Electric heating inventions 08/07

20070199924 - Fracture prediction device for spot welded portion, method of the same, computer program, and computer readable recording medium: According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a fracture prediction device for a spot welded portion can be provided. For example, the device may include an input arrangement configured to input all or some of a material strength, a plate thickness, a nugget diameter of a spot welding, a... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070199926 - Method of laser welding, manufacturing method of control unit, and car electronic control unit: The invention stabilizes a quality of a laser welding in a terminal in which an outer appearance characteristic is not stabilized, and achieves an improvement of a positioning characteristic at a time of executing the laser welding without generating a cost increase. A hole is formed in a terminal of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070199925 - Method of manufacturing sealed electronic component and sealed electronic component: After forming an unwelded section by a primary welding process step (S203) including a first beam irradiation process step (S203a) and a second beam irradiation process step (S203b), annealing treatment is performed in an annealing process step (S204) by irradiating an electron beam to a predetermined portion on a locus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070199927 - Laser-based method and system for removing one or more target link structures: Laser-based methods and systems for removing one or more target link structures of a circuit fabricated on a substrate includes generating a pulsed laser output at a predetermined wavelength less than an absorption edge of the substrate are provided. The laser output includes at least one pulse having a pulse... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070199928 - Laser for forming bags from a web of material: A fastener includes first and second tracks. The first track includes a first profile, and the second track includes a second profile for interlocking with the first profile. The fastener extends between opposing ends. The first and second profiles at each of the opposing ends are sealed to each other... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070199929 - Method for laser machining and laser device with laser power controlled as a function of the laser motion: A method and device (1) for laser machining vehicle bodies or body parts (2) uses a laser beam (14) that is guided from a laser source (13) to a remote laser tool (15) on a robot hand by a guiding device (16). The robot (4) maintains the laser tool (15)... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070199930 - Laser marking system: The present invention is directed to a laser marking device, system and method for its use.... Agent: Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch LLC (formerly Known As Dkw Law Group LLC)

20070199931 - Food product timing system: A food timing system is disclosed that includes a number of timer modules associated with food holding devices in a restaurant. The timer modules are connected in a network for communicating information about the food being held in food holding compartments of the food holding devices. Each timer module includes... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070199932 - Boilerless steaming oven and method: A steaming oven having a clad plate bottom. The stainless steel clad material constitutes the bottom of the boiling water reservoir in the oven chamber. The stainless steel clad material is composed of a thin layer of stainless material clad to a thicker plate of base, heat conducting metal like... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070193979 - Edm electrode tool holder: An electrical discharge machining assembly has a fixture that retains an electrode. The fixture has clamps to apply a clamping force to the electrode. A threaded member adjusts the compression of a spring to change the clamping force for each clamp. For each clamp, the spring applies a force to... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20070193980 - Method for production of a component: On production of a component, two primary pieces must often be fixed together to give one piece. In order to achieve the above, it is important that the two pieces are oriented in a particular manner during the fixing process, which provides some difficulties. According to the invention, a plug... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070193981 - Nozzle for laser net shape manufacturing: Methods, apparatuses, devices, and/or systems for laser net shape manufacturing are described may make use of a nozzle that includes a main body with a thermal channel, a conducting channel and a gas distribution head. The thermal channel is at least partially within the main body and includes an aperture... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070193982 - Physical vapor deposition plasma reactor with arcing suppression: A physical vapor deposition reactor includes a vacuum chamber with a sidewall, a ceiling and a retractable wafer support pedestal near a floor of the chamber, and a vacuum pump coupled to the chamber, the retractable wafer support pedestal having an internal electrode and a grounded base with a conductive... Agent: Robert M. Wallace Patent Attorney

20070193983 - Method and apparatus for generating an electrical arc: A method of generating an electrical arc includes steps of providing a first electrode and a second electrode, determining a dielectric strength of a gap region between the electrodes, determining a desired dielectric strength change based on the determined dielectric strength, injecting an amount of ions into the gap region,... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070193984 - Laser welding apparatus and method: A laser welding apparatus includes a laser welding unit including a first lens adapted to focus a laser beam; a second lens adapted to diffuse the laser beam to the first lens; and a third lens adapted to guide the laser beam to the second lens. The relative positions of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070193985 - Method for removing a coating from a substrate using a defocused laser beam: A defocused laser beam provides an efficient mechanism to remove a coating from a substrate without requiring additional cleaning steps. A defocused laser beam is applied to the coating so that a focal point of the laser beam does not spatially coincide with the coating. A target portion of the... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070193986 - Method for producing boreholes: The invention relates to a method for producing boreholes with a large aspect ratio, in metallic materials, layered metallic materials and materials comprising at least one ceramic layer, by means of laser radiation, the intensity of the laser beam being adjusted according to the required modification of the borehole radius... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20070193987 - Material machining device and method: The aim of the invention is to machine a material by application of non-linear radiation. The aim is achieved by modifying the laser radiation emitted by a laser beam source with the aid of a polarization modulator in such a way that laser radiation focused into the material is polarized... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070193988 - Laser cutting machine for trimming, adding, punching or similar comprising a support for the removable laser head of a machine tool bed: The invention relates to a laser cutting device for trimming, adding, punching and similar a part consisting of a laser cutting head (1) supplied by an optical fibre (7) connected to a laser beam generator (8), wherein said laser cutting head (1) is fixed to a removable support (2) fixable... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070193989 - Pipe seam detection device of three-dimensional laser beam machine: The invention provides a device for detecting the position of a seam on a welded pipe in a three-dimensional laser beam machine for processing pipes. The three-dimensional laser beam machine has a chuck 62 for holding, rotating and axially moving a cylindrical pipe 400. A weld seam detection device 100... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070193990 - Laser machining of a workpiece: The invention relates to a device (1) for cutting wafers (2) into a number of chips with a laser beam (6) injected into a liquid jet (7). A thin flowing liquid layer (9) having a blasting effect is produced on the surface (5) of the wafer (2). This makes it... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070193991 - Method of soldering wiring members by laser beam irradiation: Wiring members such as bus bars for electrically connecting electronic components are contained in a casing composed of a substrate and a cover for closing an opening of the substrate. A laser beam is irradiated on and around solder held in one of the wiring members through a laser-transparent portion... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070193992 - Determining quality of a stick electrode: A method of measuring the quality of a stick electrode used in forming the root bead of a pipe joint, which electrode has a wire diameter, a length substantially greater than 12 inches and an upper exposed rod head. The method comprises: preparing a standardized workpiece including two spaced plates... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070193993 - Stick electrode: A stick electrode for depositing an high strength weld metal bead on a workpiece where the yield strength of the weld metal is between 85 ksi and 125 ksi irrespective of the cooling rate. The electrode deposits weld metal having 0.80-1.85% by weight manganese, 0.25-0.50% by weight molybdenum, 1.25-2.50% by... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070193994 - Cellulose coated stick electrode: In a stick electrode for electric arc welding having a center alloy wire and an outer cellulose coating which coating includes powdered fluxing agents, alloy powder, cellulose powder and a binder. The improvement involves forming the binder as a solution of sodium silicate and 61-78 percent by weight of the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070193995 - High strength stick electrode: A shielded metal arc welding electrode for depositing a high strength weld metal bead on a workpiece which satisfies the strength requirements under America Welding Society A5.5 standard's E11018M classification with no chromium added to the composition of the electrode.... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070193996 - Heating element and production method thereof: A heating element includes a base substrate, a pair of electrodes, a resistor capable of generating heat, a conductive resin, a terminal member, a hot melt adhesion metal, a hot melt cohesion metal, and a lead wire. The pair of electrodes is provided on the base substrate, and the resistor... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070193997 - Cooling system: A system in connection with a cold-storage/freezer space (1), said cold-storage freezer space (1) comprising at least one door (2) with at least two transparent sheets (3), a conductive layer being placed on one of the sheets (3) to function as a heating element to keep said sheets (3) free... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070193998 - Image forming apparatus and electric-power control method: An electric power supply is controlled below a maximum suppliable current value by detecting the applied current of a heater. The image forming apparatus includes a heater which includes heating elements that generate heat when electric power is supplied, a current detector for detecting a current value supplied to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070193999 - Heated construction box: A heated construction box includes a heater constructed for generating heat within the construction box when connected to a power source. The construction box may include a dehumidifier, extendable supports and/or a retractable power cord assembly, as well as a cooled compartment, a hot plate and/or a microwave oven for... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070194000 - Loading device: A device for loading and unloading an oven or baking chamber includes a movable loading table and a conveyor sheet. The conveyor sheet which forms the upper face of the loading table, runs around at least one reversing edge of the loading table and may be driven. Specifically, the conveyor... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20070194001 - Substrate heat treatment apparatus and substrate transfer tray used in substrate heat treatment: [PROBLEMS] To provide a substrate heat treatment apparatus that can suppress generation of the surface roughening of a substrate to which heat treatment is performed. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The substrate heat treatment apparatus is provided with a heating means for performing heat treatment to a substrate arranged in a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070194002 - Rack sensor: An appliance includes a cavity having one or more rack structures therein. One or more rack sensors are operatively coupled to the appliance cavity to sense a presence or absence of the one or more rack structures within the cavity.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070194004 - System and method for limiting the escape of heat and steam from an open oven door: A system for reducing discharges from an oven prior to opening an oven door. In particular, the system includes a housing forming a cooking compartment arranged within the oven. The system also includes a purge passage extending through the housing into the cooking compartment and a cover arranged over a... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070194003 - System and method for supplying water to an oven: An oven includes a housing forming a cooking compartment defining an interior of the oven. A water supply line extends through the housing to position an end behind a fan within the cooking compartment. The fan is arranged within the cooking compartment near the water supply line to create a... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070194005 - Heating apparatus, heating method, coating apparatus, and storage medium: A heating apparatus cooling a substrate heated by a hot plate at a cooling position adjacent to the hot plate, capable of achieving a smaller height and reducing an operation time in the apparatus, in which contamination of the substrate by particles or the like is less likely, and the... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070194006 - Hot wire control apparatus and method: Control system and apparatus for controlling current input to an electrical resistance element such as a seal wire. The system and apparatus of the present invention is a closed loop feedback modification to conventional systems, and takes advantage of the inherent expansion of the seal wire as it is heated.... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20070194007 - Tubular heater with insulating material in the connection end region: A heating apparatus for heating a fluid, in particular in domestic appliances, which comprises a tubular casing, at least one electrical resistance heating wire which is arranged in the interior of the tubular casing and which is embedded in an electrically insulating, heat-conducting insulating material in the tubular casing, at... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070194008 - Solid state switch: An intake air heating system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed and includes an electric heater that heats the intake air and a control module that switches a voltage to the electric heater based on a control signal. The control module includes a gate drive module that includes a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070194009 - Solid state switch with over-temperature and over-current protection: An intake air heating system for an internal combustion engine includes an electric heater that heats the intake air, a control circuit that switches a voltage to the electric heater based on a control signal and an over-temperature signal, a temperature sensor that generates a temperature signal based on a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070194010 - Transverse flux electric inductors: An apparatus and process are provided for inductively heating a workpiece to a desired cross sectional temperature. At least one pair of coils form a transverse flux inductor. The workpiece is located between the pair of opposing coils, which are oriented across the cross section of the workpiece. Each coil... Agent: Philip O. Post Indel, Inc.

20070194011 - Speed cooking oven with slotted microwave oven: A speed cooking oven (1) has a cooking cavity (2), and a microwave waveguide (20a) with slotted antenna (70) which efficiently emits electromagnetic energy to assist with the speed cooking of food product (10).... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070194012 - Microwavable food package having an easy-open feature: A construct for heating a food item in a microwave oven is provided. The construct may include an opening feature that allows for easy opening thereof. The construct also may include a microwave energy interactive element.... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070194013 - Air flow passage of microwave oven: Provided is an air flow passage of a microwave oven including: a cavity for accommodating foods therein; an electric component chamber disposed at a predetermined portion of the cavity; a suction hole formed at one sided portion of the cavity such that the cavity communicates with the electric component chamber;... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070194015 - Microwave oven: Microwave oven including a body (100) forming an outer appearance, an inner case (110) in the body (100) having a cooking chamber (110a) formed therein, an outfit room (150) at one side of the inner case (110), having various electric parts, such as a magnetron (170), a high voltage transformer... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070194014 - Microwave oven and a base cover thereof: There is provided a base cover structure of a microwave oven, in which a reinforcement rib is formed at a periphery of an air intake hole of a stepped portion of a base cover in order to prevent the base cover from deformation. The air intake hole is also prevented... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070194016 - Useful energy product: A useful energy product created by a process where a chemical species flow passes through a macroscopic artificial dielectric structure for a gas-permeable susceptor having (a) first regions in the structure that are primarily transparent to applied electromagnetic energy and (b) second regions in the structure that are not primarily... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070187367 - Machine tool: A machine tool having movable axes driven by linear motors has a brake unit disposed in parallel with each linear motor. When the linear motors are not excited, the brake units are turned on to lock the movable axes. When the linear motors are excited, if a machining signal is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070187366 - Heater chip for thermocompression bonding: A heater chip for thermocompression bonding, where the degree of heating at the thermocompression bonding part does not vary among individual heater chips and durability is enhanced. On the heater chip for thermocompression bonding, a small projection-like thermocompression bonding portion (2) heated up by conduction resistance is provided on a... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070187368 - Attachment for spark erosion machines: There is provided an attachment for a spark erosion machine having a working head, the attachment including a top part fixedly attachable to the working head, a body suspended from, and moveable relative to, the top part with one degree of freedom in translation, a guide for guiding the body... Agent: Warren K. Macrae, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP,

20070187369 - Hard-facing alloys having improved crack resistance: Weld deposit compositions with improved crack resistance, improved wear resistance, and improved hardness are provided by controlling matrix grain size and balancing Titanium and/or Niobium with Carbon and/or Boron content. Additionally, the presence of coarse chromium carbides is drastically decreased to reduce the amount of check-cracking. Preferably, the weld deposit... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070187370 - Method and apparatus for positioning electrodes relative to a welding gun: A method and apparatus for positioning electrodes relative to a welding gun and for providing equalization relative to the electrodes of an opposed welding device. The apparatus includes a servo driven linear actuator and a controller integrated into a single housing. The method is directed to a control for the... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070187371 - Structural component for a motor vehicle: A structural component for a motor vehicle, such as a center pillar or bumper cross member, includes comprising a plurality of metal sheets joined together by welding spots. At least one of the metal sheets is provided with relief zones in an area between the welding spots, with the relief... Agent: Henry M. Feiereisen Henry M. Feiereisen, LLC

20070187372 - High enthalpy low power plasma reformer: High enthalpy low power plasma reformer. An annular ground electrode includes a air intake manifold and helical structure for directing an air helically along the ground electrode in a heat transfer relation. A high voltage electrode is spaced from the ground electrode to create a gap through which preheated air... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070187373 - Method for drilling holes in a substrate, in particular an electrical circuit substrate, by means of a laser beam: In a method for laser drilling holes in a substrate, a laser beam is provided having a be spot diameter which is smaller than a diameter of a hole to be drilled. The laser beam is aligned to a new hole to be drilled, and a beam axis directed in... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20070187374 - Titanium laser cutting with ar/he gas mixtures: A laser beam cutting process for cutting a workpiece made of titanium or a titanium alloy with the use of an assistance gas for the laser beam, characterized in that the assistance gas is an argon/helium mixture.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070187375 - Method for rating stick electrodes for pipe welding: Stick welding electrode rating and ranking procedures are provided for determining stackability performance of stick electrodes for pipe welding operations. The rating technique involves performance of a standardized vertical down weld procedure using a stick electrode to form a weld bead in a test workpiece groove, in which the electrode... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070187376 - Welder or cutter using an energy storage device with or without a charger: The present invention is directed to a portable welding-type power source including a removable energy storage device configured to provide a first voltage output and a boost circuit connected to the energy storage device and configured to boost the first voltage output to a second voltage output to supply power... Agent: Corrigan Law Office

20070187378 - Device for carrying out a joint, separation, or suface treatment process, particularly a welding process: Device for carrying out one of a joint, separation, and surface treatment process includes a working head for acting on workpieces to be processed. There is likewise a sensor device for sensing one of a position and a positional change of the working head and one of a reference point... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP

20070187377 - Welding device control: The invention relates to a device and a method of controlling a welding apparatus (1), whereby individual welding parameters can be set in the form of a welding job (35 to 39) by means of a first control unit (22) hard-wired to or integrated in the welding apparatus (1), and... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070187379 - Weld joint and weld material thereof: e

20070187380 - Welding additive alloy as well as a method for producing a welding wire: A welding additive alloy, preferably in the form of a welding wire, based on aluminum having the following composition in percent by weight: Si 1-5; Fe<0.1; Mn 0.5-1.5; Zr≦0.01; Cr≦0.01; Cu<0.03; Mg<0.01; Ti<0.005; Na, P, B in sum <0.005; and unavoidable impurities with a portion in percent by weight of... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070187381 - Heater assembly for deicing and/or anti-icing a component: A heater assembly for deicing and/or anti-icing a component includes a metallic heating element adjacent to a densely woven fabric layer impregnated with a resin that is capable of withstanding temperatures of up to 550° F. (288° C.).... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070187383 - Patterned conductive elements for resistively heated glazing: In accordance with one approach to the invention, elements and sub-elements of a conductive pattern on or in an optical member are designed and arranged to be predominantly or exclusively curved, so as to control the appearance of ray-like disturbances during nighttime point-source viewing situations. In another approach, the sub-elements... Agent: Law Offices Of Terry Mchugh

20070187382 - Substrate with electroconductive coating and a communication window: The invention is aimed at a substrate, in particular window pane (1), with an electrically conducting and heatable coating (2), at least one communication window (5) made in the latter in the form of an interruption of said coating, the window being able to allow through a so-called communication radiation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070187384 - Frame for holding heating elements of an electric heater of a ventilating, heating and/or air conditioning unit: The object of this invention is a frame (1) for receiving a heating element (3) for an electric heater of a ventilating, heating and/or air conditioning unit of a vehicle, in particular. This frame (1) is shaped in the form of a hollowed-out box whose large faces (2. 2′), intended... Agent: Valeo Climate Control Corp. Intellectual Property Dept.

20070187385 - Power tool assembly: A power tool assembly, such as a soldering tool, is provided with a power tool having a functional end, a cap for protecting the functional end of the power tool, a first receiving surface on the power tool at least proximate to the functional end for removably attaching the cap... Agent: Michael A. Oblon Patent Procurement

20070187386 - Methods and apparatuses for high pressure gas annealing: Novel methods and apparatuses for annealing semiconductor devices in a high pressure gas environment. According to an embodiment, the annealing vessel has a dual chamber structure, and potentially toxic, flammable, or otherwise reactive gas is confined in an inner chamber which is protected by pressures of inert gas contained in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070187387 - Oven: An oven is provided. The oven includes a cavity, a door panel that covers the cavity, and a side frame that supports a side of the door panel. The side frame and the door frame form an outside air intake hole therebetween.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070187389 - Steam generating device: A steam generating device includes a flat casing and a heating device is received in the casing. The heating device includes flanges which are engaged with grooves in the casing so as to define a lower space and an upper space between the heating device and the inner periphery of... Agent: Phillip Liu

20070187388 - Steam generating device and steam cooking apparatus provided therewith: Steam generated by a steam generating device is fed, through an outer circulation passage, to a heating chamber. The steam generating device is provided with a barrel shape pot having a flat, elongate horizontal cross section, a steam generating heater arranged in a bottom part of the pot, and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070187390 - Heating device for testing integrated components: A heating device for testing integrated components is disclosed. In one embodiment, an inner casing is arranged in the heating device surrounding a holding chamber. The inner casing contains at least one recess in which an electrically conductive contact device is moveably arranged. This permits contact to be reliably made... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070187391 - Electrical connection to printed circuits on plastic panels: A system for effectively defrosting a plastic window includes a transparent plastic panel, a heater grid having a plurality of grid lines that are integrally formed with the plastic panel, and equalizing means for equalizing the electrical current traveling through each of the grid lines.... Agent: Exatec C/o Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070187392 - Functional heater for formed components: A heater element for formed components is disclosed, along with the final formed component itself. The heater element is produced by photochemically etching a suitable heater track pattern from porous metallised fabric such a nickel coated woven polyester. The heater element is located within a mould. Thermo-formable material is then... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20070187393 - Attentuating adaptor for an inductive shrinkage appliance: An attenuating adaptor is proposed in the form of a sleeve (23) which is composed of non-ferromagnetic metal for insertion radially during operation between a holding section (11) (which is provided with a central holding opening (15) for holding a tool shank with a press fit) of a tool holder... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070187394 - Molten metal molding machine: A molten metal molding machine is provided with a heating cylinder, a linear motion member for successively feeding preheated metal rods into the heating cylinder from its rear end to successively push the metal rods toward a forward end of the heating cylinder, and a heater arranged on the heating... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070187395 - Induction heating apparatus for strip materials with variable parameters: One or more sections of a solenoidal induction coil are moved relative to the surface of a strip passing through the coil as one or more parameters of the strip change to affect the impedance of the load circuit, while the output frequency of the power supply providing power to... Agent: Philip O. Post Indel, Inc.

20070187396 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in microwave oven: The invention relates to an apparatus and method for data transmitting/receiving between a microwave oven and an information appliance PDA. The apparatus includes a wireless data transmitting/receiving unit for conducting wireless data communication with an external system including an information appliance; a data storage unit for storing transmitted/received data through... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070187398 - Frozen food package and method of use: A frozen food package and method of producing and using the same is disclosed. The food package includes a bag which is freezable, ovenable and microwaveable. A frozen food assembly within the bag includes uncooked food, preferably an entree. Typically, the food assembly includes a meat, a fruit or vegetable,... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20070187397 - Frozen food package and method of use: A frozen food package and method of using the same is disclosed. The food package includes a bag which is freezable, ovenable and microwaveable. A frozen food assembly within the bag includes uncooked food, preferably an entree. Typically, the food assembly includes a meat, a fruit or vegetable, and a... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20070187400 - Arc-resistant microwave susceptor assembly: A susceptor assembly includes electrically conductive vanes configured to prevent arcing in an unloaded microwave oven.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070187399 - Susceptor assembly and field director assembly for use in a microwave oven: A susceptor assembly comprises a generally planar susceptor having an electric field director structure mechanically connected thereto. The field director structure includes at least one, but more preferably, a plurality of two or more vanes mechanically connected to the susceptor. Each vane has a surface at least a portion of... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070187401 - Microwaves blocker apparatus for opening microwaves oven: Microwaves blocker apparatus (1) installed at the entrance, front part and also at the exit, hinder part, of an opening microwaves oven (5), turning round the oven's entrance and exit allowing free passage (6) of materials to be processed, which dimension and shape follow the format of the oven where... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070181537 - Heating sleeve for shrinking on of shrink tube connections: A device for connecting two elements by shrinking a shrink tube includes a heating element and a control unit. The heating element is adapted for providing thermal or inductive energy and is further adapted such that with it a shrink tube, which can be pulled onto a connection region of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070181538 - Welding method using welding material having low transformation temperature: An arc welding method using a welding material having a low transformation temperature, characterized in that it is carried out by the use of a shielding gas consisting of a rare gas alone or a mixed gas of a rare gas and a small amount of an oxygen gas; and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070181539 - Apparatus and method for joining a rotor blade to a rotor mount of a gas turbine rotor: The invention relates to a rotor blade for gas turbine rotors for manufacturing gas turbine rotors having integral blading. The rotor blade has a blade pan and a blade footing connected to the blade pan. According to this invention, for manufacturing a gas turbine rotor having integral blading, the blade... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070181540 - Method and apparatus for improved plasma arc torch cut quality: Controlling the flow of a secondary gas reduces entrainment of the secondary gas and a plasma gas that forms a plasma arc in a plasma arc torch system. Reducing entrainment of the secondary gas and the plasma gas that forms the plasma arc improves the quality of cuts made with... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070181542 - Method and device for the production of a swaging: The invention relates to a method for producing a swaging in a workpiece, wherein a laser beam is guided through a beam guide over the surface of the workpiece in order to produce said swaging. The focal position of the laser beam is controlled in such a way that it... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070181543 - Protective sheet for laser processing and manufacturing method of laser processed parts: A laser processing protection sheet (2) capable of effectively preventing contamination on the surface of an article to be processed by decomposition products when the article to be processed (1) is processed by the UV absorption ablation of a laser beam (7). A production method for a laser processed article... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070181544 - Laser-based material processing systems and methods for using such systems: Laser-based material processing systems and methods for using such systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, for example, a laser-based material processing system includes a workpiece support, a positioning assembly over at least a portion of the workpiece support, and a laser. The system also includes a laser beam director... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070181541 - Residual stress improving apparatus for piping technical field: A residual stress improving apparatus for piping, which can heat an outer peripheral surface of piping to reduce (including eliminate) the residual stress of the piping, whose apparatus configuration is relatively compact, and which can also heat the outer peripheral surface of a bending pipe portion, is provided. For this... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070181545 - Method and apparatus for controlling sample position during material removal or addition: A method and system includes the accurate positioning of a sample in a multi-axis range of motion. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention enables this movement by combining coarse and fine motion stages. By using a combination of stages and precise measuring means, normal and typical errors are significantly... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070181546 - Flexible scan field: An energy beam machining system includes an emitter for emitting an energy beam and beam adjusting optics, such as a zoom telescope, for adjusting the pupil size of the system to multiple values. The adjusting of the pupil size can be carried out automatically, semi-automatically, or manually. In manual modes,... Agent: Maine & Asmus

20070181547 - Method and apparatus for welding with battery power: A method and apparatus provides welding-type power and preferably includes a removable battery or other energy storage device, a converter connected to the battery, and a controller. The controller may have a CV and/or a CSC and/or an AC weld control module, and/or an ac auxiliary control module. The converter... Agent: Corrigan Law Office

20070181548 - Welding process: An arc welding system including an electric circuit including a power source, a welding torch with a consumable welding wire, a workpiece and a control system including a computer, memory and elements for tuning the arc welding system.... Agent: Venable LLP

20070181549 - Metal cored wire: A metal cored electrode used to form a weld metal on a workpiece having improved yield strength, tensile strength and impact toughness.... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070181551 - Method of pulse welding and contact tip therefor: A contact tip for a welding gun having a central passage for a welding wire moving in a given direction toward a workpiece and receiving a welding signal by contact of the wire with the tip. The passage has an innermost end, an outermost exit end and a length of... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070181552 - Method of pulse welding and contact tip therefor: A contact tip for a welding gun having a central passage for a welding wire moving in a given direction toward a workpiece and receiving a welding signal by contact of the wire with the tip. The passage has an innermost end, an outermost exit end and a length of... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070181553 - Welding wire feed speed control system method: A welding system is disclosed in which the rate of advancement of wire electrode is determined automatically. The device can include a control circuit that determines the rate of advancement of the wire electrode in response to a signal from the voltage selection device of the welding system. Depending upon... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070181550 - A-tig welding of copper alloys for generator components: The present invention provides for the welding of copper using activated TIG welding (8). In particular, the copper coils (6) of electrical generators (2) are welded using the present invention.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070181554 - Thermal type flow sensor: A thermal type flow sensor measures a flow rate of a fluid by means of a heat resistive element having a temperature dependency. The sensor is comprised of: plural heat resistive elements used for a flow rate measurement; and a driver circuit for controlling a current applied to these heat... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070181555 - Method and apparatus for leak-proof mounting of a liquid cooling device on an integrated circuit: Apparatus for cooling of an electrical circuit element on an electrical element package, comprising in combination, structure including a hollow body defining a cavity for containing cooling fluid located in heat transfer relation with said element, a rotatably tightenable connection between said package and said hollow body, and acting to... Agent: William W. Haefliger

20070181556 - Capacitor and manufacturing method thereof: Atmosphere in processing apparatus is adjusted to, for example, oxygen atmosphere, by gas supply source and the like. Interior of thermal processing apparatus is set to oxygen atmosphere and raised to predetermined temperature. A wafer boat containing wafer W having dielectric precursor layer formed is loaded into thermal processing apparatus... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070181557 - Heat treatment apparatus, heat treatment method, and computer readable storage medium: In the present invention, a plurality of heat treatment units are arranged side by side in a linear form and a substrate transfer mechanism for transferring the substrate between the heat treatment units is provided in a heat treatment apparatus. The substrate is sequentially heat-treated in the arrangement order, whereby... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070181558 - Convection oven: A convection oven includes an oven body having a heating chamber heated by a heat source, and a vibration unit mounted at one side of the oven body and vibrating heated air so as to be uniformly distributed within the heating chamber. As the vibration unit vibrates, air within the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070181559 - Cooking pot for herbs: A cooking pot includes a cooking container, an electric heat generator, and a control sensor. The cooking container has a cooking cavity and defines a bottom wall thereof. The electric heat generator includes a heat generating module, which is adapted for electrically connecting with a power source, supported within the... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070181560 - Personal heating device: A portable personal heating device including a heater and an optional heat suit is disclosed. The heater is adapted to be used with a removable heat source including a base to receive the heat source and a heat stack attached to the base. The heat suit is preferably a camouflaged... Agent: Cargill & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20070181561 - Bottle heater: A bottle heater that includes a flexible band member having an inner heating surface adapted to be in contact with the bottle, a releasable retaining member for securing the flexible band member about the outer surface of the bottle and an electrical heating element disposed in the flexible band member... Agent: Salter & Michaelson The Heritage Building

20070181562 - Pipe heater: A heater for heating elongated objects including an elongated strip of flexible material having first and second ends and elongated opposite side edges defining a width therebetween. The strip of material comprises a fiber reinforced elastomeric material having at least a first portion that is set in a spiral. The... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20070181563 - Plastic food processing utensils comprising a magnetically susceptible component, methods of using, methods of making, and products and apparatus comprising same: A baking utensil comprising a main body consisting essentially of magnetically insusceptible material selected from the group consisting of polymeric material, ceramic, glass, tile, stone, and any combinations thereof, and comprising a magnetically susceptible component supported by the main body.... Agent: Gilbreth & Associates, P.C.

20070181564 - Bonding of materials with induction heating: An apparatus and process are provided for bonding of materials by induction heating of an electrically conductive material upon which a second material is bonded. The electrically conductive material is induction heated between a first induction heating plate, and the combination of a frame and a second induction heating plate... Agent: Philip O. Post Indel, Inc.

20070181565 - Parts for vehicles and line heater unit for snow-melting structure part thereof: An arrangement for a vehicle, such as the head lamp, includes a part that needs a snow-melting structure, a line heater that is transferred to and mounted on the part, and a power-supplying unit that supplies electric current to the line heater. The line heater includes a base film, an... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070181566 - Method for inspecting bolt heater hole: A cleaning processing jig is inserted into a bolt heater hole, and pollution such as extraneous matter on an inner surface of the hole is removed by a waste cloth. A penetration processing jig is inserted into the hole, and the penetrant is made to uniformly penetrate into the inner... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070181567 - Electromagnetically shielded induction heating apparatus: An induction heating apparatus comprises a substantially gas-tight enclosure through which a workpiece passes. An induction means surrounds the exterior of the enclosure and an ac current flow though the induction means establishes a magnetic field that couples with the workpiece to inductively heat the workpiece. The gas-tight enclosure may... Agent: Philip O. Post Indel, Inc.

20070181568 - Field director assembly having overheating protection: A field director assembly includes electrically conductive vanes positioned with respect to each other and to a planar support member to prevent overheating of the susceptor in an unloaded microwave oven.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070181569 - Microwave susceptor assembly having overheating protection: A susceptor assembly includes electrically conductive vanes positioned with respect to each other and to an planar susceptor member having an electrically lossy layer thereon to prevent overheating of the susceptor in an unloaded microwave oven.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070181570 - Self-venting microwave cooking container for use with a vertical fill automated machine: A self-venting microwave cooking container (10) for use with a vertical fill automated machine generally comprises a bag portion (12), a tray portion (14), and a venting configuration (16). The bag portion (12) defines an opening (18) for receiving a food product from a vertical fill automated machine, and the... Agent: David W Carrithers Carrithers Law Office

20070181571 - Apparatus for welding a plastic component to the aperture of a plastic body: An apparatus for welding a plastic component to a body's aperture comprises a frame element, a first heating head mounted to the frame element for heating the component, a gripper for gripping the component and for mounting the component to the body's aperture, a heater arm having a second heating... Agent: Venable LLP

20070175868 - Single drive and source for adjacently clamping and resistance welding: A resistance spot welding system (10) for sequentially clamping a plurality of workpieces (20,22) at predetermined locations and welding the workpieces (20,22) substantially adjacent the locations, including a clamping element (24) able to be locked in a workpiece engaged position, at least one set of equalizing welding electrodes (28,30) for... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070175867 - Method for improving single sided resistance spot welds: A method of improving a single-sided resistance spot weld includes forming an adhesive bond between a sheet and a tube to thereby form a two-ply structure by which the sheet metal and the tube wall stiffen each other against bending. The adhesive bond is preferably formed by heat curable adhesive... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070175869 - Method for monitoring a resistance welding process and device therefor: A method for monitoring a resistance welding process carried out on a stack of metal workpieces (1) clamped between two electrodes (2a, 2b) of a clamp (3), and a device therefor. According to the method, the electrodes (2a, 2b) are subjected to a clamping force (F) and a voltage (V(t))... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20070175870 - Plasma arc collimator design and construction: An improved collimator for a plasma arc torch consists of an annular holder member and an insert member. The insert member includes a tubular stem portion ending in an integrally formed, radially extending face plate. When the stem portion is fitted into the central bore of the holder member with... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070175871 - Plasma torch assembly: co-operating interlocking portions for removably urging the first and second abutment surfaces together by relative rotation of the interlocking portions wherein the first and second abutment surfaces comprise a complimentary taper for aligning the collar in concentric formation with at least one other tube on the base by co-operation of... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20070175872 - Laser back wall protection by particulate shading: Methods of preventing ablation damage to a second wall or an underlying second article during the laser drilling of a first wall or an overlying first article are presented. The methods include a step of providing a dry, stable particulate material between the first and second walls or articles to... Agent: Ip & Internet Law North, LLC

20070175873 - Apparatus for improving residual stress of piping technical field: A weld zone of T-piping and its neighborhood are efficiently laser-heated to remove residual stress. For this purpose, the weld zone of a T-piping (50) is irradiated and heated with a laser beam emitted from a laser head (10) to remove residual stress. At this time, a rotating travel cart... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070175874 - Welding shield and flexible skirt for automated welding: An automated welding system is provided for welding a workpiece. The system includes a multiaxially movable arm, a fiber optic cable, a laser source, a focusing head, a focus lens, and a shield. The fiber optic cable is coupled to the arm. The laser source is coupled to the fiber... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070175875 - Method and device use to produce a set of control data for producing products by free-form sintering and/or melting, in addition to a device for the production thereof:

20070175876 - Method, apparatus and software for gas metal arc welding with a continuously fed electrode: A welding method for gas metal arc welding is provided with continuous electrode feeding and control for short arc welding and/or spray arc welding and also short pulsing in which the control cyclically alternates between short pulsing and short arc or spray arc welding, and time for carrying out the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070175877 - Weld wire with large cast, method of making same, and loaded spool article of manufacture: A weld wire for storage on a spool of weld wire, a method for making same, and an article of manufacture including a weld wire carried on a spool. The weld wire has a substantially linear cast in the form of an undulating curve including a succession of generally semi-circular... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Lincoln

20070175878 - Floor heating system: A floor heating system including a sub-floor, a plurality of fasteners, a first heater conductor assembly and a second heater conductor assembly. The first conductor assembly including a first resistive conductor having a first length, first and second ends, and two low resistance conductors. The two low resistance conductors being... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20070175879 - Floor heating system: A floor heating system including a sub-floor, a plurality of fasteners, at least one resistive conductor and a capacitor. The at least one resistive conductor is fastened to the sub-floor by way of the plurality of fasteners. The capacitor is electrically in series with the at least one resistive conductor.... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20070175880 - Image forming apparatus: The fixing apparatus of an image forming apparatus has a heating device, a feeding device and control device, wherein in a case of continuously forming images onto the material to be heated, wherein the control device changes the turn-on time ratio in accordance with a size of the material to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070175881 - Electric hair curling apparatus: An electric hair curler is disclosed as including a handle; and a heating tube engaged with the handle and having a longitudinal axis, and the heating tube is adapted to be releasably engaged with hair and is operable to heat hair engaged therewith, and the heating tube is rotatably movable... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070175882 - Laser guided work device: A laser guided work device including a work board having a work surface, a line producing laser projecting a line on the work surface, and a linear motion device engaging the laser to the work board. The linear motion device translates the laser relative to the work surface along at... Agent: Sarah M. Jabbari Baker & Daniels LLP

20070175883 - Method and apparatus for operating an electric water heater: A control system for an electric water heater having an upper heating element and a lower heating element is disclosed. The control system includes a control module that controls operation of the electric water heater by selectively toggling the upper and lower heating elements between an ON state and an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070175884 - Steam cooker with steam delivery device: A steam cooker includes a steam cooking chamber including left, right, top, bottom and rear walls, a front access opening and a door moveable between an open position to allow access to the steam cooking chamber and a closed position to inhibit access to the steam cooking chamber through the... Agent: Thompson Hine LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070175885 - Modular steam oven construction method and related double cavity steam oven assembly: A steam oven construction and method of assembly utilizing a modular cavity unit is described.... Agent: Thompson Hine LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070175886 - Slow cooker: A slow cooker for heating of food stuffs includes a container having a generally hollow interior and a container rim defining an opening for accessing the interior. The interior is capable of retaining the food stuffs therein. A first base for supporting the container has an electric heating element, which... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070175887 - Confectionary liquid serving assembly: A confectionary fountain assembly enables user to self-serve confectionary liquid, such as liquid chocolate. The fountain assembly comprises a base assembly, a conduit assembly, a functional sculpture, and an annular basin. The base assembly supports a bowl-shaped receptacle and houses a heating element and a motor assembly for respectively providing... Agent: Meroni & Meroni, P.C.

20070175888 - Stove control circuitry: Disclosed are apparatus and methodology for reducing the chances of a fire during the operation of heating or cooking appliance. Motion sensitive circuitry incorporated into control circuitry for the appliance monitors activity near the appliance. If activity near the appliance is not detected within a preselected time period, heat producing... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20070175889 - Heater panel of a radiant heater comprising a heating spiral: The invention relates to a heater panel of a radiant heater comprising a heating spiral provided on a panel element and mechanically connected to the panel element with a portion of a spiral turn. With the object of providing a heater panel with a stable arrangement of the heating spiral... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070175890 - High-frequency heating apparatus: A purpose of the present invention is to provide an inverter circuit capable of firmly turning ON IGBTs under limited condition, while a heat loss and noise can be hardly produced in semiconductor switching elements. In a resonant type high frequency heating apparatus which is arranged by employing a DC... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070175891 - Cooking apparatus: The object of the invention is to improve the safety of a cooking apparatus, the efficiency of the door opening and shutting operation of the door opening and shutting part, and the quality of a cooked food. An opening and shutting door 4 includes a handle 5 for opening and... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP