Electric heating inventions 08/08

20080203064 - Bundle drawn metal fiber with three layers: A bundle drawn metal fiber has a radial cross section comprising at least three concentric metal layers, being a core layer, a surface layer and at least one intermediate layer. The intermediate layer or layers envelop the core layer. The surface layer envelops the intermediate layer or layers. The surface... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080203066 - Multi-cable umbilical cord system: A system and method for an integrated structural welding system is designed to improve work flow efficiency. Accordingly, a multi-cable umbilical cord system is provided that combines and couples a number of power, control, and gas deliver cables.... Agent: Jack M.cook Quarles & Brady LLP

20080203065 - System and method for controlling and coordinating welding-type processes and gouging-type processes: A system and method for an integrated structural welding system includes a welding-type power source configured to deliver welding-type power for a variety of welding-type processes. The system also includes a gouging torch connected to the welding-type power source to receive welding-type power during a gouging-type process and a wire... Agent: Jack M. Cook Quarles & Brady, LLP.

20080203067 - System and method for coordinating welding and gouging operations: A system and method for an integrated structural welding system includes a user interface and controller configured to coordinate both welding and gouging operations.... Agent: Jack M. Cook Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080203068 - Power supply-control device for electrical discharge machining apparatus: A power-supply control device includes a high-frequency component detecting unit, a machining voltage level detecting device, and a pulse control device. The high-frequency component detecting unit detects a high-frequency component of discharge voltage at a machining gap. The machining voltage level detecting device detects a discharge voltage level at the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080203069 - Edm process for manufacturing reverse tapered holes: A electrical discharge machining apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus may have an electrode, an actuator configured to advance the electrode, and a power supply. The apparatus may also have a controller in communication with the actuator and the power supply. The controller may be configured to negatively charge the electrode,... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080203070 - Arc recovery without over-voltage for plasma chamber power supplies using a shunt switch: A system and method for over-voltage protection is described. In one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus includes an output port configured to deliver power to a plasma chamber to ignite a plasma. The apparatus also includes a shunt switch in parallel with the output port and a processor configured... Agent: Neugeboren O''dowd PC

20080203071 - Link processing using laser pulses with specially tailored power profiles: A laser pulse with a specially tailored temporal power profile, instead of a conventional temporal shape or substantially square shape, severs an IC link. The specially tailored laser pulse preferably has either an overshoot at the beginning of the laser pulse or a spike peak within the duration of the... Agent: Electro Scientific Industries/stoel Rives, LLP

20080203072 - Method and a device for providing feedback on weaving parameters: A method and a device for providing feedback on weaving parameters in connection with programming an industrial robot provided with a tool to perform a weaving movement. The device includes a simulation unit receiving the weaving parameters and on basis thereof performing a simulation of the weaving movement with a... Agent: Venable LLP

20080203074 - System and method for protecting a welding-type system from strain: A system and method for an integrated structural welding system is designed to protect the components of the system against accidental damage and undue stresses. Specifically, portable structure and a strain protection system are provided. The strain protection system is supported by a portable structure and engages one or both... Agent: Jack M. Cook Quaries & Brady, LLP.

20080203073 - Welding-type system having a wire feeder system having integrated power source controls and a welding-type power source that is free power parameter selection interfaces: A system and method for an integrated structural welding system is designed to protect improve work flow efficiency. Specifically, a welding-type power source is provided that is free of user interface devices designed to select power parameters. Instead, a wire feeder is provided that includes a user interface configured to... Agent: Jack M. Cook Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080203075 - Portable structural welding system having integrated resources: A system and method for an integrated structural welding system is designed to improve work flow efficiency. Specifically, a portable support structure is provided that includes a number of integrated components, such as transmission power receptacles and gas supply connections, that provide ready access to resources to perform a number... Agent: Jack M. Cook, Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080203076 - Method and apparatus for heating an object: Rapid heating of a surface of an object is achieved by moving the surface of the object proximate to one or more flexible baffles. The one or more flexible baffles are in fluid communication with a pressurized and heated flow of air. The one or more baffles are arranged to... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080203077 - Heating system comprising a ptc element, especially for a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a heating system (1), especially for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one PTC element and a housing (7) which contains the PTC element and through which the air to be heated flows. The invention heating system also comprising a heating control device (3) which is... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080203079 - Vehicle window with de-icing feature and method: A window such as a vehicle window (e.g., windshield) has a de-icing feature. In certain example embodiments, a conductive structure is provided on an interior surface of a substrate of the window, AC tuned to an ice removal frequency is caused to run through the conductive structure, and fields generated... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080203078 - Windshield heater: The present invention is a vehicle windshield assembly for assisting a vehicle defroster in melting ice or snow on a vehicle windshield by engaging and heating an outer circumference area of an inner side of the windshield using a flexible electrical heating element, an adhesive for adhering the heating element... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080203080 - Patient warming blanket: The present invention provides a patient warming device and method of application that may be used to retain and provide heat to a patient to prevent the onset of hypothermia.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080203081 - Variable thermal resistor system: A variable thermal resistance system having a hermetically sealed enclosure around a component. There may be a gap or space between the internal surface of the enclosure and the external surface of the component. A gas, such as a gas from a low vapor pressure solid placed on the internal... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080203082 - Banquet cart including heat retention material: A banquet cart includes a heater received in an opening in the bottom panel of the banquet cart. Plates of food are loaded into the interior compartment of the banquet cart in the kitchen. The heater includes a central heater unit and two heat retention material heating panels. The central... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080203083 - Single wafer anneal processor: A thermal processor is adapted for annealing substrates. The processor has a sealed process chamber. Air is excluded from the process chamber during processing to avoid oxidation of substrate surfaces, such as copper surfaces. The substrate temperature is controlled by selectively positioning the substrate between a hot plate and a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/semitool

20080203084 - Heating apparatus for heating objects to be heated, heating method for heating the objects to be heated, and storage medium in which computer-readable program is stored: The present invention provides a heating apparatus for heating objects to be processed, which can detect a temperature of the objects to be processed with higher precision and accuracy, thereby to achieve higher precision temperature control. A heating apparatus 2 includes a processing vessel 8 configured to contain therein a... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080203085 - Toaster with supplemental cycle: A toaster has a user selectable supplementary toasting cycle that is intended to change the shade of a food after or during a toasting cycle.... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20080203086 - Attaching unit and knob for a heating unit of a cigar lighter: The invention relates to a unit for fixing a base body provided with a housing of a cigar lighter heating element, in particular for motor vehicles. The inventive fixing unit is used for fixing a button actuating said heating element. Said fixing unit comprises a fixing element fixable to the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080203087 - Method for operating an induction heating device: The invention relates to a method for operating an induction heating device. The induction heating device comprises an induction coil and a frequency converter for producing a control voltage for the induction coil. The frequency converter comprises a rectifier rectifying an alternating supply voltage (UN), an intermediate circuit capacitor, looped... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080203088 - Heating apparatus and induction heating control method: In an aspect of this invention, a fixing device includes a heating member including a first area and a second area formed of conductive members (e.g., aluminum and iron) having different magnetic permeability ratios, and an induction heating unit which generates a magnetic field from a coil to induction-heat this... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080197115 - Electrical discharge machine: An electrical discharge machine feeds an electrode wire received within a guide tube to a process region of a machined article. The electrical discharge machine includes a cylindrical hollow driving shaft arranged in a vertical direction, which has a space for receiving the guide tube with the electrode wire along... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080197116 - Tig welding system and method: The invention provides a welding arrangement designed to respond the need of an improved welding system that aids in supplying filler material to a weld location. Provided is a welding system including a welding gun and a welding wire feed directly coupled to the welding gun. The welding gun includes... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20080197117 - Bonding apparatus and method of metal plate: A bonding apparatus of metal plates may include an upper mold having a first guide pathway formed vertically inside thereof; a middle mold having a second guide pathway formed vertically inside thereof, the middle mold being disposed under the upper mold; a lower mold having a metal removing pathway formed... Agent: LexyoumeIPGroup, LLC

20080197118 - Laser machine tool: A laser machine tool for carrying out cutting or welding operations includes a laser head carried by a moving member which is displaceable with respect to a workpiece along two horizontal cartesian axes in a relatively wide space with movements involving relatively low accelerations. The laser head is displaceable on... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080197119 - Method for welding a sintered shaped body: A method is described for welding a sintered molded body (1) which comprises a residual porosity and which is molten in the region of the later weld seam (3) by a laser beam (4). In order to obtain dense weld seams it is proposed that during the melting of the... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080197120 - Method for producing a hole and associated device: Conventional methods for producing a hole in a component make use of special lasers with short laser pulse lengths. The aim of the invention is to reduce the time and money required for producing a hole. According to the inventive method, the laser pulse lengths are varied, short laser pulse... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080197121 - Method and device for controlling temperature of a substrate using an internal temperature control device: A substrate, thermal treatment assembly and method of operating the thermal treatment assembly are described for controlling the temperature of a substrate An electrical potential is applied across two or more locations on the substrate in order to generate an electrical current through a portion of the substrate, thereby altering... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080197122 - Combination defroster panel and sunshade for vehicle glass: The combination defroster panel and sunshade for vehicle glass includes an electrically heated element disposed upon one side of a rigid panel and a reflective surface disposed upon the opposite side of the panel. The device is placed adjacent to the interior surface of the window glass of a vehicle... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20080197123 - No-frost refrigerator: The present invention describes a no-frost refrigerator device capable of preventing the formation of ice on the upper wall of the refrigerator itself.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080197124 - Heater jacket for heat convection: The present invention generally relates to an insulating heater jacket, and more particularly, to a silicone rubber and a heater controller for an insulating heater jacket. According to the present invention, the use of the silicone rubber molded out of a mixture of polymethyl vinyl silica oxide solutions improves durability.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080197125 - Substrate heating method and apparatus: Embodiments of substrate heating methods and apparatus are provided herein. In one embodiment, a substrate heater is provided including a heater plate having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, a recess formed in the top surface, the recess having a feature having an upper surface for supporting a... Agent: MoserIPLaw Group / Applied Materials, Inc.

20080197126 - Inductively heated clothing: Induction heatable clothing items such as footwear (22) and apparel (160) are provided which include a clothing body having an induction heatable element (36, 108, 112, 114, 116) and preferably having heat retentive material containing phase change material, wherein the element (36, 108, 112, 114, 116) is operable to be... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080197127 - Microwave heating system: A heating system is provided for heating a heating media and domestic hot water. The hating system includes an enclosure. A tank is located within the enclosure. A magnetron chamber is located in the enclosure above the tank. At least one heating rod with a hollow interior extends from the... Agent: John Maier, Iii

20080197128 - Microwave energy interactive insulating structure: A microwave energy interactive structure for heating, browning, and/or crisping a food item in a microwave oven, comprises a plurality of layers including a layer of microwave energy interactive material and a substantially continuous tie layer. The tie layer comprises a thermoplastic material. Upon sufficient exposure to microwave energy, the... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080190896 - Large kitchen professional electrical apparatus with adaptive feeding: P

20080190897 - Method and device for stretching and/or separating wires: The methods and devices enable a reliable and rapid automatic threading process on spark-erosive wire-cutting machines with closed round guides without complicated entry of parameters. A heat-output control device with an optimized output characteristic curve is supplied from a DC voltage source of the erosion generator. Through an at least... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080190898 - Storage packet for welding flux comprising a sandwich structure of the polymer/metal film type method for a storage of a welding flux in such a packet and method for arc welding using a welding flux stored in such a packet: The invention relates to a storage packet for welding flux, in the form of a bag (1) containing welding flux (5) and with at least one layer of thermo-welded polymer (3a, 3b) and at least one metal film (2), superimposed one on the other and a structure with flexible deformable... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080190899 - Electrode tip holder, welding method, and electrode tip adjusting device: An electrode tip holder, a welding method, and an electrode tip adjusting device. The electrode tip holder comprises a chuck body having an inner diameter hole with a first tapered inner peripheral surface diverging toward the tip thereof, a lock nut threaded with the tip male screw part of the... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080190900 - Arc welder and related system: A welder for welding a base metal. The welder may include a first electrode for forming a first arc with the base metal and a second electrode for forming a second arc between the first and second electrodes. A compact welder, welding system, and method are also provided.... Agent: King & Schickli, Pllc

20080190901 - Method and device for laser welding of a rim to the disk of a wheel for motor vehicles: Described herein is a method for laser welding of a rim to the disk of a wheel for motor vehicles, in which the rim envisages a circumferential wall, with an internal surface, and the disk envisages a circumferential portion, which is in contact with said internal surface of the rim... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080190902 - Wafer dividing method and laser beam processing machine: A method of dividing a wafer, comprising the steps of forming a deteriorated layer along streets in the inside of the wafer; affixing an adhesive film to the rear surface of the wafer; affixing the adhesive film side of the wafer to a dicing tape mounted on an annular frame;... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080190904 - Laser dicing sheet and process for producing chip body: m

20080190903 - Method for machining workpieces by using laser radiation: The invention relates to a method for machining workpieces by using laser radiation, wherein the workpieces to be machined are moved during the machining and at least one laser beam is deflected with respect to two axes aligned orthogonally to one another. It is therefore the object of the invention... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20080190905 - Device for producing a three-dimensional object: In a device for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by subsequently solidifying a solidifiable material (9) layerwise at the positions corresponding to the cross-section of the object an inner container (201) is inserted in a building container (112) that is present in a building space (3), which inner container can be... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080190906 - Electrical current source, in particular welding current source: According to the invention, parallel resonant converters which are or can be connected to a load circuit via a transformer in each case are provided with a common series circuit of the secondary sides of the transformers. Therefore, despite variation of the frequency-determining components, it is possible for all the... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, Llc

20080190907 - Method of connecting metal material: A method of connecting metal materials to each other, wherein a pin fitted to the tip of a metal bar-like rotating tool (10) is inserted between the end pan of a metal member (I) and the end part of a metal member (1′), and moved, while rotating, along the longitudinal... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080190908 - Apparatus and method for levitation of an amount of conductive material: An apparatus for levitation of an amount of conductive material including a coil for keeping the material in levitation using a varying electric current in the coil. The apparatus has two coils, a first coil and a second coil, both coils generating an alternating electromagnetic field during use, the alternating... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080190909 - Heat treatment apparatus emitting flash of light: Flash lamps connected to short-pulse circuits and flash lamps connected to long-pulse circuits are alternately arranged in a line. The duration of light emission from the flash lamps connected to the long-pulse circuits is longer than the duration of light emission from the flash lamps connected to the short-pulse circuits.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080190910 - Heat treatment apparatus and method of manufacturing substrates: A heat treatment apparatus wherein a nozzle is accurately provided on an adaptor to prevent the nozzle from interfering with other part items and a possibility of breakage due to heat expansion of the nozzle can be reduced. The heat treatment apparatus (10) is provided with a reaction tube (42)... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080190911 - Radiant convertion bafele for ovens: A baffle that can be used in an oven includes, according to one embodiment, a fan, a catalyst, a heater between the fan and the catalyst, and/or a support structure. The support structure supports the fan, the catalyst, and/or the heater. The fan is arranged to circulate air over the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080190912 - Heating apparatus and method for making the same: A heating apparatus includes a heating element adapted to be disposed on a substrate. The heating element includes electrodes and a multi-layer conductive coating of nano-thickness disposed between the substrate and electrodes. The multi-layer conductive coating has a structure and composition which stabilize performance of the heating element at high... Agent: Barron & Young Intellectual Property

20080190913 - Dielectric profile controlled microwave sterilization system: A dielectric profiler establishes a dielectric profile of microwave characteristics for identifying, sterilizing or inactivating a target material prior to performing a microwave irradiation event to sterilize or inactivate the target material.... Agent: Cr Miles, P.c. Craig R. Miles

20080190914 - Portable food storage and preparation device: An apparatus for portable food storage and preparation is shown. The apparatus has an impact resistant housing. An insulated portion is contained within the housing and is configured for storage of chilled food and beverage items. A lid covers the insulated portion. A microwave oven is contained within a portion... Agent: Danielle B. Gibson

20080190915 - Linearly reciprocating tray for microwave oven: A microwave oven in which a power transmission transmitting driving force of a motor moves a tray right and left without direct contact with the tray. The microwave oven includes a support disposed between a bottom plate and the tray to support the tray and the power transmission transmitting driving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080190916 - Microwave oven with a phase modulator: m

20080185366 - Plasma spraying device and method: A device and a method for plasma spraying are disclosed. The device comprises, a cathode, an anode, a plasma channel formed by the anode and intermediate electrodes, and one or more flowable material injectors. The plasma channel has a throttling portion that divides the plasma channel into a high pressure... Agent: Jones Day

20080185365 - Flatbed laser engraver: A flatbed laser engraver comprises a working platform for fixing a workpiece thereon and a carriage moving back and forth on a guiding rail of the working platform. It is characterized in that the flatbed laser engraver further comprises a quantum cascade laser output device disposed on the working platform.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080185367 - Method and system of machining using a beam of photons: Some embodiments include methods, and systems of machining using a beam of photons. In some embodiments, a machining method to remove material in a machined region may include reducing transparency of the region to at least a predefined wavelength by irradiating the region with a first beam of photons to... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080185368 - Method and system for multi pass weld preparation using a cutting torch: Systems, methods and software products generate multi-pass contours for controlling a numerical control (NC) machine to cut out a part with weld preparation. Weld preparation information is combined with an electronic description of the part to form an enhanced electronic file. Multi-pass contours, usable to control an NC machine to... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080185369 - Hand grip: In order to improve a hand grip for handlebar-steered vehicles, comprising a grip covering, made of a grip-covering material, and an accommodating space which extends, by way of its longitudinal extent, from a plug-in opening in a plug-in direction for a grip component of the handlebar, such that it is... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080185370 - Heating apparatus and heating method: A disclosed heating apparatus includes a heating chamber configured to heat a substrate placed in the heating chamber with a heat plate opposing the substrate; a gas stream forming portion that creates a gas stream along a top surface of the substrate in the heating chamber; and a pair of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080185371 - Fluid warmer: A heat exchange apparatus including a heat exchanging portion capable of conforming to the outer surface of a heat exchange target.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080185372 - Oven with oven door having an air deflection assembly: An oven door has an outer door panel, an inner door panel, and a viewing panel being disposed intermediate the outer and inner door panels. The oven door is provided with an air deflection assembly disposed intermediate the outer door panel and the viewing panel. The air deflection assembly deflects... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080185373 - Double oven combination with an integrated cooling air and exhaust air flow arrangement: A double oven combination is configured to be “built-in” an area of a household—in other words, permanently secured relative to the household area and integrated with other elements of the household area to provide a consistent decorative appearance. The double oven combination comprises an upper oven and a lower oven... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080185374 - Cooking apparatus: A burner for a glass top stove includes a heating element, and a reflector. The reflector is shaped to reflect heat and light emitted down and to the sides of the heater back up to the glass top of the burner. The reflector is shaped to form multiple images of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080185375 - Method for manufacturing pipe-type woven carbon fibers and carbon fiber heating lamp using the pipe-type woven carbon fibers: Disclosed herein are a method of manufacturing a carbon-fiber pipe which is hollow and has a net shape, by knitting carbon fibers and general fibers, applying carbon or ceramic, and heating to burn the general fibers, and a carbon fiber heating lamp using the carbon-fiber pipe. The heating lamp includes... Agent: Calif Kip Tervo

20080185376 - Induction cook top with heat management system: An indoor or outdoor induction cook top with a heat management system is disclosed. The cook top controls heat generated by various components, including the electronic controller, mechanical controls, and the induction generators. The heat management system provides precise temperature control and an efficient way of removing heat from the... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080185377 - Thermal processor of meat: Thermal processing apparatus and a method for the defrosting of meat are disclosed. A vessel includes an opening, and a rotation assembly is adapted to rotate the vessel such that the opening is disposed on the axis of rotation. The vessel preferably comprises electrically conductive walls. An RF source is... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080185378 - Microwave oven with a cooking air duct: e