Electric heating inventions 05/07

20070119821 - Wire electric discharge machining method of machining workpiece with different thickness: A wire electric discharge machining method of machining the workpiece with different thickness into a required shape with first cut and second cut. The method includes the steps of (a) detecting a position of the wire electrode relative to the workpiece, (b) detecting change in thickness of the workpiece during... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070119822 - Welding tongs: Welding tongs have two limbs which can be moved relative to one another. At least one first limb is supported such that it can be moved relative to a drive housing between an insertion position and a welding position. A work piece to be welded is clamped in the welding... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070119823 - Method for controlling weld energy: A method for controlling weld energy used in a welding process. The method includes establishing a weld energy profile having a total weld energy used over the period of the weld cycle. During the welding process, the expulsion rate is monitored and used to modify the weld energy. Based on... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070119825 - Enhanced plasma filter: A device is provided for adiabatically compressing a plasma stream and maintaining the plasma stream in the compressed state. The device has a plasma compression region; a first plurality of electromagnets positioned around the plasma compression region for compressing the plasma stream; a reaction region positioned down stream from the... Agent: Venable LLP

20070119826 - Ion fusion formation process including precise heat input and temperature control: An ion fusion formation method is used to manufacture a component from successive layers of feedstock material. A plasma stream is created by energizing a flowing gas using an arc electrode, the arc electrode having a variable magnitude current supplied thereto. The plasma stream is directed to a predetermined targeted... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070119827 - Systems and methods for plasma jets: A plasma jet system includes a housing with a single opening. A plasma generator is coupled to ionize a fluid in the housing. An electromagnetic accelerator is coupled to generate an electric field that accelerates ionized fluid in the housing toward the opening. A controller can modulate the frequency of... Agent: Koestner Bertani LLP

20070119828 - Plasma generating electrode, its manufacturing method, and plasma reactor: A plasma generating electrode 1 includes at least two plate-shaped unit electrodes 2 each of which faces each other and is capable of generating plasma upon application of a voltage between the unit electrodes 2, at least one of the unit electrodes 2 each of which faces each other including... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070119824 - Laser shock peening system with time-of-flight monitoring: A system and method for monitoring a laser shock peening process includes a sensor connected to a controller. The controller includes an input and a processor. The input is connected to the sensor to receive a signal indicative of a laser shock event at a workpiece. The processor is connected... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070119829 - Orbital welding device for pipeline construction: The invention relates to an orbital welding device for mobile use in order to join a first pipe (1) and a second pipe end (2) along a circumferential joint (3) by at least one weld seam (4), particularly for producing a pipeline (5) to be placed on land. The inventive... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070119830 - Method for connecting components: A method for connecting dynamically loaded components, especially gas turbine components is provided. At least two components (10, 11; 14, 15) to be interconnected are connected by means of laser powder build-up welding.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070119831 - X & y orthogonal cut direction processing with set beam separation using 45 degree beam split orientation apparatus and method: An X & Y orthogonal cut apparatus for scribing a pair of parallel cuts on a planar workpiece, the workpiece plane having an X-axis and a Y-axis, where the apparatus includes a laser device generating at least two beams including a first beam and a second beam, the first beam... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070119832 - Method for the production of a hole and device: Previous methods for the production of a hole in a component are very time-consuming and expensive, as special lasers having ultra short laser pulse lengths are used. The inventive method varies laser pulse lengths and ultra short laser pulse lengths are used exclusively in the region which is to be... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070119833 - Method for cutting c-mn steel with a fiber laser: The invention relates to a laser cutting method for cutting a C-Mn steel workpiece, characterized in that laser beam generation means comprising at least one silica fiber with an ytterbium-doped core is used to generate the laser beam. Preferably, the ytterbium-based fiber has a wavelength between 1.07 and 1.1 μm,... Agent: Air Liquide

20070119834 - Method for cutting stainless steel with a fiber laser: The invention relates to a laser cutting method for cutting a stainless steel workpiece using laser beam generation means comprising a silica fibre with an ytterbium-doped core to generate the laser beam. Preferably, the laser beam generated by the ytterbium-based fibre has a wavelength between 1.07 and 1.09 μm, a... Agent: Air Liquide

20070119835 - Laser beam processing machine: A laser beam processing machine comprising a laser beam application means for applying a laser beam to the top surface of the workpiece held on the chuck table, the laser beam application means comprising a processing laser beam oscillation means for oscillating a processing laser beam and a condenser for... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070119836 - Method and apparatus for focusing a beam from an excimer laser to form a line of light on a substrate: A substantially collimated, plane-polarized, excimer laser beam is projected onto a substrate by a cylindrical lens arranged at non-normal incidence to the beam. The lens projects the beam onto a substrate to form a line of light on the substrate. The line of light has a length greater than the... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20070119837 - Laser processing apparatus and laser processing method: A laser processing apparatus includes: a laser beam radiation part that radiates a laser beam to a target position on a substrate; a liquid supply source; a liquid supply nozzle that is connected to the liquid supply source through a liquid supply channel; a guide member for the ejected liquid;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070119838 - Novel connecting piece of electrically conducting material preferably a cable terminal and a mehtod of producing the same: The present invention (FIG. 2) relates to a connecting piece (4) of metal or other electrically conductive material, preferably a cable shoe, and methods of its manufacture, where a brazing block (11) consisting of a front portion (8), a middle portion (9) and an end portion (10) through combination with... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070119839 - Heat dissipation platform: A heat dissipation platform for output switches of an inverter power source of an electric arc welder where the platform comprises a conductive plate with first and second parallel surfaces and a plurality of parallel heat pipes embedded between the surfaces and extending in a given direction and the switches... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070119840 - Welding torch with a torch housing and drive for welding rod transport: In a welding torch including a torch housing (28) and, preferably, a tube bend (29) capable of being fastened thereto, wherein a drive unit (30) for feeding a welding wire (13) is arranged in the torch housing (29) and the drive unit (30) is formed by at least one pair... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070119841 - Welding system and consumable electrode welding method: A torch is moved by a manipulator in a direction separating from a base material 7 while a wire is supplied, whereby an actuator driving the robot manipulator can control a velocity of the wire for a workpiece by a unidirectional operation of separating the torch, and vibration due to... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070119842 - Flexible lamination and a method thereof: The method for a flexible lamination includes: providing a cloth foundation having temperature resistant properties; sewing heating wire on the cloth foundation; providing a first outer cloth and a second outer cloth having high temperature resistant properties and being individually disposed on an upper surface and a lower surface of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070119843 - Wall framing system: A wall framing system includes formed metal, channel shaped, upper and lower tracks, column or stud members and intermediate brace members which are interconnected and located relative to each other by inwardly facing circular projections formed on the track and brace members and cooperating circular recesses formed in the flanges... Agent: Michael E. Martin Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP,IPSection

20070119844 - Ceramic hair care heating element: There is provided a heating element for a hair styling device, including an electrically insulating inner ceramic layer, an electrically conductive resistive heating layer disposed on and in contact with the inner layer, and an electrically insulating outer ceramic layer disposed on and in contact with the resistive heating layer.... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070119845 - Cook-top and cooking system having the same: A cooker is disclosed, the cooker comprising: a case having an air inlet and an air outlet; a cooking plate provided on the case; a heating unit formed between the case for heating the cooking plate and the cooking plate; and a cooling unit for cooling the cooking plate by... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070119846 - Thermoregulation system for heated components of apparatus for injection moulding of plastic materials: Described herein is a thermoregulation sistem for heated components (N) of apparatus for injection moulding of plastic materials, equipped with a first heating resistor (R1) and a second heating resistor (R2) with respective thermocouples (TC1, TC2) associated thereto, comprising an electronic control unit (C) for controlling the fail-safe electric supply... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070119847 - Multistage control system of positive temperature coefficient heater and method thereof: A multistage control system of a Positive Temperature Coefficient (PTC) heater for a vehicle is disclosed with a PTC heater that contains heating elements relevant to a first, second, and third stages. An Electronic Control Unit (ECU) outputs a control signal to a first relay, which switches the first stage... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070119848 - Modular heater systems: A modular heater system is provided that includes a heat trace assembly and a connector assembly. The heat trace assembly has a heat trace section that defines a plurality of fins, an insulation jacket surrounding the heat trace section, and at least one terminating member disposed at an end of... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070119849 - Heater and vapor deposition source having the same: A heater and a vapor deposition source having the same capable of plating materials having a uniform thickness on a board by ensuring a temperature uniformity of a melting pot. The heater is provided on at least one of an upper side or a lower side of the melting pot... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070114209 - Method for fabricating a rotor shaft: A method for fabricating a rotor shaft using a welding process. The method includes positioning a first rotor shaft section adjacent a second rotor shaft section, and using a submerged arc welding process with an included weld preparation angle of between about 0° and about 30° to join the first... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851)

20070114211 - Elongated medical device with distal cap: Elongate medical devices such as guidewires can be formed from a core wire and a preformed distal cap that is configured to fit over a distal end of the core wire. The distal cap can be attached using a variety of techniques. In particular, the distal cap can be attached... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20070114212 - Plasma lineation electrode: A plasma spray device is provided. The plasma spray device includes a plasma chamber region for having a plasma formed and a throat region coupled to the plasma chamber region. The throat region has an end surface and an axial bore. The axial bore is formed substantially along a longitudinal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070114210 - Device for preparing a multilayer printed circuit board for the drilling of contact bores: Device for preparing a multilayer printed circuit board for the drilling of contact bores, which contact bores connect the contact surfaces of at least a first layer of the multilayer printed circuit board to contact surfaces of at least a second layer of the multilayer printed circuit board. The device... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP

20070114213 - Apparatus for processing work-piece: An apparatus for processing a work-piece (80) includes a laser source (102) and a first lens assembly (108). The laser source is configured for emitting laser beams. The first lens assembly is configured for adjustably focusing the laser beams onto the work-piece. The first lens assembly is disposed in optical... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070114214 - Scanning laser light source: The thermal processing device includes a stage, a continuous wave electromagnetic radiation source, a series of lenses, a translation mechanism, a detection module, a three-dimensional auto-focus, and a computer system. The stage is configured to receive a substrate thereon. The continuous wave electromagnetic radiation source is disposed adjacent the stage,... Agent: Law Offices Of Charles Guenzer Attn: Applied Materials, Inc.

20070114215 - Method of pacing travel speed: A method of pacing a desired travel speed of a manual arc welding process performed by a welder for depositing weld metal on a workpiece and along a test groove with a given test length defined by a visible start location and a visual end location using a specified amount... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070114216 - Method and system for a remote wire feeder where standby power and system control are provided via weld cables: The present invention is directed to a remotely controlled welding machine that uses serializing and modulating circuits to transfer modulated data packets to a welding power source across a weld cable. A transmitter transmits the data packets of desired welding operational parameters to a receiver disposed in the power source... Agent: Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, Sc (itw)

20070114217 - Electric heating device with tolerance ptc heating element: For avoiding the selection and storage of PTC heating elements with different departures from rated heating power, additional tolerance PTC heating elements are held ready which uniformly have a lower rated heating power, preferably one half or third of the rated heating power, compared to the standard or primary PTC... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson Newholm Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20070114218 - System for detecting an alignment of vehicle mounted sensors: A system for detecting an alignment of a sensor mounted on a vehicle and a method of making the same is disclosed. The system includes a vehicle windshield having the sensor mounted thereto at a predetermined location. At least one conductive strip is included having a first and a second... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070114219 - Hair dryers containing high-watt density ceramic heaters: A heated hairdryer employs flat, thick film ceramic heaters. The ceramic heaters are high Watt density, low mass, resistance heaters that operate at a high temperature. A conductor is applied to one or both sides of either a fired or green ceramic plate. The conductor is then applied in circuit... Agent: Steven A. Garner, Esq. Conair Corporation

20070114220 - Electric oven: An electric oven has a housing defining a cooking chamber, a door hinged on the housing and pivotal between an open position and a closed position, at least one rotatable rack supported by one of the removable racks, and rotation actuation means for rotating the rotatable rack about an upright... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070114221 - Plate-shaped heater and steam cooking apparatus including the same: A plate-shaped heater having a PTC temperature sensor to sense a temperature of the plate-shaped heater, and a steam cooking apparatus including the same. The plate-shaped heater includes an insulating substrate, a heating element formed of a resistor pattern-printed on the insulating substrate to generate heat, and a PTC temperature... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070114222 - Steam cooking apparatus: The steam cooking apparatus includes a cooking compartment and a steam generating unit disposed at the outside of the cooking compartment and adapted to generate steam to be supplied into the cooking compartment. The steam generating unit includes a steam generating container to receive water therein, the steam generating container... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070114223 - System and method for providing power and control through a rotating interface: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system (10) operable to provide power and control through a rotating interface. The system (10) generally includes a control unit (12) and a distributor unit (14). The control unit (12) is operable to generate a power signal having a plurality of power transitions.... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070114224 - Ingredient cooking-operation recognition system and ingredient cooking-operation recognition program: An ingredient cooking-operation recognition system is provided which is capable of precisely specifying an ingredient that is cooked by a person and a cooking operation for the ingredient, and accurately estimating a cooking recipe for a dish that is prepared by the person. This system includes: a sensing section 200... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070114225 - De-icing system for traffic signals: A circuit is disclosed for detecting and eliminating the buildup of snow and/or ice on the viewable face of an LED traffic signal lens. The circuit measures the ambient temperature within the LED signal, and when the temperature falls to a level where snow and/or ice accumulation can occur, the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070114226 - Apparatus for fixing toner on transferred material: The present invention relates to a temperature detection apparatus having a radiant temperature detection section including at least a ray emission portion which radiates at least rays and a ray detection portion which detects the rays, and capable of detecting temperature without contacting a detection object, a first atmospheric temperature... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070114227 - Joining element and method for its attachment on a surface: The present invention relates to a joining element 1 mand a suitable method for its attachment on a surface 42 of a component 40. The joining element 1 comprises a sleeve-shaped accommodation part 10 for the accommodation of an element to be attached in the interior 12, a flange-like extension... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070114228 - Machine for producing and dispensing liquid and semi-liquid consumer food products: In a machine for producing and dispensing liquid and semi-liquid consumer food products, for example creams, sauces and ice creams, there is a container for the product and means for heating it, the heating means comprising an electromagnetic circuit, for example of the ohmic type, whose resistive component is the... Agent: Harbin King & Klima

20070114229 - Enhanced sample processing devices, systems and methods: Devices, systems, and methods for processing sample materials. The sample materials may be located in a plurality of process chambers in the device, which is rotated during heating of the sample materials.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070108165 - Configurations and methods for improved plasma torch: Water plasma is generated from steam, wherein one portion of the steam serves as plasma fuel and wherein another portion of the stream stabilizes the plasma jet in a vortex that is formed in a vortex generator. Most preferably, the vortex momentum is generated at least in part outside the... Agent: Robert D. Fish Rutan & Tucker, LLP

20070108168 - Laser device and laser system using same: A laser device (10) includes a first laser source (102) for emitting laser beams with a first wavelength, a second laser source (104) for emitting laser beams with a second wavelength, a dichromic beamsplitter (110), and a flexible light waveguide (112). The dichromic beamsplitter is configured for transmitting laser beams... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070108167 - Vacuum extraction unit for a device used to structure the surface of a workpiece by means of radiation: The invention relates to a vacuum unit for a device used to structure the surface of a workpiece (24), in particular a plate, such as e.g. a flexographic printing block, by means of radiation, in particular laser radiation, the workpiece being a cylinder or a plate that is located on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070108166 - Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam: The thermal processing device includes a stage, a continuous wave electromagnetic radiation source, a series of lenses, a translation mechanism, a detection module, a three-dimensional auto-focus, and a computer system. The stage is configured to receive a substrate thereon. The continuous wave electromagnetic radiation source is disposed adjacent the stage,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP / Amat

20070108170 - Engineered wood fiber product substrates and their formation by laser processing: A laser is used to a form information indicative of a pattern on a surface of a support piece formed from a compressed wood fiber product substrate. The pattern can be a wood grain. The field of the laser is increased, to allow lazing more of the material at once.... Agent: Scott C Harris

20070108169 - Rotor using electrical steel sheet with low iron loss, rotor manufacturing method, laser peening method, and laser peening apparatus: A laser peening apparatus for manufacturing a rotor using an electrical steel sheet with low iron loss for enabling high speed rotation of a motor. The laser peening apparatus includes a laser irradiating device for irradiating with a laser through a liquid the rotor made of an electrical steel sheet... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070108171 - Magnetically impelled arc butt welding of pipelines: The present invention is a method and a vehicle-mounted apparatus for laying pipelines in which adjacent pipe sections are joined by the technique of magnetically impelled arc butt welding (MIAB). A MIAB welding head having a welding axis is mounted on a transportable platform. A pipe guide capable of engaging... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070108174 - Gas-less process and system for girth welding in high strength applications: A welding system and method is disclosed for girth welding high strength materials using a short arc welding process and a self-shielding electrode. The welding system contains a welding apparatus which advances the self-shielding electrode towards a workpiece to be welded and controls the arc length and the operation of... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070108173 - Integral handle: A welding gun assembly for directing a welding wire toward a workpiece, having a torch at a forward portion of the gun; a welding wire feeder at a rearward portion of the gun; and handles positioned adjacent the torch and wire feeder. Each handle has a first, cylindrical portion and... Agent: Robert V. Vickers, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070108172 - Wire gripper for a drive unit of a wire feeder: A gripping device is disclosed for a set of pinch rollers used in a wire feeder that supplies a welding operation with a consumable welding wire. The welding wire passes between the pinch rollers whereby the pinch rollers engage the wire with a gripping force and incrementally rotate to control... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20070108175 - Heated laminated glazing: A heatable composite pane having a trapezoidal outline and a heating area embedded in the composite and formed from heating wires laid alongside one another. At least two busbars connect ends of a number of heating wires to one another electrically in parallel and are located opposite along the side... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070108176 - Modular heater systems: A heat trace assembly is provided that includes a heat trace section, an insulation jacket surrounding the heat trace section, and a plurality of standoffs disposed between the heat trace section and the insulation jacket. A corresponding plurality of passageways are formed between the heat trace section and the insulation... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070108177 - Oven with rotating deck and control system for same: An oven has a housing, a heat source, and an aperture defined in the housing. A substantially horizontal deck rotates within the housing, and a number of substantially horizontal pallets are mounted on the deck to rotate relative to the deck. Each pallet has a lip. A source of motive... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070108178 - Food holding cabinet with removable tray covers: A food holding cabinet having a housing defining a heating chamber for holding a covered food tray in a tray location has a pair of elongated rigid rods mounted to the housing for suspending a food tray cover thereon in a position above the tray location. A front rod extends... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070108180 - Cookers: A heat-storage domestic cooker has an oven compartment which comprises a rear wall, a bottom wall, a top wall and opposite side walls fitted together to form a cooking space. The walls are formed of silicon carbide.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070108179 - Cooking oven: A cooking structure which provide for two or more side-by-side ovens separated by vertical, movable, hinged partition(s) whereby the oven structure may function as one large oven or as two or more smaller independent ovens, wherein for each oven a tangential fan blows air substantially evenly over upper electrical heating... Agent: Donald W. Spurrell

20070108181 - Domestic appliance with a linearly movable component: A domestic appliance containing a linearly movable component 8, 9 which can be moved by means of an, in particular metal and convex, drive band 12. The domestic appliance is, in particular, an apparatus for drying laundry 1 by means of an air stream. The apparatus comprises a drum 2... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070108182 - Food cooking device with food weight measuring device: The present invention relates to a food cooking device and includes a weight measuring device connected to the body of the food cooking device so as to provide the controller of the food cooking device information of the food to be treated. The food cooking device has a controller received... Agent: Wen-ching Lee

20070108183 - Electron source food treating apparatus and method: A food treating apparatus and method wherein an electric current is provided by an electric circuit; the food treating apparatus including a vessel, a conductive food-contact surface, and a battery, and wherein the electric circuit supplies a constant current and is operative to provide electrons to food in the vessel.... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20070108184 - Heating cooker: In a heating cooker, a heated object placed on a top plate (15) is heated by a heating unit (12, 13, 14) disposed below the top plate (15). The top plate (15) is translucent and a fluorescent display tube (23) is disposed below the top plate (15).... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070108185 - Spa heater/control: A spa heater/control includes sensors and processors to monitor and display indicia of common failures. The heater/control includes voltage sensors and processing to measure proper power connections to the heater/control. The spa heater/control further monitors various voltages, currents, flow rates, and temperatures within the spa to provide diagnostic information which... Agent: Averill & Varn

20070108186 - Electronic power control for cooktop heaters: In one aspect, a cooktop heating system that include a first cooktop heating element, a second cooktop heating element, and an interface device. The system also includes a controller for selectively associating the interface device with any one or both of the first cooktop heating element and the second cooktop... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070108187 - Fluid-heating apparatus and methods of operating the same: Systems and methods of heating an accurate quantity of a fluid. A determination is made that an event in which a relatively large quantity of hot water is used has occurred. One or more temperatures are sensed. An increase in a temperature set point is made if the sensed temperatures... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070108188 - Insulator for a ptc heater: The present invention provides an insulator for a PTC heater enclosing an anode terminal. The insulator comprises a first piece having an opening formed therein for exposing a portion of a surface of the anode terminal, and a second piece having an opening formed therein for exposing a portion of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070108189 - Electric heating structure: An electric heating structure is disclosed, which comprises: a heat conducting plate for conducting thermal energy; a heating plate, disposed at the bottom of the heat conducting plate; a metal electrode, for conducting electricity; and an electric conducting element. The heating plate is further comprised of a porous insulating layer... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070108190 - Functional therapeutic heater: A breathable electrical heater element for a topical application device such as a wound dressing or a therapeutic heating pad is disclosed. The heater element is formed by photochemically etching a track pattern onto a porous metallised fabric (e.g. nickel coated woven polyester). The heater element has a skin or... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20070108191 - Fixing apparatus: A fixing apparatus an aspect of the present invention includes, a heating object which generates the heat by a magnetic flux produced from a coil which generates a predetermined magnetic flux by electromagnetic induction in accordance with a frequency of an input current, and a pressurization mechanism which can provide... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070108192 - Induction heating apparatus: An induction heating apparatus wherein an electrostatic shield and the low-potential portion of an inverter circuit are electrically connected securely is provided. The induction heating apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises a top plate 11 on which a matter 14 to be heated is placed, an induction heating... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070108193 - Coffee maker and microwave oven and method for controlling the same: Coffee maker and microwave oven, and method for controlling the same, the coffee maker and microwave oven including a cabinet forming an exterior, a cooking chamber in the cabinet, an outfit room in the cabinet for mounting various electric components on an inside thereof, a case at one side of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070108194 - Microwave autoclave: An autoclave for pressure and temperature treatment of objects comprises a pressure container having a pressure resistant wall which encloses a pressure chamber for receiving the objects to be treated, said pressure chamber having a free inner diameter of at least 1.5 m; and a heat source for heating the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070108195 - Method and apparatus for rapid thermal processing and bonding of materials using rf and microwaves: A method and apparatus for rapid and selective heating of materials using variable frequency RF and microwaves. The apparatus uses variable frequency solid state electronics as a microwave power source, a novel microwave heating head to couple microwave energy to the target materials and a match-up network to tune the... Agent: Seto Patents

20070108196 - Microwavable metallic container: The present invention relates to a method for processing, storing and heating foodstuffs in a partially metal microwavable bowl, and more specifically, a substantially metallic stackable container with a microwavable transparent portion and a selectively removable lid, wherein the same container can be used to store, ship, heat, and serve... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070108197 - Microwavable metallic container: The present invention relates to a method for processing, storing and heating foodstuffs in a partially metal microwavable bowl, and more specifically, a substantially metallic stackable container with a microwavable transparent portion and a selectively removable lid, wherein the same container can be used to store, ship, heat, and serve... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070108198 - Microwavable metallic container: The present invention relates to a method for processing, storing and heating foodstuffs in a partially metal microwavable bowl, and more specifically, a substantially metallic stackable container with a microwavable transparent portion and a selectively removable lid, wherein the same container can be used to store, ship, heat, and serve... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070108199 - Cooking oven: A cooking oven, wherein an upper blowing port blowing hot air in vertical direction and a lateral blowing port for blowing hot air in horizontal direction are provided in a cooking chamber, the upper blowing port is provided in the ceiling wall of the cooking chamber, the lateral blowing port... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070108201 - Insulated conductor temperature limited heater for subsurface heating coupled in a three-phase wye configuration: A heating system for a subsurface formation is described. The heating system includes a first heater, a second heater, and a third heater placed in an opening in the subsurface formation. Each heater includes: an electrical conductor; an insulation layer at least partially surrounding the electrical conductor; and an electrically... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20070108200 - Low temperature barrier wellbores formed using water flushing: A method of forming an opening for a low temperature well is described. The method includes drilling an opening in a formation. Water is introduced into the opening to displace drilling fluid or indigenous gas in the formation adjacent to a portion of the opening. Water is produced from the... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20070108202 - Processing hydrocarbons with debye frequencies: A medium (24 and 124) comprising fossil fuel hydrocarbons (304) are heated by maintaining at least a portion or area of the medium (334) in an alternating current electrical field (36 and 136) provided by a radio frequency signal at a radio frequency that matches a Debye resonance frequency or... Agent: Dwight E. Kinzer

20070102402 - Electric discharge machining apparatus: An electric discharge machining apparatus includes: a guide electrode (7) that is shaped like a hollow bar and receives a small-diameter wire electrode (8) for electric discharge machining in such a way that the small-diameter electrode can freely slide and; guide electrode holding means (9, 19, 20) that holds this... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070102403 - Plasma processing apparatus: The purpose of the present invention is to provide homogeneous plasma in longitudinal direction of a plasma processing apparatus applicable to multiple processes. A microwave waveguide 10 with a plurality of variable couplers 12 is placed in a vacuum chamber 21. The microwave generated in a microwave generator 23 is... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070102404 - Apparatus for generating a rotating laser beam: The present invention relates to an apparatus (1) for generating a rotating laser beam (5) which may used for various applications including welding, cutting, drilling or ablation of materials. More particularly, the apparatus according to the present invention is able to produce a fast rotating and accurate laser beam, because... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070102407 - Output control method for consumable electrode arc welding power source: In the output control method for a consumable electrode arc welding power source, entire application range of an welding current is segmentalized into a plurality of current zones, a norm welding voltage value is set for each of the current zones, a welding current and a welding voltage are detected... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070102405 - Method and circuit for contactless ignition of a welding arc with high frequency ignition pulse packets: The invention relates to a method for the contactless ignition of a welding arc, in addition to a circuit (28) for the contactless ignition of an electric arc, comprising a charging circuit (31), at least one pulse capacitor (30), a decharging circuit containing a circuit, and a high tension converter... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070102406 - Electric arc welder system with waveform profile control for cored electrodes: An electric arc welder for creating a welding process in the form of a succession of AC waveforms between a particular type of cored electrode, with a sheath and core, and a workpiece by a power source comprising an high frequency switching device for creating the individual waveforms in the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070102408 - Gtaw welder: An improvement in a welder including a power source for performing a TIG welding process across an electrode and a workpiece where the power source has a first output lead connected to the electrode and a second output lead connected to the workpiece with a controller for creating a waveform... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070102409 - Pulsed arc welding method: In a pulsed arc welding method of the invention, a shield gas made mainly of carbon dioxide gas is used, and a low frequency pulse of 30 to 100 Hz is continuously generated, on which a high frequency pulse with a pulse frequency of 500 to 2000 Hz is superimposed.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070102410 - Torch hex end structure: A welding gun assembly for directing a welding wire toward a workpiece, having a torch at a forward portion of the gun; a welding wire feeder at a rearward portion of the gun; a first housing positioned adjacent the torch; and a second housing positioned adjacent the wire feeder. The... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070102411 - Method for controlling and/or adjusting a welding process: The invention relates to a method for controlling and/or adjusting a welding process, using a melting welding wire (13) wherein after ignition of an electric arc, a welding process is carried out, the welding process being adjusted on the basis of several different welding parameters and being controlled or adjusted... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070102412 - Method for controlling and/or adjusting a welding process: e

20070102413 - Heat preservation pad: A heat preservation pad to maintain a warm condition for a long period of time includes a base, a upper cap, an inner box and a heating assembly. The base is coupled with the upper cap to form a housing compartment to hold the inner box. The inner box contains... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070102414 - Steam ironing device: The invention relates to a steam ironing device (1) comprising a water supply device (4), a steam generator (6) for generating steam, heating means (13) for heating the steam generator, at least one atomizating device (10, 15), a valve (11) provided in a flow path (9) between the steam generator... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070102415 - Heating apparatus structure: The present invention is to provide a heating apparatus structure, which includes a body made of a heat conduction material, two liquid tunnels parallelly disposed in the body under each of four adjacent surfaces around the body, a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet disposed respectively at one surface and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070102416 - Baking oven: A baking oven including an oven muffle which includes at least one thermal heating element and which can be heated to various operational temperatures, i.e. a standard baking and roasting temperature and a high cleaning temperature (pyrolysis). The baking oven also includes a cooling fan arranged downstream from a ventilation... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070102417 - Cooker control mechanism: A manual control mechanism for a heating unit of a domestic cooker (1) having a front face is in the form of a twist grip (11, 12, 13) operable by rotation about a substantially horizontal axis parallel to the front face of the cooker. A plurality of such control mechanisms... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070102418 - Rotisserie oven and hood: A rotisserie oven is provided having a radiating heating system in combination with a convection heating system to prepare raw meat and poultry food product inside of a cooking chamber. A spit assembly carries the food product, and includes components that are detachable to assist in cleaning. The oven further... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070102419 - Ceramic heater and method for producing ceramic heater: There is disclosed a ceramic heater 11 comprising: at least a plate member 12 made of insulating ceramics in which one or more pair(s) of through-holes 13 are formed; a rod member 14, being made of conductive ceramics, having a power-supply terminal 18 at one end thereof, and being inserted... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070102420 - Induction heating cooking device: An induction heating cooking device has an inverter including a resonant circuit, and a heating output control part. The resonant circuit has a resonant capacitor and a heating coil that is magnetically coupled to a load. The inverter has first and second switching elements. The heating output control part performs... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070102421 - Fluid heating device and heating medium passing roller device using the same: A fluid heating device is arranged on a fluid circulating path in e.g. a heating medium passing roller device and heats fluid flowing through the fluid circulating path. In this fluid heating device, a secondary coil 3 of a transformer configuration having a primary coil 2 and the secondary coil... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070102422 - Switching circuit controlling multiple heating elements: A switching circuit comprising a plurality of heating elements (12), each connected as part of a tuned circuit (36), the tuned circuits being respectively tuned to different frequencies and connected in parallel between two common conductors (34), the circuit further comprising means (20, 38, 40) for applying an oscillating signal... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070102423 - Complex home appliance and method of controlling and installing the same: A complex home appliance and a method of controlling and installing the same. The complex home appliance includes a single power supply unit shared by two or more component home appliances of the complex home appliance. The two or more component home appliances are controlled by a single control unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070102424 - Microwave interactive display package: Various microwave energy interactive display packages, blanks for forming such packages, and methods of displaying and heating a food item are provided.... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070102425 - Microwavable metallic container: The present invention relates to a method for processing, storing and heating foodstuffs in a partially metal microwavable bowl, and more specifically, a substantially metallic stackable container with a microwavable transparent portion and a selectively removable lid, wherein the same container can be used to store, ship, heat, and serve... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070102426 - Microwave oven having a door ventilation system: A microwave oven for use in cooking food having a door and door mounted controls and a cooling system where the door mounted controls are disclosed. The microwave oven having an external enclosure defining an outer cabinet and an oven cavity supported within the external enclosure where the oven cavity... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20070102427 - Microwave temperature control with conductively coated thermoplastic particles: Microwave susceptors comprising conductively coated polymeric particles permit heating while avoiding overheating. Provided is a composition comprising a binder, a plurality of microwave-interactive particles dispersed therein; and a plurality of particles dispersed therein that have a microwave-interactive coating, said coating comprising a microwave interactive coating material capable of converting microwave... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070095795 - Assembly fixture and method for machining injection mold tooling: An assembly fixture is used to hold the moveable mold half insert assembly (e.g. the insert, cores, lifters, ejector pins, etc.) in its correct working position and orientation. To spark erode the final geometric form onto a moveable mold half insert assembly, the assembly fixture can be placed in an... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070095796 - Electrode dressing template: Disclosed are various embodiments of an EDM electrode dressing template comprising a body made of an electrically conductive material. Bonded to the body is a pad with an electrically conductive material with hardness greater than the body. An electrode with an eroded end is positioned proximate the pad and a... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20070095797 - Mask for shielding impellers and blisks during automated welding: A mask is provided for shielding a radially extending edge of an impeller vane during a weld repair process, where the impeller vane extends radially and axially outwardly from a shaft. The mask comprises a hub and a flange. The hub has an outer surface and an opening extending therethrough,... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070095798 - Monitor device for monitoring the exposure of circuits to current and voltage from a tool: A device for monitoring the voltage or current applied to sensitive components on a circuit board by an assembly tool protects the sensitive components from damage caused by the voltage or current applied to the circuit board.... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070095799 - Film deposition apparatus, film deposition method, monitoring program for film deposition apparatus, and recording medium thereof: In order to detect a change in the temperature of a substrate (2) and a change of the distribution of oxygen radical concentration near a surface of the substrate (2), a lamp power in each zone of a heater (3) and a pressure in a reactor (1) are measured, the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070095801 - Laser cutter device, printing device with a laser cutter, and laser processing method: A laser cutter device includes a laser section irradiating a medium with laser light; and a laser carriage on which the laser section is mounted and reciprocating in a direction intersecting another direction in which the medium is conveyed. The laser section has a semiconductor laser element and processes the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070095800 - Surface treatment device: A surface treatment device includes a working platform, a laser source, a focus lens, a detector and a controller. The working platform is provided for supporting a workpiece thereon. The laser source is provided for producing laser beams. The focus lens is arranged between the working platform and the focus... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070095802 - Laser treatment apparatus: A laser treatment apparatus includes a laser generation unit for applying a laser beam to a workpiece; a control unit for regulating and controlling laser generation of the laser beam generated by the laser generation unit; a focusing unit for focusing the laser beam generated by said laser generation unit... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070095803 - Electric wire insulation center stripping method and device: l

20070095804 - Method for fabricating helical gears from pre-hardened flat steel stock: An improved method of cutting a helical gear sector onto a pivoting arm of a casement window is disclosed. The method includes beginning with a pre-hardened flat sheet of steel stock and cutting the arm and the helical gear sector of the arm in two steps. The non-toothed portions of... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20070095805 - Systems and methods to shape laser light as a line beam for interaction with a substrate having surface variations: Systems and methods are disclosed for shaping laser light as a line beam for interaction with a film that may have an imperfect, non-planar surface. The system may include a beam stop that defines an edge; a sensor that measures a distance between a selected point on a surface of... Agent: Matthew K. Hillman Cymer, Inc., Legal Dept.

20070095806 - Method of bonding optical component, and optical pickup: A light source (2) and a connection base (1) are held with a predetermined gap, solder paste melted by the thermal energy of laser light is fed into the gap, and the light source (2) and the connection base (1) are bonded together via a solder layer (32).... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070095807 - Short arc welding system: A welding system for performing a short arc welding process between a advancing wire electrode and a workpiece. The system comprises a power source with a controller for creating a current pulse introducing energy into the electrode to melt the end of the electrode and a low current quiescent metal... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070095808 - Electrically heated clothing article: This invention comprises a clothing article and method of heating the article wherein a heat conducting element passes along the perimeter of the clothing article. Connected to the heat conducting element is a power source and heat controlling elements. The clothing article is adapted such that the power source is... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070095809 - Ptc element module and pre-heater for vehicles including the same: Disclosed is a pre-heater for vehicles comprising: A PTC element module including a positive terminal composed of two sheets, an upper sheet of which has a fastening hole and upward bended ribs formed at opposite edges of the fastening hole; a ring-shaped insert insulator inserted between the ribs; a PTC... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070095810 - Rotary curling iron: A motorized and heated curling iron having interchangeable heads enables easy and consistent operation with reduced wrist and arm fatigue.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070095811 - Pressure pickup heating bar, in particular for a pressure pickup glow plug: A pressure pickup heating bar, in particular for a pressure pickup glow plug, having an electrical heating element (1) and a pressure sensor (3) onto which the pressure present at the heating bar (1) is transmitted. The heating bar has a support tube (2) which encompasses the heating element (1)... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070095812 - In-situ wafer parameter measurement method employing a hot susceptor as a reflected light source: A semiconductor wafer temperature measurement method takes advantage of the tight control of the surface conditions and temperature of a hot susceptor, which tight control provides known and reproducible radiation emissions from the hot susceptor. The known amount of radiation emitted by the hot susceptor is employed as a stable... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070095813 - Cooking apparatus: A cooking apparatus to effectively agitate and evenly distribute high-temperature air into a cooking chamber by use of a single driving fan and a plurality of driven fans. The cooking apparatus includes the cooking chamber, the driving fan arranged at a rear wall of the cooking chamber, a convection heater... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070095814 - Full depth rack: A rack for an appliance comprises a support platform including a support frame and a plurality of elongated support wires attached to the support frame to form a support surface extending generally along a plane. An upwardly projecting portion is adapted to engage structure of an appliance to inhibit the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070095815 - Electric heating device for a motor vehicle: The invention relates to an electric heating device (1) comprising at least one heating element and a control device (4). An emergency cutout is provided in the event of a crash such that an electric short circuit can be effectively prevented in the electric heating device (1) or a fire... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070095816 - Portable heating device with portable power source: A portable heating controller with a portable power source is provided, which has a portable power source, a capacity detection circuit, a discharging controller, and a processor. The portable power source is used to supply power to the portable heating controller, and the capacity detection circuit is coupled to the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070095817 - Household electrical appliance comprising two heating sub-assemblies articulated on each other: The subject is a household electrical appliance (1) comprising two articulated heating sub-assemblies (2, 3) and resistances (7) connected to an electricity supply component (8). The component (8) can be separated from the resistances and includes contactors (9). It is moreover adapted to engage with a hinge (4) by which... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070095818 - Method of processing parallel resistance electrical heating cable: A method of processing a parallel resistance heating cable is described. The cable comprises a heating element connected between two longitudinally extending conductors. The method comprises applying a current along at least one of the conductors, such that the surface temperature of the conductor is raised by ohmic heating to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070095819 - Controller to provide a uniform temperature for electric frying pans: A controller provides adjustable power levels to heat a cooking device. A power flow controller can be used to adjust levels of power received from a power source.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070095820 - Coil unit and fixing apparatus: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is disclosed a fixing apparatus including a mold (holding member) formed by injection molding to hold a coil so that the coil maintains a predetermined positional relation with respect to a heating roller, and capable of holding a temperature sensor which... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070095821 - Combined toaster and microwave oven: The present invention relates to a combined toaster and microwave oven having a function to cook food by using microwave and a function to bake bread. Accordingly, the present invention provides a combined toaster and microwave oven comprising: a body forming an appearance thereof; a cavity formed in the body,... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldrige LLP

20070095822 - Self-cleaning over the range oven: An over the range oven includes a main body defining a cooking cavity therein, wherein the cooking cavity includes a front edge surrounding an opening. An RF generation module is coupled to the cooking cavity and is configured to deliver microwave energy into the cooking cavity. At least one radiant... Agent: John S. Beulick (13307)

20070095823 - Microwave nucleon-electron-bonding spin alignment and alteration of materials: A microwave energy emitter (108) is positioned in a microwave transparent chamber (123) within a material holding vessel (106) of a microwave containment vessel (122). The holding vessel (106) may be transparent to microwave energy and is further provided with a microwave reflective component outward, on, or beyond an exterior... Agent: Steven R. Sedlmayr

20070095824 - Accessory for domestic microwave ovens: A browning accessory for use in a microwave oven, for substantially simultaneous microwave cooking of a food item and browning or crusting the upper side thereof, is disclosed. The browning accessory comprises a microwave absorbing material operative to convert microwave energy into thermal energy; and an outer enclosure comprising a... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750