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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2003
Toru Takehara, San Mateo, CA (US);
Kinya Ichimura, Foster City, CA (US);
Sun Huan Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Philip Alexander Tam, Emeryville, CA (US);
Toru Takehara, San Mateo, CA (US);
Kinya Ichimura, Foster City, CA (US);
Sun Huan Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Philip Alexander Tam, Emeryville, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method for nonintrusive scanning of cargo containers quay side while the containers are being transferred between ship and land transportation utilizing a mobile cargo container handling buffer crane having a bridge crane mounted thereon for transferring cargo containers between a ship and land transportation with an intermediate transfer position whereby a suspended container can be noninvasively inspected by a longitudinally reciprocating container traversing radiation emitter apparatus.