Abstract: A radiation image capturing system includes a capturing room and a console. The capturing room includes a bucky apparatus, a radiation irradiating apparatus and a detecting unit. A plurality of portable radiation image capturing apparatuses can be loaded on the bucky apparatus. The radiation irradiating apparatus is able to simultaneously irradiate radiation to the plurality of portable radiation image capturing apparatuses. The console is associated with the capturing room and obtains capturing order information. The console allows the portable radiation image capturing apparatuses to advance to a capturing possible state when the console judges that capturing in the capturing order information is long length capturing. The console allows only one of the portable radiation image capturing apparatuses to advance to the capturing possible state when the console judges that the capturing is not the long length capturing.

Abstract: An apparatus having a vacuum chamber is provided which comprises a vacuum chamber that can hold a pressure therein at a pressure different from the outside pressure, a load-lock chamber formed at a portion of the vacuum chamber, for transferring in and out an object between the outside and the vacuum chamber while holding the pressure in the vacuum chamber at a pressure different from the outside pressure, and a piping apparatus having valve mechanism, which performs the intake and exhaust of gas with respect to the load-lock chamber. The piping apparatus comprises a passage formed in the wall of the vacuum chamber, the passage communicating with the load-lock chamber and being exposed to the outer wall of the upper lid so as to be connected to means for inhaling and exhausting gas, valve members disposed on the outer wall, for directly opening and closing the passage, and means for actuating the valve members.