1. A device for reading out exposed imaging plates, with retaining means for retaining in given geometry an imaging plate to be read out, with a reading unit which generates a reading light beam which is moved in a first scanning direction and exhibits detection means for detecting fluorescent light released in the imaging plate by the reading beam, and with a drive device for generating a relative motion between the imaging plate and the reading unit in a second scanning direction, different from the first scanning direction, wherein an erasing unit is arranged in the direction of the second scanning direction behind the reading unit and aligned with the latter, in that the drive device is designed in such a way that it also extends over the erasing unit, and in that a light barrier is arranged between the reading unit and the erasing unit.
2. The device of claim 1, wherein the light barrier includes a pile made of absorbent textile material.
3. The device of claim 2, wherein the pile is a loop pile.
4. The device of claim 2, wherein the pile is produced from a material that absorbs in volume.
5. The device of claim 4, wherein the absorbent material is frosted on its outside.
6. The device of claim 2, wherein the outer surface of the textile material is studded with absorbent particles.
7. The device of claim 1, further comprising a light-source of the erasing unit including a fluorescent lamp.
8. The device of claim 1, further comprising a light-source of the erasing unit including a plurality of light-emitting diodes which are spaced in such a manner that their light cones overlap in the surface of the plate.
9. The device of claim 8, wherein the light-emitting diodes are arranged in several rows spaced in the conveying direction of the imaging plate, and the diodes of consecutive rows are offset in relation to one another.
10. The device of claim 8, wherein the light-emitting diodes are arranged on a carrying body which is driven in the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the imaging plates.
11. The device of claim 1, wherein it exhibits a light-sensitive element which has erasing light applied to it.
12. The device of claim 11, further comprising a device for regulating the luminous flux emitted by the erasing-light source, which operates as a function of the output signal of the light-sensitive element which has erasing light applied to it.
13. The device of claim 1, wherein the spectrum is set to the maximum of the absorption of the storage centres of the imaging plate.
14. The device of claim 1, further comprising a means for collecting the erasing light emitted by the erasing unit onto that spatial region in which an imaging plate is moved past the erasing unit.
15. The device of claim 7, wherein the walls of the erasing unit surrounding the erasing-light source are designed to be diffusely reflecting.
16. The device of claim 7, wherein the walls of the erasing unit surrounding the erasing-light source are provided with a coating that reflects erasing light well.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An airbag, comprising:
a substantially closed, inflatable structure having a first anchor point and an opposing second anchor point, said structure having plural slits formed therein, said slits seamed to be impermeable to an inflation medium; and
a fill nozzle carried by said tubular structure, said inflatable structure expanding when opposing forces are applied to said first and second anchor points and contracting when said inflatable structure is inflated.
2. The airbag as recited in claim 1, wherein said first and said second anchor points define a line and wherein said slits are oriented substantially perpendicular to said line.
3. The airbag as recited in claim 1, wherein said slits are arranged in at least one row.
4. The airbag as recited in claim 1, wherein said slits are arranged in plural rows and each row of slits of said plural rows of slits is offset from an adjacent row of slits.
5. The airbag as recited in claim 4, wherein said slits are longer than the distance between said plural rows.
6. An airbag, comprising:
a panel having air passages formed therein and a bottom edge;
a substantially closed inflatable structure carried by said bottom edge of said panel and having a first anchor point and an opposing second anchor point, said inflatable structure having plural slits formed therein, said plural slits being seamed to be impermeable to an inflation medium; and
a fill nozzle in fluid communication with said air passages of said panel and said tubular structure, said inflatable structure expanding when opposing forces are applied to said first and said second anchor points and contracting when said inflatable structure is inflated.
7. The airbag as recited in claim 6, wherein said first and said second anchor points define a line and wherein said slits are oriented substantially perpendicular to said line.
8. The airbag as recited in claim 6, wherein said plural slits are arranged in at least one row.
9. The airbag as recited in claim 6, wherein said plural slits are arranged in plural rows and each row of slits of said plural rows of slits is offset from an adjacent row of slits.
10. The airbag as recited in claim 9, wherein said plural slits are arranged in plural rows and wherein each slit of said plural slits is longer than the distance between said plural rows.