H01J 43/246
Microchannel plates [mcp]
Official title: {Microchannel plates [MCP] (image amplification tubes using MCP H01J31/507)}
H01J43/246 (Microchannel plates [mcp]) appears on 263 US grants and 155 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01J- Granted patents
- 263
- Published applications
- 155
- Assignees
- 101
- Inventors
- 400
- Latest grant
- 28 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method for manufacturing microchannel plate28 Apr 2026US 12,612,327 B2
- Precise tuning of MCP-based ion detector using isotope ratios with software correction28 Apr 2026US 12,614,707 B2DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
- Charged particle detector30 Sep 2025US 12,431,342 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Electron tube, imaging device and electromagnetic wave detection device8 Jul 2025US 12,354,858 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Lead free glass composition for microchannel plate fabrication10 Jun 2025US 12,325,661 B2Corning Incorporated
- Particle detectors based on direct conversion at the surface of a dense medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311979 A1Southwest Research Institute
- Mcp detector and analysis device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0213123 A1Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Mass spectrometry apparatus2 Jul 2026US 2026/0188634 A1
- Elementary particle detector and associated detection method16 Apr 2026US 2026/0106126 A1Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Microchannel Plate, Preparation Method and Application Thereof1 Jan 2026US 2026/0005006 A1China Building Materials Academy Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microchannel plate technology197US 5,265,327 A1993
- Method of making a plate having a pattern of microchannels180US 4,153,855 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · 1979
- Electron generating assembly for an x-ray tube having a cathode and having an electrode system for accelerating the electrons emanating from the cathode110US 5,576,549 ASiemens Aktiengesellschaft · 1996
- Silicon etching process for making microchannel plates84US 5,997,713 ANanoSciences Corporation · 1999
- Method of making a channel type electron multiplier48US 4,853,020 AITT Electro Optical Products, A Division of ITT Corporation · 1989