) and a slit opening (1206), wherein
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Petrus Hendrikus Antonis, Ludovicus Johannes Lambertus Haenen, Peter Vanpoucke, Barry Mos, Christoph Gerard August Hoelen, Dominique Maria Bruls, Simon Eme Kadijk, Li Yun
  • Patent number: 11719834
    Abstract: The invention relates to a detecting unit for detecting ionizing radiation. The device comprises a converter unit for the amplification of ionizing radiation and a read-out unit, wherein the converter unit comprises a converter and a gas-electron multiplier, wherein said converter comprises a substrate with an ionizing radiation-receiving major surface and an electron-emitting major surface and a stack of accelerator plates in contact with the electron-emitting major side, wherein said stack comprises a plurality of perforated accelerator plates wherein the perforations of the perforated accelerator plates are aligned to form a matrix of blind holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: BEAMOCULAR AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Maad, Mauritz Andersson
  • Patent number: 11326925
    Abstract: Disclosed is a probe unit for a capacitive and/or conductive apparatus for determining and/or monitoring of at least one process variable of a medium in a containment, comprising a rod-shaped probe body, which is embodied in the form of a hollow body, especially with a cylindrical wall, and which has an internal volume, at least one ring-shaped electrode placeable, especially releasably, around the wall of the probe body, and at least one securement unit, which is embodied to secure the at least one electrode, especially releasably, at a predeterminable position on the probe body. Further disclosed is an apparatus for capacitive and/or conductive determining and/or monitoring of at least one process variable of a medium in a containment and having a probe unit of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO. KG
    Inventors: Jeannette Liniger, Robert Schmidt, Franco Ferraro, Gerd Bechtel, Willy Huwyler
  • Patent number: 11255986
    Abstract: A radiation detector to monitor the neutron flux of a nuclear reactor or other high-radiation environment, that can withstand the high temperatures and radiation fields of such environment, is provided. A small dielectric substrate with a low neutron-activation cross section is provided. The substrate is coated with a neutron conversion material, such as uranium oxide or thorium oxide. One or more substrates form a micro-sized detection cavity that is filled with a detection gas. A voltage is provided across anode and cathode wires in the detection cavity. A neutron absorbed in the conversion material may release reaction products into the gas, causing ionization of the gas which then produces a current or voltage signal. The small detector volume minimizes energy deposition into the detection gas by competing particles such as gamma rays, fast electrons, and beta particles, and therefore minimizes false counts while retaining large signals from neutron interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventor: Douglas S. McGregor
  • Patent number: 11171255
    Abstract: A device for detecting a chemical species including a Geiger mode avalanche photodiode, which comprises a body of semiconductor material delimited by a front surface. The semiconductor body includes: a cathode region having a first type of conductivity, which forms the front surface; and an anode region having a second type of conductivity, which extends within the cathode region starting from the front surface. The detection device further includes: a dielectric region, which extends on the front surface; and a sensitive region, which is arranged on top of the dielectric region and electrically coupled to the anode region and has a resistance that depends upon the concentration of the chemical species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Massimo Cataldo Mazzillo, Giovanni Condorelli, Lucio Renna
  • Patent number: 11145176
    Abstract: A photoelectric smoke detector includes an optics cover that provides a smoke chamber that has a smoke chamber opening, a blocking component is mounted to the optics cover. An inner cover provides a first opening and a second opening. The first opening receives a portion of the blocking component and the second opening is aligned with the smoke chamber opening. A spoiler is received against the inner cover. The spoiler includes at least one of: a U-shaped fin arrangement and a Y-shaped fin arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis Gadonniex, Vipul Patel
  • Patent number: 11125895
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a detection element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an organic conversion layer, and a third electrode. The organic conversion layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and is configured to convert energy of a radiant ray into a charge. The third electrode is provided inside the organic conversion layer. Bias is applied to the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kohei Nakayama, Fumihiko Aiga, Go Kawata, Isao Takasu, Yuko Nomura, Satomi Taguchi, Hyangmi Jung, Atsushi Wada, Rei Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11074796
    Abstract: A photoelectric smoke detector, includes an optics cover that provides a smoke chamber that has a smoke chamber opening, a CO detector is mounted to the optics cover. An inner cover provides a first opening and a second opening. The first opening receives a portion of the CO detector and the second opening is aligned with the smoke chamber opening. A spoiler includes a U-shaped fin arrangement and is received against the inner cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis Michael Gadonniex, Vipul Patel, Paul Schatz
  • Patent number: 11052266
    Abstract: Apparatus for measuring radiation beam energy output from a radiation beam source, comprising a first beam energy sensor at a first distance from the radiation beam source along the radiation beam axis; a second beam energy sensor located at a second distance from the radiation beam source along the radiation beam axis; and an energy absorbing layer, for example a layer that removes a part of the low energy content of the beam or a layer that absorbs at least 1% of the beam energy, located between the first and second sensors, and positioned such that radiation passing through the first sensor also passes through the energy absorbing layer before entering the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Elekta Limited
    Inventors: David Anthony Roberts, Janusz Harasimowicz, Peter Doherty, Mark Strangeman
  • Patent number: 10952693
    Abstract: A method for mitigating parallax for component reels being x-ray inspected, containing an x-ray inspection system and a plurality of reels circularly arranged in a conical field of view of an x-ray source of the x-ray inspection system, wherein a reels' inner edge is disposed higher than a reels' outer edge, wherein a plane of a reel is substantially parallel to a ray distances from the x-ray source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Creative Electron, Inc.
    Inventors: Guilherme Cardoso, Griffin Lemaster
  • Patent number: 10952331
    Abstract: A wire soldered structure includes a substrate including a main body, a first conducting layer disposed on the main body, and a through hole extending through the main body and the first conducting layer; a wire including a soldered portion that is disposed on the first conducting layer and that is adjacent to the through hole; and a solder disposed in the through hole; wherein the soldered portion of the wire is soldered to the first conducting layer of the substrate via the solder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ALTEK BIOTECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fang-Mentg Kuo, Te-Yu Chung, Chao-Yu Chou
  • Patent number: 10921268
    Abstract: Various methods and devices are provided for searching the optimum sample condition of a sample for cryogenic electron microscopy. Multiple samples with different sample conditions may be screened using a sample inspection device. The sample inspection device includes at least a chamber formed between a top electron transparent layer and a bottom electron transparent layer for holding the sample. Multiple pillars are arranged within the chamber. The sample inspection device includes a window covering at least one of the multiple pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: FEI Company
    Inventors: Bas Hendriksen, Maarten Kuijper, Luigi Mele, Pleun Dona, Erum Raja, Atieh Aminian
  • Patent number: 10809173
    Abstract: Device for optically detecting smoke and implementing thereof. Apparatus and methods for detecting the presence of smoke in a small, long-lasting smoke detector are disclosed. Specifically, the present disclosure shows how to build a very compact housing around the smoke detector while keeping the reflections from the housing structure to a very low value while satisfying all the other peripheral needs of fast response to smoke and preventing ambient light. This allows very small measurements of light scattering of the smoke particles to be reliable in a device resistant to the negative effects of dust. In particular, geometrical optical elements, e.g., cap and optical defection elements, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Shrenik Deliwala
  • Patent number: 10605932
    Abstract: Disclosed is a directional gamma ray or neutron detector system that locates a radioactive source both horizontally and vertically. In some embodiments, the system comprises four “side” detectors arrayed around a detector axis, and an orthogonal “front” detector mounted frontward of the side detectors. Embodiments can calculate the azimuthal angle of the source based on the detection rates of the side detectors, while the polar angle of the source may be calculated from the front detector rate using a predetermined angular correlation function, thereby localizing the source from a single data set without iterative rotations. In applications such as hand-held survey meters, walk-through portals, vehicle cargo inspection stations, and mobile area scanners, embodiments enable rapid detection and precise localization of clandestine nuclear and radiological weapons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Inventor: David Edward Newman
  • Patent number: 10578535
    Abstract: A device for determining the density of volumes of material to be imaged is provided, the device comprising a gas detector having first and second chambers separated by a micro-screen, making it possible to detect a stream of ionising particles, to calculate the path of each ionising particle and the stream of ionising particles passing through the first chamber, and comprising computing means for converting the calculations of paths and streams into information on the volume density of the material to be imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE D'AIX—MARSEILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE NICE—SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, UNIVERSITE D'AVIGNON ET DES PAYS DE VAUCLUSE
    Inventors: Ignacio Lazaro Roche, Pierre Elie Marie Salin, Stéphane Gaffet, Thomas Serre, Jean-Baptiste Decitre, Fanny Catherine Hivert
  • Patent number: 10473795
    Abstract: A large-area X-ray gas detector includes a housing having an inner cavity and a ray entrance communicated with the inner cavity, a thin entrance window and a signal collection module. The inner cavity is filled with a working gas which is a non-electronegativity gas sensitive to the X-ray. The entrance window is hermetically connected to the ray entrance such that the X-ray enters into the inner cavity. The signal collection module comprises an anode wire electrode layer and a cathode electrode layer arranged parallel with each other in the inner cavity, in which the anode wire electrode layer has an anode wire for accessing to a high voltage, and the cathode electrode layer is grounded. The anode wire electrode layer collects electrons generated by the working gas under an action of the X-ray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yongqiang Wang, Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Lifeng Sun, Nan Bai, Xingliang Zhai
  • Patent number: 10466372
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an X-ray beam intensity monitoring device and an X-ray inspection system. The X-ray beam intensity monitoring device comprises an intensity detecting module and a data processing module, wherein the intensity detecting module is adopted to be irradiated by the X-ray beam and send a detecting signal, the data processing module is coupled with the intensity detecting module to receive the detecting signal and output an X-ray beam intensity monitoring signal, wherein the X-ray beam intensity monitoring signal includes a dose monitoring signal for the X-ray beam and a brightness correction signal for correcting signal values of the X-ray beam. The X-ray beam intensity monitoring device can simultaneously perform dose monitoring and brightness monitoring, thereby improving the service efficiency of the X-ray beam intensity monitoring device. Moreover, the monitoring result of the X-ray beam intensity can be more accurate and reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kejun Kang, Shuwei Li, Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Yulan Li, Ziran Zhao, Yinong Liu, Yaohong Liu, Weibin Zhu, Xiaolin Zhao, Huishao He
  • Patent number: 10408953
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a radiation detector includes a metal member, a capacitor, and a first charge-sensitive amplifier. The metal member includes a first portion and a second portion. The capacitor is electrically connected to the second portion. The first charge-sensitive amplifier is electrically connected to the first portion. The first charge-sensitive amplifier outputs a signal corresponding to ?-rays incident on the metal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Rei Hasegawa, Kohei Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10356314
    Abstract: An image sensor provided with an imaging unit including a plurality of photoelectric converters, the image sensor comprises: an input unit to which image data is input from outside of the image sensor; an image processor that applies image processing to image data obtained from the imaging unit and to the image data input from the input unit; and an output unit for outputting, to the outside, image data obtained through the image processing by the image processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Shigeru Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10229766
    Abstract: The invention discloses a radiation field control device and radiotherapy equipment. Two or more different-sized light limiting barrels are directly machined on a light limiting barrel support, or two or more light limiting barrel mounting portions are arranged on the light limiting barrel support, then the two or more light limiting barrels are respectively mounted in the light limiting barrel mounting portions in a one-to-one correspondence manner, any one of the light limiting barrels can move to a working position through a light limiting barrel switching device, in this case, when the light limiting barrel having suitable size is required, the unsuitable light limiting barrel does not need to be detached, and the required light limiting barrel can be used conveniently and quickly by directly controlling the light limiting barrel switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Suzhou Linatech Medical Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jonathan Yi Yao
  • Patent number: 10175365
    Abstract: A radiation detection element includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, each pixel electrodes including a first electrode placed on the first surface of an insulating member and having an opening portion and a second electrode placed at the opening portion of the first electrode. The plurality of pixel electrodes is arrayed in the row direction and the column direction. The pitch of the pixel electrodes in the row direction and the column direction is 380 ?m or less. An area ratio between the first electrode and the second electrode falls within the range of 14.5:1 to 154.6:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Motomura, Kohei Ota, Toru Tanimori, Atsushi Takada, Taito Takemura
  • Patent number: 10024986
    Abstract: The invention relates to a neutron detector unit for neutrons, in particular thermal and cold neutrons, comprising a detector housing (7, 17, 27), cathode elements and a plurality of anode elements (5, 15, 25), wherein in order to form a volume detector unit the anode elements (5, 15, 25) and the cathode elements enable a three-dimensional spatial resolution for conversion events, characterized by a converter gas in the detector housing (7, 17, 27). According to the invention, in a neutron detector arrangement which includes at least one neutron detector unit the neutron detector unit (3, 13, 23) or at least one of the neutron detector units (3, 13, 23) is oriented in such a way that at least some of the anode elements (5, 15, 25) of the at least one neutron detector unit (3, 13, 23) extend at least predominantly in a longitudinal orientation parallel or almost parallel to the direction of travel of the neutrons (4) to be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, CDT Cascade Detector Technologies GmbH, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg
    Inventors: Peter Lennert, Martin Klein, Christian J. Schmidt, Werner Schweika
  • Patent number: 9964651
    Abstract: An ultra-thin radiation detector includes a radiation detector gas chamber having at least one ultra-thin chamber window and an ultra-thin first substrate contained within the gas chamber. The detector further includes a second substrate generally parallel to and coupled to the first substrate and defining a gas gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The detector further includes a discharge gas between the substrates and contained within the gas chamber, where the discharge gas is free to circulate within the gas chamber and between the first and second substrates at a given gas pressure. The detector further includes a first electrode coupled to one of the substrates and a second electrode electrically coupled to the first electrode. The detector further includes a first discharge event detector coupled to at least one of the electrodes for detecting a gas discharge counting event in the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Integrated Sensors, LLC
    Inventor: Peter S. Friedman
  • Patent number: 9921184
    Abstract: Sodium-cesium detection systems and methods for the simultaneous detection of both sodium (Na) and cesium (Cs) in gas are provided. The detection systems include two non-identical ionization chambers each having an anode and a cathode that ionize Na and Cs in gas. Each ionization chamber generates a current proportional to the Na and Cs concentration and based on the current, Na concentration and Cs concentration in the gas is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: TerraPower, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Alan Corbin, David Nash, Christopher M. Regan, Shane Schweiger, Randy Thompson, Jacob Wilcox
  • Patent number: 9915737
    Abstract: A nuclear medicine (NM) multi-head imaging system is provided that includes a gantry defining a bore configured to accept an object to be imaged. The imaging system includes a plurality of detector units coupled to the gantry, with each of the detector units having a respective detector field-of-view (FOV). Each of the detector units is configured to rotate about a respective unit axis, with the plurality of detector units including at least a first and a second detector unit. The imaging system also includes at least one processor configured to execute programmed instructions stored in memory, wherein the at least one processor, when executing the programmed instructions, rotates the first and second detector units as the first and second detector units acquire persistence image data; and generates at least one persistence image based on the persistence image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yariv Grobshtein, Jean-Paul Bouhnik, Gil Kovalski, Shiran Golan
  • Patent number: 9817138
    Abstract: Gas-filled neutron detectors, an imaging system and an array of such detectors are provided. Surfaces or surface portions incorporated into the gas-filled neutron detectors are coated with and/or composed of at least partially, neutron reactive material. The surfaces may be flat or curved, fins or plates, foils, thin sheets, porous or filamentary material, or semi-solid material or aerogel. The incorporation of the extended surfaces coated with or composed of neutron reactive material increases the neutron detection efficiency of the gas-filled detectors. The surfaces can be made of conductive, semiconductive, semi-insulating, or insulative materials. The surfaces are arranged such that they do not detrimentally detract from the main function of a gas-filled detector with particular attention to gas-filled proportional detectors. The surfaces may be arranged in the detectors to allow for modular construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventor: Douglas S. McGregor
  • Patent number: 9638609
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a sample gas includes a gas dosing part, a first pressure gauge for measuring a pressure of a sample gas dosed through the gas dosing part, a plurality of flow lines positioned between the gas dosing part and a gas analyzer that can be opened or closed according to the pressure measured by the first pressure gauge, a plurality of control valves respectively formed in the plurality of flow lines and controlling the plurality of flow lines to be opened or closed, a bypass line formed on at least one of the plurality of flow lines and exhausting some of the sample gas flowing along the flow lines, and a controller for selecting one of the plurality of flow lines according to the pressure measured by the first pressure gauge and controlling the control valves formed in the selected flow line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Cheol Jeong, Kyung-Hwan Jeong, Jong-Soo Kim, Pil-Kwon Jun
  • Patent number: 9606248
    Abstract: A neutron detector includes an anode and a cathode. The cathode circumscribes the anode and has a plurality of planar segments facing the anode. In one embodiment, the neutron detector is part of an array of neutron detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Dan Jay McCormick, Frederick L. Glesius, Thomas Robert Anderson, Nathan Herbert Johnson
  • Patent number: 9551795
    Abstract: A position-sensitive ionizing-radiation counting detector includes a radiation detector gas chamber having at least one ultra-thin chamber window and an ultra-thin first substrate contained within the gas chamber. The detector further includes a second substrate generally parallel to and coupled to the first substrate and defining a gas gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The detector further includes a discharge gas between the substrates and contained within the gas chamber, where the discharge gas is free to circulate within the gas chamber and between the first and second substrates at a given gas pressure. The detector further includes a first electrode coupled to one of the substrates and a second electrode electrically coupled to the first electrode. The detector further includes a first discharge event detector coupled to at least one of the electrodes for detecting a gas discharge counting event in the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Integrated Sensors, LLC
    Inventor: Peter S. Friedman
  • Patent number: 9455483
    Abstract: A gamma densitometer window comprises a plate of non-metallic, preferably gamma transparent, material. The window further comprises a metallic frame member fitted around the outer edge of the plate and adapted to pre-load the plate with a compressive stress that is sufficiently high such that the sum of the compressive stress, tensile stress and shear stress components generated in the plate under high-pressure conditions is always compressive. The window is fabricated by shrink fitting the metallic frame member around the outer edge of the plate at a shrink-fit temperature such that the metallic frame member applies a compressive stress to the plate at any temperature below the shrink-fit temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rolf Rustad, Paal Bratland, Jean-Francois Noel
  • Patent number: 9414796
    Abstract: An x-ray recording system is disclosed for x-ray imaging of an object under examination by way of direct measurement of an interference pattern, especially for differential, real-time capable phase-contrast imaging. In at least one embodiment, the system includes with at least one x-ray emitter for creating quasi-coherent x-ray radiation; an x-ray image detector, including a detector layer and detector pixels arranged in a matrix; and a diffraction or phase grating, disposed between the object under examination and the x-ray image detector, configured to create an interference pattern, directly detectable in the nth Talbot order by an x-ray image detector with a very high achievable local resolution, which amounts to at least half the wavelength of the interference pattern in accordance with the Nyquist theory arising in the nth Talbot order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Philipp Bernhardt, Martin Spahn
  • Patent number: 9378935
    Abstract: A Geiger-Muller counter tube includes a cylindrical enclosing tube, an anode electrode, a cylindrical cathode electrode, an inert gas, and a quenching gas. The cylindrical enclosing tube has a sealed space. The anode electrode is disposed inside the space and formed in a rod shape. The cylindrical cathode electrode surrounds a peripheral area of the anode electrode inside the space to have an opening. The inert gas and the quenching gas are sealed inside the space. At least one of the anode electrode and the cathode electrode includes a plurality of electrodes inside the enclosing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takeuchi, Kunio Hamaguchi, Kuichi Kubo, Kozo Ono, Noritoshi Kimura, Takaharu Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9261607
    Abstract: A radiation detector is formed from a plasma panel that includes a front substrate, and a back substrate that forms a generally parallel gap with the front substrate. X (column) and Y (row) electrodes are coupled by gas discharge events to define one or more pixels. Impedances are coupled to the X and Y electrodes, and a power supply is coupled to one or both types of electrodes. Discharge event detectors are coupled to the impedances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: INTEGRATED SENSORS, LLC
    Inventors: Peter S. Friedman, Ray A. Stoller
  • Patent number: 9224805
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices with guard rings are described. The semiconductor devices may be, e.g., transistors and diodes designed for high-voltage applications. A guard ring is a floating electrode formed of electrically conducting material above a semiconductor material layer. A portion of an insulating layer is between at least a portion of the guard ring and the semiconductor material layer. A guard ring may be located, for example, on a transistor between a gate and a drain electrode. A semiconductor device may have one or more guard rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Transphorm Inc.
    Inventors: Umesh Mishra, Srabanti Chowdhury, Yuvaraj Dora
  • Patent number: 9158005
    Abstract: An X-ray detector is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, the X-ray detector includes at least two adjacently arranged detector elements, to each of which a high voltage is applied in order to detect incident X-rays. In this case, two adjacent detector elements are coupled to one another by way of a protection circuit, designed to limit a voltage difference between the two adjacent detector elements to a voltage value which is non-critical with regard to the formation of a flashover between the two detector elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Shameem Kabir Chaudhury, Thorsten Ergler, Björn Kreisler, Thomas Reichel, Christian Schröter, Peter Sievers
  • Patent number: 9111737
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved method for fabricating the amplification gap of an avalanche particle detector in which two parallel electrodes are spaced apart by dielectric spacer elements. A foil including a bulk layer made of dielectric material sandwiched by two mutually parallel metallic electrodes is provided, and holes are formed in one of the metallic layers by means of photolithography. The amplification gap is then formed in the bulk layer by means of carefully controlled etching of the bulk material through the holes formed in one of the metallic layers. The invention not only provides a simplified fabrication process, but also results in a detector with enhanced spatial and energy resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: CERN—European Organization for Nuclear Research, CEA
    Inventors: Ioannis Giomataris, Rui De Oliveira
  • Patent number: 9024526
    Abstract: A detector element with one or more attached antenna for the detection of high energy transmissions, including microwaves, lasers, electromagnetic signals, RF waves, radiation, and/or other transmissions emitted by a source including a weapon system. The element may also be used as a safety device to warn and alert personnel working around high energy devices of electromagnetic leaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert P. Wenzlaff, Edwin F. Peters, Carol Ann Wedding, James D. Butcher
  • Publication number: 20150060685
    Abstract: A converter unit configured to convert incident photons into electrons comprises multiple blind holes forming respective ionization chambers. In additional embodiments, the converter unit is arranged in a detector, such as an X-ray detector or absolute radiation dose measurement detector, additionally comprising an electron amplification device and/or a readout device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: C-Rad Imaging AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Maad, Gunnar Norberg
  • Publication number: 20150008328
    Abstract: A radiation measurement apparatus for measuring radiation includes a first and second Geiger-Muller counter tubes and a radiation-direction calculating unit. The first Geiger-Muller counter tube seals an electrode within a circular pipe-shaped enclosing tube that extends in a straight line. The first Geiger-Muller counter tube is arranged along a first direction. The second Geiger-Muller counter tube seals an electrode within a circular pipe-shaped enclosing tube that extends in a straight line. The second Geiger-Muller counter tube is arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The radiation-direction calculating unit is configured to compare a first detection signal and a second detection signal with one another to calculate a direction of radiation to be emitted from the sample. The first detection signal is output from the electrode of the first Geiger-Muller counter tube. The second detection signal is output from the electrode of the second Geiger-Muller counter tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: TOSHIAKI TAKEUCHI, KOZO ONO, KUICHI KUBO, KUNIO HAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8853643
    Abstract: The readout electrode assembly of an avalanche particle detector can be effectively protected against sparks and discharges by means of a plurality of resistor pads formed in a dielectric cover layer above the readout pads. The resistor pads may either be connected directly to the readout pads, or may be coupled capacitively by means of a charge spreading pad embedded into the dielectric cover layer and spatially separated from the readout pads. The charge spreading pad allows the distribution of charges to neighboring readout pads, and may hence increase the spatial resolution of the detector device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: CERN—European Organization for Nuclear Research
    Inventor: Rui De Oliveira
  • Patent number: 8810416
    Abstract: An assembly (13) for monitoring ionising radiation comprises a detector substrate (2) for generating electronic charge responsive to incident ionising radiation, the detector substrate (2) having an array of ionising radiation sense volumes (12) formed in it. A circuit substrate (14) supporting an array of read-out circuits (16) corresponding to the array of sense volumes is mechanically and electrically coupled to the detector substrate (14). Each of the read-out circuits (16) is switchable between first and second charge integration modes for receiving charge from a corresponding sense volume. A charge integration circuit (30) is configured in the first charge integration mode to integrate charge corresponding to sensing of a single ionising radiation detection event in a corresponding sense volume and in the second charge integrating mode to integrate charge corresponding to sensing a plurality of ionising radiation detection events in the corresponding sense volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Radiation Watch Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Trevor Doughty, Michael John Anderson, David Jeremy Prendergast, Ian Benson
  • Patent number: 8779375
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for dosimetry monitoring of a hadron beam, comprising successive ionization chambers obtained by a series of parallel detector plates separated from each other by a gas filled gap, each detector plate having a collecting part comprising a collecting side insulated from a bias voltage part comprising a bias voltage side and arranged in such a way that the collecting side is facing the bias voltage side of a subsequent detector plate, the resulting assembly of these detector plates forming a plurality of ionization chamber cells, the thicknesses and the choice of the materials of each layer constituting each detector plate as well as the gap of an ionization chamber cell have been selected in order to satisfy the condition that the water equivalent thickness of cell is equal to the length of said cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Ion Beam Applications S.A.
    Inventors: Bruno Marchand, Caterina Brusasco, Sébastien De Neuter, Friedrich Friedl
  • Patent number: 8710449
    Abstract: A position-sensitive radiation counting detector includes a first and a second substrate. A gas is contained within the gap between the substrates. A photocathode layer is coupled to the first substrate and faces the second substrate. A first electrode is coupled to the second substrate and a second electrode is electrically coupled to the first electrode. A first impedance is coupled to the first electrode and a power supply is coupled to at least one electrode. A first discharge event detector is coupled to one of the electrodes for detecting a gas discharge event in the electrode. The radiation counting detector further includes a plurality of pixels, each capable of outputting a gas discharge counting event pulse upon interaction with radiation received from the photocathode. Each gas discharge pulse is counted as having an approximately equal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Integrated Sensors, LLC
    Inventor: Peter S. Friedman
  • Patent number: 8669533
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, devices and methodologies relating to an ion induced impact ionization detector and uses thereof. In certain implementations, the detector can include a dielectric layer having one or more wells. An anode layer defining apertures to accommodate the openings of the wells can be disposed on one side of the dielectric layer, and a cathode such as a solid resistive cathode can be disposed on the other side so as to provide an electric field in each of the wells. Various design parameters such as well dimensions and operating parameters such as pressure and high voltage are disclosed. In certain implementations, such an ion detector can be coupled to a low pressure gas volume to detect ionization products such as positive ions. Such a system can be configured to provide single ion counting capability. Various example applications where the ion detector can be implemented are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Inventors: Vladimir Bashkirov, Reinhard W. Schulte
  • Patent number: 8513616
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging device includes a gas avalanche detector detecting and locating X-ray or gamma ray ionizing radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: EOS Imaging
    Inventor: Pascal Desaute
  • Patent number: 8481957
    Abstract: An ionizing radiation detector has conductive tubes arranged in parallel and containing a pressurized gas mixture, a conductive wire being pulled tight at the center of each tube and capable of being biased with respect thereto. Each tube is divided into isolated longitudinal sections. All the tube sections of a same transverse slice are electrically connected. Each group of sections of a same slice includes means for being connected to an elementary detector, wherein each slice is formed of a grid of blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Institut Max Von Lau-Paul Langevin
    Inventors: Bruno Guerard, Jean-Claude Buffet
  • Publication number: 20130068957
    Abstract: A neutron detector comprises at least two conductive cathode sheets lying parallel to one another and coated with neutron reactive material on at least one side thereof; dielectric material separating the cathode sheets and covering less than about 80% of their surface area; and a plurality of anode wires lying generally parallel to the cathode sheets and separated from them by the dielectric, with the distance between adjacent anode wires being no more than twenty times the distance between said cathode sheets. The cathode sheets may be flat or curved; they may be separate plates or they may be successive folds or windings of a single folded or spiral-shaped metal sheet. Related methods for building the detector are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Andrew C. Stephan, Vincent D. Jardret
  • Patent number: 8304742
    Abstract: A radiation detector using gas amplification includes: a first electrode pattern which is formed on a first surface of an insulating member and has a plurality of circular openings; and a second electrode pattern which is formed on a second surface of the insulating member opposite to the first surface thereof and has convex portions of which respective forefronts are exposed to centers of the openings of the first electrode pattern; wherein a predetermined electric potential is set between the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern; wherein edges of the first electrode pattern exposing to the openings are shaped in respective continuous first curved surfaces by covering the edges thereof with a first solder material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Motomura, Osamu Shimada
  • Publication number: 20120205548
    Abstract: A position-sensitive radiation counting detector includes a first and a second substrate. A gas is contained within the gap between the substrates. A photocathode layer is coupled to one side of the first substrate and faces the second substrate. A first electrode is coupled to the second substrate and a second electrode is electrically coupled to the first electrode. A first impedance is coupled to the first electrode and a second impedance is coupled to the second electrode. A power supply is coupled to at least one electrode. A first discharge event detector is coupled to the first impedance and a second discharge event detector is coupled to the second impedance. The radiation counting detector further includes a plurality of pixels, each capable of outputting a gas discharge pulse upon interaction with radiation received from the photocathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: INTEGRATED SENSORS, LLC
    Inventor: Peter S. FRIEDMAN
  • Patent number: 8212141
    Abstract: There is provided a high-sensitivity organic semiconductor radiation/light sensor and a radiation/light detector which can detect rays in real time. In the high-sensitivity organic semiconductor radiation/light sensor, a signal amplification wire 2 is embedded in an organic semiconductor 1. Carriers created by passage of radiation or light are avalanche-amplified by a high electric field generated near the signal amplification wire 2 by means of applying a high voltage to the signal amplification wire 2, thus dramatically improving detection efficiency of rays. Hence, even rays exhibiting low energy loss capability can be detected in real time with high sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignees: Niigata University, Japan Carlit Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Miyata, Yoshimasa Fujigaki, Yoji Yamaguchi, Yoshinori Muto, Masaaki Tamura