Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090010387 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - The present invention discloses an radiation imaging system, comprising: an accelerator for generating rays which penetrate through the objects to be inspected and an synchronous signal; a detector with a plurality of detecting modules, adapted for detecting rays; a signal processor for generating a selection signal according to the synchronous signal, so as to select a detecting module for detecting the rays; a data converter for converting the signal detected by said detecting module into digital data, and then buffering the digital data in said signal processor; and a communication controller connected to an image processor, adapted for transmitting the digital data buffered in said signal processor to said image processor. The system according to the present invention allows high-speed and stable data acquisition and data conversion and accurate and reliable data transmission, when the data amount is significant. | 01-08-2009 |
20090065698 | CONTROL UNIT AND CONTROL METHOD FOR RADIATION SOURCE AND RADIATION INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A radiation inspection system is disclosed. The radiation inspection system comprises: an inspection passage through which a moving object under inspection can pass, a radiation source disposed on a side of the inspection passage for emitting radiation, an array of detectors disposed on the other side of the inspection passage opposite to the radiation source for receiving the radiation emitted from the radiation source, a detector for detecting the moving object, and a controller for receiving a signal from the detector and controlling the radiation source to emit radiation when the detector detects the moving object for radiation imaging and inspection of the moving object. According to the radiation inspection system, the controller can control the radiation source to automatically emit radiation beam based on the detection signal from the detector for inspecting the moving object. As a result, inspection efficiency is improved, safety is increased, and misoperation of the radiation source is eliminated. | 03-12-2009 |
20090136004 | TRAILER SECURITY INSPECTION SYSTEM - For a radiation imaging inspection system, apparatus, and/or method, the system, particularly a trailer security inspection system, may include a protective wall forming an inspection passage for passage of a trailer, a radiation imaging system effecting security inspection of the trailer passing through the inspection passage, and a traction arrangement for hauling the trailer. | 05-28-2009 |
20090166530 | ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER AND METHOD THEREOF - An ion mobility spectrometer and method thereof are disclosed. The ion mobility spectrometer comprises an electrode and an ion source arranged adjacent to the electrode, wherein the ion mobility spectrometer further comprises: a single or a group of focusing guide electrodes arranged on the side of the ion source far away from the electrode and shaped as a funnel to output ions from the ion source; and a storage section arranged on the ion-outputting side of the focusing guide electrode for storing ions generated from the ion source. With the scheme of separating the ion source and the storage region, the present invention can facilitate exchange of different ion sources, so that a source can be replaced with another different source without any change in the subsequent configuration. The storage section can be made very thin in the direction of ion movement, its diameter can be very large, and the internal electric field is almost zero. Thus, it is possible to collect a huge amount of ions with a very small cluster thickness and a directional velocity of almost zero, leading to reduction in spread of ion mobility spectrum and increase in resolution. | 07-02-2009 |
20090166532 | DRIFT TUBE STRUCTURE FOR ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER - A drift tube structure for ion mobility spectrometer is disclosed comprising electrode sheets and insulation parts arranged in alternation, with each electrode sheet being a mesh metal sheet having a radian or taper portion which is convexly curved toward an ion input. Further, the radian or taper portion of the electrode sheet has meshes of higher transparency. With the above structure of the present invention, an electric field having a periphery of uniform focusing center can be formed in the migration zone. The circular ring configuration of the electric field periphery can shield the migration electric field from any influence of external electric fields. The electrodes are each meshlike and have a circular hole at the center, thus they can focus and collect as many as possible ions that do not move along the central axis, and those ions moving along the central axis can pass through the electrodes transparently. | 07-02-2009 |
20090236537 | SYSTEM AND METHOD CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUS RADIOGRPAHIC EXAMINATION AND RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL INSPECTION - The present invention relates to the field of radiographic examination and radioactive material inspection, and provides a system and a method capable of simultaneous radiographic examination and radioactive material inspection. The system comprises a radiographic examination system and a radiation monitor; wherein the radiographic examination system comprises an accelerator and a synchronization controller, and the radiation monitor comprises a detector, a front end circuit, a signal transmission controller, a data collecting, analyzing and processing computer, an alarm device and so on. The present invention combines the radiographic examination system and the radiation monitor tightly so that the radioactive material inspection can be executed while the radiographic examination is performed, thereby the examination efficiency is improved and the occupied area of the system is reduced. | 09-24-2009 |
20090283694 | DOUBLE-FACED ION SOURCE - Disclosed is an ion source comprising a plate-shaped source body which has radioactivity on its both sides and allows positive and negative ions to penetrate through the source body. The present invention gives beneficial effects. First, the ion source structure can improve the ionization efficiency of sample molecules, and the generated sample ions have a centralized distribution within a flat space on both sides of the source body. Such distribution of ion cloud facilitates to improve the IMS sensitivity. Meanwhile, the source body of the present invention has a transmittance in itself. Thus, positive and negative ions generated on both sides of the source body can penetrate through the source body and be separated to the both sides of the source body. In this way, it is possible to improve the utilization efficiency of ions. | 11-19-2009 |
20090309013 | Electrode structure for drift tube in ion mobility spectrometer - Disclosed is an electrode structure for a drift tube in IMS comprising a ring electrode, for each of two surfaces of the ring electrode, at least a part adjacent to the inner radius is formed into a cone, and the angles formed between the cones and the axis of the ring electrode are different from each other. The electrode structure of the present invention can alleviate, even eliminate, the accumulation of space charges in the drift tube. Such structure is particularly suitable when the electric field in the drift tube is low in strength or a great number of ions pass through. Meanwhile, the structure allows a significant decrease in the size of the outer radius of the electrode, while the inner radius remains constant. In this way, it is possible to effectively reduce the outline size of the drift tube and thus make the IMS compact. | 12-17-2009 |
20090316136 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING MOVING OBJECT, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING MOVING OBJECT BY RADIATION IMAGING - Disclosed is a method for identifying a moving object, comprising: a driving-in step of moving a moving object into a passage, a velocity measuring step of measuring a moving velocity of the moving object, a light beam emitting step of emitting light beams from one side of the passage, a light beam receiving step of receiving the light beams not shielded by the moving object at other side of the passage, a profile determining step of determining a profile of at least one portion of the moving object based on the received light beams and the measured moving velocity of the moving object, and an identifying step of determining type of the moving object by comprising the profile of the at least one portion of the moving object with information of moving objects stored previously. The method and the system according to the present invention can adopt corresponding scanning controlling manners for different vehicles, so that inspection information of inspected vehicles is complete, inspection images are of high quality, and radiation dose received by drivers are minimal. | 12-24-2009 |
20100065755 | Array-based ion storage system and method therefor - An array-based ion storage system and method are disclosed. The system comprises: an ion generation section; and an ion storage section comprising a first end electrode coupled to the ion generation section and formed as having a plurality of holes, a second end electrode formed as having a plurality of holes, an intermediate electrode formed as having a plurality of holes, a first insulator formed in the shape of a ring and sandwiched between the first end electrode and the intermediate electrode to insulate them from each other, and a second insulator formed in the shape of a ring and sandwiched between the intermediate electrode and the second end electrode to insulate them from each other. With the present invention, the ion storage section can be made thinner to facilitate consistency in ion extraction and reduce the spread of ion mobility spectrum peak. In addition, the first and second insulators each have a big hole, and thus the ions cannot bump onto the insulation material at both sides at the time of ion vibration or thermal movement in the storage space. Therefore, charge transfer and accumulation at the insulator and the subsequent discharge will not occur, suppressing instability of storage and loss of ions. | 03-18-2010 |
20100102219 | ION GATE FOR DUAL ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an ion gate for a dual IMS and method. The ion gate includes an ion source, a first gate electrode placed on one side of the ion source, a second gate electrode placed on the other side of the ion source, a third gate electrode placed on the side of the first gate electrode away from the ion source, a fourth gate electrode placed on the side of the second gate electrode away from the ion source, wherein during the ion storage, the potential at the position on the tube axis of the ion gate corresponding to the first gate electrode is different from the potentials at the positions on the tube axis corresponding to the ion source and the third gate electrode, and the potential at the position on the tube axis corresponding to the second gate electrode is different from the potentials at the positions on the tube axis corresponding to the ion source and the fourth gate electrode. According to the present invention, after sample gas enters the ion gates, charge exchange with reaction ions occurs between the first gate electrode and the second electrode, and positive and negative ions are continuously stored into the storage regions for the positive and negative ions. This leads to an improvement of utility rate of ions. Then, the ions are educed in a step-wise manner from the storage regions for the positive and negative ions by a simple control of a combination of the electrodes. | 04-29-2010 |
20110114837 | ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER - Disclosed is an ion mobility spectrometer. The ion mobility spectrometer comprises a sample injector ( | 05-19-2011 |
20110133072 | ION MOBILITY SPECTOMETER AND DETECTING METHOD USING THE SAME - An ion mobility spectrometer comprises an electrode and two storage electrodes disposed at the two opposite sides of the electrode respectively. Ions from an intermediate part between the two storage electrodes are stored and the stored ions are released from the storage electrodes by changing electric potentials of the two storage electrodes. The present invention further discloses a detecting method using an ion mobility spectrometer. | 06-09-2011 |
20110168884 | ION COLLECTING DEVICE FOR ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER AND ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER - The present invention provides an ion collection device for an ion mobility spectrometer and an ion mobility spectrometer. The ion collection device comprises: an aperture grid for restraining influence of ion drift movement in a drift region on ion collection; and a first electrode disposed at a downstream side of the aperture grid in an ion drift direction, the first electrode is mechanically and electrically coupled with the aperture grid. With the above configuration, the aperture grid and the first electrode are at the same electric potential, and form a focusing electrical field with an ion collection part. Therefore, ions entering the collection region will not scatter into a shield cover. | 07-14-2011 |
20120168616 | SAMPLE FEEDING DEVICE FOR ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER, METHOD OF USING THE SAME AND ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER - The present invention discloses a sample feeding device for an ion mobility spectrometer, which is adapted to guide a sample to be detected into an inlet of a drift tube of the ion mobility spectrometer. The sample feeding device comprises a solid sample feeding component; a sample inlet component; a attachment component, wherein the solid sample feeding component has an internal cavity defined therein, one end of the solid sample feeding component is communicated with the sample inlet component through the internal cavity, while the other end is communicated with the inlet of the ion drift tube through the attachment component; and a gaseous sample feeding component, comprising a body and an external attachment component, the body has a gas channel therein, and the external attachment component includes an inlet hole which is communicated with the gas channel, wherein when the external attachment component is fitted with the sample inlet component, the body is inserted into the internal cavity, so that a channel of the solid sample feeding component is closed, and only the gas channel of the gaseous sample feeding component is communicated with the inlet of the drift tube of the ion mobility spectrometer. | 07-05-2012 |
20120168620 | SAMPLE FEEDING DEVICE FOR TRACE DETECTOR AND TRACE DETECTOR WITH SAMPLE FEEDING DEVICE - A sample feeding device for a trace detector is disclosed. The sample feeding device comprises: a sample feeding chamber disposed in the sample feeding device to desorb a sample from a sample feeding member; and a valve assembly configured to fluidly communicate the sample feeding chamber with a drift tube of the trace detector during feeding sample. With the above configuration of the present invention, for example, the sensitivity of the detector can be increased by improving the permeation ratio of the sample. In addition, interior environment of the drift tube is isolated from exterior environment to avoid a drift region of the drift tube from being polluted. The important parameters, such as sensitivity, a position of a peak of a substance, a resolution, of the detector can be kept constant. As a result, operation reliability and consistency of the detector can be achieved. | 07-05-2012 |
20130313426 | SIGNAL EXTRACTION CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR ION MOBILITY TUBE, AND ION MOBILITY DETECTORS - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to substance detection technology, and to signal extraction circuits and methods for ion mobility tubes, and ion mobility detectors, which can solve the problem with the conventional technologies that it is difficult to design and manufacture the leadout circuit for the pulsed voltage on the Faraday plates. A signal extraction circuit for an ion mobility tube includes an DC-blocking module configured to remove a DC voltage contained in a voltage extracted, by a signal leadin terminal, from the Faraday plate, and to output, by a signal leadout terminal, a pulsed voltage contained in the voltage extracted from the Faraday plate. An ion mobility detector includes the signal extraction circuit for an ion mobility tube according to the present invention. A signal extraction method for an ion mobility tube includes extracting a voltage on a Faraday plate in the ion mobility tube, removing a DC voltage contained in the voltage extracted from the Faraday plate, and outputting a pulsed voltage contained in the voltage extracted from the Faraday plate. The present invention is used to extract a pulsed voltage from the Faraday plate. | 11-28-2013 |
20140061490 | BORON-COATED NEUTRON DETECTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A boron-coated neutron detector, comprising a cathode tube with a plurality of passages formed therein along its longitudinal direction, the inner wall of each passage being coated with boron material; an electrode wire serving as an anode and arranged longitudinally in each of the passages, the electrode wire adapted to be applied with high voltage; and an insulating end plate to which each end of the cathode tube is fixed, the electrode wire being fixed to the cathode tube via the insulating end plate. Preferably, the cathode tube is formed by jointing a plurality of boron-coated substrates. The boron-coated neutron detector increases the detection efficiency of the neutron detector, which may reach or even exceed the detection efficiency of the | 03-06-2014 |
20140299758 | CORONA DISCHARGING DEVICE AND ION MIGRATION SPECTROMETER HAVING SAME - The present invention provides a corona discharge device, comprising a first electrode including: a first substantially cylindrical inner chamber portion and a second substantially conical inner chamber portion in communication with the first inner chamber portion, wherein the second inner chamber portion has a cross sectional area that gradually enlarges in a direction away from the first inner chamber portion. The present invention also provides an ion mobility spectrometer comprising: an ionization region; and the corona discharge device disposed in the ionization region. With the above construction and structure, the ion mobility spectrometer of the present invention has the advantages that extraction of ions is facilitated and a life time of the corona electrode is lengthened. In addition, the focusing and storing electrode is used to effectively shield interference of a corona discharge pulse, and to push and focus sample ions. A designed voltage control solution is used to achieve mobility differentiating of ions, while a corona pulse is shielded to prevent variation in an ion quantity due to the corona pulse, thereby achieving an effect of stabilizing mobility spectrum lines. | 10-09-2014 |
20140314201 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MEASURING EFFECTIVE ATOMIC NUMBER OF AN OBJECT - Methods and apparatuses for measuring an effective atomic number of an object are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a ray source configured to product a first X-ray beam having a first energy and a second X-ray beam having a second energy; a Cherenkov detector configured to receive the first X-ray beam and the second X-ray beam that pass through an object under detection, and to generate a first detection value and a second detection value; and a data processing device configured to obtain an effective atomic number of the object based on the first detection value and the second detection value. The Cherenkov detector can eliminate disturbance of X-rays below certain energy threshold with respect to the object identification, and thus accuracy can be improved for object identification. | 10-23-2014 |
20140319337 | ASYMMETRIC FIELD ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER - The present invention discloses an asymmetric field ion mobility spectrometer. It comprises an ionization source, for generating ions; an electrode plate; a plurality of electrode filaments, arranged in opposite to and spaced apart from the electrode plate by an analysis gap, wherein a high voltage of electrical field is applied between the electrode plate and the electrode filaments to form an ion migration area, the electrode filaments used to collect the ions that do not pass through the ion migration area; and a collection electrode, disposed at a rear end of the ion migration area, and collecting the ions that have passed through the ion migration area. The present asymmetric field ion mobility spectrometer is capable of improving accuracy of identifying peak positions of the ions, reducing scanning time of DC voltage and types of compensation voltage, thereby increasing ion detection efficiency. | 10-30-2014 |