Rotary anode type X-ray tube apparatus comprising rotary anode driving device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11147151-B2
Application number	US-201916405926-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 7, 2019
Priority date	May 7, 2019
Publication date	Oct 12, 2021
Grant date	Oct 12, 2021

Abstract

A rotary anode driving device includes a DC power supply, an inverter circuit which is connected to the DC power supply and includes a plurality of switching elements and, the inverter circuit generates an AC voltage from a DC voltage of the DC power supply, and outputs the AC voltage to a stator coil which generates a rotating magnetic field of an X-ray tube; a pulse width modulation (PWM) waveform generator configured to generate an AC voltage of two phases or three phases as the AC voltage from the DC voltage by performing PWM control of the switching elements of the inverter circuit; and a capacitor connected in series to an input side of a stator coil of at least one phase of the stator coil, the capacitor having an electrostatic capacitance constituting a series resonant circuit with the stator coil to which the capacitor is connected.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A rotary anode driving device comprising:
a DC power supply configured to generate a DC voltage;
a first stator coil;
an inverter circuit which is connected to the DC power supply and includes a plurality of switching elements, the inverter circuit generates an AC voltage from the DC voltage, and outputs the AC voltage to the first stator coil, which generates a rotating magnetic field of an X-ray tube;
a pulse width modulation (PWM) waveform generator configured to generate an AC voltage of two phases or three phases as the AC voltage from the DC voltage by performing PWM control of the plurality of switching elements; and
a first capacitor connected in series to an input side of the first stator coil, the first capacitor having an electrostatic capacitance constituting a series resonant circuit with the first stator coil.

2. The rotary anode driving device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a bypass circuit connected in parallel to the first capacitor; and
a switching mechanism, disposed on an input side of the first capacitor, for connecting an output of the inverter circuit to either the first capacitor or the bypass circuit.

3. The rotary anode driving device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a controller configured to control a switching operation of the switching mechanism so as to select the first capacitor when a type of the X-ray tube or an operating mode of the X-ray tube requires a DC voltage higher than the DC voltage generated by the DC power supply, and to select the bypass circuit when a type of the X-ray tube or an operating mode of the X-ray tube requires a DC voltage equal to or lower than the DC voltage generated by the DC power supply.

4. The rotary anode driving device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second stator coil,
wherein the first stator coil has a larger number of windings than the second stator coil.

5. The rotary anode driving device according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a second capacitor, having an electrostatic capacitance constituting a series resonant circuit with the second stator coil, connected in series to an input side of the second stator coil,
wherein the first capacitor has a larger electrostatic capacitance than the second capacitor.

6. The rotary anode driving device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second stator coil, wherein
the first stator coil and the second stator coil have a same number of windings, and
the second stator coil is connected in series to a second capacitor having an electrostatic capacitance constituting a series resonant circuit with the second stator coil.

7. The rotary anode driving device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second stator coil; and
a phase difference regulator configured to regulate a phase difference between the first stator coil and the second stator coil to a predetermined phase difference with respect to a current flowing through the first stator coil.

8. The rotary anode driving device according to claim 7 , wherein the phase difference regulator comprises:
a current detector detecting a phase of a current flowing through each of the first stator coil and the second stator coil;
the PWM waveform generator; and
a waveform calculator controlling the inverter circuit via the PWM waveform generator so as to suppress or eliminate a deviation of the phase difference between the first stator coil and the second stator coil from a predetermined phase difference based on a phase of a current flowing through each of the first stator coil and the second stator coil detected by the current detector.

9. The rotary anode driving device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a waveform calculator controlling the inverter circuit via the PWM waveform generator, with respect to the AC voltage output to the first stator coil, so as to make a duty ratio zero when an average value of a PWM voltage is in an area of a preset ratio or less of an average value of an applied voltage indicated by a sinusoidal wave and a polarity thereof is same as that of a voltage across the first capacitor.

10. The rotary anode driving device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second stator coil; and
a third stator coil, wherein
the first stator coil, the second stator coil, and the third stator coil have a same number of windings,
the second stator coil is connected in series to a second capacitor having an electrostatic capacitance constituting a series resonant circuit with the second stator coil, and
the third stator coil is connected in series to a third capacitor having an electrostatic capacitance constituting a series resonant circuit with the third stator coil.

11. A rotary anode type X-ray tube apparatus comprising:
the rotary anode driving device according to claim 1 ; and
an X-ray tube including:
a rotary shaft;
an anode having a target attached to the rotary shaft and rotatably supported by the rotary shaft;
a rotor attached to the rotary shaft; and
a cathode disposed to oppose the target and irradiating the target with an electron beam, wherein

the rotating magnetic field rotates the rotor.

Assignees

• Shimadzu Corp

Inventors

• Demura Yasuhiro

Classifications

• H05G1/24

  Obtaining pulses by using energy storage devices · CPC title

• H05G1/265

  Measurements of current, voltage or power · CPC title

• H01J35/26

  by rotation of the anode or anticathode · CPC title

• H05G1/18

  with polyphase AC of low frequency {rectified} · CPC title

• H05G1/66 Primary

  Circuit arrangements for X-ray tubes with target movable relatively to the anode · CPC title