Radiation device installation housing and X-ray generator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9263226-B2
Application number	US-201214005605-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 31, 2012
Priority date	Jan 6, 2012
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

Embodiments include an X-ray generator including a radiation device installation housing and an X-ray generator. In various embodiments, the radiation device installation housing comprises a housing body, a flange fixedly provided on an inner wall of the housing body and shaped in circular and a compensation device fixedly or movably connected with the flange in a liquid tight manner; a liquid receiving cavity for receiving an insulating liquid formed between one side of two opposite sides of the compensation device and the inner wall of the housing body as well as the flange; a compensation device moving space formed between another side of the two opposite sides of the compensation device opposed to the inner wall of the housing body and an inner wall of the flange.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A radiation device installation housing, comprising:
a housing body, comprising:
a flange fixedly provided on an inner wall of the housing body and shaped in circular; and
a compensation device fixedly or movably connected with the flange in a liquid tight manner;

a liquid receiving cavity for receiving an insulating liquid is formed between one side of two opposite sides of said compensation device and said inner wall of the housing body as well as said flange; and
a compensation device moving space for allowing said compensation device to deform or move toward a direction away from or close to said insulating liquid is formed between another side of said two opposite sides of said compensation device opposed to said inner wall of the housing body and an inner wall of the flange.

2. The radiation device installation housing according to claim 1 , wherein said compensation device is an elastic drum membrane which is able to fixedly connect with a port of said flange away from said inner wall of the housing body and cover on the port of said flange away from said inner wall of the housing body, said elastic drum membrane is able to deform within said compensation device moving space toward the direction away from or close to said insulating liquid;
or, said compensation device is a piston embedded in said flange, said piston is able to move within said compensation device moving space toward the direction away from or close to said insulating liquid, an escape protection structure used to prevent the piston from escaping from said flange is further provided between said piston and said inner wall of the flange.

3. The radiation device installation housing according to claim 2 , wherein an outer profile of the cross section of said flange is shaped in one of circular, elliptic, triangular, rectangular, or polygonal in addition to the triangular and the rectangular;
and/or, air guiding holes respectively in communication with the external air and said compensation device moving space are opened on said housing body;
and/or, materials for producing said elastic drum membrane is nitrile-butadiene rubber or fluorine rubber;
and/or, said elastic drum membrane is fixedly on said flange through fasteners, or one side of said elastic drum membrane away from said inner wall of the housing body comprises a pressing plate, an edge of said elastic drum membrane is pressed against onto said flange by an edge of said pressing plate, and said edge of the pressing plate is fixedly connected with said flange through fasteners, a central region of said pressing plate is opened with one or two or more through holes through which the insulating liquid is freely passed;
and/or, a central region of one side of said elastic drum membrane closed to said pressing plate is formed in corrugation;
and/or, said pressing plate is formed in a disk shape, and said fasteners are equiangularly distributed on said pressing plate, said elastic drum membrane and said flange in a circumferential direction of said pressing plate;
and/or, said radiation device installation housing further comprises a housing main body, a first housing cover and a second housing cover, wherein:
said first housing cover and said second housing cover are respectively fixedly provided on two opposite ports of said housing main body, and said flange is fixedly provided on said second housing cover or said first housing cover;
said housing main body has an integrated structure, and the material for producing said first housing cover and said second housing cover is the same as the material of said housing main body.

4. The radiation device installation housing according to claim 3 , further comprising:
at least one projection having external protruding shape fixedly provided at one side of said elastic drum membrane close to said flange or said pressing plate, a recess having concave shape is opened on said flange or said pressing plate, said at least one projection is embedded in said recess;
and/or, said housing main body is made in aluminum or aluminum-alloy material by employing stretching process or cutting process;
and/or, said flange is integrated with said second housing cover;
and/or, said housing main body comprises at least one reinforced rib disposed on an outer surface of said housing main body, and said at least one reinforced rib comprises screw holes;
and/or, the radiation device installation housing further comprises a sealing strip between said first housing cover and said housing main body and/or between said second housing cover and said housing main body, wherein:
the radiation device installation housing further comprises a stepping face or a groove on an end surface of said housing main body, said sealing strip is embedded in said stepping face or said groove and extends out of the end surface of said housing main body, surfaces of said first housing cover and/or said second housing cover close to said housing main body are pressed against onto a portion of said sealing strip extending out of the end surface of said housing main body; or, a stepping face or a groove is opened on edges of said first housing cover and/or said second housing cover, said sealing strip is embedded in said stepping face or said groove and extends out of the edges of said first housing cover and/or said second housing cover, the surfaces of said housing main body close to said first housing cover and/or said second housing cover are pressed against onto a portion of said sealing strip extending out of the edges of said first housing cover and/or said second housing cover;

and/or, said radiation device installation housing further comprises a collimator and one or more layers of the protection device(s) provided within said housing body, wherein:
said one or more layers of protection device(s) is made in a material having shielding function to the X-ray; said collimator is integrated with said one or more layers of protection device(s), or, said collimator and said one or more layers of protection device(s) are two separate components fixedly connected together; each layer of said one or more layers of protection device is provided with a ray exit, and said ray exit, said beam exiting hole and said beam exiting opening are coaxial.

5. The radiation device installation housing according to claim 4 , wherein said at least one projection is formed in annular, and a central axis thereof is coincident with a central axis of the flange;
and/or, said one or more layers of protection device(s) is formed in cylindrical or prismatic shape, and said one or more layers of protection device(s) include a cylindrical body, a first end cap and a second end cap, wherein: said first end cap and said second end cap are respectively fixedly connected with two opposite ports of the cylindrical body; a fluid passage and/or a circuit passage are/is provided on one of said first end cap, said second end cap or said cylindrical body;
and/or, a layer of said one or more layers of is protection device(s) are provided in said housing body, a space for flowing the liquid and installing the components are provided between said one or more layers of protection device(s) and said housing body; or, the one or more layers of protection device(s) include a plurality layers of said protection devices provided in said housing body, an inner layer of the protection device of the plurality layers of the protection devices is located within an outer layer of the protection device thereof, and spaces for flowing the liquid and installing the components are provided between the inner layer of the protection device and outer layer of the protection device as well as between an outmost layer of the protection device and said housing body;
and/or, said protection device is made

Assignees

• Nuctech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhao Ziran
• Chen Zhiqiang
• Luo Xilei
• Ding Fuhua
• Wu Wanlong
• Zheng Zhimin

Classifications

• H05G1/04

  Mounting the X-ray tube within a closed housing · CPC title

• H05G1/025

  Means for cooling the X-ray tube or the generator · CPC title

• H05G1/08

  Electrical details · CPC title

• H05G1/085

  Circuit arrangements particularly adapted for X-ray tubes having a control grid · CPC title

• H01J35/16 Primary

  Vessels; Containers; Shields associated therewith · CPC title