H01J 35/101
Arrangements for rotating anodes
Official title: {Arrangements for rotating anodes, e.g. supporting means, means for greasing, means for sealing the axle or means for shielding or protecting the driving}
H01J35/101 (Arrangements for rotating anodes) appears on 387 US grants and 251 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01J- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Smart power system and method to protect an X-ray tube during a power outage15 Sep 2026US 12,739,960 B2GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Rotor component for a rotary X-ray anode18 Aug 2026US 12,712,142 B2Plansee SE
- Thrust bearing vent for a liquid metal bearing assembly14 Jul 2026US 12,683,109 B2GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Sliding bearing unit and rotating anode X-ray tube7 Jul 2026US 12,676,277 B2Canon Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd.
- Electric motor for dual ended x-ray tube14 Apr 2026US 12,603,244 B2Varex Imaging Corporation
- Rotating anode for x-ray tube, x-ray tube, x-ray inspection apparatus, and method for manufacturing rotating anode for x-ray tube9 Jul 2026US 2026/0196436 A1Niterra Materials Co., Ltd.
- Rotating anode disk assemblies9 Apr 2026US 2026/0100323 A1IXRF, Inc.
- Rotating anode x-ray tube12 Mar 2026US 2026/0074137 A1Canon Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd.
- X-ray cathode shield8 Jan 2026US 2026/0011523 A1GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Anode rotation sensing in x-ray tubes4 Dec 2025US 2025/0372336 A1Varex Imaging Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-energy x-ray source96US 7,649,981 B2Varian Medical Systems, Inc. · 2010
- Rotary anode X-ray tube having a sliding bearing58US 4,677,651 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1987
- Rotary-anode X-ray tube51US 4,210,371 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1980
- Cylindrical x-ray tube for computed tomography imaging49US 7,305,063 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2007
- X-ray apparatus with focus position control48US 4,675,891 AThomson-CGR · 1987