The Xplorer series - brochure

September 06, 2024 | David Campos

The Xplorer series is designed to meet the rigorous demands of modern production environments, enabling efficient and cost-effective operations. The Xplorer series allows you to inspect even minute components in detail thanks to the combination of high magnification and high-resolution capabilities, ensuring superior quality control and production reliability. The system excels with a homogeneous intensity distribution and a symmetric focal spot, delivering consistent, high-quality 3D and CT images that make defect identification easier and more accurate.

Meeting market demands

As an OEM, you face crucial challenges: delivering inspection systems on schedule, ensuring maximum reliability and throughput, and providing flexibility for end-user applications. To maintain smooth, high-volume production and meet the market’s diverse and growing demands, it’s vital to source top-quality components, respond swiftly to field requests, and offer exceptional customer service. The Comet Xplorer series is designed with these challenges in mind, offering a range of benefits that enable you to seize new opportunities and maintain a competitive edge.

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Dependable performance

The Comet Xplorer series is engineered for rigorous, 24/7 industrial applications. Featuring high power density and a wide beam in a compact design, Xplorer delivers precise imaging, easy installation, and the flexibility you require.  With a modern interface built on a new platform for future-proof integration and long-lasting performance synonymous with Comet quality, the Xplorer series maximizes uptime, providing the perfect solution for your demanding inline inspection systems.

Enhanced quality control in modern production.

The Xplorer series is designed to meet the rigorous demands of modern production environments, enabling efficient and cost-effective operations. The Xplorer series allows you to inspect even minute components in detail thanks to the combination of high magnification and high-resolution capabilities, ensuring superior quality control and production reliability. The system excels with a homogeneous intensity distribution and a symmetric focal spot, delivering consistent, high-quality 3D and CT images that make defect identification easier and more accurate.

A robust power output across the full kV range and a wide coverage beam enable efficient inspection of dense and large components at high throughput. The fully integrated and compact X-ray module minimizes the system’s footprint, making integration into production lines seamless and space-efficient. With dependable and consistent performance backed up by a global support team, the Xplorer series offers considerable advantages for any production environment.

The Cube series

1. High magnification

As inspection tasks become more challenging, the Xplorer Cube enables you to resolve small features down to a few µm with focal spot of 12 µm (JIMA resolution of 5 µm) at 8 W and a short FOD of < 11 mm allowing high magnification. This ensures even the most minute components can be thoroughly examined, leading to higher quality control and reliability in production.

2. Dynamic focusing

Thanks to dynamic focusing across the full power range, the resolution and power can be optimized to individual applications giving you the flexibility required to thrive in a changing market. 3. Image quality Homogeneous intensity distribution and highly symmetric focal spot ensure consistent, high-quality 3D and CT images with reduced artifacts, improving inspection accuracy and reliability. These features contribute to superior imaging performance, making identifying defects easier and ensuring product integrity.

4. High power output

Delivering an industry leading 65 W at 130 kV, the Xplorer 130 Cube is ideally suited to automated inline 2D and 3D inspection of PCBAs, batteries, and other electronic components. Combined with a large coverage wide beam of 115° on both axes this enables you to increase the efficiency of your production line with maximized throughput.

5. Compact & reliable design

A fully integrated X-ray module with a minimized footprint in a popular form factor, reducing space requirements and enhancing inspection quality.  This streamlined design facilitates easy integration into production lines while reliable, long-term performance and zero maintenance maximize uptime and operational efficiency.

6. Ethernet connection

Operate the module in the way that suits you best. Control of the module can be achieved either with the included GUI or via your host-controller using the provided software interface specifications. The Xplorer 130 Cube includes a modern ethernet connection supporting industry 4.0 requirements enabling you to future proof your systems and monitor the system’s performance with the extensive diagnostics provided.

"In our increasingly connected world, the demand for next-generation electronic chips and electric batteries is rising. With their intricate manufacturing processes, these rapidly expanding industries require product consistency, reliability, and safety. To enable this, the imaging capabilities of X-rays are required on the production floor. It’s for this reason that we designed the Xplorer series."

Christopher Nicholson, Product Manager for the Xplorer Series.

The Compact series

1. High magnification

As inspection tasks become more challenging, the Xplorer series enables you to resolve small features down to a few µm with a proven JIMA resolution of 5 µm at 8 W and a short FOD of < 11 mm allowing high magnification. This ensures even the most minute components can be thoroughly examined, leading to higher quality control and reliability in production.

2.Compact & reliable design

A compact and fully integrated X-ray module with a minimized footprint and improved 3D image reconstruction, reducing space requirements and enhancing inspection quality. This streamlined design facilitates easy integration into production lines while reliable, long-term performance and zero maintenance maximize uptime and operational efficiency.

3. Image quality

Homogeneous intensity distribution and highly symmetric focal spot ensure consistent, high-quality 3D and CT images with reduced artifacts, improving inspection accuracy and reliability. These features contribute to superior imaging performance, making identifying defects easier and ensuring product integrity.

4. High power output

Consistent power output between 60 and 130 kV and large coverage wide beam enable efficient inspection of dense and large components, reducing the need for multiple scans and enhancing production throughput. This robust performance supports various applications, ensuring comprehensive and cost-effective inspection solutions.

Application areas

The robust performance of the Xplorer 130 Cube supports various applications, ensuring comprehensive and cost-effective inspection solutions. 

PCB AXI

The Xplorer Series enhances your competitive profile with high-performing inspection equipment, helping you secure new business through system stability and reliability. As a trusted global supplier, Comet offers top-performing products that meet the needs of PCB AXI customers. Our high-resolution, high-stability, high power-density products provide outstanding reliability and maximize uptime due to their long lifetime and ease of replacement.

PCB Manual inspection

The Xplorer series delivers quality products at competitive prices, including entry-level models for high-potential customers entering the market. With decades of X-ray experience, we offer the expertise to help you select the most suitable Comet product for your needs and those of your customers.

Battery AXI

With a stable and reliable supply of X-ray sources, you can confidently pursue new business opportunities. Comet, as your responsive and reliable global supplier, offers competitive specifications, high quality, and best-in-class support, ensuring fast delivery of quality products you can trust. Engage with your customers early in the development process and stay ahead of upcoming requirements, knowing you can deliver on time.

PCB wires bonds. 100 kV, 100 uA.
21700 Cylindrical Cell, Assembled. 110 kV, 70 uA

Cube 130 kV

Tube type Product no. Max. power Min. resolution Focal spot control Beam coverage Comm. interface
XP-130/3-2 20131659 65 W 5 µm, JIMA Optimized over power range 115 ° * 115 ° Ethernet RJ45

X-ray module configurations

Description Product number Details
Integration kit

20134421

20140025

Power supply and cables

Connector kit unasembled  

Compact 130 kV

Tube type Product no. Max. power Min. resolution Focal spot size Beam coverage Comm. interface
XP-130/1-2_B 20125364 30 W 5 µm, JIMA

< 12 μm at 8 W

< 45 μm at 30 W

115 ° * 115 ° RS232 9-pin D-sub

Accessories

Description Product number Details
Integration kit 20134421 Power supply and cables

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