Abstract:
A long life gas-filled proportional counter radiation detector is provided having a shielded gas reservoir interconnected with the prime detection chamber. The gas fill within the detection chamber is exposed to radiation but the reservoir gas is shielded to thereby minimize dissociation and absorption of the gas upon the chamber wall.
Abstract:
7 45,874 An improved flexible self-powered radiation detector wherein the elongated central conductive emitter is formed of a plurality of small diameter stranded wires of the desired emitter material to improve the flexibility of the detector. Insulating means is provided about the stranded emitter, and a thin conductive sheath is provided about the insulating means.
Abstract:
1,193,518. Glow discharge lamps. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. 31 Aug., 1967 [12 Sept., 1966], No. 39903/67. Heading H1D. A radiation source for producing a particular spectral line characteristic of the cathode material, is characterized in that the cathode 22, Fig. 2, is provided with a recess having a crosssectional area of less than 0À049 square inch so that the line corresponding to excitation of neutral atoms sputtered from the cathode has a greater intensity than the line corresponding to excitation of ionized atoms. The recess may be cylindrical and have a diameter A between “ and 1/64 inch, the pressure of the filling varying from 2 mm. for maximum diameter to 100 mm at minimum diameter of the cathode recess. The length B of the recess should be at least half the diameter A, and the filling may be of neon, argon, or helium. Insulating discs 38 and 44 serve to confine the discharge, and the leads 30 to the anode 28 are surrounded by insulating sleeves 46-48. The cathode may be of nickel which produces radiation at a wavelength of 2320 Š, and the envelope includes a window 16 transparent to this wavelength.
Abstract:
1,192,184. Discharge lamps; cathode materials. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. 7 Aug., 1967 [10 Aug., 1966], No. 36073/67. Heading H1D. A spectral radiation source includes a common anode and first and second hollow cathodes which include first and second materials, respectively, for providing beams of radiation characteristic of the two materials, the two cathodes being so disposed with respect to the anode that the two beams are projected along substantially the same path. As shown, the lamp includes a plate anode 26 and two cathodes, the first-22-being hollow, and the second-28-of annular form, coaxially mounted in series to direct a beam of radiation through the end window 14. The discharge is limited to the desired portions of the cathodes by ceramic or mica screens 32, 34, 44, 46, 48 and 50, and the electrodes are supported by conductive rods 18, 19 and 20 which act as leads and are provided with insulating sleeves and rings. The two cathodes are supplied from a single power source through separate, adjustable impedances (Fig. 1, not shown), whereby the relative intensities of the spectra provided by the two cathodes may be adjusted. One cathode may be of a Ca/Ba/Sr alloy and the other of a Fe/Cu/Ni/Mn alloy, and the anode may be of Ta and act as getter when suitably connected. The lamp may be provided with more than two cathodes, arranged coaxially and in series. The lamp is filled with argon or neon at 0À5 to 40 torr.