US 12,352,709 B2
Flexible digital detector array
Kwang Hyup An, Fulshear, TX (US); and Steven Wissels, Berchem (BE)
Assigned to Baker Hughes Holdings LLC, Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Baker Hughes Holdings LLC, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/098,353.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/315,122, filed on Mar. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0280288 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. G01N 23/18 (2018.01); G01N 23/083 (2018.01); H04N 25/30 (2023.01)
CPC G01N 23/18 (2013.01) [G01N 23/083 (2013.01); H04N 25/30 (2023.01); G01N 2223/501 (2013.01); G01N 2223/628 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a control system including a block control module including block control circuitry, a gate control module including gate control circuitry, and at least one data module including data circuitry, wherein the block control module and the gate control module are configured to execute a multiplexing operation; and
a flexible substrate coupled to the control system at an edge of the flexible substrate via a plurality of connectors, the flexible substrate including
a switching area including a plurality of switching pixels arranged within a plurality of blocks, each switching pixel communicatively coupled to the block control module via the block control circuitry and to the gate control module via the gate control circuitry; and
a sensing area including an array of sensing pixels, the array of sensing pixels configured to generate image data responsive to X-rays incident thereon and provide the image data to the at least one data module via the data circuitry, wherein each switching pixel of the plurality of switching pixels controls a read state of a portion of the array of sensing pixels.