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US 5,596,621 AGranted
High-voltage plug for an X-ray tube
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsRaimund Schwarz, Thomas Weller
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Abstract
A high-voltage plug for an X-ray tube plugs onto a high-voltage terminal provided at the vacuum housing of the X-ray tube. The high-voltage plug contains a cooling channel for a coolant. An improved are over protection results by use of the coolant.
Claims8
An X-ray tube system, comprising:
- an X-ray tube having a high-voltage terminal provided at a vacuum housing of the X-ray tube;
- a high-voltage plug for plugging onto said high-voltage terminal, said high-voltage plug containing a cooling channel for a coolant;
- said high-voltage plug having an engagement surface provided for interaction with a corresponding surface of said high-voltage terminal of said X-ray tube;
- said high-voltage plug having a contact part formed of an electrically conductive material and containing as said engagement surface a contact surface provided for interaction with said high-voltage terminal corresponding surface;
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- said X-ray tube having a rotating anode, and said high-voltage terminal corresponding surface interacting with said high-voltage plug being in thermally conductive connection with a bearing of said rotating anode.
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An X-ray tube system, comprising:
- an X-ray tube having a high-voltage terminal provided at a vacuum housing of the X-ray tube;
- a high-voltage plug for plugging onto said high-voltage terminal, said high-voltage plug containing a cooling channel for a coolant;
- said cooling channel of said high-voltage plug having an interruption, the coolant charging a portion of the X-ray tube in a region of said interruption;
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- said X-ray tube having a rotating anode, and wherein said portion of said X-ray tube charged with said coolant is in thermally conductive connection with a bearing of said rotating anode of said X-ray tube.
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An X-ray tube system, comprising:
- an X-ray tube having a high-voltage terminal provided at a vacuum housing of the X-ray tube;
- a high-voltage plug for plugging onto said high-voltage terminal, said high-voltage plug containing a cooling channel for a coolant;
- said cooling channel of said high-voltage plug discharging into a channel provided in a portion of said X-ray tube;
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- said X-ray tube having a rotating anode, and wherein said portion of said X-ray tube having the channel into which said cooling channel discharges is in thermally conductive connection with a bearing of said rotating anode of said X-ray tube.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.