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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2018
Photo Diagnostic Systems, Inc., Boxborough, MA (US);
Benjamin Galen Connelly, Medford, MA (US);
James Michael Connelly, Medford, MA (US);
Bernard M. Gordon, Manchester, MA (US);
Olof Johnson, Ashburnham, MA (US);
Photo Diagnostic Systems, Inc., Boxborough, MA (US);
Abstract
A scanning system includes an improved arrangement of shielding curtains to limit radiation leakage while achieving high throughput and limiting system length. The scanning system includes a segmented conveyor, including a faster conveyor through a shielding region to improve increase throughput of scanned articles, and a slower conveyor through a scanning region to ensure acceptable scanning performance. The curtains are arranged based on the changing gap distance between the articles that results from the changing conveyor speeds.