187 results about "Plasma channel" patented technology

An electrosurgical device to generate a plasma stream for performing electrosurgery on a surgical site on a patient comprising an electrosurgical generator coupled to a electrical power source to supply power to the electrosurgical device and a plasma generator including an electrode operatively coupled to the electrosurgical generator to receive electrical energy therefrom and concentrically disposed within an inner noble gas conduit to form a plasma channel coupled to a noble gas source to feed noble gas to the inner noble gas conduct, an intermediate electronegative gas conduit disposed in surrounding coaxial relation relative to the noble gas conduit to cooperatively form an electronegative gas channel therebetween coupled to a gas source to feed electronegative gas to the electronegative gas channel and an outer aspiration conduit disposed in surrounding coaxial relation relative to the intermediate electronegative gas conduit to cooperatively form an aspiration channel therebetween coupled to a negative pressure source such that the electrode heats the noble gas to at least partially ionize the noble gas to generate the plasma stream to be directed to the surgical site to perform the surgical procedure while the electronegative gas maintains or sustains the plasma stream and the negative pressure source removes fluid and solid debris from the surgical site.

Material is removed from a body of material, e.g. to create a bore hole, by plasma channel drilling. High voltage, high energy, rapid rise time electrical pulses are delivered many times per second to an electrode assembly in contact with the material body to generate therein elongate plasma channels which expand rapidly following electrical breakdown of the material causing the material to fracture and fragment.

According to one aspect, the invention relates to a device (1, 2, 3) for laser nanomachining a sample made of a material having a given transparency band, the device comprising: a focusing module (203, 703) allowing a nondiffracting beam (210, 710) to be generated, along a focusing line generally oriented along the optical axis of the focusing module, from a given incident beam; first means (202, 702) for emitting a first light pulse (I₁) of spectral band comprised in the transparency band of said material, able to generate in said material, after focusing by said focusing module, a plasma of free charges along said focusing line via multiphoton absorption, thus forming a “plasma channel”; and second means (202, 702) for emitting at least one second electromagnetic wave (I₂) of spectral band comprised in the transparency band of said material, which wave(s) is/are intended to be spatially superposed on said plasma channel in order to heat said material via absorption by the free charges of the plasma.

Systems and methods are described for forming continuous laser filaments in transparent materials. A burst of ultrafast laser pulses is focused such that a beam waist is formed external to the material being processed without forming an external plasma channel, while a sufficient energy density is formed within an extended region within the material to support the formation of a continuous filament, without causing optical breakdown within the material. Filaments formed according to this method may exhibit lengths exceeding up to 10 mm. In some embodiments, an aberrated optical focusing element is employed to produce an external beam waist while producing distributed focusing of the incident beam within the material. Various systems are described that facilitate the formation of filament arrays within transparent substrates for cleaving/singulation and/or marking. Optical monitoring of the filaments may be employed to provide feedback to facilitate active control of the process.

A full color fiber plasma display device includes two glass plates sandwiched around a top fiber array and a bottom fiber array. The top and bottom fiber arrays are substantially orthogonal and define a structure of the display, with the top fiber array disposed on a side facing towards a viewer. The top fiber array includes identical top fibers, each top fiber including two sustain electrodes located near a surface of the top fiber on a side facing away from the viewer. A thin dielectric layer separates the sustain electrodes from the plasma channel formed by a bottom fiber array. The bottom fiber array includes three alternating bottom fibers, each bottom fiber including a pair of barrier ribs that define the plasma channel, an address electrode located near a surface of the plasma channel, and a phosphor layer coating on the surface of the plasma channel, wherein a luminescent color of the phosphor coating in each of the three alternating bottom fibers represents a subpixel color of the plasma display. Each subpixel is formed by a crossing of one top fiber and one corresponding bottom fiber. The plasma display is hermetically sealed with a glass frit. The sustain and address electrodes are brought out through the glass frit for direct connection to a drive control system.

Systems and methods are described for forming continuous curved laser filaments in transparent materials. The filaments are preferably curved and C-shaped. Filaments may employ other curved profiles (shapes). A burst of ultrafast laser pulses is focused such that a beam waist is formed external to the material being processed without forming an external plasma channel, while a sufficient energy density is formed within an extended region within the material to support the formation of a continuous filament, without causing optical breakdown within the material. Filaments formed according to this method may exhibit lengths in the range of 100 μm-10 mm. An aberrated optical focusing element is employed to produce an external beam waist while producing distributed focusing of the incident beam within the material. Optical monitoring of the filaments may be employed to provide feedback to facilitate active control of the process.

An electrosurgical device to generate a plasma stream and method to perform endoscopic or laparoscopic surgery within a patient's body comprising an electrosurgical generator coupled to a electrical power source to supply power to the electrosurgical device and a plasma generator including an electrode operatively coupled to the electrosurgical generator to receive electrical energy therefrom and concentrically disposed within an inner noble gas conduit to form a plasma channel coupled to a noble gas source to feed noble gas to the inner noble gas conduit and an outer electronegative gas conduit disposed in surrounding coaxial relation relative to the inner noble gas conduit to cooperatively form an electronegative gas channel therebetween coupled to a gas source to feed electronegative gas to the electronegative gas channel or an outer aspiration conduit disposed in surrounding coaxial relation relative to the inner noble gas conduit to cooperatively form an aspiration channel therebetween coupled to a negative pressure source such that the electrode heats the noble gas to at least partially ionize the noble gas to generate the plasma stream to be directed to the surgical site to perform the surgical procedure while the electronegative gas sustains the plasma stream at the surgical site and dilutes the noble gas adjacent the surgical site or the negative pressure source removes fluid and solid debris from the surgical site respectively.

A plasma generating apparatus including a plurality of plasma source modules. Each plasma source module includes a ferrite core having high magnetic permeability and a plasma channel through which plasma may pass. The plasma generating apparatus may effectively generate and uniformly distribute large-area and high-density plasma without a dielectric window.

A device and a method for plasma spraying are disclosed. The device comprises, a cathode, an anode, a plasma channel formed by the anode and intermediate electrodes, and one or more flowable material injectors. The plasma channel has a throttling portion that divides the plasma channel into a high pressure portion near the cathode formed by at least one intermediate electrode and a low pressure portion near the anode. During operation, a plasma generating gas is heated by the arc maintained between the cathode and the anode, forming plasma. When the plasma passes through the throttling portion, its speed increases to a supersonic speed, and at the same time its static pressure drops. Flowable materials are injected in the plasma flow in the low pressure portion. The particles in the flowable materials are heated by the plasma and the resultant heated particles and plasma are output from the outlet of the plasma channel.

A device and a method for generating a truly pulsed plasma flow are disclosed. The device includes a cathode assembly comprising a cathode and a cathode holder, an anode, and two or more intermediate electrodes, the anode and the intermediate electrodes forming a plasma channel expanding toward the anode. The intermediate electrode closest to the cathode may form a plasma chamber around the cathode tip. An extension nozzle forming an extension channel having a tubular insulator along at least a portion of its interior surface is affixed to the anode end of the device. During operation, a voltage is applied between the cathode and the anode and a current is passed through the cathode, the plasma, and the anode. The voltage and current profiles are selected to cause the rapid development of a plasma flow with required characteristics. A substantially uniform temperature and power density distribution of the plasma pulse is achieved in the extension nozzle. Additionally, ozone may be generated in the extension nozzle during the generation of the plasma pulse.

The invention discloses an electric pulse rock-breaking dill bit and an experimental facility thereof. The electric pulse rock-breaking experimental facility comprises a confining pressure pumping station, a pulsed power supply, a PLC control device, a confining pressure cylinder horizontal-moving device, a water inlet and outlet pump, a confining pressure cylinder assembly, a high-pressure electric pulse rock-breaking drill bit body, and the like. The high-voltage pulsed power supply is used for transmitting high-voltage pulse electricity from a high voltage electrode to a low voltage electrode through a cable, the high-voltage pulse electricity meeting certain conditions breaks through rocks firstly to generate a discharge channel, a plasma channel expands when heated, when the pressureexceeds the stress intensity of the rocks, and the rocks are broken and the high-voltage pulse discharge drilling is realized. The high-pressure electric pulse rock-breaking experimental facility cansimulate the high voltage environment of deep drilling in the earth, electric pulse drilling experiments carried out on high temperature and high pressure deep wells and ultra-deep wells are more close to actual drilling environments, experimental studies on the geometrical shape, distribution, spacing and electrode materials of electrodes of high-voltage electric pulse rock-breaking drill bit inthe deep wells and the ultra-deep wells can be realized, and the high-voltage pulse discharge drilling has broad development prospects.

The invention relates to a method to generate three refraction rates plasma photonic crystal, which uses the following discharge device to reach the goal: the basic structure of discharge device includes two symmetric closed dielectric containers, and between the two containers setting the discharge gap, in the containers, setting discharge electrode fuses, and importing the water into the containers to form the discharge electrodes; by changing the discharge conditions, including changing the applied voltage frequency and amplitude, and the discharge gap shape border and aspect ratio, discharging will produce three refraction rates plasma photonic crystal structure with different cycles, and different lattice constants. Since the electronic density in the plasma channel has the three orders of 1015cm, theoretical studies indicating that such high electronic density is enough to enable the plasma photonic crystal having band gap structure, to prevent the spread of certain frequency lights, and having frequency-selective optical switching function, which has a broad application prospects in the industrial field.

An apparatus for separating plasma by which plasma can be separated from a small amount of whole blood cell sample without centrifugation is disclosed. This apparatus includes a blood channel through which blood flows; and a plasma channel through which plasma separated from said blood flows. The plasma channel is arranged at least partially in parallel with said blood channel and the blood channel and the plasma channel are at least partially in contact with each other along the longitudinal direction of the channels. Blood is made to flow at a flow rate at which blood cell components in the blood flowing through the blood channel axially accumulate and at which hemolysis does not occur. The plasma moves to the plasma channel after being separated into a blood cell layer and a plasma layer.

A plasma generating apparatus having superior plasma generation efficiency that uses a single reaction chamber. The plasma generating apparatus includes a RF generator for providing a RF power, an antenna for generating an electromagnetic field upon receiving the RF power, a reaction chamber for exciting/ionizing a reaction gas via the electromagnetic field, and generating a plasma, and a plasma channel for absorbing the RF power, and allowing a current signal to be induced to the plasma.

The invention relates to a plasma drilling bit in the field of drilling bit tools. The technical scheme adopted by the invention is that a fluid passageway and an electrode through hole which respectively and axially communicated are preformed in a bit body; a high-voltage positive electrode and insulators are fixedly connected with the interior of the electrode through hole; the bottom part of the bit body is fixedly connected with an annular ground electrode; the bottom part of the high-voltage positive electrode is provided with a high-voltage panel mounting electrode; an annular interelectrode gap is reserved between the high-voltage panel mounting electrode and the annular ground electrode. The bit penetrates a plasma channel formed in front of to-be-drilled rock under the high-voltage pulse liquid phase microdischarge action to crush the rock, and does not need to be contacted with the surface of the rock, and mechanical lapping is not needed. The plasma drilling bit disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the abrasion of the bit can be reduced, the rate of penetration is increased, and the required energy is low; compared with the conventional mechanical rotary bit, the plasma drilling bit is low in cost and high in efficiency, and can also be applied to industry of mining and the like.

The invention discloses an adjustment and control device and method for an ultra intense and ultra short laser pulse super-continuum spectrum. After passing through a variable attenuation sheet and a time delay line, a beam of laser G (t) irradiates to a concave mirror in parallel with another beam of laser G (f) passing through a movable reflector; and G (t) and G (f) are reflected through the concave mirror and then crossed and focused. In a plasma channel produced by laser filamentation, a space plasma grating is formed because of double light beam interference; the super-continuum spectrum produced during the filamentation can be enhanced by using the plasma grating; and control and transfer of the energy of the super-continuum spectrum between the two beams of laser can be realized. According to the method and the device provided by the invention, the spectrum of the ultra short pulse can be actively controlled in an ultra intense laser field; and an involved light path has a simple structure and is convenient for adjustment.

The invention discloses a pulse type large beam spot electron beam generating device, belonging to the technical field of modification of material surfaces. The device consists of a high-voltage pulse power supply, a time sequence control circuit, an electronic gun and a vacuum chamber. The vacuum chamber is controlled by discharging time sequence of the high-voltage pulse power supply after reaching working pressure; a magnetic field formed in the electronic gun confines the discharge of a plasma anode; a plasma channel is formed between the cathode and the anode of the electronic gun; and the cathode is applied with high-voltage negative pulse so as to form electronic emission on the cathode surface and obtain the pulse electron beam with large beam spots. The device can generate electron beam with accelerating voltage of 20 to 35kV, the pulse duration of 2 to 4Mus, the beam spot area with the diameter of 60mm and repetition frequency of 0.1Hz, and the average energy density of the beam spot is 1 to 6J/cm. The pulse type large beam spot electron beam generating device also has the advantages of reasonable design, simple structure, high degree of automation and the like and is applicable to research and application of modification technique of the material surface.

The invention relates to a device for producing novel plasma photonic crystal with five refractive indexes and a method for producing the novel plasma photonic crystal with five refractive indexes. The discharging condition is that the thickness of a discharging gap is 2.0mm, impressed voltage is 3.5-5.1kV, frequency is 55-60kHz, discharging gas is 99.1%-99.9%Ar, the remainder is air, air gap pressure is 0.6-0.8atm, temperature range is 285-320K, and humidity range is 70%-90%. According to the device and method, the conditions of the discharging gap, the impressed voltage amplitude and frequency, the content of argon and the like are changed, while the size of a water electrode is optimized, a temperature control adjusting device and a humidity control adjusting device are added, and four types of plasma channels formed by a plasma sheet, a thick plasma column and two types of plasma columns are obtained. The novel plasma photonic crystal structure with the five refractive indexes is formed by the plasma channels and a periodic arrangement self-organization in a non-discharging area. The novel plasma photonic crystal structure is more complex and has wider application prospects.