Cooling system for an x-ray device
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsMALLIKARJUN RAMACHANDRAIAH, JACOB DE BOER
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Abstract
The invention provides a cooling system for an X-ray device, the cooling system comprising a top cooling unit, TCU, comprising a heat exchanger plate with an integrated cooling fluid circuitry, and a support arm, particularly a C-arc, configured for mounting the TCU and for mounting a monoblock of an X-ray source of the X-ray device, wherein the fluid circuitry is arranged over a main surface of the heat exchanger plate so as to capture heat via the main surface.
Claims23
A cooling system for an X-ray device, the cooling system comprising
- a top cooling unit (TCU) comprising a heat exchanger plate with an integrated cooling fluid circuitry, wherein the TCU is configured for removably mounting a monoblock of an X-ray source of the X-ray device;
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- a support arm configured for removably mounting the TCU and for removably mounting the monoblock,
- wherein the integrated cooling fluid circuitry is arranged over a main surface the heat exchanger plate so as to capture heat via the main surface,
- wherein the integrated cooling fluid circuitry comprises at least two integrated cooling fluid channels,
- wherein each of the at least two integrated cooling fluid channels has an inlet port and an outlet port, and
- wherein the support arm comprises at least two cooling channels, each having an inlet port and an outlet port connected to the inlet port and the outlet port of the at least two integrated cooling fluid channels of the integrated cooling fluid circuitry, such that, in an assembled state, at least two closed cooling circuits are formed by the at least two cooling channels of the support arm and the at least two integrated cooling fluid channels of the heat exchanger plate.
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A cooling unit to be removably assembled to a cooling system for an X-ray device the cooling unit comprising:
- a heat exchanger plate with an integrated cooling fluid circuitry,
- wherein the cooling unit is configured to be removably mounted to a support arm of the cooling system, the support arm configured for removably mounting a monoblock of an X-ray source of the X-ray device.
- wherein the integrated cooling fluid circuitry is arranged over a main surface of the heat exchanger plate so as to capture heat via the main surface;
- wherein the integrated cooling fluid circuitry comprises at least two integrated cooling fluid channels, and
- wherein each of the integrated cooling fluid channels has an inlet port and an outlet port on one side of the heat exchanger plate such that the at least two integrated cooling fluid channels are fluidly connectable with at least two cooling channels of the support arm, each of the at least two cooling channels having at least two ports connected such that, when in an assembled state, at least two closed cooling circuits are formed by the at least two cooling channels of the support arm and the at least two integrated cooling fluid channels of the heat exchanger plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.