Patent 7383141 was granted and assigned to Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates on June, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system, method and program product for determining the integrity of a faraday system are disclosed. The invention uses a computer infrastructure to control an automatic determination of a faraday system integrity, when the faraday system is not in operation. The determination is based on the variations on an impedance of the faraday system. An impedance of a faraday system is determined based on the discharge characteristics of a capacitor that discharges through the faraday system.