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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2003
Applicant:
Tutomu Inazuru, Hamamatsu, JP;
Inventor:
Tutomu Inazuru, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Shizuoka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 35/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An X-ray generator of this invention has an X-ray monitor that monitors a state of an X-ray emitted from a target. Hence the state of the X-ray can be monitored in real time to maintain the X-ray in a constant state. The X-ray monitor is positioned off the path on which an X-ray transmitted from a first exit window travels. Hence, when the X-ray is emitted from the first exit window to an object to be inspected, the X-ray monitor does not obstruct the approaching of the object to the first exit window. This makes it possible to acquire X-ray images of high magnification.