X-ray inspection system for security screening application
CA 1090482 A · Owner: Beland, Robert J.L. · Inventors: Beland, Robert J.L.; Stefanski, Czeslawa; Stefanski, Wlodzimierz K.
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The invention relates to an X-ray inspection system for security screening applications of the type which are employed at aircraft terminals to determine if dangerous items are being carried in passenger luggage. The system in accordance with the invention includes a detector station having a linear array of phototransistors, covered with a fluorescent screen, disposed on one side of the conveyor belt which carries the luggage past the detector station. On the other side of the belt, and disposed in parallel arrangement with the array is an X-ray head, and objects passing between the array and the source will alter the density of the rays emitted by the source so that an X-ray picture can …
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- Granted November 25, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 25, 1997.
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