Electron beam irradiation device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11110188-B2
Application number	US-201716338785-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2017
Priority date	Oct 26, 2016
Publication date	Sep 7, 2021
Grant date	Sep 7, 2021

Abstract

An electron beam irradiation device includes an electron gun, a housing, and an electron beam emission window. A rod portion of the housing includes a first tubular member, a second tubular member, a cooling gas flow space, and a wall member. The window is provided at an end portion on a distal end side of the first tubular member. The second tubular member surrounds the first tubular member. The cooling gas flow space includes at least a cooling gas flow path provided between an outer wall surface of the first tubular member and an inner wall surface of the second tubular member. The wall member is provided so as to perform partition between an electron beam emission space and the cooling gas flow space. The wall member is provided with a cooling gas ejection hole. The hole has a flow path sectional area smaller than a flow path sectional area of the cooling gas flow path.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electron beam irradiation device comprising:
an electron gun configured to emit an electron beam;
a housing configured to have a main body portion housing the electron gun and a rod portion having a proximal end side connected to the main body portion and a distal end side protruding from the main body portion; and
an electron beam emission window provided on the distal end side of the rod portion,
wherein the rod portion includes:
a first tubular member having a tubular shape with an extending direction of the rod portion as an axial direction, is provided with the electron beam emission window at an end portion on the distal end side, and has an inside through which the electron beam passes;
a second tubular member having a tubular shape with the extending direction of the rod portion as an axial direction and surrounds the first tubular member;
a cooling gas flow space for a cooling gas introduced from the proximal end side to flow to the distal end side, and including at least a cooling gas flow path provided between an outer wall surface of the first tubular member and an inner wall surface of the second tubular member; and
a wall member provided so as to perform partition between an electron beam emission space facing an electron beam emission side of the electron beam emission window and the cooling gas flow space,
the wall member is provided with a cooling gas ejection hole that ejects the cooling gas from the cooling gas flow space to the electron beam emission space, and
the cooling gas ejection hole has a flow path sectional area smaller than a flow path sectional area of the cooling gas flow path.

2. The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
the cooling gas ejection hole ejects the cooling gas toward an electron beam emission region of the electron beam emission window.

3. The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
a plurality of the cooling gas ejection holes is provided in the wall member, and
the cooling gas flow space further includes a distal end space formed around the wall member and causing the cooling gas flow path to communicate with the plurality of cooling gas ejection holes.

4. The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
the cooling gas flow space includes a plurality of the cooling gas flow paths, and further includes a proximal end space which is formed on the proximal end side of the rod portion and communicates with the plurality of cooling gas flow paths, and into which the cooling gas is introduced from an outside the rod portion.

5. The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
at least one of the outer wall surface of the first tubular member and the inner wall surface of the second tubular member is formed with a separating portion separating the outer wall surface from the inner wall surface so as to form the cooling gas flow path, in a cross section perpendicular to the extending direction of the rod portion, and
the outer wall surface of the first tubular member and the inner wall surface of the second tubular member are in contact with each other at at least two points in the cross section perpendicular to the extending direction of the rod portion.

6. The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 5 , wherein
the separating portion is formed on the outer wall surface of the first tubular member.

7. The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an adjustment unit configured to adjust an orbit of the electron beam; and
a converging unit configured to control converging of the electron beam.

8. The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
at least one of the first tubular member and the second tubular member is made of a magnetic material.

9. The electron beam irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
the electron beam emission window is arranged on an end face of the first tubular member on the distal end side, and
the wall member has a tubular shape and is arranged on a surface of the electron beam emission window on the electron beam emission side,
the electron beam irradiation device further comprising a pressing member detachably fixed to the second tubular member and configured to press the wall member toward the electron beam emission window.

Assignees

• Hamamatsu Photonics Kk

Inventors

• Matsumura Tatsuya
• HATTORI Takeaki
• Uchiyama Keigo

Classifications

• A61L2103/23

  Containers other than laboratory or medical, e.g. bottles or mail · CPC title

• B65B55/08 Primary

  by irradiation · CPC title

• A61L2/08

  Radiation · CPC title

• G21K5/04 Primary

  with beam-forming means · CPC title

• H01J33/04

  Windows · CPC title