Patent ID: 6624428
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: B01J,C23C,H05B

Abstract:
Treatment device using dielectric barrier discharge lamps, comprising:a lamp chamber in which dielectric barrier discharge lamps are located and in which there is an inert gas atmosphere; a treatment chamber in which an article to be treated is located and containing a treatment gas atmosphere, and a UV transmission component by which the lamp chamber and the treatment chamber are separated from one another, wherein the lamp chamber and the treatment chamber each have a means for determining the gas pressure within the respective chamber, a means for delivering gas to within the respective chamber and a means for discharging gas therefrom, and wherein a control means is provided for regulating the pressure of the gas atmosphere within the lamp chamber and the pressure of the gas atmosphere within the treatment chamber relative to one another using gas pressures of the lamp chamber and the treatment chamber determined by said means for determining.