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Device for examining luggage by means of X-rays

  • US 4,139,771 A
  • Filed: 01/16/1976
  • Issued: 02/13/1979
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1975
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a device for the inspection of objects, particularly luggage by means of X-rays emanating from an X-ray flash generator and passing through the object to be examined, to produce a shadow image on a fluorescent screen, which is received by a TV camera feeding an intermediate store, from which the stored video signals from the TV camera may be supplied to a TV monitor, and in which the X-ray flash generator, TV camera and intermediate store are interconnected by a control unit, the combination of the TV camera containing a pulse generator synchronized with the power supply line alternating current voltage, and the control unit being a synchronizing-unit rigidly coupling the line voltage to the TV camera and the X-ray flash generator, which synchronizing-unit, upon triggering of a start pulse initially prepares the intermediate store and thereafter triggers the X-ray flash synchronously with the supply line alternating current voltage.

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