High performance system and method for capturing and absorbing radiation
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsLynne C. Eigler, Yan S. Tam
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Abstract
A device for capturing radiation includes multi-axis, multiple chambers with two dimensional geometry. A first chamber has a first axis and is configured to receive a beam of radiation and absorb a portion of the beam of radiation. A second chamber has a second axis that is not collinear with the first axis. The second chamber is configured to receive at least a portion of the beam of radiation and absorb at least a portion of the beam of radiation. In one preferred embodiment, the second chamber terminates at a vertex. Additional chambers may be provided, as desired, with axes not collinear with either the first chamber, the second chamber, or any other chamber such that the plurality of chambers absorb substantially all of the radiation.
Claims33
A device for capturing radiation, the device comprising:
- a first chamber having a first axis and being configured to receive a beam of radiation, the first chamber being further configured to absorb the beam of radiation;
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- a second chamber having a second axis that is not collinear with the first axis, the second chamber being configured to receive at least a portion of the beam of radiation, the second chamber being further configured to further absorb at least the portion of the beam of radiation, such that substantially all of the radiation is absorbed.
A device for capturing radiation, the device comprising:
- a first chamber having a first end that defines an opening configured to admit a beam of radiation, the first chamber narrowing toward a second end along a first axis:
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- a second chamber having a first end that defines an opening configured to receive at least a portion of the beam of radiation from the first chamber, the second chamber narrowing toward a vertex at a second end along a second axis that is not collinear with the first axis.
A device for capturing radiation, the device comprising:
- a first chamber having a first end that defines a first opening configured to admit a beam of radiation, the first chamber defining first and second faces that define a first angle therebetween along a first axis;
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- a second chamber having a first end that defines a second opening configured to receive at least a portion of the beam of radiation from the first chamber, the second chamber defining a third face and at least a fourth face that define a second angle therebetween along a second axis that is not collinear with the first axis, the third and at least fourth faces terminating at a vertex.
A method of capturing radiation, the method comprising:
- receiving a beam of radiation in a first chamber having a first axis;
- absorbing a portion of the beam of radiation in the first chamber;
- receiving at least a portion of the beam of radiation is a second chamber having an axis that is not collinear with the first axis;
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- absorbing at least the portion of the beam of radiation in the second chamber, such that substantially all of the beam of radiation is absorbed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.