Abstract:
The plasma generation device 30 is provided with a high frequency generation device 37 that generates a high frequency wave, and a high frequency radiator 15 that radiates the high frequency wave outputted from the high frequency generation device 37 to a target space 10, and generates plasma by supplying energy of the high frequency wave to the target space 10. In the plasma generation device 30, the high frequency generation device 37 is provided with an oscillator 41 that oscillates a high frequency wave, and an amplifier 42 that amplifies and outputs the high frequency wave oscillated by the oscillator 41 to the high frequency radiator 15. In the high frequency generating device 37the amplifier 42 alone is integrated with the high frequency radiator 15, from among the oscillator 41 and the amplifier 42.
Abstract:
To provide a spark plug that can reduce power loss and prevent erosion of a tip end part of a central electrode, even in a configuration such that a discharge current and an electromagnetic wave are emitted from a terminal fitting part of the spark plug, and a plasma generation device using the spark plug. The spark plug is provided with a central electrode 2 including a terminal fitting part 2A and an electrode main body 2B electrically connected to the terminal fitting part 2A, an insulator 3 formed with an axial hole 30, which the central electrode 2 is fitted into, a main fitting 4 that surrounds the insulator 3, and a ground electrode 5 that extends from an end surface of the main fitting 4 and is adapted to form a discharge gap that causes a spark discharge between the central electrode 2 and the electrode main body 2B. The electrode main body 2B is constituted of a front electrode 25 including an electrode tip part 25a for causing the spark discharge with the ground electrode 5, a front dielectric cylinder 24 in a tube-like shape that covers the electrode tip part 25a, and a coupling conductive cylinder 23 in a tube-like shape that joins the front dielectric cylinder 24 and the terminal fitting part 2A.
Abstract:
An igniter that has a large ignition power and an electromagnetic wave resonance structure with a small reflected power is provided. An igniter comprises a first rectangular substrate and a second rectangular substrate each having a longitudinal side, and at least one intermediate substrate arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and having a longitudinal side which is shorter than each longitudinal side of the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate has an input part configured to receive an input of an electromagnetic wave from an outside, a first electrode, and an electromagnetic wave transmission line that connects the input part to the first electrode, each of the first electrode and the electromagnetic wave transmission line being provided at a surface of the first substrate on a side of the at least one intermediate substrate, the second substrate has an electromagnetic wave resonator and a second electrode that is electrically connected to the electromagnetic wave resonator, each of the electromagnetic wave resonator and a second electrode being provided at a surface of the second substrate on a side of the at least one intermediate substrate, and a space is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate at a position at which the at least one intermediate substrate does not exist therebetween, such that the first electrode and the second electrode are faced each other and located away from each other across the space and a part of the electromagnetic wave transmission line and a part of the resonator are faced each other and located away from each other across the space.
Abstract:
[Problem] To provide an ignition system for a compact internal combustion engine, which does not require a complex system or a spark plug which discharges a high voltage, and which, by using only electromagnetic waves, can efficiently generate, expand and maintain plasma. Moreover, to provide an internal combustion engine. This ignition system is characterized by comprising: an electromagnetic wave oscillator (3) which oscillates electromagnetic waves; a control device (4) that controls the electromagnetic wave oscillator (3); and a plasma generator (10) which integrates a booster circuit (5) containing a resonant circuit capacitive coupled with the electromagnetic wave oscillator (3), and a discharge electrode (6) which discharges a high voltage generated by the booster circuit (5), wherein the plasma generator (10) comprises a plurality of discharge electrodes (6) arranged so as to be exposed within the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine.
Abstract:
An injector unit that can use a gaseous fuel such as CNG in an already-existing diesel engine and a spark plug that uses the injector unit, are provided. The injector unit includes an injector, an igniter having a resonance structure configured to boost an inputted microwave and a discharger configured to perform a discharge, and a casing configured to house therein the injector and the igniter. The igniter includes a first part configured to transmit the inputted microwave, a second part configured to perform a capacity coupling to attain an impedance matching between the microwave and the igniter, and a third part configured to transmit the capacity-coupled microwave to the discharger. Moreover, the igniter is bent at a boundary of the first part and the second part, a boundary of the second part and the third part, or inside the first part.
Abstract:
In a high frequency switch device 33 that switches an output terminal 42 , from which high frequency is outputted, from among a plurality of output terminals 42, to perform the switching the output terminal 42, from which high frequency is outputted, at high speed and with low loss. In the high frequency switch device 33, a branch transmission line 45 corresponding to each output terminal 42 is provided with a switching part 46. In the branch transmission line 45, the switching part 46 includes a transmission side diode 63 that is provided in such a manner that a cathode thereof is arranged on a side of an input terminal 41 and an anode thereof is arranged on a side of the output terminal 42, and a ground side diode 65 that is provided in such a manner that a cathode thereof is grounded and an anode thereof is electrically connected between the output terminal 42 and the transmission side diode 63 in the branch transmission line 45. The branch transmission line 45 includes a first capacitor 51 and a second capacitor 52 on the side of the output terminal 42 from the transmission side diode 63 in such a manner that the anode of the ground side diode 65 is connected between the first capacitor 51 and the second capacitor 52.
Abstract:
To suppress the reflection of an electromagnetic wave from a load in a plasma generation device 30 that generates electromagnetic wave plasma by emitting the electromagnetic wave to a combustion chamber 10 of an engine 20. The plasma generation device 30 includes an electromagnetic wave oscillator 33 that oscillates the electromagnetic wave, an antenna 15a for emitting the electromagnetic wave oscillated by the electromagnetic wave oscillator to the combustion chamber 10 of the engine 20, and a stub adjustment unit 52, 53. The stub 51 is provided on a transmission line 60 for electromagnetic wave from the electromagnetic wave oscillator 33 to the antenna 15a. While the engine 20 is operating, the stub adjustment unit 52, 53 adjusts a short circuit location on the stub 51 based on the intensity of a reflected wave of the electromagnetic wave reflected from the antenna 15a.
Abstract:
A mixer for mixing pulse voltage energy and electromagnetic wave energy in the same transmission line is provided with a first input terminal to which an electromagnetic wave is inputted, a second input terminal to which pulse voltage is inputted, a mixing output terminal from which the pulse voltage and the electromagnetic wave are outputted, a bar-shaped first conductive member of which one end is electrically connected to the second input terminal and the other end is electrically connected to an inner conductor of the mixing output terminal, a cylindrical second conductive member which surrounds the first conductive member with a gap therebetween and is disposed coaxially with the first conductive member and electrically connected to an inner conductor of the first input terminal, and a cylindrical third conductive member which houses the first conductive member and the second conductive member with a gap between the second conductive member and the third conductive member and is disposed coaxially with the first conductive member and the second conductive member and electrically connected to an outer conductor of the first input terminal and an outer conductor of the mixing output terminal.