Electric lamp and discharge devices – With radioactive material
Patent
1977-09-01
1982-02-09
Demeo, Palmer C.
Electric lamp and discharge devices
With radioactive material
313 60, 313116, 65 31, H01J 3510
Patent
active
043151825
ABSTRACT:
The inner surface of an X-ray tube envelope is constructed to prevent the build-up of an electrically conductive layer of metal deposits on the tube envelope in the regions adjacent to and between the cathode focusing element and the anode. In the disclosed embodiment this area is textured so that metal deposits can only collect in certain places and not in others. The places of metal collection are spaced so that the development of a conductive metal layer is inhibited. By properly texturing the inner surface of the envelope, this spaced collection of metal is so effective that the spaced regions of metal build-up are electrically insulated from one another. A method is disclosed comprising first mechanically abrading the inner surface of the envelope to create small fracture regions. Thereafter, the abraded surface is acid-etched. The acid attacks the areas of the envelope which exhibits these fracture regions creating relatively deep and narrow "canyons" surrounding "islands". The canyons are of such steepness and depth that the trajectory of particles of metal released from tube elements do not form conductive layers in the canyons.
REFERENCES:
patent: 754251 (1904-03-01), Steinmetz
patent: 958488 (1910-05-01), Green
DeMeo Palmer C.
Hostetter Darwin R.
Picker Corporation
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