Abstract:
To realize a reduction in size of an electromagnetic wave heating system that utilizes water vapor. The electromagnetic wave heating system comprises a heat chamber having a first wall surface and a second wall surface different from the first wall surface, in which an object is placed to be heated, a flat antenna arranged on the first wall surface of the heat chamber and configured to emit an electromagnetic wave so as to heat an object inside the heating chamber, a discharger arranged on the second wall surface and configured to generate a discharge plasma by occurring a high voltage through a resonation structure of the electromagnetic wave, and an oscillator formed by a semiconductor element and configured to output the electromagnetic wave, and it is configured that the electromagnetic wave outputted from the oscillator is supplied into the flat antenna and the discharger.
Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electromagnetic wave emission device in which the destination to which an electromagnetic wave is supplied can be switched among a plurality of emission antennas, wherein there are no problems such as breakage of a switching element even in a case where a large-power electromagnetic wave is emitted. The present invention is an electromagnetic wave emission device characterized by the following: an electromagnetic wave output from an electromagnetic wave generator is distributed to a plurality of emission antennas, and then from among the plurality of emission antennas, a target antenna having plasma nearby is supplied with an electromagnetic wave distributed to the target antenna and all or part of the electromagnetic waves reflected by the emission antennas other than the target antenna; and the all or part of the electromagnetic waves distributed to the target antenna and all or part of the electromagnetic waves supplied to the target antenna after reflection by the emission antennas other than the target antenna are emitted from the target antenna to the plasma.
Abstract:
The present invention addresses the issue of improving generation efficiency of plasma in relation to usage power in a plasma generation apparatus. The present invention is directed to a plasma generation apparatus provided with an electromagnetic wave emission antenna and a discharge electrode. The plasma generation apparatus includes a plasma control device that controls generation of plasma, and is characterized that the plasma control device causes the electromagnetic wave emission antenna to intermittently emit electromagnetic waves by way of a drive sequence control. Especially, the plasma control device may preferably control an oscillating frequency, a power, output timing, a pulse width, a pulse cycle, and a duty cycle of the electromagnetic waves.
Abstract:
A spark plug adopting an electromagnetic-wave-resonation-structure, efficiently ignites fuel inside a combustion chamber. The spark plug comprises a center electrode configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave having a discharge electrode, the discharge electrode mounted on a distal end of the center electrode, a casing member surrounding a periphery of the center electrode and the discharge electrode and a tip end part thereof functioning as a ground electrode so as to become in pair with the discharge electrode, and a vent configured to allow for an aerial passage is provided at a tip end of the casing member. At that time, the vent can be formed in a slit manner or in a hole type.
Abstract:
Measuring equipment is equipped with: a measurement container having formed therein a chamber to be measured, into which a gas to be measured enters, and an inlet passage, through which the gas to be measured is introduced into the chamber to be measured; and a connection structure which, when a plug is not mounted to a plughole that opens into a combustion chamber in an internal combustion engine, connects the inlet passage to the plughole. The measurement container may be provided with a plasma generation device, which generates plasma in the chamber to be measured, or a mounting structure for mounting a heating device, which heats the gas to be measured in the chamber to be measured.
Abstract:
An erosion of an electrode is prevented in a spark plug that performs an ignition by use of a spark discharge and an electromagnetic wave. The spark plug that a pulse voltage for a spark discharge and an electromagnetic wave supplied into the spark discharge as an energy are applied to a center electrode, the spark plug comprises the center electrode, an insulator including an axis hole into which the center electrode is engaged, a ground electrode configured to form a space between the ground electrode and the center electrode in which the spark discharge is generated, and a cylindrical conductor that is arranged at an outer circumference of the insulator, and an annular member is formed at an inner circumference of the cylindrical conductor and at a position where a distance from a distal end surface of the cylindrical conductor is within a range between ⅛ wavelength and ¼ wavelength of the electromagnetic wave.
Abstract:
A plasma generating device that improves plasma generating efficiency can further accommodate changes in plasma generating state because of changes in conditions of surroundings and the like. The plasma generating device is provided with an electromagnetic wave radiating device, which has an electromagnetic wave generating device that oscillates electromagnetic waves and a radiating antenna that radiates electromagnetic waves oscillated by the electromagnetic wave generating device, and a control device that controls the electromagnetic wave radiating device. The electromagnetic wave radiating device is provided with a power detector that detects traveling wave power output by the electromagnetic wave generating device and reflected wave power reflected from the radiating antenna, and the control device automatically controls the oscillation pattern for the electromagnetic waves on the basis of the proportion of the value for the reflected wave power to the value for the traveling wave power detected by the power detector.
Abstract:
The antenna structure has a high frequency wave transmission line that transmits a high frequency wave and an emission antenna part for emitting the high frequency wave supplied via the high frequency wave transmission line. The emission antenna part includes a metal antenna having a rod-like shape and a ceramic layer that covers at least a part of the metal antenna.
Abstract:
To heat an object locally by automatically recognizing a shape of the object and emitting an electromagnetic wave based on the shape without enlarging a device size. An electromagnetic wave heating system comprises a heat chamber having a wall surface, in which an object is placed to be heated, a flat antenna arranged on the wall surface of the heat chamber and configured to emit the electromagnetic wave so as to heat the object inside the heat chamber, and a controller configured to control a movement of the flat antenna. The flat antenna comprises a plurality of antennas arranged in an array manner, and the controller detects a shape or a temperature distribution of the object based on a reflected power that is generated when the electromagnetic wave is emitted from the plurality of antennas, and determines a size of microwave supplied into each of the plurality of antennas based on a detection result thereof.
Abstract:
An ignition system improves an air-fuel-ratio, i.e., good mileage and lean burn without changing a gasoline engine structure significantly. The ignition system comprises an electromagnetic wave generator including a first output part and a second output part configured to output an electromagnetic wave, a discharge device comprising a booster and a discharger provided at an output side of the booster, the booster having a resonance structure configured to boost an electromagnetic wave inputted from the first output part so as to cause a discharge from the discharger, and an electromagnetic wave emitter configured to emit an electromagnetic wave inputted from the second output part. The electromagnetic wave generator decreases an output power from the first output part, while the electromagnetic wave generator increases the output power from the second output part when an amount of a reflected wave from the discharge device exceeds a predetermined value.