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Plasma device and plasma generating method

US6967622B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 17, 2002
Grant dateNov 22, 2005
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Expiry dateJan 17, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH05H1/46
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A plasma apparatus includes a slot antenna (30) supplying an electromagnetic field to a container in which plasma is generated. Slot antenna (30) has a slot (36) so formed that a radiation plane (31) at a periphery B thereof allows the electromagnetic field to provide radiation smaller per unit area in amount than at an intermediate region C thereof located between a center A and periphery B thereof.

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