ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,146, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Accelerator and particle therapy system" was invented by Chishin Hori (Tokyo) and Takamitsu Hae (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to speed up an operation of extracting an ion beam from an accelerator. An accelerator 100 includes an upper magnetic pole 8 and a lower magnetic pole 9 sandwiching an ion circulation space 10 in which ions circulate. At least one of the upper magnetic pole 8 and the lower magnetic pole 9 is formed such that a magnetic pole interval between the upper magnetic pole 8 and the lower magnetic p...