Quick vehicle check system and method adopting multi-dose regional scanning

• US 10,754,056 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2015
• Issued: 08/25/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nuctech Company Limited (Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd.), Tsinghua University
• Original Assignee: Tsinghua University
• Inventors: Li, Ying, Li, Jianmin, Song, Tao
• Primary Examiner(s): Kiknadze, Irakli
• Application Number:
  US14/972,115
• Publication Number:
  US 20160178791A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,713 Days
• Field of Search: 378 57, 378 58, 378 62
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 5/22 Active interrogation, i.e. by irradiating objects or goods using external radiation sources, e.g. using gamma rays or cosmic rays
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 5/224 Multiple energy techniques using one type of radiation, e.g. X-rays of different energies
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 5/232 having relative motion between the source, detector and object other than by conveyor G01V5/226 takes precedence

Abstract

A quick vehicle check system comprises a radiation source which produces a first X ray with a first dose and a second X ray with a second dose, wherein the first dose is smaller than the second dose, and the first X ray is used for checking a first part of a checked vehicle and the second X ray is used for checking a second part of the checked vehicle; a first sensor for detecting a set position of the checked vehicle; a second sensor for detecting a passing distance of the checked vehicle; and a control unit coupled with the first sensor and the second sensor, which receives the set position of the checked vehicle from the first sensor and receives the passing distance of the checked vehicle from the second sensor.

Claims

1. A quick vehicle check system adopting multi-dose regional scanning comprising:

a radiation source configured to produce a first X ray with a first dose and a second X ray with a second dose, wherein the first dose is smaller than the second dose, and the first X ray is used for checking a first part of a checked vehicle having a predetermined distance and the second X ray is used for checking a second part of the checked vehicle;

a first sensor configured to detect a set position of the checked vehicle;

a second sensor configured to detect a passing distance of the checked vehicle which is a distance traveled by the checked vehicle since the detection of the set position of the checked vehicle; and

a control unit coupled with the first sensor and the second sensor, configured to receive the set position of the checked vehicle from the first sensor and receive the passing distance of the checked vehicle from the second sensor, and when it is determined that the set position of the checked vehicle reaches a scanning region, the control unit informs the radiation source to emit the first X ray; and

when the passing distance of the checked vehicle reaches the predetermined distance, the control unit informs the radiation source to emit the second X ray so as to scan the second part wherein the set position of the checked vehicle is at a rear edge of a cab, front edge of a carriage or an arbitrary position therebetween.

2. The quick vehicle check system according to claim 1, wherein the second sensor is a speed sensor which determines whether the checked vehicle has passed the predetermined distance according to vehicle speed and the elapsed time.

3. The quick vehicle check system according to claim 1, wherein the second sensor is a position sensor, and the distance from the first sensor to the second sensor is equal to the predetermined distance.

4. The quick vehicle check system according to claim 1, wherein the first X-ray and/or the second X-ray is dual-energy rays.

5. The quick vehicle check system according to claim 1, wherein the checked vehicle is a van or a train.

6. The quick vehicle check system according to claim 1, wherein scattering generated by the first X-ray in the first part and scattering generated by the second X-ray in the second part do not cause out-of-limit X-ray dose for a driver.

7. A quick vehicle check method with multi-dose regional scanning comprising steps of:

emitting a first X ray of a first dose when it is detected that a set position of a checked vehicle reaches a scanning region;

scanning a second part of the checked vehicle with a second X-ray of a second dose when the checked vehicle has passed a predetermined distance since the detection of the set position of the checked vehicle and scanning of a first part of the checked vehicle is completed, wherein the first dose is smaller than the second dose; and

stopping X-ray scanning when the second part of the checked vehicle has passed through the scanning region,

wherein the set position of the checked vehicle is at a rear edge of a cab, front edge of a carriage or an arbitrary position therebetween.

8. The quick vehicle check method according to claim 7, wherein whether the checked vehicle has passed the predetermined distance is detected according to vehicle speed and the elapsed time.

9. The quick vehicle check method according to claim 7, wherein a position sensor is employed to detect whether the checked vehicle has passed the predetermined distance, and the distance from the position sensor to the set position is equal to the predetermined distance.

10. The quick vehicle check method according to claim 7, wherein the first X-ray and/or the second X-ray is dual-energy rays.

11. The quick vehicle check system according to claim 7, wherein the checked vehicle is a van or a train.

12. The quick vehicle check system according to claim 7, wherein scattering generated by the first X-ray in the first part and scattering generated by the second X-ray in the second part do not cause out-of-limit X-ray dose for a driver.