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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2000
Constantinos Minas, Slingerlands, NY (US);
Mark G. Benz, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Charles G. Mukira, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Paul A. Siemers, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Thomas Robert Raber, Schenectady, NY (US);
John Robert Breunissen, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Richard Warren Lindberg, Williams Bay, WI (US);
Gregory A. Steinlage, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Douglas J. Snyder, Brookfield, WI (US);
Ping Huang, Milwaukee, WI (US);
James Michael Gent, Whitefish Bay, WI (US);
Gregory Reznikov, Akron, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A brazed X-ray target includes a metallic cap and a graphite back including a nonlinear record groove attached thereto along a stepped surface. An upper corner joint of the stepped surface is distanced from a cap outer edge and a focal track where the maximum heat is generated during use of the target. The graphite back is extended outward toward the cap outer edge to increase a thermal storage of the graphite, and a recess is formed into the cap to maintain a selected moment of inertia of the target and thereby maintain the rotordynamics of a given X-ray tube.