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Title:
LARGE-AREA FIBER PLATE, RADIATION IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE USING IT, AND THEIR MANUFACTURING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2002139569
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a large-area fiber plate suitable for the miniaturization and the cost reduction of a radiation image pickup device and having further excellent workability in a manufacturing process, and to provide the radiation image pickup device and a radiation image pickup system.

A plurality of individual fiber plates equal in thickness are adjacently arranged to form the large area fiber plate, thus offering a light guide face having an area larger than that of the light guide face of the individual fiber plate. A plurality of individual fiber plates comprise aggregates of optical fibers having parallel axes with each other, and the side faces of a plurality of individual fiber plates are connected together so that the axes of the optical fibers are made parallel with each other.


Inventors:
HAMAMOTO OSAMU
KAJIWARA KENJI
Application Number:
JP2001236572A
Publication Date:
May 17, 2002
Filing Date:
August 03, 2001
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
CANON KK
International Classes:
G01T1/20; G02B6/06; G03B42/02; (IPC1-7): G01T1/20; G02B6/06; G03B42/02
Domestic Patent References:
JPH1012851A1998-01-16
JPH09153606A1997-06-10
JPH09326479A1997-12-16
JPH08603A1996-01-09
JPH08215190A1996-08-27
Foreign References:
WO2000036436A12000-06-22
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yamashita