Article: German Inventors Develop X-Ray Tube

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 5 -- Manfred Apel of Rudolstadt, Germany, Holger Baule of Oberweissbach, Germany, and Jo Freudenberger of Eckental, Germany, have developed an x-ray tube with rotary anode.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An x-ray tube has an anode plate connected to an anode tube that is mounted such that it can rotate around a rigid anode shaft. To improve the heat dissipation from the anode plate, a liquid for dissipation of heat to the anode shaft is accommodated in an intervening space formed between the anode shaft and the anode plate."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,116,757 on Oct. 3.

The patent has been assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, ...

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