Electric heating inventions 09/08

20080230520 - Method for welding two rails of a track: The invention relates to a method for welding two rails (8, 10, 14) of a track using a welding unit (1) of a welding machine (20). According to the method, two rails (8,10,14) each caught by a pair of clamping jaws (6) of the welding unit (1) are moved and... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080230521 - Power supply apparatus for electric discharge machine and power supply control method: A power supply apparatus for an electric discharge machine configured to perform melt-removal on a workpiece by supplying pulse-like power to a machining gap between an electrode (1) and a workpiece (2). This power supply apparatus includes a second machining circuit configured to control a voltage to be applied to... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080230522 - Burner: The invention relates to a burner design and can be used for thermal treatment of a surface of materials. The burner comprises a tubular electrode, a nozzle, a removable rod-shaped electrode which are arranged to form a discharge chamber, a means for vapour generation in the form of a reservoir... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080230523 - Beam-catching device for a processing machine: A processing machine for workpiece processing includes a cutting head that produces a cutting beam directed toward a workpiece, and a beam-catching device for receiving a discharge of the cutting beam from an underside of the workpiece during processing of the workpiece. The beam-catching device includes a housing defining an... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080230524 - Method for laser cutting material plates, especially metal sheets, and cutting system for carrying out said method: Disclosed is a method for laser cutting material plates (13a,b), especially metal sheets. According to said method, the material plates (13a,b) that are to be cut are first placed in a substantially vertical cutting position (SP1, SP2) and are then cut from one side by means of a laser cutting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080230525 - Laser ablation using multiple wavelengths: In laser micromachining and laser defect repair of a first material, a first set of one or more laser wavelengths is selected in accordance with the first material's absorption characteristics and is combined and delivered concurrently with a second set of one or more laser wavelengths which is selected in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080230526 - Welding method and welded joint structure: The invention provides a welding system capable of freely controlling the dispersion and concentration of arc heat over the groove face with an extremely narrow gap and a high strength and high quality welded joint structure which is formed by this welding system and which is capable of preventing softening/hardening... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080230528 - Method of electric arc joining with alternating current: The invention relates to a method for arc joining, in particular for arc welding, such that an arc burns between a workpiece and a fusible electrode at a processing site such that an alternating current with at least one positive alternating current phase and at least one negative alternating current... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20080230527 - Method of manufacturing an exhaust gas manifold utilizing hybrid mig welding: A method of manufacturing an exhaust gas manifold, that includes metal exhaust pipes and metal flanges for attaching the pipe openings to corresponding internal combustion engine exhaust ports, employs a hybrid MIG welding process to reduce the occurrences of weld spatter being deposited on the pipe surfaces. Additional benefits are... Agent: Automotive Components Holdings LLC C/o Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080230529 - Wear-resistant welding contact tip: The present invention discloses novel metal compositions predominantly composed of copper, nickel or nickel-cobalt, and tin for use in Mig welding and other application methods to form electrically conductive, oxidation resistant, and wear resistant welding contact surfaces.... Agent: Ronald J. Rich

20080230530 - Heating blanket: An electric heating blanket including a flexible sheet-like heating element and a shell. The shell covers the heating blanket an includes two sheets of flexible material welded together.... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20080230531 - Heat block: A heat block for holding an electronic device is disclosed. The heat block comprises a base and at least one discharge device. The discharge device is disposed on the base. The discharge device is electrically conductive and is grounded. When the electronic device is placed on the base, the discharge... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080230533 - Conveyorized oven and method for uniform cooking: A conveyorized oven that provides uniform cooking with control of the heater and/or the conveyor belt speed. The oven includes a controller that monitors power consumption of the heater and uses the power consumption to control the heater and/or the speed of the motor that drives the conveyor belt. The... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080230532 - Tortilla oven: A tortilla oven comprises a housing which encloses upper, center, and lower conveyors. The lengths of the conveyors are individually monitored and adjusted. The interior of the housing is heated by a plurality of the individually regulated burners that extend through the conveyors. Ambient air is directed upwardly along the... Agent: Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20080230534 - Bake plate lid cleaner and cleaning method: A method and system for positioning a wafer on a bake plate in a processing module that includes lowering a bake plate cover assembly over the wafer during a baking process, raising the bake plate cover assembly after the baking process, removing the wafer, determining whether the bake plate cover... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (tokyo Electron)

20080230535 - Susceptor: A susceptor [1] is manufactured by providing a protruding part [8] on the joining surface of a retainer plate [4], and additionally providing a groove part [9] composed of a dovetail groove on the joining surface of a heat transfer plate [3] in a position facing the protruding part [8].... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20080230536 - Electromagnetic heating cable and warming mat using the same: An electromagnet heating cable includes a center core, an inner layer body formed around the center core, an intermediate layer body formed around the inner layer body, an outer layer body formed around the intermediate layer body, an inner layer coil having a magnetic core disposed between the center core... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080230537 - Susceptor with corrugated base: A thermally insulated susceptor structure comprises a dimensionally stable base having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a first susceptor overlying the first side of the base, and a second susceptor overlying the second side of the base. The base includes a plurality of flutes... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080223827 - Wire retrieving device for cutting machine: A wire retrieving device for a cutting machine includes a block connected with an air source and a blowing path is defined through the block. A suction path is defined in a side of the block and has an oblique port formed in a surface of the block through which... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esquire

20080223828 - Step-down plunge electrodischarge machining: A method of machining a pattern at a plurality of locations in a workpiece includes positioning a shaped electrode including the pattern at the plurality of locations in a sequence. In some embodiments, the sequence is random. The method further includes forming the pattern at each of the plurality of... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20080223829 - Method for arc-welding with alternating current: The invention pertains to a method for arc welding with a consumable electrode and with high deposition rates, wherein an alternating current is applied between the electrode and a work piece in order to generate the arc, wherein the alternating current has a current waveform that repeats itself after one... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20080223830 - Shielding gas cylinder holder for welding-type devices: A welding-type device and gas system for use therewith is disclosed. The welding-type device includes a power supply constructed to generate a welding-type power, a housing enclosing the power source, and a cylinder holder attached to an external surface of the housing. The device further includes a pressure vessel removably... Agent: Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, Sc (itw)

20080223831 - Laser welding method and laser welding system: A focal point controlling section is configured and arranged to control a focal point of the laser beam outputted from a laser oscillator to selectively focus the laser beam on a surface of a workpiece. A laser irradiation position moving section is configured to move a laser irradiation position at... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080223832 - Real time implementation of generalized predictive control algorithm for the control of direct metal deposition (dmd) process: A linear model based generalized predictive control system controls the molten pool temperature during a Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) process. The molten pool temperature is monitored by a two-color pyrometer. A single-input single-output linear system that describes the dynamics between the molten pool temperature and the laser power is identified... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080223833 - Machining apparatus for drilling printed circuit board: A machining apparatus in which the machining efficiency can be improved even if characters are machined in a printed circuit board. A coordinate transformation unit is provided for transforming central coordinates of each dot d of each character of a character string into coordinates in a machining coordinate system with... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080223834 - Method and apparatus for laser marking objects: Embodiments of the present invention comprise an apparatus for laser marking individual objects with indicia at a marking station wherein a predetermined window exists during which each object can be marked as the objects are conveyed along at least one path at a predetermined speed, the apparatus comprising, at least... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080223835 - Methods of forming fan-shaped effusion holes in combustors: Methods are provided of forming a plurality of fan-shaped effusion holes on a combustor having a surface, each hole having an outlet on the combustor surface. The method may include rotating the combustor relative to a laser beam, and positioning the combustor to a first position where the laser beam... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080223836 - Method and system for laser processing: A laser processing system has a platform to support a work piece to be processed, a laser to operate on the work piece, a laser control system to control operation of the laser, and a system control to provide instructions to the laser control system based upon at least the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080223837 - Use of predictive pulse triggering to improve accuracy in link processing: A predictive pulse triggering (PPT) method enables precise triggering of a laser beam in a link-processing system. The PPT method entails triggering the laser beam based on estimated relative motion parameters of the target and laser beam axis. The PPT method allows for a six-fold improvement in laser positioning accuracy... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20080223838 - Laser treatment apparatus, laser treatment method, and manufacturing method of semiconductor device: The invention relates to a laser treatment apparatus including a laser oscillator, an interlock provided in the laser oscillator, a movable table which moves with a certain movement period, a timer, an interlock provided in the timer, a sensor which can detect movement of the movable table, and a computer,... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080223839 - Laser machining apparatus: A laser machining apparatus capable of accurately projecting mask patterns onto a work piece and superior in machining accuracy. An auto-focusing unit is provided. The auto-focusing unit includes a television camera for observing alignment marks formed on the surface of the work piece so as to be able to measure... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080223840 - Squeezing detection control method for consumable electrode arc welding: A squeezing detection control method is provided for consumable electrode arc welding. The method includes a step of detecting a droplet squeezing phenomenon by checking that a change in a voltage or resistance between the consumable electrode and base material reaches a squeezing detection reference value, and a step of... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080223841 - Air warmer: A heating element includes a plurality of folded surfaces which can be resistively heating using electrical current. The heating element can advantageously function both as a heating source and a heat transfer device, as the need for separate fins or other heat dissipation members is eliminated. In some embodiments, the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080223842 - Systems and methods for windshield deicing: Cost efficient, lightweight and rapid windshield deicing systems and methods are disclosed. The systems utilize step-up converters or inverters, or dual-voltage batteries, to provide a voltage high enough to deice a windshield in less than thirty seconds.... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080223843 - Slide-out heater module for voltage electrical equipment: A slide out heater module for use with a voltage electrical equipment for reducing internal moisture and including an elongated bracket upon which is supported a strip heater in slidably displaceable fashion. The module includes a stationary component secured inside the electrical equipment, with a moveable component being slidably displaced... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080223844 - Textile based heating apparatus and method: A heating apparatus comprising a textile based heating element, a power source and related components. The heating apparatus can be designed, retrofitted or manufactured into articles of clothing or equipment such as gloves, vests, jackets, shirts, pants, socks, insoles, mitts, handwarmers, seats and other common articles. A textile based heating... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080223845 - Heating systems and methods: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to heating systems. In various embodiments, a tray may be supported adjacent a housing having a plurality of heating compartments configured to provide heat to food items within each of the heating compartments. In other embodiments, a vessel may be configured to... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080223846 - Electrical heating apparatus: An electrical heating apparatus having an emitting surface, in particular in the form of a panel. It comprises a heating device having a vessel receiving a small volume of low-boiling-temperature phase-transition liquid, and an electrical heating body for the liquid in the vessel, a closed casing forming the emitting surface,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080223847 - Electric grill and method of using same: An electric grill includes at least one grill pan having a first heating member, a second heating member, and a temperature sensing member for measuring the temperature of the grill pan; and the first heating member, the second heating member and the temperature sensing member connect with a control circuit.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080223848 - Conductive materials: The invention relates to conductive materials particularly to serve as a heater. Heating means formed by or with electrically conductive materials are known and particularly effective for its flexibility is that sold under the British, Community and US Registered Trade Mark INDITHERM. Conductive rails are used to provide electrical connection... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20080223849 - Ceramic heater and gas sensor element: In a ceramic heater according to the invention, a heating section has a meandering shape to include a pair of first straight segments, a plurality of second straight segments, and a plurality of curved segments. Each of the first straight segments extends in the longitudinal direction of a ceramic sheet... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080223850 - Heat exchanging apparatus: A heat exchanging apparatus includes a heat generating tube of spiral form through which pure water flows, a short-circuit member for electrically short-circuiting ends of the heat generating tube, and a heating coil arranged to envelope the heat generating tube and the short-circuit member, for generating an electromagnetic induction power... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080223851 - Apparatus and methods for synthesis of large size batches of carbon nanostructures: An apparatus and method for synthesizing nanostructures. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a reactor having a reaction zone and a conductive susceptor positioned in the reaction zone. The method includes the steps of transporting a gas mixture having an aerosolized catalyst, a feedstock and a carrier gas into the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080223852 - Induction heating and control system and method with high reliability and advanced performance features: An induction heating and control system and method have enhanced reliability and advanced performance features for use with induction cooking devices, such as induction heating ranges. Enhanced performance is facilitated via the use of an induction heating system which integrates voltage management, power management, thermal management, digital control sensing and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080223853 - Heat generator comprising a magneto-caloric material and thermie generating method: The invention relates to a heat generator comprising a magneto-caloric material and a method for generating efficient and reliable thermies enabling of substantially limiting displaceable inert masses in order to produce a magnetic field variation required for obtaining a magneto caloric effect and usable by individuals and/or industries. The inventive... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080223854 - Microwave oven with one-touch button user interface: A cooking oven, particularly a microwave oven, comprises means for detecting food data and for adjusting food heating and/or cooking process accordingly. The oven further comprises an user interface with at least one socket-shaped seat adapted to receive a removable plug-shaped button which stores said food data and which is... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080223855 - Microwave oven window: An observation window for a microwave device exhibiting microwave radiation of a predetermined frequency, the observation window comprising two optically transparent conductive films, each of the transparent conductive films primarily reflecting incident microwave radiation and being substantially parallel and spatially separated from each other by a predetermined distance, the predetermined... Agent: Simon Kahn - Pyi Tech, Ltd. C/o Landonip, Inc

20080217299 - Conductor rails: A method of manufacturing a conductor rail comprising a main body (11) and a wear-resisting facing layer comprises feeding the main body (11) to a welding station (10) while simultaneously feeding the facing layer to the welding station as two or more portions (12), and welding the two or more... Agent: Melvin I. Stoltz, Esq.

20080217300 - Wire-cut electric discharge machine having wire tension control function: When a wire electrode is arranged along a traveling path by manual operation, a motor M1 for feeding the wire electrode to a workpiece is driven in response to a predetermined torque command from a control section with a switch SW1 on a side a. The wire electrode is connected,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080217302 - Nanospot welder and method: A method and apparatus for assembly of small structures is disclosed. The present invention discloses electron beams created from one or more nanotips in an array operated in a field emission mode that can be controlled to apply heat to very well defined spots. The multiple electron beams may be... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080217303 - Optical fiber fusion splice device for use in confined spaces: Optical Fiber Fusion Splice Device that includes a receiving mechanism, internal chamber, alignment mechanism and circuitry, and an optical welding module. The receiving mechanism is operable to receive a pair of optical fibers that have been prepared for splicing. An internal chamber serves to isolate the optical fibers from an... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080217304 - Medical implant and method for the production thereof: A medical implant such as a cardiac pacemaker or a defibrillator is assembled from a first element and a second element, which each have a surface. The first element and the second element are connected to one another in a joining step in the particular connection area of the first... Agent: Intellectual Property Department Dewitt Ross & Stevens S.c.

20080217305 - Gas-cooled plasma arc cutting torch: A method and apparatus for a gas-cooled plasma arc torch. Components of the torch can include an electrode, nozzle and a shield, each of which can be gas-cooled. The nozzle can be disposed relative to the electrode and can include a generally hollow conductive body and a cooling gas flow... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080217306 - Rapid detection of imminent failure in optical thermal processing of a substrate: A system for thermal processing of a substrate includes a source of radiation, optics disposed between the source and the substrate to receive light from the source of radiation at the optics proximate end, and a housing holding the optics and having a void inside the housing isolated from light... Agent: Law Office Of Robert M. Wallace

20080217307 - Method for assembling metal sheets which are coated with a protection layer by laser transparent welding and are interspaced by protuberances: A method for assembling at least two sheets by laser transparent welding, wherein at least one sheet is coated with a metal protection layer. The method produces punctual deformations on the side of at least one metal sheet, which is to be welded, along a predetermined trajectory thereby forming protuberances;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080217308 - Tangential manufacturing system: Manufacturing system (100) comprises only a few essential components, including: the workpiece(s) (110); the fixtures, or workpiece holding means, (120); the centrifuge (130), including a base (140) and axle (150); the release system (160), preferably a laser source; the containment structure (170); the accretion system, including an accretion substrate (180);... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20080217310 - Method for profiling the perimeter border of a semiconductor wafer: A method for profiling the perimeter border of a semiconductor chip, characterized by the following steps: the semiconductor chip is supported near to the perimeter border on supporting points which are spaced apart in the perimeter direction of the semiconductor chip, laser beams are directed to the perimeter border with... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.a.

20080217309 - Rfid antenna gain and range enhancement: This is an invention which addresses the need of the RFID industry to produce antennas which do not detune due to the proximity of other antennas. This invention also addresses the problem of reading RFID transponders which are not in a perpendicular orientation to the interrogator. This invention also addresses... Agent: James Rodgers

20080217312 - Method for fabricating workpiece and laser processing apparatus: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for fabricating a workpiece comprises the steps of: irradiating the workpiece with a laser light to raise a temperature of the workpiece at an elevated level under which at least a part of the workpiece is melted, and maintaining at least... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080217311 - Method for severing brittle flat materials by laser beam with previously produced traces: The invention relates to a method for severing brittle flat materials, for example made of glass, ceramic, silicon, gallium arsenide or sapphire. The method includes the step of heating the flat material along desired dividing lines below its melting temperature by means of a laser along desired separating lines. Then... Agent: Duane Morris LLP Patent Department

20080217301 - Laser beam processing machine: A laser beam processing machine comprising a laser beam application means for applying a pulse laser beam to a workpiece held on a chuck table and a controller, wherein the laser beam application means comprises a laser beam oscillation means for oscillating a pulse laser beam, an optical axis changing... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080217313 - Method and apparatus for feeding wire to a welding arc: A method and apparatus for feeding wire in a welding system include one or more motors disposed adjacent the wire to drive it. A wire feed motor is also disposed along the wire path, and is closer to the source of wire than the torch, and closer to the source... Agent: Corrigan Law Office

20080217314 - Self-adjusting liner assembly for welding torch: A self-adjusting liner assembly for a welding torch includes an elongated tubular main body having forward and rearward ends. An elongated tubular retainer including a shoulder is mountable in the main body. An elongated tubular piston including a shoulder cooperates with the retainer in a telescoping relationship in the main... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.c.

20080217315 - Electrically heatable honeycomb body and method for operating it: An electrically heatable honeycomb body has cavities through which a fluid can flow and contains at least one power distribution structure. The power distribution structure can be connected to a power source via a power feed line. At least one of the power feed line and the power distribution structure... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080217316 - Steam generator for an autoclave: A steam generator assembly for a sterilization chamber of a surgery autoclave is described, of the type comprising a steam generation compartment and a heating element, wherein the steam generation compartment has at least one portion made of polymeric material, the compartment preferably including a metal tray adjacent to a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080217317 - Cooking apparatus: The invention concerns a cooking apparatus (1) which includes a base (3) and a receptacle (2) that rests upon the base (3). According to the invention, the apparatus includes a skirt (14) that has a closed side wall (15) surrounding the receptacle (2) and extending vertically from the base (3)... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080217318 - Dynamic temperature sensor device: Temperature sensor device inserted into a radiant heater (1) that incorporates at least one heating resistance (2) and is adapted to a glass ceramic cooking hob (4), comprising a film-type resistive sensor element (11) with metal wires (12) for its connection to terminals (18) and a support element (13) that... Agent: Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason, P.c

20080217319 - Method and device for the thermal treatment of substrates: This invention relates to a method and a device for the thermal treatment of substrates in which the substrates are held in contact with or a small distance away from a heating plate, which is heated by a plurality of separately controllable heating elements on the side of the heating... Agent: Robert W. Becker & Associates

20080217320 - Cooking appliance with touch-sensitive control strip: A cooking appliance having a control strip, constituted of a series of touch-sensitive sensors, are known for adjusting variables for a parameter of an item to be cooked, such as e.g. for the cooking time or the heating capacity levels. An adjustable variable is adjusted from a series of stored... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080217321 - Temperature limited heater utilizing non-ferromagnetic conductor: A heater is described. The heater includes a ferromagnetic conductor and an electrical conductor electrically coupled to the ferromagnetic conductor. The ferromagnetic conductor is positioned relative to the electrical conductor such that an electromagnetic field produced by time-varying current flow in the ferromagnetic conductor confines a majority of the flow... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20080217322 - printing plate ovens: The present invention relates to a printing plate oven 10 designed for lithographic printing plates and, in particular, for baking Kodak DITP gold printing plates. The printing plates oven comprises heating apparatus including a number of heating elements which extend at an angle relative to the direction of a printing... Agent: Moore & Van Allen Pllc

20080217324 - Gas heating apparatus and methods: A thermally sprayed gas heater comprises a gas flow apparatus that propels a gas through a housing; and a thermally sprayed heater bonded to a surface of the apparatus, the heater positioned to heat the gas flow in the housing. In other aspects, a heater system for a turbulent flow... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080217323 - Heating device: A heating device having an improved heat resistance structure is provided. The heating device may include a heating element that generates heat, and an elastic conductive part that applies electricity to the heating element. A connector may be provided between the elastic conductive part and the heating element to preclude... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080217325 - Apparatus and method for inductive heating of a material in a channel: Apparatus and method for inductive heating of a material located in a channel. In one embodiment, the heating assembly comprises an interior coil, an exterior sheath inductively coupled to the coil, a dielectric material disposed between the coil and sheath, and a conductor for supplying a signal to the coil... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20080217326 - Preform heating device: Preform heating device able to perform a precise and strongly localised heating of the preforms before the blow moulding phase of the plastic bottle or container production process. This device has an innovative construction configuration, thus allowing high efficiency thanks to the significant reduction in the energy required to reach... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080217327 - Portable cooking and heating device: A portable cooking and heating device includes a housing and an inner chamber for receiving at least one of heatable products, heat, and microwave energy, such inner chamber being located within the housing at a predetermined location therein adjacent an outer periphery thereof. An access means provides access to such... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080217328 - Microwave grill: A microwave grill for converting microwave energy to heat and applying the heat to a grillable food or other grillable substance. The microwave grill a cover and a base that each have a grill element and an enclosure. The grill element includes a microwave absorbent material and a grilling surface... Agent: Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.a.

20080217329 - Microwave oven and ventilation hood combination system: A modular microwave oven and ventilation hood combination system, includes a core module, comprising a core module housing, and a microwave cooking chamber, fitted in said core module housing. The system further includes an intake module, comprising an intake module housing connected to a lower side of the core module... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080210666 - Joined component, in particular a pilot boss for a force transfer device, method for manufacture of a continuous material connection and a force transfer device: A joined component, in particular a rotation symmetrical component for connecting to another second joined component into a unit for creating a continuous material, non-disengageable connection through compression welding, comprising a joined surface and a joint portion, provided at the joined surface, for contacting the other, second joined component. A... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080210669 - Plasma arch torch cutting component with optimized water cooling: A nozzle or retaining cap for a plasma arc torch that includes a surface defining a conductive contact portion for exchanging heat with an adjacent torch component. The adjacent torch component can be a retaining cap, electrode or nozzle. The surface of the nozzle or retaining cap can also at... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080210670 - Method and apparatus for automatic gas control for a plasma arch torch: A method and apparatus for controlling a gas supply to a plasma arc torch uses a proportional control solenoid valve positioned adjacent the torch to manipulate the gas flow to the torch, thereby extending electrode life during arc transfer and shutdown. Swirl ring design can be simplified and gas supply... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080210667 - Rapid thermal process method and rapid thermal process device: A rapid thermal process method contains providing a substrate, performing a pre-heating process to at least a first portion of the substrate by means of a first laser beam, and performing a rapid heating process to the pre-heated first portion of the substrate by means of a second laser beam.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080210671 - Fast axis beam profile shaping by collimation lenslets for high power laser diode based annealing system: A dynamic surface anneal apparatus for annealing a semiconductor workpiece has a workpiece support for supporting a workpiece, an optical source and scanning apparatus for scanning the optical source and the workpiece support relative to one another along a fast axis. The optical source includes an array of laser emitters... Agent: Robert M. Wallace Law Office Of Robert M. Wallace

20080210672 - Method for connecting components by local cold joining, using for example rivets or screws and laser welding: An embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for connecting two or more components including overlapping surface sections via a laser beam. In the method, prior to the laser welding, the components are fixed in a positive fit to at least one of the overlapping surface sections by local... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080210668 - Apparatus and method for calibrating a laser deposition system: using the high energy beam to provide an aperture, depositing material from the material source towards the aperture for a selected length of time and collecting the material which passes through the aperture, and adjusting the position and/or alignment of the material source relative to the high energy beam dependant... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080210673 - Femtosecond laser micromachining device with dynamic bean conformation: The device comprises a laser-type coherent light radiation source transmitting ultrashort pulses, a dynamic beam shaping arrangement and an arrangement for using and processing a laser beam. The dynamic beam shaping arrangement comprises an optical system including a part for actively modifying the laser beam wavefront and a detecting part,... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080210674 - Optical sensor for quality monitoring of a welding process: Disclosed is the design and working principle of a welding monitoring system that can monitor the spectra of zinc and iron in the plasma generated during a welding process involving zinc-coated steel. The monitoring system is capable of monitoring multiple parameters, including spectral line intensity, electron temperature, and ratio of... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080210675 - Laser processing device, laser processing head and laser processing method: Disclosed is a laser processing device. The laser processing device includes a laser beam source irradiating a laser beam, and a laser processing head. The laser processing head includes a transmitting window through which the laser beam passes, an aperture formed in a bottom of the laser head and allowing... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080210676 - Portable welder: A portable welder including a housing having a handle, a power supply contained within the housing, and welding wire stored within the housing that receives welding current from the power supply. An end portion of the welding wire extends from an opening in the housing so that the end portion... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080210677 - Vertical-position welding method: A pair of thick steel plates are set up side by side such that an I groove with a narrow gap is formed between the facing edges of the plates, and a welding wire projecting from a welding torch of an arc welding unit with a constant voltage characteristic is... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080210678 - Towel and garment warmer: A towel and garment warmer comprising an elongated cabinet having sidewalls that define a warming chamber with an open upper end that is closed by a lid pivotally attached to a sidewall. The cabinet is configured to allow the articles to be warmed to hang in the warming chamber. Attached... Agent: Richard A. Ryan Attorney At Law

20080210679 - Panel heating device: The invention relates to a panel heating device (1) for placing in the floor area, comprising an electrically conductive layer and electrical supply lines. In order to provide a floor heating system having a low overall height while simultaneously damping noises, the invention provides that at least one sound-damping layer... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20080210680 - Substrate processing apparatus: A substrate processing apparatus of which through holes in a mounting stage can be properly sealed. A substrate processing apparatus comprises a plate-like mounting stage having a plurality of first through holes, a base member including a plurality of second through holes that have female thread portions, a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080210681 - Method for operating a heating device of an electric heating appliance having a plurality of heating devices: In an operating method for a hob having a plurality of heating elements, an operating action for a heating element, such as heating with an additional region on the cooktop or invoking a parboiling step, is selected in an initial step by providing input to a general input sensor element... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080210682 - Electric trace tube bundle with internal branch circuit: An electric trace tube bundle characterized by an internal branched circuit or circuits wherein power to the branched circuit or circuits is supplied via leads contained within a tubular jacket surrounding an insulation layer and an inner core containing one or more process tubes and the heater circuits. Such an... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080210683 - Heater assembly for suture welder: Disclosed is a heater device for thermally welding suture strands, including: a substrate extending from a first end to a second end along a substrate axis, and having a substantially planar heater support surface; a joinder layer disposed on the heater support surface; a heater element extending from a first... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080210684 - Ceramic heater and method for manufacturing the same: A ceramic heater is provided that has a heat generating resistor and a lead member which supplies electric power to the heat generating resistor buried in a ceramic body, and exhibits excellent durability by controlling the cross sectional shape and plan configuration of the heat generating resistor.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080210685 - Household appliance, especially cooking apparatus, comprising a device for measuring a physical parameter: A household appliance has a housing and a door that define an interior, and an electric controller. A measuring device is disposed in the interior for measuring a physical parameter and includes a measuring probe and a probe antenna. A lighting device for illuminating the interior of the household appliance... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080210686 - Multi-component packaging system and apparatus: A multi-component packaging system includes a lower containing assembly, an upper containing assembly, and a cover. The lower containing assembly defines an interior cavity that is adapted to receive a first food component. The upper containing assembly defines an interior that is adapted to receive a second food component. The... Agent: Merchant & Gould - Conagra