US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on March 31 for "Scintillator and charged particle radiation apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,913, issued on March 31, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Scintillator and charged particle radiation apparatus" was invented by Eri Takahashi (Tokyo), Shin Imamura (Tokyo), Makoto Suzuki (Tokyo) and Shunsuke Mizutani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides: a scintillator which is reduced in the intensity of the afterglow, while having increased luminous intensity; and a charged particle radiation apparatus. A scintillator according to the present invention is characterized in that: a base material, a buffer layer, a light emitting part and a first conductive layer are sequentially stac...