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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2005
Yuzuru Ohtsuka, Minami-ashigara, JP;
Masakazu Nakajo, Minami-ashigara, JP;
Osamu Kuroda, Fujisawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hideki Suzuki, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yasunori Ohta, Yokohama, JP;
Yuzuru Ohtsuka, Minami-ashigara, JP;
Masakazu Nakajo, Minami-ashigara, JP;
Osamu Kuroda, Fujisawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hideki Suzuki, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yasunori Ohta, Yokohama, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cassette is delivered from a cassette loader through a stock unit to a releasing unit. After a stimulable phosphor panel is supplied from the cassette to a reading unit by an unlocking mechanism and a panel ejecting mechanism, the cassette is fed to a position below an erasing unit so as to wait for the stimulable phosphor panel. After recorded radiation image information is read from the stimulable phosphor panel by the reading unit, the stimulable phosphor panel is fed to the erasing unit, which erases remaining radiation image information from the stimulable phosphor panel. Thereafter, the stimulable phosphor panel is stored back into the waiting cassette, which is delivered to a cassette discharger.