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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To mitigate or eliminate the problem of uncombusted fuel being exhausted outside of a cylinder in cases when combustion of the air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber has been inadequate.SOLUTION: In an expansion stroke, high voltage is applied to a spark plug 13 via a spark coil, igniting the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber with a spark discharge generated by the spark plug 13 to cause combustion. In the expansion stroke, a microwave electric field is generated in the combustion chamber before opening timing of an exhaust valve 16 coming during the final period of the expansion stroke, causing plasma to be generated and grow in the combustion chamber. An antenna 17 for radiating microwaves is disposed closer to a bottom dead point side than an intermediate point between a top dead point and the bottom dead point in the cylinder 1.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To mitigate or eliminate the problem of uncombusted fuel being exhausted outside of a cylinder in cases when combustion of the air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber has been inadequate.SOLUTION: In an expansion stroke, high voltage is applied to a spark plug via a spark coil, igniting the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber with a spark discharge generated by the spark plug to cause combustion. When a worsening of combustion conditions is detected during the expansion stroke, a microwave electric field is generated in the combustion chamber before the exhaust valve opening timing coming during the final period of the expansion stroke, causing plasma to be generated and grow in the combustion chamber.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve fuel efficiency by configuring a spark-ignition internal combustion engine in such a manner that plasma produced on ignition is diffused into an entire combustion chamber.SOLUTION: An ignition device for a spark-ignition internal combustion engine includes an ignition plug and a transmitting antenna that is disposed near the ignition plug and transmits electric waves into a combustion chamber; and the device generates plasma by reacting spark discharge generated between a center electrode and a ground electrode of the ignition plug with an electric field generated in the combustion chamber via the transmitting antenna to ignite an air-fuel mixture. A receiving antenna for receiving electric waves transmitted from the transmitting antenna is disposed on at least one of an intake suction valve and an exhaust valve on a surface facing the inside of the combustion chamber.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an internal combustion engine, the device capable of appropriately suppressing degradation in a combustion state of a compression ignition type internal combustion engine.SOLUTION: The control device carries out multi-stage injection in one cylinder during one combustion cycle of an engine 10 by allowing a fuel injection valve 32 to perform a main injection and a pilot injection preceding the main injection. The control device carries out a pilot division injection process to energize to operate the fuel injection valve 32 in such a manner that the pilot injection is divided into multiple micro-injections and that each fuel spray formed by the first micro-injection of the multiple micro-injections is connected to fuel sprays formed by micro-injections following the first micro-injection of the multiple micro-injections.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a measurement apparatus for acquiring measurement data in time series which enhances time resolution of the measurement data.SOLUTION: The measurement apparatus comprises: a sensor 31 for detecting a predetermined physical quantity or the variation of a physical quantity; a memory 34 for acquiring measurement data of the sensor in time series and storing the measurement data during measurement operation, a measurement device for outputting the measurement data stored in the memory 34 after the measurement operation to the outside by radio; and a receiver for receiving the transmitted measurement data and outputting a command to start the measurement operation to the measurement device by radio. The measurement apparatus receives the command to start the measurement operation and starts the measurement operation.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize ignition, improve flame propagation speed, improve output, purify exhaust gas, stably ignite a non-uniform air-fuel mixture, improve a fuel consumption rate, or the like, by performing stable and highly-efficient combustion and reaction, even if a rate of fuel in an air-fuel mixture is lowered to burn and react a lean air-fuel mixture, in a heat engine such as a reciprocating engine, a rotary engine, a jet engine and a gas turbine, or a plasma device.SOLUTION: The following cycle is repeated. After a microwave is radiated from a microwave radiation antenna 1 into a combustion/reaction chamber 8 to thereby perform plasma discharge in the combustion/reaction chamber 8, a discharge section 2 performs discharge and ignition with respect to the air-fuel mixture, and then, the microwave is radiated from the microwave radiation antenna 1 into the combustion/reaction chamber 8 to thereby perform the plasma discharge within a combustion/reaction area.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel concentration measuring device and a fuel concentration measuring method capable of measuring a fuel concentration under proper measuring conditions utilizing SIBS (Spark Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy ) and a method of preparing a calibration curve for the device and the method. SOLUTION: This fuel concentration measuring device includes a discharge device 104 for generating a spark discharge, a spectrograph 112 and a detector 113 for obtaining the intensity values of light in predetermined two wavelength ranges by dispersing the light produced by the spark discharge, an emitting light intensity ratio calculation part 123 for calculating the intensity ratio of the light in the two wavelength ranges, a conversion part 125 for outputting a fuel concentration corresponding to the intensity ratio using a calibration curve 124 prepared beforehand, and a time difference controller 115 for controlling the time of measurement by the detector 113. The time difference controller 115 selects the time of measurement from the time of discharge by the discharge device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a material analyzer for conveniently inspecting whether a product can cope with an European RoHS directive in a manufacturing line or a product form at a high speed, and screening the product exceeding a regulation value. SOLUTION: The material analyzer 1000 includes: a combined microwave and plasma generation means 1003 for assisting a microplasma generated by a high voltage discharge from a spark plug with microwave energy, and converting at least a portion of a to-be-measured object into a plasma; and a spectroscopic analysis means. The plasma is generated by the plasma generation means. At least a portion of the to-be-measured object is converted into the plasma. A particular material is detected by an emission analysis using the spectroscopic analysis means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multiple discharge plasma apparatus for enhancing combustion by performing combustion promotion at a plurality of positions in a combustion chamber. SOLUTION: The multiple discharge plasma apparatus is provided with a plurality of discharge apparatuses 810 arranged on at least one of the members each of which has an electrode 811 exposed in a combustion chamber 400 and configures the combustion chamber; an antenna 820 arranged on at least one of the members configuring the combustion chamber so as to radiate electromagnetic waves to the combustion chamber; an electromagnetic wave transmission path 830, which is arranged on at least one of the members configuring the combustion chamber, with one end connected to the antenna and the other end covered with an insulating material or a dielectric material and extending to a portion in a cylinder block 100 or a cylinder head 300 at a distance from the combustion chamber; and an electromagnetic wave generating apparatus 840 which supplies the electromagnetic wave transmission path with electromagnetic waves. The multiple discharge plasma apparatus is configured such that the electrodes of the plurality of discharge apparatuses are made to discharge electricity in a compression stroke, and the electromagnetic waves supplied from the electromagnetic wave generating apparatus through the electromagnetic wave transmission path are radiated from the antenna. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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In a thermal engine or a plasma apparatus, for example, a reciprocating engine, a rotary engine, a jet engine, or a gas turbine, even when the proportion of a fuel in a fuel-air mixture is reduced followed by a combustion reaction of a lean mixture, a stable and high-efficiency combustion reaction can be realized to realize stabilized ignition, improved flame propagation speed, improved output, cleaned exhaust gas, stabilized ignition of heterogeneous fuel-air mixture, improved fuel consumption and the like. Permittivity control means for introducing water and/or exhaust gas into a combustion reaction chamber (8) to control the permittivity of a fuel-air mixture within the combustion reaction chamber (8), a microwave radiation antenna (1) for radiating microwaves into the combustion reaction chamber (8), and discharge part (2) for igniting a fuel-air mixture in the combustion reaction chamber (8) are provided. The permittivity control means controls the permittivity of the fuel-air mixture before the combustion reaction of the fuel-air mixture to match the resonance frequency of the fuel-air mixture with the frequency of the microwave.