Electric heating inventions 10/08

20080257867 - Apparatus and method for nano-scale electric discharge machining: An apparatus for nano-scale electric discharge machining of a conductive workpiece. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a dielectric medium deposited on a surface of the workpiece to form a dielectric layer having a thickness, a positioning device capable of moving in three dimensions, an electrode having a nano-scaled tip... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080257868 - Method and system of welding a bearing: A method of welding a bearing is provided. The method includes providing an apparatus including at least one welding torch and a processor, positioning a holding fixture proximate the apparatus, securing a bearing in position in the holding fixture, applying a bead of weld to facilitate repairing a damaged surface... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080257869 - Responding to arc discharges: For responding to an arc discharge in a plasma process (PP), a parameter of the plasma process is monitored to detect arc discharges occurring in the plasma. After detection of an arc discharge, a first countermeasure for the suppression of arc discharges is executed. After completion of the first countermeasure,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080257870 - Process for joining: A process for joining a first metal component to a second metal component at a joining region including the steps of: projecting a laser beam onto one or the components for providing a melt pool on the joining region; providing a metal filler wire into the melt pool while substantially... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg, LLP

20080257871 - Ablation device: Embodiments of an ablation device and an ablation process are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080257872 - Laser cutting method: Laser cutting method using a CO2 laser light beam focalized by means of a ZnSe-lens system, which involves a laser beam power above 4 kW, using radially or azimuthally polarized laser light.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080257873 - Method for producing two-dimensional periodic structures in a polymeric medium: A method for producing periodic structures at the surface of a sol-gel type, hybrid organic-inorganic or organic material, characterised in that it includes the step of directly illuminating the material with a laser beam having a uniform intensity profile at near-normal incidence, while moving said material and said laser beam... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080257874 - Synchronized multiple drive wire feed welding system and method: A welding system, in certain embodiments, includes a synchronization controller configured to override a first nominal calibration of a first wire drive, or a second nominal calibration of a second wire drive, or both, in response to a tension condition or a compression condition of a welding wire feeding between... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20080257875 - Wire guide: The invention relates to wire guide (1) for a thin metal wire (14), which wire guide comprises a flexible sheath (2) through which the metal wire (14) can be passed to a welding gun or a gun for applying a metallic coating or the like to an object. Spaced-apart guide... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20080257876 - Defogging device: A mirror defogging device comprises a housing and a heating element and fan supported within the housing. The fan directs a flow of air across the heating element and out of the housing through a nozzle. Electrical prongs arranged to be received in an electrical wall socket are arranged to... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20080257877 - Heat and/or light producing unit powered by a lithium secondary cell battery with high charge and discharge rate capability: A composition having a heating unit, lighting unit, or combination thereof that derives at least a portion of its operating or accessory power from an electric source that is a high capacity lithium secondary cell battery with a high charge rate.... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20080257878 - Steaming device for baker's ovens: A steaming device (50) for a bakers oven including a steam generation chamber (55), located adjacent at least one heating element (25, 26) in an oven compartment of the baker's oven, the steam generation chamber (55) being closed at one end and having at least one steam outlet at or... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080257879 - Methods and systems for direct manufacturing temperature control: Methods and systems for direct manufacturing are provided. The system includes a part bed, a deck disposed within the part bed, and a heater configured to heat a workpiece area adjacent the deck. The heater includes a plurality of individually movable heating elements wherein the heating elements are movable in... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080257880 - Induction heating apparatus: A method of disseminating to where it is required a substance that is advantageously disseminated after undergoing a heat-induced change of state or heat-induced fluidification, comprising the provision of the substance in a container that comprises a secondary induction coil, the container being adapted to be used in association with... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20080257881 - High-frequency heating device: The high-frequency heating device, the subject of the present invention, is driven by an inverter and, by reducing the power losses in the mentioned inverter the operating efficiency is increased.... Agent: Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C.

20080257867 - Apparatus and method for nano-scale electric discharge machining: An apparatus for nano-scale electric discharge machining of a conductive workpiece. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a dielectric medium deposited on a surface of the workpiece to form a dielectric layer having a thickness, a positioning device capable of moving in three dimensions, an electrode having a nano-scaled tip... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080257868 - Method and system of welding a bearing: A method of welding a bearing is provided. The method includes providing an apparatus including at least one welding torch and a processor, positioning a holding fixture proximate the apparatus, securing a bearing in position in the holding fixture, applying a bead of weld to facilitate repairing a damaged surface... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080257869 - Responding to arc discharges: For responding to an arc discharge in a plasma process (PP), a parameter of the plasma process is monitored to detect arc discharges occurring in the plasma. After detection of an arc discharge, a first countermeasure for the suppression of arc discharges is executed. After completion of the first countermeasure,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080257870 - Process for joining: A process for joining a first metal component to a second metal component at a joining region including the steps of: projecting a laser beam onto one or the components for providing a melt pool on the joining region; providing a metal filler wire into the melt pool while substantially... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg, LLP

20080257871 - Ablation device: Embodiments of an ablation device and an ablation process are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080257872 - Laser cutting method: Laser cutting method using a CO2 laser light beam focalized by means of a ZnSe-lens system, which involves a laser beam power above 4 kW, using radially or azimuthally polarized laser light.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080257873 - Method for producing two-dimensional periodic structures in a polymeric medium: A method for producing periodic structures at the surface of a sol-gel type, hybrid organic-inorganic or organic material, characterised in that it includes the step of directly illuminating the material with a laser beam having a uniform intensity profile at near-normal incidence, while moving said material and said laser beam... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080257874 - Synchronized multiple drive wire feed welding system and method: A welding system, in certain embodiments, includes a synchronization controller configured to override a first nominal calibration of a first wire drive, or a second nominal calibration of a second wire drive, or both, in response to a tension condition or a compression condition of a welding wire feeding between... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20080257875 - Wire guide: The invention relates to wire guide (1) for a thin metal wire (14), which wire guide comprises a flexible sheath (2) through which the metal wire (14) can be passed to a welding gun or a gun for applying a metallic coating or the like to an object. Spaced-apart guide... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20080257876 - Defogging device: A mirror defogging device comprises a housing and a heating element and fan supported within the housing. The fan directs a flow of air across the heating element and out of the housing through a nozzle. Electrical prongs arranged to be received in an electrical wall socket are arranged to... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20080257877 - Heat and/or light producing unit powered by a lithium secondary cell battery with high charge and discharge rate capability: A composition having a heating unit, lighting unit, or combination thereof that derives at least a portion of its operating or accessory power from an electric source that is a high capacity lithium secondary cell battery with a high charge rate.... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20080257878 - Steaming device for baker's ovens: A steaming device (50) for a bakers oven including a steam generation chamber (55), located adjacent at least one heating element (25, 26) in an oven compartment of the baker's oven, the steam generation chamber (55) being closed at one end and having at least one steam outlet at or... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080257879 - Methods and systems for direct manufacturing temperature control: Methods and systems for direct manufacturing are provided. The system includes a part bed, a deck disposed within the part bed, and a heater configured to heat a workpiece area adjacent the deck. The heater includes a plurality of individually movable heating elements wherein the heating elements are movable in... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080257880 - Induction heating apparatus: A method of disseminating to where it is required a substance that is advantageously disseminated after undergoing a heat-induced change of state or heat-induced fluidification, comprising the provision of the substance in a container that comprises a secondary induction coil, the container being adapted to be used in association with... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20080257881 - High-frequency heating device: The high-frequency heating device, the subject of the present invention, is driven by an inverter and, by reducing the power losses in the mentioned inverter the operating efficiency is increased.... Agent: Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C.

20080251499 - Metal-sheathed structure stripper: A device and method for the removal of a metal-sheath layer from a metal-sheathed structure using capacitive discharge in conjunction with step-up and step-down transformers to create a low voltage, high current pulse to remove a selected portion of the metal-sheath layer from the metal-sheathed structure.... Agent: Emerson, Thomson & Bennett, LLC

20080251500 - Controller for wire-cut electrical discharge machines: In a reference (n-th) machining pass, the wire travels along a machining route RTn and passes through a reentrant angular corner with wire position WMn, producing a workpiece edge Hn. In the following (n+1)-th machining pass, the wire travels along a machining route RTn+1, but the straight sections preceding and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080251501 - System for linking welding studs to workpieces and device for positioning and separating welding studs for such a system: The invention relates to a system for introducing studs (2) into work pieces by welding using a welding station which is supplied with the studs via a conveyor section (11).... Agent: Hoffman Wasson & Gitler, P.c Crystal Center 2, Suite 522

20080251502 - Controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration and direct energy conversion: A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are electrostatically confined in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080251503 - Modular plasma spray gun: The present invention provides a modular plasma spray gun including a sleeve, a core, and a water tube connectable to the sleeve. The sleeve has a cylindrical sidewall defining a central opening through a length thereof for receiving the core. The sleeve includes a mounting member for mounting the sleeve... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080251504 - Laser-welding apparatus and method: A laser-welding apparatus may include a laser source, an incoming laser beam produced by the laser source, and a beam splitter that splits the incoming laser beam to form a leading beam and a trailing beam. A first focusing lens may focus the leading beam and a second focusing lens... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

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20080251506 - Laser processing method and device: This laser processing method comprises a displacement acquiring step (S06 and S07) of acquiring a displacement between a point on the line to cut and one end of the line to cut in the object while irradiating the object with a second laser beam, converged by a lens, for measuring... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080251507 - Hardfacing ferroalloy materials: A method of producing a carbide-containing ferroalloy welding consumable material and a method of producing a hardfacing on a suitable substrate using the consumable material are disclosed. The method of producing the consumable material comprises the steps of forming a homogeneous melt that has a required concentration of key elements,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080251508 - Electric fan/heater: A fan/heater includes a body having a spherically shaped resting surface, an air inlet and an air outlet. The body houses a heating element and a fan causing a flow of air from the inlet to the outlet past the heating element. The fan/heater also includes a base having a... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20080251509 - Controller for a heating cable: A controller (10) for a heating cable. The heating cable includes at least first (1) and second (5) conductors and a separation layer (4) interposed between the conductors (1, 5). The conductors (1, 5) and the separation layer (4) extend along the length of the cable and the electrical resistance... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20080251510 - Conductive composition for producing carbon flexible heating structure, carbon flexible heating structure using the same, and manufacturing method thereof: Provided is a conductive composition formed of a mixture of liquid silicon rubber and conductive carbon black wherein a weight ratio between the liquid silicon rubber and the conductive carbon black is 100: 1-15, or a conductive composition formed of a mixture of liquid silicon rubber and graphite powder wherein... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080251511 - Apparatus for heating vehicle seat: The present invention relates to an electric heating element. The electric heating element includes a core support, an inner wire wound around the core support, an intermediate dielectric layer formed around the inner wire, an outer wire wound around the intermediate dielectric layer, a connector connecting an end of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080245773 - Electrode wire with multi-coated layers for electrical discharge machining and method of manufacturing the same: An electrode wire with multi-coated layers for electrical discharge machining (EDM) is capable of fast and precisely machining a work piece for a desired shape without changing the electrode wire, and a method of manufacturing the electrode wire is obtained by performing the steps of manufacturing a core wire, coating... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080245774 - Laser-rotate arc hybrid welding system and thereof method: The present invention relates to a laser-rotating arc hybrid welding system and a welding method using the system. The laser-rotating arc hybrid welding system of the present invention includes an arc discharge unit (2) for generating arc discharge along an area to be welded. A laser generation unit (4) radiates... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080245775 - Method of automatically detecting the wear of a welding electrode: An automated method for detecting the wear of a non-consumable electrode of an arc welding torch and for automatically replacing or remachining the electrode when it is eroded with a fresh electrode includes the following steps: a) the number of strikes performed by the electrode in question, and possibly the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080245776 - Laser beam welding method and apparatus: While steel sheets are positioned and held by a holding mechanism, a first laser beam is applied to a heating region of the steel sheet to space the steel sheet from the other steel sheet by a predetermined distance. A second laser beam is applied to a welding region to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080245777 - Laser welding of hardenable steel: i

20080245778 - Method for controlling the quality of laser-welding processes, control system an program product therefor: Described herein is a method for controlling the quality of a laser-welding process, for example of laser welds of semifinished products constituted by elements of sheet metal of different thickness and/or properties (“tailored blanks”), of the type that comprises the steps of: detecting a radiation (E*) produced in the welding... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080245779 - Laser processing machine: A laser processing machine that includes a chuck table adapted to hold a workpiece thereon and laser beam irradiation unit for applying a laser beam to the workpiece held on the chuck table. The laser beam irradiation unit includes: a laser beam oscillation section for emitting a pulse laser beam;... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080245780 - Electro-discharge-machine machining condition optimization method: A discharge voltage detecting unit 7 detects a discharge voltage and determines an average discharge voltage in a specified period of time. An optimum machining condition computing unit 8 determines a discharge current that makes an average discharge voltage detected by the discharge voltage detecting unit equal to an average... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080245781 - Method for tandem welding: The invention relates to a method for the tandem welding of a workpiece with at least two fusible electrodes A and B to which different potentials are applied, wherein between electrode A and workpiece an impulse arc A and between electrode B and workpiece an impulse arc B burns and... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20080245782 - Metal sheathed heater with solid state control device and method of use: A metal sheathed heater includes a solid state control device that allows the metal sheathed heater to be more efficiently operated. The control device supplies or terminates power to the heater according to certain conditions. Further, the control device uses predetermined time periods to control power to the heater. Thus,... Agent: Clark & Brody

20080245783 - Food heating warmer: A food heating warmer includes a placing section divided into a plurality of divided sub-sections in a warming compartment so that food is placed on the placing section, a plurality of constant temperature heating units located so as to correspond to the divided sub-sections of the placing section, each unit... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080245784 - Food warming mat and method for making: A non-curling flexible food warmer with evenly heated surface for use in table-top banquet style settings with an integrated temperature control and with transversely oriented heating elements such that it may be readily rolled up for storage without damage to the heating elements. In one embodiment the body of the... Agent: Jeffrey H. Roddy

20080245785 - Warmer device and operating method thereof: A warmer device includes a protection device, a rechargeable warmer bag and a monitoring device. The rechargeable warmer bag includes a bag, a heating unit, a charging unit, and a monitoring unit for protecting the rechargeable warmer bag. When the rechargeable warmer bag is being charged in the cavity of... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20080245786 - System and method for providing an asymmetrically or symmetrically distributed multi/single zone woven heated fabric system having an integrated bus: A system and method for providing a woven fabric system is provided. Generally, regarding the structure of the system, the system contains a top fabric layer, a heating element, and a bottom fabric layer. The heating element further contains at least two electrically conductive buses, wherein the electrically conductive buses... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20080245787 - Controlling and moderating microwave energy in concurrent multiple sample well applications: A system for microwave assisted high-throughput chemical processes is disclosed. The system includes a source of microwave radiation, a microwave cavity in communication with the source, and a microtiter plate in the cavity. The microtiter plate is formed of a microwave transparent material and includes a plurality of sample wells.... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20080245788 - Electric appliance with interior lighting: An electric appliance comprises in particular an interior space which is separable from an outside environment and at least one radiation-emitting device arranged in the interior space for emitting electromagnetic radiation into the interior space.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080237195 - Welding slot sealing structure and welding method: Blades are connected to the surface of a disk and slots are formed in the surface of a shroud, which is opposite from the other surface of the shroud where the blades are to be welded. The blades are arranged on the opposite surface from the slots and a laser... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080237196 - Consumable electrode type gas shielded arc welding control apparatus and welding control method: In consumable electrode type gas shielded arc welding, a time second order differential value of a welding voltage or an arc resistance is calculated. Based on the second order differential value, a detachment of a droplet or a timing just before the detachment is detected. After the droplet detachment or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080237197 - System and method for welding and real time monitoring of seam welded parts: A welding system having welder with an electrode for creating a weld. The welding system may include a sensor for monitoring the weld. A method of monitoring a weld is also provided.... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080237198 - Spike resistance spot welding system and method: A system and method for performing one-sided spot welding on parts to be welded. The system uses a spot welding device that transfers electric welding current through a consumable welding spike to a localized spot on the parts to be welded. The welding spike is pressed against a surface of... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20080237199 - Spot welding electrode tip wear verification method: A method for ensuring that a spot weld electrode tip dressing operation is performed properly at each occurrence thereof. The method of the present invention takes advantage of an electrode wear compensation routine inherent to most spot weld robots. The method uses measurements of total tip wear as determined by... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20080237200 - Melting furnace including wire-discharge ion plasma electron emitter: An apparatus for melting an electrically conductive metallic material includes a vacuum chamber and a hearth disposed in the vacuum chamber. At least one wire-discharge ion plasma electron emitter is disposed in or adjacent the vacuum chamber and is positioned to direct a wide-area field of electrons into the vacuum... Agent: Allegheny Technologies Incorporated

20080237201 - Portable autonomous material processing system: A portable plasma arc torch system can be used for processing materials. The system includes a replaceable or rechargeable power source and replaceable or rechargeable gas source. A controller communicates with at least one of the power source or the gas source. A plasma delivery device received via the controller... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080237202 - Plasma arc torch having an electrode with internal passages: An electrode for a plasma arc cutting torch which minimizes the deposition of high emissivity material on the nozzle, reduces electrode wear, and improves cut quality. The electrode has a body having a first end, a second end in a spaced relationship relative to the first end, and an outer... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080237203 - Joining structure and method of metal works: A gap is provided at joining faces of a pair of metal works with an uneven shape when the metal works contact one another for joining. An adhesive agent having a chain-reacting curing reaction function is disposed within the gap. The adhesive agent is cured by an autogenously-generated curing reaction... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080237204 - Laser beam machining method for printed circuit board: A laser beam machining method for a printed circuit board, for enabling to bring the depth of a bottom surface of grooves within an overlap region, which is irradiated with a laser beam, repetitively, to be nearly equal to that of the bottom surface of grooves within other regions, comprises... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080237205 - Small hole laser machining method: A method of laser machining a small hole with high machining precision in a machined object. The method includes the steps of emitting a laser beam with a fixed optical axis onto a machined object while the machined object is rotated. When the optical axis of the laser beam is... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080237206 - Method for laser micromachining: A method of laser micro-machining, by means of a laser, a work piece (31) of the type described comprising the steps of: locating the workpiece on a carrier forming a part of a transport system whereby the carrier can be displaced along a path (P) parallel to an X-axis of... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080237207 - Nozzle for a laser machining device: A laser machining nozzle having at least one supply chamber for the laser beam and for a processing gas has a cavity arranged in the region of the orifice of the gas supply chamber, which cavity is open in the direction towards the workpiece to be machined, this opening having... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080237208 - Feed control method for consumable electrode ac arc welding: A feed control method is provided for consumable electrode AC arc welding, in which the welding wire is fed at a predetermined wire feed rate, and a welding voltage applied to an arc is switched in alternation between electrode positive polarity and electrode negative polarity. In the method, a welding... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080237209 - Electric vest for treatment of anatomically-interrelated regions of the upper torso: An electric vest for therapeutic heating of the upper torso. An insulated electrical conductor is fixed to a canvas matrix by means of metal clips. The canvas matrix in layout resembles a face shaped region with radially-directed ears shaped regions so that, when worn over the shoulders of user, the... Agent: Elliott N. Kramsky, Esq.

20080237210 - Hot melt adhesive hose assembly with thermal fuse link: A hot melt adhesive hose assembly comprises a heater circuit wrapped around an external surface portion of the hose assembly, a temperature sensor, and an elongated thermal fuse which is likewise wrapped around an external surface portion of the hose assembly such that successive spiral turns of the thermal fuse... Agent: Steven W. Weinrieb Law Offices Of Steven W. Weinrieb

20080237211 - Dental firing furnace: The present invention relates to a dental firing furnace having a firing space and at least one carrier for dental material, in particular a muffle, which can be loaded into the firing space, and, in particular, a pressing device for pressing a ceramic blank inserted in the muffle, at least... Agent: John C. Thompson

20080237212 - Convection preheat system and method for radiant baking: A cooking appliance includes a cabinet forming an oven cavity, a broil heating element, a bake heating element, a convection heating system and a controller. The convection heating system develops a flow of heated air into the oven cavity, and includes a fan and a convection heating element. The controller... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080237213 - Oven for cooking food: c

20080237214 - Methods and heat treatment apparatus for uniformly heating a substrate during a bake process: Methods and heat treatment apparatus for heating a substrate and any layer carried on the substrate during a bake process. A heat exchange gap between the substrate and a heated support is at least partially filled by a gas having a high thermal conductivity. The high thermal conductivity gas is... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (tokyo Electron)

20080237215 - Method for controlling heating cooking apparatus: A method for controlling a heating cooking apparatus, in which an operation of a heating unit is appropriately controlled according to presence/absence or kinds of a load applied to a plate. When no load is applied to the plate, the duty cycle of a heat source is reduced, thereby preventing... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080237216 - Heating device: A first heating element and a second heating element, which are capable of individually controlling temperatures thereof, are embedded in a ceramic base. Each of the first heating element and the second heating element is formed into a spiral shape so as not to contact the other from a central... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080237217 - Heater interlock control for air conditioning system: An air conditioning apparatus, including an electric motor driven blower for circulating air through a cabinet, also includes one or more electric heating elements and a system controller operable to control energization of the heating elements and the blower motor at predetermined operating conditions by way of suitable relay or... Agent: William J. Beres The Trane Company

20080237218 - Electric room heater: Electric Room Heater in its housing contains heaters which consist of strip of oriented cold rolled transformer sheet that are cooled by natural air circulation. Heater consists of two cross supports (11) connected by a central support (14). Between the cross supports are placed non-flammable insulating holders (13). The insulating... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080237219 - Device equipped with planar heater: The planar heater includes an insulating substrate, an electric conductive film disposed on the substrate, a plurality of electrodes both attached to one side of the electric conductive film, and an insulating film covering the electric conductive film. The electric conductive film is preferably formed of material having a resistance... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080237220 - Device for protection against frost and uses thereof: The invention concerns a device for protecting elements against frost comprising an adaptable multilayer band comprising at least: means for fixing on the elements, at least one protective surface layer (1) against bad weather conditions on each side of the band and between said two surface layers: a) a heating... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080237221 - Heating device: A heating device made of ceramics includes: a plate-like heating base having a heating surface; and a hollow cylindrical support member bonded to a back surface of the heating base. A concave surface portion that connects the back surface of the heating base and an outer surface of the support... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080237222 - Method of making interchangeable glass ceramic tops for a cooking stove: In the method of manufacturing a cooking stove its stove top can be equipped with different glass ceramic tops, which each have at least one cooking area, which is heated by a radiant heating body cooperating with a temperature-limiting adjusting device, which limits a surface temperature of the glass ceramic... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080237223 - Induction heating device and induction heating fixing device: An induction heating coil of an induction heating device of the invention is formed such that a first coil width of an active coil section parallel to a longitudinal direction of a heat roller and a second coil width of an end coil section in a direction parallel to a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080237224 - microwave chamber: Microwave apparatus for exposing materials on an elongated member, such as a mandrel, to microwave energy. The apparatus includes a cylindrical microwave exposure chamber (10). Elongated slots (20) spaced about the circumference of the chamber (10) are in communication with openings (50) in the walls of waveguides (28) attached to... Agent: Laitram, L.L.C. Legal Department