X-ray tube bearing assembly and X-ray tube

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12476067-B2
Application number	US-202318521010-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2023
Priority date	Dec 5, 2022
Publication date	Nov 18, 2025
Grant date	Nov 18, 2025

Abstract

An X-ray tube bearing assembly may include a bearing housing including an accommodating cavity; and a bearing core accommodated in the accommodating cavity. The bearing housing may include first and second portions. The second portion surrounds and forms a portion of the accommodating cavity to accommodate the bearing core. The first portion extends out of the second portion and surrounds and forms another portion of the accommodating cavity, and the other portion of the accommodating cavity forms an accommodating hollow cavity. The first portion may have a different structural rigidity to that of the second portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . An X-ray tube bearing assembly, comprising:
a bearing housing including an accommodating cavity, wherein the bearing housing comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion having a different structural rigidity to that of the second portion; and a bearing core accommodated in the accommodating cavity of the bearing housing, wherein the second portion surrounds and forms a portion of the accommodating cavity configured to accommodate the bearing core, the first portion extends out of the second portion and surrounds and forms another portion of the accommodating cavity, and the other portion of the accommodating cavity forms an accommodating hollow cavity.

2 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the structural rigidity of the first portion is less than the structural rigidity of the second portion.

3 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first portion comprises multiple openwork portions.

4 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 3 , wherein shapes of the multiple openwork portions are straight strip shapes extending in a direction parallel to an axial direction of the bearing.

5 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the multiple openwork portions comprise:
a straight strip shape which forms an angle with an axial direction of the bearing, the angle being greater than or equal to 0 degrees; an arc strip shape; a wavy strip shape; a circular shape; and/or an elliptical shape.

6 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the multiple openwork portions comprise 2 to 20 openwork portions.

7 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the multiple openwork portions are arranged symmetrically with respect to an axis of the bearing.

8 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a thickness of an accommodating cavity tube wall in which the multiple openwork portions are located is:
uniform; linearly changes in a direction parallel to an axis of the bearing; or non-linearly changes in the direction parallel to the axis of the bearing.

9 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a tube wall of the first portion comprises multiple grooves.

10 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 2 , wherein materials of the first portion and the second portion are different, the first portion and the second portion being fixedly connected together.

11 . The X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the bearing core comprises balls.

12 . An X-ray tube, comprising:
a cathode assembly; and an anode assembly, the anode assembly comprising the X-ray tube bearing assembly as claimed in claim 1 .

Assignees

• Siemens Healthineers Ag

Inventors

• Liu yu tong
• Dong Xiao
• Lu Shan

Classifications

• F16C19/04 Primary

  for radial load mainly · CPC title

• F16C2380/16

  X-ray tubes · CPC title

• H01J35/1024 Primary

  Rolling bearings · CPC title

• F16C2240/70

  Diameters; Radii · CPC title