18 results about "Ionizing particles" patented technology

A circuit interrupter may include a plurality of mounting components comprised of an insulating material for receiving a first busbar and a second busbar component. A circuit interrupter may include an arc chamber for providing a primary arc path for a current between the first and second busbar components. A circuit interrupter may include a pyrotechnic charge and pusher component located in between the first and second busbar components and the arc chamber. The pusher component may be comprised of an insulating material and can be triggered upon detection of a fault to direct ionized particles or resulting gases toward the arc chamber.

1. The name of the design product: ionized particle flow device. 2. The use of the design product: central air conditioning ionized particle flow device for fresh air supply in hospital pathology department or other medical teaching laboratory. 3. The design points of the design product: in shape. 4. The picture or photo that best indicates the design points: perspective view.

The invention relates to an electrostatic air filter device (6), in particular for a motor vehicle (1), with a flow channel (7) for guiding an airflow (5), with an ionization device (9) for ionizing particles carried in the airflow (5), which has at least one spray electrode (10) and at least one counter electrode (11) in the flow channel (7), and with a filter element (8) for filtering out the particles from the airflow (5), which is arranged in the flow channel (7) downstream of the ionization device (9) and which has a multi-layered filter body (13) with at least one particle filter layer (14) and at least one electrically conductive layer (15). The separation efficiency of the air filter device (9) can be improved, especially in the long term, by electrically connecting the at least one electrically conductive layer (15) to the at least one counter electrode (11) via an electrical resistor (16).

An ionic propulsion system for an aircraft having an airfoil includes a first conductor and a second conductor, the first conductor and the second conductor being disposed at least partially within the airfoil when not in use. The propulsion system includes an actuator for extending the first conductor and the second conductor from an end of the airfoil such that the first conductor and the second conductor are in the airstream of the aircraft, the first conductor being upstream of the second conductor in the airstream. The propulsion system includes a power supply for supplying current to the first conductor and the second conductor to ionize the air particles in the vicinity of the first conductor and the end of the airfoil to create a flow of the ionized particles from the first conductor toward the second conductor.

Embodiments relate to an apparatus, method, or computer program. A laser may be configured to irradiate a plurality of laser pulses on a target area to ionize a sample placed in the target area into at least one ionized particle. Electrodes at a first end of a flight tube may be configured to accelerate ionized particles into the flight tube. A detector at a second opposite end of the flight tube may independently measure a time of flight of the ionized particles through the flight tube and an intensity of the ionized particles.

The invention relates to an ionization device (11) through which an air flow (2) can flow, for ionizing particles of the air flow (2) for an air filter device (4) having an electrostatically charged particle filter element (10), in particular of an air conditioning unit (1) for a motor vehicle. The filtration effect can be improved by - that the ionisation device (11) has a filter body (15) through which the air flow (2) can flow, which has a filter material (16) through which the air flow (2) can flow and a peripheral side edge (17), - that the ionization device (11) has at least one electrically conductive side band (18) on the side edge (17) of the filter body (15), - that the ionization device (11) has electrical connections (14) for applying an electrical voltage, which are electrically connected to the sideband (18).

According to an embodiment, a plasma processing system is proposed. The plasma processing system includes a processing chamber for plasma; a two-chambered pumping block linked to the chamber through an orifice that creates a particle beam via a pressure difference, with the upper pressure regulated by a connected vacuum pump; a detector stage attached to the pumping block through another orifice and connectable to a vacuum pump to guide the beam through a third orifice; a mass spectrometer connected to the detector stage via the third orifice, featuring an ionizer that ionizes the beam's species by cycling through energy levels in multiple steps; and a shutter installed in the pumping block's path of the particle beam, designed to operate at each energy level step.

An electrostatic air filter system, in particular for a motor vehicle is provided, which has a flow channel for an air flow, an ionizer for ionizing particles in the air flow that contains at least one discharge electrode and at least one counter electrode in the flow channel, a filter element for filtering particles out of the air flow that is downstream of the ionizer in the flow channel and contains a multilayer filter with at least one particle filter layer and at least one electrically conductive layer. The filtration capacity of the air filter system can be improved, in particular over time, in that the at least one conductive layer is connected to the at least one counter electrode by a resistor.

The invention relates to an intraoperative probe for guiding an excision tool, comprising a detection head, said detection head comprising a plurality of optical fibers each coupled to a photodetector characterized in that said optical fibers are transparent and scintillator-free, the proximal end of each of said transparent fibers is optically coupled with a single continuous scintillator optically coupled to a light guide, capable of capturing beta and / or gamma particles and emitting light in response to this interaction, the distal end of each of said transparent fibers is coupled to a photodetector, and in that said intraoperative probe is associated with a signal processing system, configured to analyze the signals delivered by said photodetectors.comprising: a means for temporal coincidence analysis of said signals delivered by said photodetectors to discriminate real events from thermal noise; a processing means enabling the reconstruction of the interaction position of particles in said continuous scintillator from the distribution of light transmitted by said optical fibers. Figure of the abstract: 1,

A filter for filtering air for an internal combustion engine and a method of operation are described herein. The air pre-cleaner (100) is configured to move ionized particles (128) toward an inner wall (126) of the air pre-cleaner (100) using electrostatic attraction or repulsion, where the particles (128) ultimately exit the air pre-cleaner (100) through the particle outlet (120). Particles (128) are ionized using a positively charged plate and a negatively charged plate. The positively charged plate generates a positively charged field (134A), thereby generating positive ions that ionize particles (128) in the air to positively charge. The negatively charged plate generates a negatively charged field (134B), thereby generating negative ions that ionize particles (128) in the air to negatively charge. The air pre-cleaner (100) may also include a cyclone section (104) that rotates the air about a central axis of the air pre-cleaner (100) to apply a centripetal force to the particles (128). The centripetal force and the electrostatic force act together to filter air.

A system for generating thrust includes a thruster body having a funnel and an ion accelerator. The funnel has an opening at a first end of the thruster body and is configured to receive neutral particles and cause ionization of the neutral particles, resulting in corresponding ions and electrons. The ion accelerator extends from the funnel to a second end of the thruster body and is configured to receive the ionized particles from the funnel and cause ejection of the ionized particles from an opening at the second end of the thruster body, generating thrust.

The invention relates to an on-line detection device and a detection method for high dose of electron irradiation, a vacuum chamber is enclosed by a vacuum shell, the outer wall of the vacuum shell is provided with a mounting port, a titanium-based vacuum film window is mounted in the mounting port, a water cooling plate covers the mounting port, the water cooling plate is provided with a collimation hole, and the collimation hole is communicated with the titanium-based vacuum film window. The collimation hole penetrates through the water cooling plate and corresponds to the titanium-based vacuum film window, the detection assembly is arranged in the vacuum chamber, and the detection assembly corresponds to the collimation hole; the signal reading device is arranged outside the vacuum shell, and the signal reading device is connected with the detection assembly; the detection process comprises the following steps: a target detection electron enters the Faraday cup-signal reading device to read a current signal; the titanium-based vacuum film window allows efficient penetration of electrons while maintaining internal and external pressure difference in the vacuum chamber, so that gas ionization particles are effectively prevented from entering a detection range, and the technical problem that the intensity of a target detection electron beam cannot be detected in an atmospheric environment is solved; and meanwhile, the detection accuracy is improved.

The invention relates to an intraoperative probe for guiding an excision tool, the intraoperative probe comprising a detection head configured to detect beta particles and / or gamma radiation, the detection head comprising: • a single continuous scintillator (10) able to interact with beta and / or gamma particles and to emit, in response to the interaction, scintillation photons; • a plurality of photodetectors (30), and wherein the intraoperative probe is associated with a signal processing system configured to analyze the signals delivered by the photodetectors (30), the signal processing system comprising: • means for time-coincidence analysis of the signals delivered by a plurality of photodetectors (30), in order to discriminate actual interaction events from thermal noise of the photodetectors; • processing means configured to reconstruct an interaction position of the particles in the continuous scintillator (10) from the relative spatial distribution of the light signals detected by the plurality of photodetectors (30).

The present invention relates to a cleaning device (1) for cleaning air, which has a filter element (2) with a filter (8) for filtering particles from the air and an ionizer device (4) for ionizing particles in the air. The filter (8) has successive longitudinal folds (12) and a transverse fold (14) which contacts at least two of the longitudinal folds (12), wherein a contact element (18) is electrically connected to the transverse fold (14) and thus electrically connects the longitudinal folds (12) via the transverse fold (14) to a counter electrode (6) of the ionizer device (4). The invention also relates to a ventilation device (100) with such a cleaning device (1)

In an ionizing particle detection module, an ionizing particle traversing an ionization chamber produces a local ionization in an ionizable medium within the ionization chamber. A matrix of detection pads face the ionization chamber so that respective detection pads cover respective zones in the ionization chamber. Respective detection channels comprise respective mutually exclusive groups of detection pads. A detection channel provides an indication of a local ionization occurring somewhere within the respective zones in the ionization chamber covered by the respective detection pads of the detection channel. A cluster of detection pads is identified among the detection pads belonging to detection channels simultaneously providing indications of local ionization. A traversing point indication is provided on the basis of the cluster that has been identified if the cluster comprises a predefined minimum number of detection pads. The traversing point indication indicating where the ionizing particle has traversed the ionization chamber.

According to an embodiment, a plasma processing system is proposed. The plasma processing system includes a processing chamber for plasma; a two-chambered pumping block linked to the chamber through an orifice that creates a particle beam via a pressure difference, with the upper pressure regulated by a connected vacuum pump; a detector stage attached to the pumping block through another orifice and connectable to a vacuum pump to guide the beam through a third orifice; a mass spectrometer connected to the detector stage via the third orifice, featuring an ionizer that ionizes the beam's species by cycling through energy levels in multiple steps; and a shutter installed in the pumping block's path of the particle beam, designed to operate at each energy level step.

The invention relates to an air filter device (1) for filtering an airflow (2), preferably for introducing it into a vehicle interior (3), comprising a housing (4) having a channel (5) for guiding the airflow (2), an ionization device (6) for ionizing particles carried in the airflow (2), which has an electrode (7) electrically connected to a first electrical potential (I) and a counter electrode (8) electrically connected to a second electrical potential (II) for generating a corona discharge (9), and a particle filter element (11) replaceably inserted into the channel (5), which has an electrical contact surface (12) and a filter material (13) comprising a particle filter layer (14) and an electrically conductive layer (15) electrically connected to the respective contact surface (12).wherein the housing (4) has a contact device (16) for electrically connecting the electrically conductive layer (15) to the second potential (II), which has a contact element (17) electrically connected to the second potential (II) and which rests against the contact surface (12). The functional reliability can be improved by having the respective contact element (17) rest against the contact surface (12) transversely to a mounting direction (18) of the particle filter element (11), wherein the respective contact element (17) rests against the respective contact surface (12) under preload.

The invention relates to an air filter device and a motor vehicle, in particular an electrostatic air filter device for a motor vehicle (1), comprising: a flow channel (7) for conducting an air flow (5); an ionization device (9) for ionizing particles carried in the air flow (5), having at least one corona electrode (10) and at least one counter electrode (11) in the flow channel (7); and a filter element (8) for filtering particles from the air flow (5), which filter element is arranged downstream of the ionization device (9) in the flow channel (7) and has a multi-layer filter body (13) with at least one particle filter layer (14) and at least one electrically conductive layer (15). The separation performance of the air filter device (9) can be improved, in particular with respect to the duration, in that the at least one electrically conductive layer (15) is electrically connected to the at least one counter electrode (11) via an electrical resistor (16).