Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturi – Process – With testing or adjusting
Patent
1995-12-22
1998-03-03
Ramsey, Kenneth J.
Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturi
Process
With testing or adjusting
445 28, 445 43, 445 70, 228 151, 2282341, H01J 926, B23K 3102
Patent
active
057228698
ABSTRACT:
Improved systems and methods are disclosed for exhausting and combined exhausting and seasoning of x-ray tubes having metal envelopes for high performance x-ray systems having a rotating anode therein. The methods and systems for sealing a metal tubulation, having a diameter greater than about 20 mm and operatively connected to the x-ray tube metal envelope, to a metal disk positioned inside the metal tubulation, the metal disk having a smaller diameter than at least one portion of the metal tubulation include providing a vacuum connection to the metal tubulation and a heater positioned on the outside of the metal tubulation; heating the anode of the x-ray tube to temperatures inside the x-ray tube metal envelope of about 1500.degree. C.; positioning the metal disk inside the metal tubulation proximate the position of the heater on the outside of the metal tubulation; heating the metal tubulation proximate the metal disk to a temperature sufficient to bond the metal disk to the metal tubulation; checking for bonding between the metal tubulation and the metal disk; and cooling the metal tubulation proximate the metal disk until the metal tubulation/metal disk connection is bonded.
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Benz Mark Gilbert
Raber Thomas Robert
Zabala Robert John
Cusick Ernest G.
General Electric Company
Knapp Jeffrey T.
Pittman William H.
Ramsey Kenneth J.
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