US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on Aug. 5 for "Rotating capacitor, circular accelerator, and particle therapy system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,570, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rotating capacitor, circular accelerator, and particle therapy system" was invented by Takamitsu Hae (Tokyo) and Masahiro Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating capacitor is used in a circular accelerator that accelerates a charged particle beam by feeding a first radio frequency to a DC main magnetic field. The rotating capacitor modulates a frequency of the first radio frequency. The rotating capacitor includes a stator electrode and a rotor electrode used for modulating the frequency of the first radio frequency together with the stator electro...