US Patent 7684543 X-ray beam conditioning device and X-ray analysis apparatus

An X-ray beam conditioning device that has a crystal holder and a motor is provided. The crystal holder supports a first crystal block and a second crystal block, each of which diffracts X-ray by a specific diffraction angle. The motor can rotate the crystal holder around an axis extending at right angles to a plane including an optical axis of X-ray and can fixedly support the crystal holder at the rotated position. The crystal holder holds the first and second crystal blocks at such angles to each other such that both crystal blocks diffract X-ray. The optical axes of the two crystal blocks can be adjusted by rotating the crystal holder about the axis, that is, the only one axis.