Patents Examined by Robert Kim
  • Patent number: 9208987
    Abstract: A radioactive ray generating apparatus includes a second shielding member, a target, and a first shielding member, which are sequentially disposed from an electron emission source side. A shortest distance from a maximum radiation intensity portion of the target to the first shielding member is shorter than a shortest distance from the maximum radiation intensity portion of the target to the second shielding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Miyazaki, Takao Ogura, Kazuyuki Ueda, Yasue Sato, Ichiro Nomura, Shuji Aoki, Miki Tamura
  • Patent number: 9177750
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide an ion source device and a method for providing the ion source. An exemplary ion source device can include an arc chamber, a filament, a reflector, a slit outlet, a source gas inlet, and/or a cleaning gas inlet. The filament can be configured to generate thermo-electrons in the arc chamber. The reflector can be configured to reflect the thermo-electrons back to the arc chamber. The slit outlet can be configured to exit a gaseous material out of the arc chamber. The source gas inlet and the cleaning gas inlet can be located on a same sidewall of the arc chamber configured to respectively introduce an ion source gas and an inert cleaning gas into the arc chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lulei Wu, Leon Shan, Chunrong Dong
  • Patent number: 9177753
    Abstract: A radiation generating tube includes a cathode connected to an electron emitting member; an anode including a target; and an insulating tube disposed between the cathode and the anode to surround the electron emitting member. The insulating tube includes an electrical potential defining member at an intermediate portion of the insulating tube in a longitudinal axis direction of the insulating tube. The electrical potential defining member is electrically connected to an electrical potential defining unit. The potential of the electrical potential defining member is controlled to be higher than that of the cathode and lower than that of the anode. A boundary of the electrical potential defining member and the insulating tube does not face a portion of the anode exposed to the inside of the radiation generating tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Yamazaki, Kazuyuki Ueda
  • Patent number: 9173628
    Abstract: A mobile base designed to receive an X-ray machine is provided. An X-ray machine capable of being mounted on the mobile base is also provided. The X-ray machine of the invention is configured to move using a motor-driven system associated with a navigation system. The navigation system of the invention enables the X-ray machine to be moved automatically and with precision from one position to another within an examination, hybrid or operation room. The X-ray machine is also configured for the automatic positioning of the moving parts around the patient, while at the same time keeping the region to be subjected to radiography within an X-ray beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Bernard Bouvier, Carlos Martinez Ferreira, Bruno Galloni, Jean-Luc Thomé, Guy Jean Sébastien Caverot
  • Patent number: 9165746
    Abstract: An electron beam drift detection device and a method for detecting electron beam drift are provided in which the method includes placing a predetermined characteristic identification pattern on a surface of a workpiece; emitting an electron beam, and focusing and deflecting the electron beam such that the focused and deflected electron beam scans the surface of the workpiece and the characteristic identification pattern; detecting backscattered electrons and secondary electrons; and receiving detection signals and performing an image process on the detection signals to obtain an electronic image of the characteristic identification pattern, and measuring a drift degree by comparing the electronic image with the predetermined shape of the characteristic identification pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Jia-Yush Yen, Yung-Yaw Chen, Yi-Hung Kuo, Cheng-Ju Wu
  • Patent number: 9155511
    Abstract: In a breast image capturing apparatus having an arm section for moving a radiation source in a left-right direction in front of a subject, providing a shielding member for preventing radiation from being applied to the face of the subject on an arm section, and supporting the shielding member movably relative to the arm section when the face of the subject is abutted to the shielding member and fixedly relative to the arm section when the face of the subject is not abutted to the shielding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Takao Kuwabara, Yasuko Yahiro
  • Patent number: 9128054
    Abstract: A detection apparatus and method for an ion migration spectrum include acquiring an ion migration spectrum of pure carrier gas and an ion migration spectrum of carrier gas containing a test substance sample and performing differential process on the ion migration spectrum of the pure carrier gas and the ion migration spectrum of the carrier gas containing the test substance sample to acquire a differential spectrum. The value of a characteristic peak of the differential spectrum represents properties of the sample of substances. The method avoids interferences on the migration spectrum from interference sources of the apparatus itself, thereby improving detection sensitivity and accuracy of the ion migration spectrum, and migration spectrum shift caused by variations in the environmental conditions can be found and corrected through the differential process on the migration spectrum of the pure carrier gas, thereby achieving self-stableness and self-correction of the ion migration spectrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ming Ruan, Peng Jiao, Yingrong Jian, Yangtian Zhang, Jin Lin, Hua Peng
  • Patent number: 9119278
    Abstract: An extreme ultraviolet light system and method includes a drive laser, a chamber including an extreme ultraviolet light collector and a target material dispenser including an adjustable target material outlet capable of outputting multiple portions of target material along a target material path. Also included: a drive laser steering device, a detection system including at least one detector and a controller coupled to the target material dispenser, the detector system and the drive laser steering device. The controller includes logic for detecting a location of the first portion of target material from the first light reflected from the first portion of target material and logic for adjusting the target material dispenser outlet to output a subsequent portion of target material to a waist of the focused drive laser. A system and a method for optimizing an extreme ultraviolet light output is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Chrobak, William N. Partlo, Igor V Fomenkov, Alexander I. Ershov, James H. Crouch
  • Patent number: 9111740
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an Electron Transfer Dissociation device comprising an ion guide. A control system determines the degree of fragmentation and charge reduction of precursor ions within the ion guide and varies the speed at which ions are transmitted through the ion guide in order to optimize the fragmentation and charge reduction process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Micromass UK Limited
    Inventors: Jeffery Mark Brown, Martin Raymond Green
  • Patent number: 9111657
    Abstract: The invention relates to a charged particle optical device for manipulating a trajectory of multiple beamlets of charged particles. Said charged particle optical device comprising an electromagnetic deflector comprising a planar substrate having an upper side and a lower side of said substrate, and an even thickness. The substrate comprises: a through opening for passing said beamlets there through, wherein said through opening debouches in the upper and lower side of said substrate; a first and a second coil, wherein each of said coils preferably is a substantially helical coil and comprises conducting upper leads arranged at the upper side, conducting lower leads arranged at the lower side, and vias extending through said substrate and which conductively connect one of said upper leads with one of said lower leads for forming said coil; wherein said first and second coils are arranged on either side of the through opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: MAPPER LITHOGRAPHY IP B.V.
    Inventors: Sohail Chatoor, Joost Witteveen, Alon Rosenthal, Johan Joost Koning
  • Patent number: 9099286
    Abstract: Mass spectrometers and methods for measuring information about samples using mass spectrometry are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: 908 Devices Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Brown, Kevin J. Knopp, Evgeny Krylov, Scott Miller
  • Patent number: 9095289
    Abstract: The present invention is a device for aiming a dental x-ray beam to be centered parallel to the area of contact between two adjacent teeth so that the resultant bite wing radiographic image is one that shows at least those two teeth as distinct and not superimposed images. The device, comprising a marginal ridge angulation locator that indexes into the substantially v-shaped groove on the biting surfaces between two adjacent teeth, locates and indicates an aiming vector centered over and parallel to the area of contact between those two teeth for the purpose of aiming an x-ray beam then exposing the radiographic image desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Inventors: Steven Kent Kirkpatrick, Roger John Koughan
  • Patent number: 9087670
    Abstract: A high voltage device includes a circuit board 12 surrounded by an enclosure 11, potting 13 to provide electrical insulation between the circuit board 12 and the enclosure 11, and a layer of material 14, having a different resistivity than a resistivity of the potting 13, dividing the potting into separate and discrete sections. The layer of material 14 can be multiple layers. Each layer 14 can have a voltage applied, and a voltage of any layer 14 closer to the circuit board 12 can have a higher absolute value than any layer 14 farther from the circuit board 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Motek, Inc.
    Inventor: Dongbing Wang
  • Patent number: 9076629
    Abstract: This invention provides a design to process a large range of detection beam current at low noise with a single detector. With such a design, the detection system can generate up to 1010 gain and maximum signal output at more than mini Ampere (mA) level. A condenser lens is configured to increase bandwidth of the detector that scan speed can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: HERMES MICROVISION INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Xiang Wang, Joe Wang, Wei-Ming Ren
  • Patent number: 9077264
    Abstract: To improve an apparatus reliability by applying a voltage suitable to a situation, a charged-particle-beam apparatus 1 of the present invention includes: a sample stage 25; an electrostatic chuck 30; and an electrostatic-chuck controlling unit 13, and generates an image of a sample 24 by irradiating the sample 24 held on the sample stage 25 by the electrostatic chuck 30 with an electron beam 16. The electrostatic-chuck controlling unit 13, when the electrostatic chuck 30 holds the sample 24, applies a preset initial voltage to a chuck electrode of the electrostatic chuck 30; determines whether or not the sample 24 is normally clamped to the electrostatic chuck 30; and increases the voltage applied to the chuck electrode until determining that the sample 24 is clamped normally to the electrostatic chuck 30 if determining that the sample 24 is not clamped normally to the electrostatic chuck 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuji Ohsawa, Naoya Ishigaki
  • Patent number: 9066675
    Abstract: A collimator includes a plurality of first plate-shaped parts, and a plurality of second plate-shaped parts interlocking with the plurality of first plate-shaped parts. Each of the plurality of first plate-shaped parts and the plurality of second plate-shaped parts arranged with a rectangular spacing therebetween and form a grid-like pattern. Each of the first plate-shaped parts comprises a first slotted plate part having a plurality of first slits formed thereon that is fixed to each of the second plate-shaped parts. A second slotted plate part having a plurality of second slits formed thereon is coupled to a side of the second plate-shaped parts opposite to the first slotted plate part. An adjustment plate part is disposed between the first slotted plate part and the second slotted plate part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Mori
  • Patent number: 9060738
    Abstract: A storage and search unit of a console acquires a source ID of an X-ray source and searches for and extracts a type corresponding to the acquired source ID from source information of a storage device. In the case of an installation convenience preference type in which convenience in connection between a source controller and an electronic cassette is preferred, a detection signal from a detection pixel of an FPD of the electronic cassette is output from a detection signal I/F of the electronic cassette to a detection signal I/F of the source controller. In the case of an installation convenience non-preference type, an irradiation stop signal based on the comparison result of the integrated value of the detection signal from the detection pixel with an irradiation-stop threshold is output from an irradiation signal I/F of the electronic cassette to an irradiation signal I/F of the source controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuwabara, Takeshi Kamiya, Yusuke Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 9060736
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus includes a diffraction grating that forms an interference pattern by diffracting X-rays emitted from an X-ray source, an absorption grating that shields a portion of the interference pattern, a detector that detects the X-rays emitted from the absorption grating, and a moving unit that changes relative positions of a sample object and the absorption grating. The moving unit changes the relative positions of the sample object and the absorption grating from first relative positions to second relative positions. The detector detects the X-rays at least when the sample object and the absorption grating are at the first relative positions and when the sample object and the absorption grating are at the second relative positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9060731
    Abstract: A comparison circuit 78 of an AEC unit 67 of an electronic cassette 13 compares the accumulated value of a detection signal from a detection pixel 65 of the electronic cassette 13 with an irradiation prohibition threshold value on the electronic cassette 13. When the accumulated value of the detection signal reaches the irradiation prohibition threshold value on the electronic cassette 13, a detection signal having the same voltage value as the irradiation prohibition threshold value of the radiographing condition on the source control device 11 paired with the radiographing condition on the electronic cassette 13 is output from a detection signal I/F 80 of the electronic cassette 13 toward a detection signal I/F 26 of the source control device 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuwabara, Takeshi Kamiya, Yusuke Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 9063055
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus for imaging a subject includes a diffraction grating configured to form an interference pattern by diffracting X-ray radiation from an X-ray source, a shielding grating configured to shield part of the interference pattern, a detector configured to detect the X-ray radiation passing through the shielding grating, and a moving unit configured to change an angle between each of the diffraction grating, the shielding grating and the detector and an optical axis, wherein the detector is configured to detect the X-ray according to a change in the angle between each of the diffraction grating, the shielding grating and the detector and the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Chidane Ouchi