Patent ID: 7737382
Filing Date: 2010-06-15
Classification: B23K,C23F,H05H

Abstract:
1. A wire cleaning device having an outer surface with a given diameter and moving along a given path in a given direction, said device comprising: a conductive contact tube surrounding said path and electrically engageable with said wire as it moves along said path and through said contact tube; a dielectric sleeve adjacent said contact tube and extending in said given direction from said contact tube and around said path to define a passage between said dielectric sleeve and said wire; a cleaning gas inlet to said passage adjacent said contact tube to flow cleaning gas in said passage in said given direction; a conductive electrode sleeve around said dielectric sleeve; and terminals on said electrode sleeve and said contact tube to connect a power source, which generates a high frequency, between said electrode sleeve and said contact tube to create a plasma of said cleaning gas in said passage, wherein said dielectric sleeve is transparent; a sealed light emitting cylindrical chamber concentric with said path and located between said conductive electrode sleeve and said dielectric sleeve; wherein said chamber is filled with a light emitting gas with molecules electrically excited by said power source.