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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
May. 01, 2001
Wayne Evans, Campbell, CA (US);
H. Keith Nishihara, Los Altos, CA (US);
Brian P. Wilfley, Los Altos, CA (US);
Douglas A. Reim, San Jose, CA (US);
William F. Witt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sung Kim, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ron Smith, Foster City, CA (US);
Perry Anderson, Berkeley, CA (US);
Heather Klaubert, Redwood City, GA (US);
Gary Cantu, Foster City, CA (US);
James Olef Jensen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric J. Shrader, Belmont, CA (US);
Alara, Inc., Hayward, CA (US);
Abstract
A combined imaging plate scanning and erasing system, comprising: (a) a housing; (b) an imaging plate cassette infeed assembly positioned within the housing, the maging plate cassette infeed assembly comprising: (i) a mechanism to pull an imaging plate cassette into the housing; (ii) a mechanism to open the imaging plate cassette; and (iii) a mechanism to remove an imaging plate from the cassette; (c) a scanner positioned within the housing; (d) a curved path erasing assembly positioned between the imaging plate infeed assembly and the scanner; and (e) an imaging plate transportation assembly to move the imaging plate back and forth in a path extending from the imaging plate cassette, past the erasing assembly and through a scan area adjacent to the scanner.