Abstract:
RCA 68,973/68,973A CATHODE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME An insulating substrate is provided with a plurality of discrete electrode pads on a surface thereof. A thermionic line cathode, e.g., a directly heated filament, is positioned to one side of the substrate surface and extends across a surface of each one of the electrode pads. An apertured electrode is positioned in spaced relation to the cathode and the electrode pads. The apertured electrode may include a single slit-shaped aperture or a plurality of colinear apertures. The structure may also include a pair of spaced parallel filter plates whose surfaces are disposed in parallel relation to the longitudinal axis of the line cathode and in orthogonal relation to the surfaces of the electrode pads. The filter plates function to collimate the electron flow emitted from the cathode.
Abstract:
An electron beam sterilizing device, comprises: an electron- generating filament; a beam-shaper; an output window; a high-voltage supply, capable of creating a high-voltage potential between the electron-generating filament and the output window, for acceleration of electrons; a high-voltage supply for driving current through the electron-generating filament; a control unit for controlling the operation of the electron beam sterilizing device. The device is characterized in that the electron beam sterilizing device has at least three operational states: - an OFF-state, where there is no drive current through the electron-generating filament, - an ON-state, where the electron-generating filament is kept at a temperature above the emission temperature so as to generate electrons for sterilization, and - a standby state, between the OFF-state and ON-state, where the electron- generating filament is kept at a predetermined temperature just below the emission temperature, wherein the control unit is able to control the device to assume the standby state.
Abstract:
When an emission current is changed, a decrease in brightness of an electron beam is prevented. An electron gun includes a cathode that emits thermoelectrons, a Wehnelt electrode that focuses the thermoelectrons, a control electrode that extracts the thermoelectrons from a distal end of said cathode, an anode that accelerates the thermoelectrons and irradiates a powder with the thermoelectrons as an electron beam, and an optimum condition collection controller that changes at least one of a bias voltage to be applied to the Wehnelt electrode and a control electrode voltage to be applied to the control electrode, and decides a combination of the bias voltage and the control electrode voltage at which the brightness of the electron beam reaches a peak.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a method of controlling an electron gun without causing decreases in brightness of the electron beam if a current-limiting aperture cannot be used. The electron gun (10) has a cathode (11), a Wehnelt electrode (12), a control electrode (13), an anode (14), and a controller (22). The Wehnelt electrode (12) has a first opening (12c) in which the tip of the cathode is inserted, and focuses thermal electrons emitted from the tip of the cathode (11). The thermal electrons emitted from the tip of the cathode (11) are caused to pass into a second opening (13c) by the control electrode (13). The anode (14) accelerates the thermal electrons emitted from the cathode (11) such that the thermal electrons passed through the second opening (13c) pass through a third opening (14b) and impinge as an electron beam (B1) on a powdered sample (8). The controller (22) sets the bias voltage and the control voltage based on combination conditions of the bias voltage and control voltage to maintain the brightness of the beam constant.
Abstract:
This invention is advantageous in irradiating pallets which cannot be irradiated by conventional techniques, even by x-rays, throughout their complete volumes. In one embodiment, a scan horn scans electron beamlets through a sweep angle. A dipole bends the electron beamlets to focus the electron beamlets at the pallet center. After being bent, the beam becomes converted to x-rays which are irradiated through the pallet to the pallet center. During this irradiation, the pallet is moved in a direction substantially perpendicular to the irradiation. In this way, a quarter of the pallet is irradiated. When the quadrant radiation is completed, the radiation is interrupted and the pallet is rotated 90° to have a second side of the pallet face the radiation. The operation is sequentially repeated for each of the pallet sides. The four (4) irradiated quadrants define the pallet's complete cross-sectional area.
Abstract:
A multiple electrode field electron emission device is formed on an insulating layer disposed on a surface of an insulated flat substrate and has a cathode with multiple of emission projections each having a projection tip that overhangs the insulating layer. The device further includes an anode for collecting electrons ejected from the cathode emission projections formed on the surface of the substrate. Control electrodes, having one of several alternate configurations, are formed between the cathode and the anode. The device is fabricated using over-etching and directional particulate deposition techniques.
Abstract:
A grid gates a stream of ions when a D.C. potential is applied between two sets of interdigitated wires included in the grid to produce a D.C. field. The improved grid disclosed herein contains the two sets of interdigitated wires in a single plane so that the D.C. field is precisely normal to the ion current flow direction to prevent a residual ion current flow when the grid provides the gating effect.
Abstract:
A plurality of field emission cathodes (601) generate an emission of electrons, wherein the emission of electrons is then controlled and focused using various electrodes (602, 603, 604) to produce an electron beam. Horizontal and vertical deflection techniques (605, 606, respectively), similar to those used within a cathode ray tube, operate to scan the individual electron beams onto portions of a phosphor screen (401) in order to generate images. The use of the plurality of field emission cathodes provides for a flatter screen depth than possible with a typical cathode ray tube.