Is there a danger of sample collision or damage when using a Dage x-ray inspection system?

The mechanical layout, with the x-ray tube below the sample and the digital detector above, together with the Dage "Image Wizard" software control, ensures that the sample CANNOT collide with anything in the system. This allows Dage to offer the advantage of having a simple ‘point and click’ user interface for all sample movement and control, including achieving oblique angle views at the highest magnifications, and there is no need for any complicated joystick controls.

To achieve the highest magnifications within an x-ray inspection system, the sample must be placed as close as possible to the x-ray tube. Because all Dage x-ray inspection systems have a system configuration where the x-ray tube sits below the sample, it means that our system design and interlocks can always ensure that the sample can be placed as close as possible to the x-ray tube simply and easily. Therefore, the Dage systems can always provide the highest magnifications through simple mouse click without any danger of sample collision.

In contrast, a system configuration that has the x-ray tube located above the sample, demands that any safety interlock against sample collision is limited to the tallest part of that sample. For any object on the sample below this tallest height then the magnification that can be achieved for that object will be severely reduced, as it cannot be placed any closer to the x-ray tube. This may limit the analytical information that can be obtained. Therefore, the only alternative for this configuration is to deliberately allow disabling of the anti-collision features. This would then allow a highly trained operator to very carefully move the sample, manually, closer to the x-ray tube than the safe limit permits so as to improve the magnification of the smaller objects. However, the danger of sample collision will always remain, whatever the skill of the operator.

Our sample manipulator keeps the sample horizontal at all times and allows x, y and z (magnification) movements. Our XiDAT digital detector, provided as standard in all Dage x-ray inspection systems, moves in the x and y directions. This allows the viewing of up to 70-degree oblique angles at any position around an item of interest, anywhere in the entire system inspection area, as standard. For the Dage XD7600 and XD7500 x-ray inspection systems there is a maximum inspection area of 18" x 16" (458 x 407 mm) and for the XD7000 and XD7100 systems it is 24" x 20" (601 x 508 mm). The maximum board size that the systems can hold is larger than the maximum inspection area.