Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Balancing of the rotary anode of an X-ray tube
- Patent Title (中): 平衡X射线管的旋转阳极
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Application No.: US13388063Application Date: 2010-09-08
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Publication No.: US08983037B2Publication Date: 2015-03-17
- Inventor: Rolf Karl Otto Behling , Christoph Bathe
- Applicant: Rolf Karl Otto Behling , Christoph Bathe
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP09171794 20090930
- International Application: PCT/IB2010/054038 WO 20100908
- International Announcement: WO2011/039662 WO 20110407
- Main IPC: H01J35/10
- IPC: H01J35/10 ; H01J9/02 ; G01M1/36

Abstract:
An X-ray tube with a rotatable anode for generating X-rays and an X-ray apparatus and a method for balancing the rotary anode of an X-ray tube include balancing of the rotary anode applicable to an anode mounted inside an X-ray tube. The rotatable anode includes an anode disc fixedly mounted to a rotatably driven support body, which is rotatably supported by a bearing arrangement. The anode includes at least one balancing cavity to adjust the center of gravity of the anode. The balancing cavity is partly filled with a balancing material being solid at operating temperature of the X-ray tube and liquid at a higher temperature. The balancing method includes determining an imbalance of the anode; heating liquefy balancing material; dislocating the balancing material inside the balancing cavity to compensate the imbalance; and cooling to solidify the balancing material.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130070903A1 BALANCING OF THE ROTARY ANODE OF AN X-RAY TUBE Public/Granted day:2013-03-21
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