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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
David M Gibson, Voorheesville, NY (US);
Robert G Downing, Albany, NY (US);
Assignee:
X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc., Albany, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2505051 ; 378149 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for providing focused x-ray, gamma-ray, charged particle and neutral particle, including neutron, radiation beams with a controllable amount of divergence are disclosed. The apparatus features a novel use of a radiation blocking structure, which, when combined with multiple-channel total reflection optics, increases the versatility of the optics by providing user-controlled output-beam divergence.