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Apparatus for the transillumination of articles with fan-shaped radiation

US5065418A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Heimann GmbH · DE

Inventors

Rainer Bermbach · Mainz, DE
Gerhard Doenges · Nastätten, DE
Georg Geus · Wiesbaden, DE
Cornelius Koch · Hochheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 9, 1990
Grant date	Nov 12, 1991
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 9, 2010

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01V5/22
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An apparatus for inspecting containers or vehicles at airports for illegal contents, such as bombs, weapons, drugs or smuggled goods includes two x-ray generators and two line-shaped radiation detectors, a first of the radiation detectors receiving radiation from a fan beam of a first radiation generator, and the second radiation detector receiving radiation from a fan beam of a second radiation generator. The respective central rays of the fan beams are disposed substantially perpendicularly realtive to each other.

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