X-ray target cooling
This patent describes a rotatable anode for an X-ray tube. It comprises: a hollow rotatable anode wheel having two circular faces, one of the faces having a beveled edge for a target region; a circular baffle having first and second sides situated concentrically inside the hollow anode wheel, the circular baffle having means for imparting a tangential velocity of a liquid on either side of the baffle. The outer perimeter of the circular baffle spaced away from the interior of the anode wheel the second side of the circular baffle having means situated thereon for creating operation between a forced and a free vortex condition in liquid in the vicinity of the disc periphery; means for supplying cooling liquid to the central portion of the first side of the baffle; means for removing cooling liquid from the central portion of the second side of the baffle, the second side of the baffle adjacent to the face of the hollow rotatable anode wheel having the beveled edge; and structural means for rotating the baffle when the anode wheel is being rotated.
- Assignee:
- General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (USA)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4945562; A
- Application Number:
- PPN: US s 7-342149
- OSTI ID:
- 6452088
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 24 Apr 1989
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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