| US 7,537,385 B2 | ||
| Radiographic apparatus | ||
| Tetsuo Watanabe, Tochigi (Japan); Makoto Saito, Kanagawa (Japan); and Osamu Tsujii, Tochigi (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 15, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/724,171. | ||
| Application 11/724171 is a division of application No. 11/373181, filed on Mar. 13, 2006. | ||
| Application 11/373181 is a division of application No. 10/150150, filed on May 20, 2002, granted, now 7,104,686. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2001-162568 (JP), filed on May 30, 2001. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0165785 A1, Jul. 19, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G03B 42/02 (2006.01); H05G 1/64 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 378—189 [378/98.8; 250/370.09] | 1 Claim |
| 1. A radiographic apparatus for detecting radiation, comprising:
a detection section having a rectangular detection surface and including photoelectric conversion elements that detect radiation;
an analog electrical circuit section arranged along a side of the detection surface for reading an electrical signal from
the detection section;
a digital driving circuit section arranged along another side of the detection surface for driving the detection section;
a power source for supplying power to the detection section, the electrical circuit section and the driving circuit section;
and
a housing that has a handle and contains the detection section, the electrical circuit section, the driving circuit section
and the power source, wherein the driving circuit section, the power source and the handle are located along a longer side
of the rectangular detection surface, wherein the electrical circuit section is arranged in two sections which are each arranged
around a respective one of the two shorter sides of the detection surface, and each section of the electrical circuit section
reads a partial detection area adjacent thereto, which area is defined by dividing the detection surface into two substantially
equal parts in the longer side direction, and
wherein the detection section is included on a position where a distance between an outline of a longer side of the detection
surface and an outline of the housing is shorter than a distance between an outline of the other longer side of the detection
surface and the outline of the housing, and a handle is disposed on the side of the other longer side of the detection surface.
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