Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Akihiro Osanai

Takeshi Yoshiyuki

Akiko Kakutani

Tsutomu Kurusu

Kiyokazu Sato

Kazuo Hayashi

Kiyoshi Hashimoto

According to one embodiment, there is provided an ion source. The ion source includes a vacuum-exhausted vacuum chamber, a target which is set in the vacuum chamber and generates a plurality of valences of ions by irradiation of a laser beam, an acceleration electrode which is applied with voltage in order to accelerate the ions generated by the target, and an intermediate electrode which is provided between the target and the acceleration electrode and is applied with reverse voltage of the voltage applied to the acceleration electrode.

Ion source

According to one embodiments, an ion source connected with a vacuum-exhausted downstream apparatus is provided. The ion source includes a vacuum chamber which is vacuum-exhausted, a target which is set in the vacuum chamber and generates ions by irradiation of a laser beam, a transportation unit which transports the ions generated by the target to the downstream apparatus, and a vacuum sealing unit which seals the transportation unit so as to separate vacuum-conditions of the vacuum chamber side and the downstream apparatus side before exchanging the target set in the vacuum chamber.

According to one embodiment, there is provided a laser ion source. The laser ion source includes a vacuum chamber which is vacuum-exhausted and in which a target is transported and set, a valve which is opened when the target is transported into the vacuum chamber and is closed except for the transportation, a target supply chamber which holds the target to be movable, and a transportation unit which transports to the vacuum chamber the target held on the target supply chamber while opening the valve after the target supply chamber is vacuum-exhausted while closing the valve.

Laser ion source

One embodiment of a particle circular acceleratorincludes: a beam deflector for beam injections, bending electromagnets that causes the beam injected from the beam deflector for beam injections to circulate so as to form a circulation orbit, orbit adjusting electromagnets for injected beams that shift the position of each injected beam relative to the center of the circulation orbit of the beam, quadrupole electromagnets and sextupole electromagnets that adjust their respective quantities of magnetic excitation at the time of a beam extraction so as to extract a beam in a resonant region off a stable reason of beams and a beam deflector for beam extractions that takes out the beam extracted from the resonant region to the outside. The circular acceleratorinjects beams from the inner side thereof and emits beams to the outer side thereof.

Circular accelerator and particle beam therapy apparatus

Provide an ion source for outputting ion beam with high purity of polyvalent positive ion. The ion sourceincludes: a targetfrom which electron and positive ion are generated by plasma formed by laserirradiation; a first power supply source (first voltage E) that sets an electric potential of the targethigher than that of a destination of the positive ion (corresponding to an acceleration channelin FIG.); and a second power supply source (second voltage E) that sets an electric potential of on a pass (corresponding to a filter electrodein FIG.) from the targetto the destinationhigher than that of the target

Ion source including a filter electrode

According to one embodiment, a laser ion source is configured to generate ions by application of a laser beam, the laser ion source including a case to be evacuated, an irradiation box disposed in the case and including a target which generates ions by irradiation of laser light, an ion beam extraction mechanism which electrostatically extracts ions from the irradiation box and guides the ions outside the case as an ion beam, a valve provided to an ion beam outlet of the case, the valve being opened at ion beam emission and being closed at other times, and a shutter provided between the valve and the irradiation box, the shutter being intermittently opened at ion beam emission and being closed at other times.

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Yokohama, Japan

Akihiro Osanai