Y.XST225-VF - YXLON's X-ray system with variable focal spot for the automotive, aviation and aerospace industries
YXLON's variable-focus X-ray system offers a new focal spot technology that provides an extremely small focal spot whose output can be varied. Y.XST225-VF welds the gaps between microfocus tubes and traditional X-ray tubes in digital radiography and tomography, especially for X-ray applications in the automotive, aviation and aerospace industries.
Compared with conventional X-ray tubes, the focal spot of the new Y.XST225-VF system has greater symmetry and is twice as small: two essential factors that lead to higher spatial resolution and, consequently, optimal detection of details. What's more, the Y.XST225-VF system delivers the efficiency associated with high-performance X-ray tubes, and thus far superior to all microfocus tubes previously available on the market. The focal spot of the variable-focus X-ray tube can assume values ranging from 250 µm at 290 W to 800 µm at 1600 W.
The main parameters for optimal X-ray images generated using a flat detector are high spatial resolution and a high signal-to-noise ratio. Both parameters depend on the size of the focal spot. By applying the new variable focus, the focal spot size can be optimally tuned for detail detection and contrast. Using this method, optimal detail detection can be achieved for almost any inspection task.
The automotive, aviation and aerospace industries particularly benefit from this type of variability. YXLON's industrial X-ray inspection systems and CT solutions are deployed here for the inspection of non-destructive materials such as welded joints, turbine blades and sophisticated castings, to name but a few examples. Precise inspection results obtained with high-contrast images featuring numerous details are especially necessary in these areas, and are the sine qua non for compliance with high safety standards. These results also contribute to increased efficiency and quality within the production process.
In doing so, YXLON's new variable-focus tube covers the whole range of images: from broad overviews during brief inspection moments to detailed, high-resolution images.
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