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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2021
Varex Imaging Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Francis Baldwin, Bordon, GB;
VAREX IMAGING CORPORATION, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A boom apparatus for use in an article scanning system comprising: an primary upright section mountable on a vehicle; a lateral section comprising movably connected lateral portions; a secondary upright section comprising movably connected upright portions; and a radiation detector to detect radiation emitted by a radiation emitter; wherein each of the lateral section and the secondary upright section is movable between an extended arrangement and a collapsed arrangement, and the boom apparatus is configurable in: a deployed configuration where both the lateral section and the secondary upright section is in the extended arrangement, and the primary upright section, the lateral section and the secondary upright section define a structure through which an article to be scanned can pass, and a stowed configuration where each of the primary upright section, the lateral section and the secondary upright section in the collapsed arrangement and further each is substantially upright.