US 11,147,149 B2 · X-ray inspection device

Abstract

An X-ray inspection device is configured to prevent water from flowing into areas of the X-ray inspection device during a washing operation. The X-ray inspection device is provided with an X-ray emitter, a cooler, a cooler cover, and an opening/closing member. The cooler cools the X-ray emitter. The cooler cover covers the cooler. Openings are formed in the cooler cover and, when open, provide interior-exterior air flow communication when the cooler is cooling the X-ray inspection device. An opening/closing member is configured for movement between an open orientation opening the opening and a closed orientation closing the openings formed in the cooler cover.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An X-ray inspection device comprising:

an X-ray source;
a cooler configured to cool the X-ray source;
a cooler cover covering the cooler, the cooler cover having an opening formed therein that extends between an interior of the cooler cover and an exterior of the cooler cover;
an opening/closing member movable between an open orientation opening the opening and a closed orientation closing the opening;
and
a conveyor mechanism configured to receive an article conveyed into the X-ray inspection device, convey the article so as to pass through an inspection space, and deliver the article to a downstream side of the X-ray inspection device.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/750,968Filed 23 Jan 2020

Priority

JP JP2019-01644331 Jan 2019

Published

US 2020/0253032 A16 Aug 2020

Granted

12 Oct 2021

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H05G 1/025
Constructional details: means for cooling the X-ray tube or the generator
H05G 1/30
Measuring, controlling or protecting: controlling
G01N 23/04
By transmitting the radiation through the material: and forming images of the material
G01N 23/18
And measuring the absorption: investigating the presence of flaws defects or foreign matter

X-ray inspection device

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X-ray inspection device

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Abstract

Claims10