Systems and methods for detecting failure in plasma treatment
AssigneePlasmatica Ltd.
InventorsAdam Sagiv, Amnon Lam
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Abstract
Systems, devices, methods, and computer readable media for generating plasma for treating objects may be provided. Embodiments include a housing; a plasma-generation zone within the housing configured to enable accommodation of an object; circuitry for supplying energy to carry out a plasma treatment for increasing hydrophilicity of the object to a desired level; at least one sensor configured to measure at least one plasma-activation parameter during the plasma treatment; and at least one processor configured to: determine, based on the at least one plasma-activation parameter, that the plasma treatment is below a threshold for increasing the hydrophilicity of the object to the desired level; and output a notification indicating plasma treatment failure.
Claims20
A plasma generation device for treating objects, the device comprising:
- a housing;
- a plasma-generation zone within the housing configured to enable accommodation of an object;
- circuitry for supplying energy to carry out a plasma treatment for increasing hydrophilicity of the object to a desired level;
- at least one sensor configured to measure at least one plasma-activation parameter during the plasma treatment;
- and
- at least one processor configured to:
- determine, based on the at least one plasma-activation parameter, that the plasma treatment is below a threshold for increasing the hydrophilicity of the object to the desired level;
- and
- output a notification indicating plasma treatment failure.
A method for generating plasma to treat an object, the method comprising:
- identifying entry of an object into a plasma-generation zone;
- activating circuitry for supplying energy to generate plasma in the plasma-generation zone to carry out a plasma treatment for increasing hydrophilicity of the object to a desired level;
- measuring at least one plasma-activation parameter during the plasma treatment;
- determining, based on the at least one plasma-activation parameter, that the plasma treatment is below a threshold for increasing the hydrophilicity of the object to the desired level;
- and
- outputting a notification indicating plasma treatment failure.
A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform operations for generating plasma to treat an object, the operations comprising:
- identifying entry of an object into a plasma-generation zone;
- activating circuitry for supplying energy to generate plasma in the plasma-generation zone to carry out a plasma treatment for increasing hydrophilicity of the object to a desired level;
- measuring at least one plasma-activation parameter during the plasma treatment;
- determining, based on the at least one plasma-activation parameter, that the plasma treatment is below a threshold for increasing the hydrophilicity of the object to the desired level;
- and
- outputting a notification indicating plasma treatment failure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.