Assembly and method for reducing foil wrinkles in a circular arrangement

• Main Authors: AABERG ANDREAS, LINNE ULRIKA, HOSTETTLER URS
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 17.10.2012
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CONVEYING; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS; ELECTRICITY; GAMMA RAY OR X-RAY MICROSCOPES; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; IRRADIATION DEVICES; MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGINGARTICLES OR MATERIALS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; STORING; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING PARTICLES OR IONISING RADIATION NOTOTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; UNPACKING

The present invention refers to an assembly of a support plate (22) and an exit window foil (20) for use in an electron beam device, said support plate (22) being designed to reduce wrinkles in said foil (20), which wrinkles may arise due to surplus foil arising in the assembly process. The foil (20) is being bonded to the support plate (22) along a closed bonding line (26) bounding a substantially circular area in which the support plate (22) is provided with apertures and foil support portions and in which area the foil is adapted to serve as a portion of a wall of a vacuum tight housing of the electron beam device. The invention also refers to a method for using the assembly in a filling machine, as well as a method of reducing wrinkles.