# US 11,110,188 B2 · Electron beam irradiation device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,110,188 B2 - Document ID: US11110188B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/338,785 - Filed: 2017-07-03 - Published: 2021-04-22 - Granted: 2021-09-07 - Earliest claimed: 2016-10-26 - Assignees: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. - Applicants: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. - Inventors: Tatsuya Matsumura; Takeaki Hattori; Keigo Uchiyama - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11110188B2 ## CPC - A61L 2/087: Particle radiation, e.g. electron-beam, alpha or beta radiation - A61L 2/08: Radiation - B65B 55/08: by irradiation - G21K 5/00: Irradiation devices (discharge tubes for irradiating H01J37/00) - G21K 5/04: with beam-forming means - H01J 33/04: Windows - A61L 2103/23: {Containers other than laboratory or medical, e.g. bottles or mail} - A61L: METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES (preservation of bodies or disinfecting characterised by the agents employed A01N; preserving, e.g. sterilising, food or foodstuffs A23; preparations for medical, dental or toiletry purposes A61K) - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) - G21K: HANDLING OF PARTICLES OR IONISING RADIATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; IRRADIATION DEVICES; GAMMA RAY OR X-RAY MICROSCOPES - H01J: ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS (spark-gaps H01T; electric arc lamps H05B31/00; particle accelerators H05H) ## Abstract An electron beam irradiation device includes an electron gun, a housing, and an electron beam emission window. A rod portion of the housing includes a first tubular member, a second tubular member, a cooling gas flow space, and a wall member. The window is provided at an end portion on a distal end side of the first tubular member. The second tubular member surrounds the first tubular member. The cooling gas flow space includes at least a cooling gas flow path provided between an outer wall surface of the first tubular member and an inner wall surface of the second tubular member. The wall member is provided so as to perform partition between an electron beam emission space and the cooling gas flow space. The wall member is provided with a cooling gas ejection hole. The hole has a flow path sectional area smaller than a flow path sectional area of the cooling gas flow path. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electron beam irradiation device comprising: an electron gun configured to emit an electron beam; a housing configured to have a main body portion housing the electron gun and a rod portion having a proximal end side connected to the main body portion and a distal end side protruding from the main body portion; and an electron beam emission window provided on the distal end side of the rod portion, wherein the rod portion includes: a first tubular member having a tubular shape with an extending direction of the rod portion as an axial direction, is provided with the electron beam emission window at an end portion on the distal end side, and has an inside through which the electron beam passes; a second tubular member having a tubular shape with the extending direction of the rod portion as an axial direction and surrounds the first tubular member; a cooling gas flow space for a cooling gas introduced from the proximal end side to flow to the distal end side, and including at least a cooling gas flow path provided between an outer wall surface of the first tubular member and an inner wall surface of the second tubular member; and a wall member provided so as to perform partition between an electron beam emission space facing an electron beam emission side of the electron beam emission window and the cooling gas flow space, the wall member is provided with a cooling gas ejection hole that ejects the cooling gas from the cooling gas flow space to the electron beam emission space, and the cooling gas ejection hole has a flow path sectional area smaller than a flow path sectional area of the cooling gas flow path. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1, wherein the cooling gas ejection hole ejects the cooling gas toward an electron beam emission region of the electron beam emission window. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the cooling gas ejection holes is provided in the wall member, and the cooling gas flow space further includes a distal end space formed around the wall member and causing the cooling gas flow path to communicate with the plurality of cooling gas ejection holes. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1, wherein the cooling gas flow space includes a plurality of the cooling gas flow paths, and further includes a proximal end space which is formed on the proximal end side of the rod portion and communicates with the plurality of cooling gas flow paths, and into which the cooling gas is introduced from an outside the rod portion. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the outer wall surface of the first tubular member and the inner wall surface of the second tubular member is formed with a separating portion separating the outer wall surface from the inner wall surface so as to form the cooling gas flow path, in a cross section perpendicular to the extending direction of the rod portion, and the outer wall surface of the first tubular member and the inner wall surface of the second tubular member are in contact with each other at at least two points in the cross section perpendicular to the extending direction of the rod portion. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 5, wherein the separating portion is formed on the outer wall surface of the first tubular member. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1, further comprising: an adjustment unit configured to adjust an orbit of the electron beam; and a converging unit configured to control converging of the electron beam. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first tubular member and the second tubular member is made of a magnetic material. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1, wherein the electron beam emission window is arranged on an end face of the first tubular member on the distal end side, and the wall member has a tubular shape and is arranged on a surface of the electron beam emission window on the electron beam emission side, the electron beam irradiation device further comprising a pressing member detachably fixed to the second tubular member and configured to press the wall member toward the electron beam emission window.