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20110164727 | RADIATION GRID AND RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - This invention has an object to provide an X-ray grid without obstructing travel of direct X-rays by arranging regularly absorbing foil strips having a maintained linear shape. The X-ray grid of this invention has an absorber. The absorber maintains its shape through integration with the first seat cover via the first joining member. Moreover, the X-ray grid of this invention has sufficient strength. That is because the first joining member has a thickness larger at both ends thereof in the x-direction than the center portion between the both ends. | 07-07-2011 |
20120145909 | RADIATION TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS FOR SMALLER ANIMALS - Disclosed is radiation tomography apparatus for smaller animals including a radiation source for emitting radiation; a radiation detecting device for detecting radiation; a rotary device for rotating the radiation source; and a holder provided between the radiation source and the radiation detecting device that has two or more spaces for placing a subject. The holder includes space discriminating members for each of the spaces. Each of the space discriminating members has a unique sectional shape when cut along a plane where an imaginary circle exists. Here, the imaginary circle is a locus of rotation of the radiation source. | 06-14-2012 |
20130070894 | SECTIONAL RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS FOR BREAST EXAMINATION - A sectional radiographic apparatus for breast examination includes a detector ring with radiation detectors arranged arcuately for receiving a breast of a patient, each of the radiation detectors including a scintillator for converting radiation into light, and a photodetector for detecting the light, a moving device for moving the detector ring along a direction of a central axis of the detector ring relative to the breast of the patient, and a movement control device for controlling the moving device. | 03-21-2013 |
20140346363 | RADIATION DETECTOR - A radiation detector includes two reflecting plate lattices that are combined into a single reflecting plate lattice. The use of such a structure simplifies the manufacturing of a scintillator. The radiation detector reduces the number of reflecting plate lattices that are stacked when manufacturing the scintillator, enabling the scintillator to be manufactured easily. Moreover, the number of reflecting plate lattices to be manufactured is reduced, reducing commensurately the number of components required for manufacturing the scintillator. The scintillator may be manufactured more easily and an inexpensive radiation detector may be obtained. | 11-27-2014 |
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20100308227 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND TOMOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - In a scintillator of a radiation detector according to this invention, first reflectors provided in first scintillation counter crystal layer adjacent to one another have gaps wider than first reflectors provided in second scintillation counter crystal layer such that an overall width of the first reflectors in the first scintillation counter crystal layer in an arranging direction is identical to an overall width of the first reflectors in the second scintillation counter crystal layer in an arranging direction. Such construction improves spatial resolution at a side end of the scintillator. | 12-09-2010 |
20100320389 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND TOMOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A radiation detector according to this invention has a first reflector frame and a second reflector frame. Each of scintillation counter crystals is inserted in a direction through the first reflector frame and the second reflector frame, whereby two or more scintillation counter crystals are arranged in a first direction and a second direction to form a scintillation counter crystal layer. A position of the first reflector frame provided in the scintillation counter crystal layer differs from a position of the second reflector frame provided in the scintillation counter crystal layer. With such construction, the radiation detector may be provided of significantly suppressed manufacturing costs without reducing spatial resolution and detecting sensitivity. | 12-23-2010 |
20110024023 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT GUIDE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A RADIATION DETECTOR - According to a method of manufacturing a light guide of this invention, a shaping member is provided that covers a molding frame. In a releasing step, when the shaping member is lifted up in a direction apart from the molding frame, the light guide is lifted and pulled out from an aperture of the molding frame accordingly. As a result, there is no need to pull out the light guide by conventionally providing a pressing plug on a bottom of the molding frame and pressing the plug in a direction. In addition, there is no need to perform a grinding process to the light guide. | 02-03-2011 |
20110056618 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RADIATION DETECTOR - With this invention, a light guide is placed on a scintillator while an optical adhesive for forming the scintillator does not harden. Accordingly, a method of manufacturing a radiation detector may be provided in which the step of hardening the optical adhesive that joins scintillation counter crystals to one another and the step of optically coupling the scintillator and the light guide are performed en bloc. Accordingly, the radiation detector may be manufactured with no complicated process of forming the scintillator and the light guide individually and coupling them with the optical adhesive. | 03-10-2011 |
20110096897 | RADIATION TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - Radiation tomography apparatus of this invention has a shield that shields entering of radiation flying from outside of the gantry. The shield is formed of shielding pieces. Consequently, there is no need for manufacturing the shield in a large and expensive furnace. Accordingly, the radiation tomography apparatus may be provided that is easily manufactured and achieves suppressed cost. Moreover, with the radiation tomography apparatus of this invention, maintenance may be performed through removal of the shielding pieces without removing the entire shield. | 04-28-2011 |
20110113611 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RADIATION TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing radiation tomography apparatus in this invention includes a step of fixing a detector array to a holding member by adjusting a relative position of the detector array and the holding member through fixation of a sub member to a base of a first jig and contact of a scintillator of the detector array to a branch portion and a support board. Such configuration may realize provision of radiation tomography apparatus with higher spatial resolution by manufacturing a group of detectors having the scintillators of suppressed deviation in arrangement and being arranged regularly upon arranging radiation detectors for forming the group of detectors. | 05-19-2011 |
20110198502 | PARTICLE RADIOTHERAPY APPARATUS - In a particle radiotherapy apparatus which has a passage for allowing movement of a particle beam, this invention provides a particle radiotherapy apparatus with high sensitivity for detection of annihilation radiation pairs even if there is a difference between a point where the particle beam loses energy and a position of a detector ring in a body axis direction of a patient. For the purpose of solving such a problem, the particle radiotherapy apparatus according to this invention includes an elliptic detector ring which is vertically long and is reversibly tiltable. Consequently, annihilation gamma ray pairs are detected with the single elliptic detector ring. Then, annihilation gamma ray pairs occurring inside the elliptic detector ring will be detected. In other words, all annihilation gamma ray pairs will impinge on the single elliptic detector ring at substantially right angles. This inhibits lowering of sensitivity for detection. | 08-18-2011 |
20110240867 | PARTICLE RADIOTHERAPY APPARATUS - In order to provide a particle radiotherapy apparatus with high sensitivity for detecting annihilation radiation pairs, an elliptic detector ring of a particle radiotherapy apparatus according to this invention makes rotating movement relative to a top board. Specifically, with rotation about a base axis of a first ring and a second ring, the elliptic detector ring makes rotating movement in a state of being tilted relative to the first ring. Incidentally, the elliptic detector ring cannot be disposed in a position to interfere with travel of this particle beam. According to the construction of this invention, the elliptic detector ring is tilted relative to the top board, and besides makes rotating movement relative to the top board. Since the elliptic detector ring can be moved away from the particle beam by rotating the elliptic detector ring, it is possible to provide the particle radiotherapy apparatus which can detect annihilation radiation while emitting the particle beam. | 10-06-2011 |
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20080246291 | PAPER CLIP REMOVING DEVICE AND DOCUMENT READING APPARATUS - A paper clip removing device capable of removing a paper clip made of a shape memory alloy, that has such a shape that a plurality of documents are bound at a normal temperature and a document bundle is released in a heated state, when the paper clip is on any positions on an end side of a document is provided. When a paper clip made of a shape memory alloy, that has such a shape that a plurality of documents are bound at a normal temperature and a document bundle is released in a heated state, is removed, the paper clip removing device detects a position of the paper clip to heat the paper clip and deforms the paper clip into a shape of releasing a document bundle to attract and remove the paper clip, resulting that the paper clip is collected in the collecting box. | 10-09-2008 |
20090201517 | DOCUMENT READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A document reading apparatus includes an integral display portion integrally provided with the area sensor portion and a main CPU for controlling screen display of the integral display portion, in which reflection light from an object placed on a screen of the integral display portion is detected by the area sensor portion. Based on an area of reflection light from the object detected by the area sensor portion, the main CPU determines whether or not the object is a document, and when determined that it is a document, it sets a document reading mode for reading the document placed on the screen by the area sensor portion. | 08-13-2009 |
20090201543 | DOCUMENT READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A document reading apparatus includes an integral display portion integrally provided with the area sensor portion and a main CPU for controlling screen display of the integral display portion, in which a document placed on a screen of the integral display portion is read by the area sensor portion. The integral display portion has an operation area for displaying various operation keys of the document reading apparatus on its screen, and the main CPU detects an area of the document placed on the screen by the area sensor portion and sets an area other than an area where the document is placed as the operation area of the document reading apparatus. | 08-13-2009 |
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20090051942 | Image output apparatus using radio contact element - An image output apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives first information from a first radio contact element that performs a close-range radio contact; an image processing unit that forms image data of an image to be output from the first information; and an image output unit that outputs the image to an output medium from the image data. | 02-26-2009 |
20090231647 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product - An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a display request for displaying a preview image of gradation-processed image data, and a preview magnification indicative of a display magnification of the preview image. An image processing unit performs a first magnification-altering process on the gradation-processed image data performs the gradation process based on the image quality mode if the preview magnification is lower than a present magnification and the gradation process based on the image quality mode is such that the gradation-processed image data does not express halftone, as well as if the preview magnification is higher than the present magnification thereby obtaining processed image data. A display unit creates and displays the preview image based on the processed image data. | 09-17-2009 |
20100111547 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image-information acquiring unit acquires the image information divided at least in one of a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction. A supply control unit calculates basic-supply patterns of a supply amount of toner and controls the supply amount at a supply point in a developing unit using a toner supply pattern combined with the basic-supply patterns that eliminate temporal variation in toner density of the developer, at the specific point, due to development of the latent image. | 05-06-2010 |
20120002984 | Image output apparatus, image test system, and density correction method - An image output apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; a test-threshold acquiring unit that acquires a test threshold that is a pass-fail criterion for the image test for determining whether the test image data passes or fails the image test; a changing unit that changes a density detection mode of at least one of the image forming unit and the image reading apparatus on the basis of the test threshold; a density correcting unit that corrects density used in an image forming process performed by the image forming unit; and a reference-image-data acquiring unit that acquires the reference image data. | 01-05-2012 |
20120019844 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer program product - An image forming apparatus includes a first density correction unit that corrects density correction characteristics in correcting density of print image data to be output by using a density correction patch formed in an image forming process; a second density correction unit that corrects the density correction characteristics by using a density correction patch printed on a recording sheet; an image inspection unit that compares an image density of inspection image data obtained by scanning a printed output image with an image density of the print image data to be output, thereby inspecting a magnitude of a density change in the printed output image; and a density control unit that selects one from the first and second density correction units according to the magnitude of the density change and causes the density correction characteristics to be corrected by the selected one from the first and second density correction units. | 01-26-2012 |
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20090233169 | BATTERY MODULE AND BATTERY PACK - A battery module provided with a cell which contains an electrode group and a non-aqueous electrolyte and a case including a cell containing portion which contains the cell and a hollow portion which communicates with the cell containing portion and configured so that an outlet is formed in each of a pair of sidewalls thereof which face each other with the hollow portion therebetween. | 09-17-2009 |
20090239137 | BATTERY MODULE AND BATTERY PACK - A battery pack provided with a battery module including a projection, a support which holds the respective projections of a plurality of the battery modules disposed so that the projections are arranged in a straight line, and a fixing member for fixing the support to the projections. | 09-24-2009 |
20090246616 | BATTERY MODULE - A battery module includes a plurality of batteries provided adjacent to one another. Each battery includes a case, which has a frame-shaped peripheral wall having open ends and a sidewall provided at one end of the peripheral wall, and a cell which is contained in the case and exposed at the other end of the peripheral wall. In two adjacent batteries of the batteries, the other end of a peripheral wall of one battery and one end of a peripheral wall of the other battery are opposed to each other. | 10-01-2009 |
20100015513 | BATTERY APPARATUS - There is provided a battery apparatus mounted in a vehicle that is not subjected to forced draft, the battery apparatus including a plurality of rectangular parallelepiped batteries stacked in a direction vertical to a traveling direction of the vehicle, a rectangular parallelepiped battery box that accommodates the plurality of rectangular parallelepiped batteries therein, and a heat equalizing plate that is brought into contact with the plurality of rectangular parallelepiped batteries. | 01-21-2010 |