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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2016
Uhv Technologies, Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Manuel Gerardo Garcia, Lexington, KY (US);
Nalin Kumar, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Subodh Das, Clayton, MO (US);
UHV Technologies, Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Abstract
A material sorting system sorts materials, such as scrap pieces composed of unknown metal alloys, as a function of their detected x-ray fluorescence. The x-ray fluorescence may be converted into an elemental composition signature that is then compared to an elemental composition signature of a reference material in order to identify and/or classify each of the materials, which are then sorted into separate groups based on such an identification/classification. The material sorting system may include an in-line x-ray tube having a plurality of separate x-ray sources, each of which can irradiate a separate stream of materials to be sorted.