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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2006
Yasumasa Fujioka, Nagoya, JP;
Atsuo Kondou, Okazaki, JP;
Takeshi Sakuma, Nagoya, JP;
Masaaki Masuda, Nagoya, JP;
Kenji Dosaka, Shioya-gun, JP;
Kazuhiro Kondo, Utsunomiya, JP;
Yasumasa Fujioka, Nagoya, JP;
Atsuo Kondou, Okazaki, JP;
Takeshi Sakuma, Nagoya, JP;
Masaaki Masuda, Nagoya, JP;
Kenji Dosaka, Shioya-gun, JP;
Kazuhiro Kondo, Utsunomiya, JP;
NGK Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A plasma generating electrode capable of generating plasma with a high energy level by using a small amount of electric power is provided. The plasma generating electrode includes at least a pair of unit electrodes including a unit electrode as an anode and a unit electrode as a cathode, and can generate plasma by applying voltage, the unit electrode as an anode and the unit electrode as a cathode being disposed facing each other, and at least the unit electrode as an anode having a plate-like ceramic dielectric and a conductive film disposed in the ceramic dielectric, wherein the unit electrode as a cathode can emit secondary electrons in a number five times or greater than the number of cations (primary particles) which it receives when the cations produced in the process of plasma generation collide therewith.