Electric heating inventions 05/09

20090134126 - Electric-discharge machining apparatus and electric-discharge machining method: In an electric-discharge machining apparatus for controlling a machining axis so that an average voltage Vg during a predetermined sampling time Ts agrees with a servo standard voltage SV, the apparatus includes: an electric power supplier 9 for supplying electric power between electrodes of a tool electrode 8 and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090134127 - Electron beam heating system having carbon nanotubes: An electron beam heating system includes a cathode, an anode, a CNT string and a chamber. The CNT string includes an end portion and an emission portion, and the end portion is contacted with and electrically connected to the cathode. The cathode, the anode and CNT string are arranged in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090134128 - Electrical pulse circuit: An electrical pulse circuit is disclosed. The electrical pulse circuit is in connection with a first pair of electrodes defining a first gap between ends thereof and a second pair of electrodes defining a second gap between ends thereof. The second gap is disposed proximate to the first gap. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090134129 - Ablative plasma gun apparatus and system: An ablative plasma gun subassembly is disclosed. The subassembly includes a body, a first pair and a second pair of gun electrodes having distal ends disposed within an interior of the body, and ablative material disposed proximate the distal ends of at least one of the first pair of gun... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090134130 - Process and system for creating internal stress in a metallic workpiece: A process and a system for creating internal stress in a metallic workpiece by laser shock peening is provided. In the process, a first laser pulse is applied to a treatment site of the workpiece covered by a surface layer. A second laser pulse follows the first laser pulse in... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090134132 - Laser beam welding method with a metal vapour capillary formation control: The invention relates to a method for welding at least one, preferably two metal parts to each other, by a laser beam consisting in using a laser beam (10), a first gas flow and a welding nozzle provided with an output orifice which is passed through by the laser beam... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property

20090134131 - Laser welding method for galvanized steel sheets: The present invention relates to a laser welding method for galvanized steel sheets where galvanized steel sheets are lap-welded by using a laser beam of a keyhole welding zone in a state in which a gap for exhausting zinc fumes is formed by embossing a plurality of protrusions along a... Agent: LexyoumeIPGroup, LLC

20090134134 - Medical lead and method for medical lead manufacture: A lead employing a connection between a conductor and an electric element is provided. The connection includes a conductive pad electrically connected to at least one conductor and the electric element electrically connected to the conductive pad. The conductive pad can further include an elongated element to connect the pad... Agent: St. Jude Medical Neuromodulation Division

20090134133 - Preheating temperature during welding: The invention relates to a method of welding locally a surface of a Ni base, especially a single crystal superalloy substrate using a laser beam while preheating the substrate to an optimized temperature for the purpose of repairing cracks. Welding repair of single crystal super alloys often leads to two... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090134135 - Glass substrate cutting apparatus and glass substrate cutting system using the same: Glass substrate cutting apparatuses using lasers are disclosed, where a laser cutting head is moved. A glass substrate cutting apparatus includes two parts for a laser cutting head: heavy laser oscillation parts fixed to respective ends of a gantry structure moving in parallel along two gantry stages located on either... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090134136 - Apparatus and method to machine holes: The present invention relates to an apparatus for machining holes, especially to machine holes in a surface of a coated gas turbine airfoil, which apparatus comprises a laser device for laser drilling and an electrode for electrical discharge machining. Further the invention relates to a method to machine a hole... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090134137 - Welding contractor apparatus with improved heat dissipation: A contactor device used in a wire-feeder employed in a welding system is disclosed. The contactor uses oversized nuts, increased torque and surface features to increase the heat dissipation of the contactor. This solution is an economical way of increasing heat dissipation to extend the life of contactors that are... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20090134138 - Method of supporting a work piece: During friction welding a disc (10) is mounted on a support member (16). A cavity (18) is defined between the support member (16) and an internal surface (9) of the disc (10). The cavity (18) is filled with a low melting point alloy. The low melting point alloy solidifies and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090134139 - Versatile bath and cleansing water dispenser and methods of production: A bathing and cleansing device is described that includes a heating mechanism; a liquid reservoir coupled to the heating mechanism, and a dispensing mechanism coupled to the liquid reservoir.... Agent: Buchalter Nemer

20090134140 - Apparatus for preparing food and air guide member therefor: Apparatus for preparing food, comprising a food preparation chamber with an air-permeable bottom wall and an upper air discharge opening, a fan for moving hot air successively through the bottom wall, the food preparation chamber and the discharge opening, an air guide for returning the air from the discharge opening... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090134141 - Method for controlling the humidity level in a cooking oven: A method for controlling the humidity level in a cavity of a cooking oven provided with a steam generator comprises the monitoring of the power delivered to the steam generator in order to maintain the power to a predetermined value that is correlated to a choice made by the user... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090134142 - Reflow furnace: The suction ports of a hot air blowing heater are arranged in a zigzag shape crossing the direction of travel of a printed circuit board, and hot air discharge nozzles project from inside or alongside the suction ports. Accordingly, in the reflow furnace according to the present invention, hot air... Agent: Michael Tobias

20090134143 - Electronic power control for cooktop heaters: An electronic cook top control system has a cooktop including a heating element. An electronic controller is operatively connected to the cooktop. A rotary position input is operatively connected to the electronic controller. The electronic controller controls a heating level of the cooktop in a first manner in response to... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090134144 - Heating apparatus with multiple element array: A heating apparatus assembly and method are provided for heating a surface. The heating apparatus contains a substrate with a multiplicity of heating elements disposed upon at least one surface of the substrate where each element is individually controllable.... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20090134145 - Electric heating/warming fabric articles: Electric heating/warming composite fabric articles have at least a first fabric layer, a second fabric layer, and a planar, sheet-form conductive layer element interposed between the first and second fabric layers. The conductive layer element includes a conductive textile that is formed as a continuous circuit that includes a plurality... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090134146 - Heating blocks: In order, on the one hand, to achieve a high mechanical long-term stability of and, on the other hand, to have the possibility of guiding a stream of gas, in particular, a stream of gas consisting of a reactive process gas through a heating block for an apparatus for the... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20090134147 - Method and apparatus for sealing high pressure vessels using magnetic pulsing with high radial impact speed; vessels manufacturing according to such methods: A pulsed magnetic method of sealing a vessel is provided. The method includes providing a vessel's body having at least one open end, providing a cover having a welding part. The welding part of the cover is placed over the open end of the vessel's body to overlap at least... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090134148 - Adjustable electromagnetic sealing device: The present invention is an inductive sealing unit, which includes a conductive coil assembly that has at least two sections. At least one of the sections is adjustable with respect to the other. Each section has a magnetic flux concentrator, such as a ferrite core. A flexible conductive coil, such... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090134149 - Induction heating device: An induction heating device is provided that can realize an accrete sensing of the temperature of a to-be-heated object and that is user-friendly. To realize this, the induction heating device includes a sensor for sensing the temperature of the to-be-heated object and can carry out a heating operation only when... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090134150 - Cooking device: A cooking device for performing cooking using a microwave and steam, in which a door of a heating chamber includes, as constituting components, an inner frame, a choke cover, and a gasket. The inner frame is made of metal and has at its periphery a choke structure constructed from a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090134151 - Rapid cooking oven with broadband communication capability to increase ease of use: An improved oven for use in a residence is described. The oven includes a cooking chamber, a programmable controller for executing program instructions, memory media for recording executable program instructions, and at least one controllable cooking system under control of the programmable controller, which provides a data-processing-controlled high speed cooking... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20090134152 - Microwave nucleon-electron-bonding spin alignment and alteration of materials: A microwave energy emitter (108) is positioned in a microwave transparent chamber (123) within a material holding vessel (106) of a microwave containment vessel (122). The holding vessel (106) may be transparent to microwave energy and is further provided with a microwave reflective component outward, on, or beyond an exterior... Agent: Steven R. Sedlmayr

20090134153 - Power supply for a high frequency heating: When processes from a non-oscillation to an oscillation of a magnetron (12) are finely classified, the non-oscillation (a start mode), the oscillation (a start mode) and the oscillation (a steady mode) are obtained. A problem resides in an unstable state immediately after the oscillation. When a PWM setting value at... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090134154 - Device for preventing leakage of microwave for microwave oven: The present invention relates to a device for preventing microwave leakage for a microwave oven. The present invention comprises a cavity assembly formed with an opening portion through which heating energy generated in an energy generating means is supplied into a cooking chamber provided within the cavity assembly; a cover... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090134155 - Vent grille of microwave oven: A vent grille is provided. The vent grille is disposed on a front side of a microwave oven. Exhaust and inlet holes are disposed in a top side of the vent grille. The exhaust and inlet holes are not exposed when viewed from the front of the microwave oven. Air... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090127231 - Methods of forming superhard cutters and superhard cutters formed thereby: A method of forming one or more features on a working surface of a superhard carbonaceous material comprises: positioning an electrode plate adjacent the superhard carbonaceous material, the electrode plate having an electrode surface oriented toward the working surface of the superhard carbonaceous material, the electrode surface including at least... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20090127232 - Weld electrode for attractive weld appearance: Weld faces of electrodes for resistance spot welding are formed with a suitable area of protrusions and/or intrusions. The size, shape, and elevation or depths of the protrusions or intrusions are determined for the formation of suitable spot welds in and between metal workpieces such as aluminum or steel panels... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090127234 - Plasma processing chamber with guard ring for upper electrode assembly: A plasma processing chamber, which includes an upper electrode assembly, a lower electrode assembly, and a plasma confinement assembly. The upper electrode assembly includes an upper electrode, a backing member, the backing member attachable to an upper surface of the upper electrode, and a guard ring surrounding an outer surface... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090127235 - Multi-beam laser bonding apparatus and bonding method using the same: A multi-beam laser bonding apparatus includes a laser beam irradiation unit for irradiating a unique laser beam and an optical instrument. The bonding apparatus is for bonding parts by a plurality of bonding media which are separated from each other at a predetermined distance. The optical instrument is positioned on... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090127236 - Method and apparatus for fabricating vertical deposition mask: A method and apparatus for fabricating a vertical deposition mask capable of welding a mask sheet and a mask frame for preventing a large area mask from drooping due to the weight of the mask. The apparatus includes a tensioning device for tensioning a mask sheet and a welder for... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090127237 - Dross collecting apparatus for laser machining device: The dross collecting apparatus is used in a laser machining device equipped with a laser head provided at a fixed position in the horizontal direction, a sheet material feed mechanism for feeding a sheet material in at least one direction with respect to the laser head, a sheet material table... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090127238 - Seamless laser ablated roll tooling: A system for generating a laser machined tool from a substantially cylindrical work piece. The system includes a laser producing a laser beam, a mask positioned within the laser beam for shaping the laser beam into an image, and an optical system for imaging the laser beam image onto the... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090127233 - Laser beam machining apparatus: A laser beam machining apparatus including a chuck table for holding a wafer, and a laser beam irradiation unit for irradiating the wafer held on the chuck table with a pulsed laser beam. The laser beam machining apparatus further includes a plasma detecting part which includes a plasma receiving part... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090127239 - Laser piercing method and processing apparatus: A processing apparatus is provided in which a laser beam L2 is irradiated onto a processing portion of a workpiece W, and at the same time as the laser irradiation, an assist gas G is injected toward the processing portion from a nozzle 3 arranged concentric to the laser beam... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090127240 - System and method for laser machining of three-dimensional structures: A system and method of laser machining rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation, and translates the workpiece in a first direction along the axis of rotation. A mask defining a shape is translated in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a laser beam is directed at... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090127241 - Thin plate formation method, thin plate and suspension correction apparatus, and correction method: Laser beam irradiation areas are provided in a load curve portion and an angle adjustment portion of a suspension. The laser beam irradiation areas are oriented in a direction in which the suspension is to be bent. A laser beam having a predetermined length and a predetermined shape is irradiated... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090127243 - Method for bonding glassy metals using electric arc: A method for bonding two pieces of a glassy metal includes:(a) partially immersing the two pieces of the glassy metal in a liquid cooling medium; and (b) welding the two pieces of the glassy metal, which are cooled by the cooling medium at the same time, using pulsed electric arc... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090127242 - Control method for arc welding apparatus and arc welding apparatus: A control method for an arc welding apparatus having a function of prohibiting detection of neck based on a change amount of welding voltage and an arc welding apparatus using the method. Thus, since neck determination can be carried out accurately by preventing wrong detection of neck, it is possible... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090127244 - Moisture resistant layered sleeve heater and method of manufacturing thereof: A heater assembly is provided that includes a substrate having opposed end portions defining raised flanges, a slot extending between the opposed end portions, and opposed chamfered surfaces extending along the slot and across the raised flanges. In one form, a plurality of layers are disposed onto the substrate, along... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/ann Arbor

20090127245 - Cooking appliance: A cooking appliance, particularly an elevated-mounted cooking appliance, comprising: at least one muffle, which delimits a cooking compartment and whose muffle opening is surrounded by a muffle frame; a door for closing the muffle opening, and; a drive device, which is controlled by a control device and which serves to... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090127247 - Arrangement for a cooktop and a worktop: An arrangement with a worktop and a cooktop with a cooking surface, a mounting frame and a decorative frame, which is arranged in a recess in the worktop, with the distance elements, embodied for relative positioning of the cooktop in relation to the recess and on which the cooktop rests,... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090127246 - Treated structural components for a cooking appliance: A structural component for a cooking appliance includes a core structure formed from metal in a general configuration of the structural component for a cooking appliance; and an outer coating defining a ceramic layer formed by a plasma electrolytic oxidation treatment applied to the core structure of the structural component.... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090127248 - Heating cooker: When a timer period reaches an increase-stopping-time during the long-push state of a timer key, increase of the timer period is stopped once. Accordingly, even though a long-push state is continued due to a fault of the timer key, the indication of the timer period is not repeated.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090127249 - Device for triggering a heating element in a motor vehicle: A device for triggering a heating element in a motor vehicle. At least one connection is designed, at least in part, as an element which is installed under mechanical stress. The element is connected, at least at a first contact, in such a way that the latter detaches when a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090127250 - Portable body joint electric heating pad fabric: A portable human body joint electric heating pad, used to apply heat on the local sore joint of human body continuously to contribute blood circulation thereof, characterized in (1) a stainless synthetic fiber which is provided with rapid electric conduction and heat conduction capabilities and converts electric energy into thermal... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090127251 - Modular heated cover: The grounded modular heated cover is disclosed with a first pliable outer layer and a second pliable outer layer, wherein the outer layers provide durable protection, an electrical heating element between the first and the second outer layers, the electrical heating element configured to convert electrical energy to heat energy,... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090127252 - Nano particle generator: The nano particle generator includes a body, a heating unit to heat a material received in the body such that the material is evaporated, a channel extending through the body such that a fluid to condense the evaporated material flows along the channel, and an insulating member to prevent heat... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090127253 - Temperature-controlled induction heating of polymeric materials: The present invention provides new polymer induction bonding technology. Induction heating technologies are utilized to weld, forge, bond or set polymer materials. The invention provides controlled-temperature induction heating of polymeric materials by mixing ferromagnetic particles in the polymer to be heated. Temperature control is obtained by selecting ferromagnetic particles with... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson PC

20090127254 - Induction coil, method and device for inductive heating of metallic components: An induction coil for inductive heating of at least one metallic component having at least one lateral face and at least one face to be heated is provided. The induction coil includes a meandering pattern section shaped around the at least one component in such a way that the section... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090120911 - Wire break detecting device for wire electric discharge machine: In electric discharge machining for intermittently applying voltage pulses between a wire electrode and a workpiece with quiescent periods interposed, test voltage for checking conduction between upper and lower power feeding elements is applied during quiescent periods. When there is no conduction, it is determined that the wire electrode is... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090120912 - Method for machining a workpiece: A method for machining a workpiece which includes a conductor which carries a time-variable current along its longitudinal axis and is guided by an upper guide and a lower guide. A magnetic field is produced between the guides, the upper guide being located at a distance above the magnetic field... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090120913 - System for and method of producing invisible projection welds: A system for and method of producing invisible welds for a plurality of workpieces, includes the steps of selecting a free-body projection, fixedly securing the projection intermediate the workpieces, and engaging the workpieces with a resistance welding apparatus such that the projection fuses to form the weld joint, and preferably,... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20090120914 - System and method for controlling the power level of a laser apparatus in a laser shock peening process: An on-the-fly analog switching method and system for providing a switching time of less than one second between energy levels and laser heads for laser shock peening applications. An analog switch is used with variable resistance devices that produce a switching time of less than one second. One advantage of... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20090120915 - Method for making airtight container: A laser beam emitted from a laser oscillator unit passes through a first substrate and irradiates a sealing member. The sealing member irradiated with the laser beam is heated in accordance with the absorptance and thus softens and melts. The laser beam is reflected by the sealing member and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090120916 - Through-via laser reflow systems and methods for surface mount components: A system and method are disclosed for remelting solder balls in the forming of electrical connections between an electrical component being mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB). Vias are formed in the PCB. Underneath the PCB, a laser is directed through the via to remelt the solder ball to... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20090120917 - Laser processing machines and methods for providing a gas to the beam guide of a laser processing machine: ABSTRACT A laser processing machine having a laser processing head that is open to a workpiece has a device for providing gas to the laser beam guide that introduces a first gas through a first gas inlet into the laser beam guide and introduces a second gas through a second... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090120918 - Apparatus and method for manufacturing absorption pad: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for manufacturing an absorption pad used for picking up a package or a strip during a semiconductor manufacturing process. The apparatus includes a workpiece transfer device on which a workpiece is mounted, a laser generator installed above the workpiece transfer device while being... Agent: Gwips Peter T. Kwon

20090120919 - Method of welding two sides of a joint simultaneously: A system for arc welding two sides of a joint simultaneously is disclosed. By customizing welding waveforms and the distance between two or more electrodes, weld currents can be designed to transfer current to and through one or more electrodes in addition to the current traditionally passed only to the... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20090120920 - Modular fabrication unit: A completely self contained robotic cell (or modular unit) disposed on air pallets. Also preferably included on the cell also are crane lift points. Thus, these measures allow the cell to be moved within a defined area in a shop, to a different area in a shop, or to other... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090120921 - Method and apparatus for welding: The invention relates to a welding method and apparatus. According to the method between the welding wire and the base material an arc (4) is electrically formed, which behaves periodically (12, t2) in such a way that the duration of the period is (t2) and within the period (12) at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090120922 - Ceramic body and steel post locating pin assembly: A composite locating pin adapted for interconnection with a welding apparatus, securing a plurality of workpieces in a fixed relative condition, and resisting slag adhesion, deformation and pin failure, during a welding cycle, includes, in a preferred embodiment, a removable pin body formed of a technical ceramic, a pin post... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20090120923 - Water heater of endorsement with ionized ignition and electronic control of temperature, for solar heaters of the type thermosiphon: A backup water heater for a solar water heater operates by means of an electronic card that initiates the operation of the heater in response to temperature and flow signals. A burner is lit gradually by an electrical spark emitted by a spark plug connected to the electronic card, which... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20090120924 - Pulse train annealing method and apparatus: The present invention generally describes apparatuses and methods used to perform an annealing process on desired regions of a substrate. In one embodiment, pulses of electromagnetic energy are delivered to a substrate using a flash lamp or laser apparatus. The pulses may be from about 1 nsec to about 10... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP - - Appm/tx

20090120925 - Heater with 360 degree rotation of heated air stream: A heater with 360° rotation of a heated air stream is provided. The device includes a housing, a motor, an impeller, a heating element, an air stream deflector and a rotational engine. More specifically, the device is directed toward a portable space heater having an outward radial projection of a... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090120926 - Multiple function electric oven: An electric oven includes a rectangular body, a top heat tube and a bottom heat tube are located in the body of the oven. A rotatable heating member is located at a mediate portion of the body and has a rotatable heat tube which is driven by a motor and... Agent: Wen-ching Lee

20090120927 - Fastening element for attaching a part to a supporting element: A fastening element for attaching a part such as a cooking hob to a supporting element, such as a frame supporting/surrounding the cooking hob, can include a spring secured to the supporting element. In one implementation, the fastening element can be secured by engaging a locking element of the spring... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090120928 - Apparatus and method for induction heating: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for induction heating. The induction heating cooker determines an existence of a vessel and determines material and a bottom size of the vessel by using resonance voltage, which is applied to a heating coil for heating the vessel, so that a proper control operation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090120929 - Package for browning and crisping dough-based foods in a microwave oven: Various constructs and systems for heating a dough-based food item in a microwave oven are provided.... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090114623 - Method for welding employing current: One method of the invention is for welding and includes obtaining first and second members each including an extrusion having a through hole and includes obtaining first and second electrodes each having an electrode portion. The second member is positioned to have the second extrusion nest in the first through... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090114624 - Support structure for welding backbar: The present invention concerns a structure for supporting a welding backbar (13) to be used as an auxiliary electrode plate in a spot-welding operation. The structure includes a plurality of leaf springs (21, 22, 23) laminated on a bracket (27) fixed to a base (32). Each of the leaf springs... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090114625 - Laser brazing improvement with twinspot: The present invention provides a method for laser brazing a first member to a second member using a laser brazing head. The laser brazing head has means for generating a first laser beam and a second laser beam. The method comprises the steps of: arranging the first member in contact... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20090114626 - Apparatus and method for machining tubing: An apparatus for machining tubing includes a weighted base, an upright frame attached to the weighted base, and a laser light source attached to the weighted base. The apparatus also includes a guide bushing tooling attached to the upright frame which holds a guide bushing. A rotary drive bushing is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090114627 - Laser beam machining apparatus: A laser beam machining apparatus includes laser beam irradiation unit for irradiating a wafer held on a chuck table with a laser beam, and control unit. The laser beam irradiation unit includes a laser beam oscillator for oscillating a laser beam with such a wavelength as to be transmitted through... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090114628 - Methods and apparatuses for forming cutting elements having a chamfered edge for earth-boring tools: Apparatuses for forming chamfers on superabrasive tables of cutting elements for earth-boring tools include a chuck for temporarily holding and positioning a cutting element, and at least one emitter for emitting a beam of energy toward an edge of a superabrasive table of a cutting element held and positioned by... Agent: Traskbritt, P.C.

20090114629 - Multiple beam micro-machining system and method: A system for delivering energy to a substrate includes a laser energy source providing a plurality of laser beams, wherein each of the beams is steered to an independently selectable location on a target, and is independently focused onto the target.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090114630 - Minimization of surface reflectivity variations: Apparatuses and methods are provided for processing a surface of a substrate. The substrate may have a surface pattern that exhibits directionally and/or orientationally different reflectivities relative to radiation of a selected wavelength and polarization. The apparatus may include a radiation source that emits a photonic beam of the selected... Agent: Peters Verny , L.L.P.

20090114631 - Short-circuit arc welding process using a consumable electrode: An arc welding process using a consumable electrode, in which welding cycles follow one after another over the course of time, each comprising an arc period and a short-circuit period in which the liquid metal establishes a short-circuit between the end of the electrode and the workpiece or workpieces. Each... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property

20090114632 - Remote control operated heater for water sports garments: An aquatic garment-heating device employs a conductive rubber-heating device, which obviates the troublesome wiring of the prior art heating devices. It also employs a wireless switch control, which provides a number of advantages. By using a wireless switch, the on/off mechanism for activating or deactivating the heater, may be worn... Agent: Leonard Tachner, A Professional Law Corporation

20090114634 - Heating unit for warming fluid conduits: A heating unit for use in heating a fluid conduit is disclosed. The heating unit includes first and second pliable cover layers. A pliable electrical heating element is disposed between the first and second cover layers. The pliable electrical heating element includes a heat generating element for converting electrical energy... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090114633 - Portable pouch heating unit: A portable pouch for use in heating temperature sensitive materials is disclosed. The pouch includes a heating unit with one or more fasteners attached around its outer edges. The heating unit can be folded to allow the one or more fasteners to secure opposing outer edges of the heating unit... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090114635 - Method for raising chamber temperature and heating apparatus thereof: A method for raising chamber temperature includes steps of heating enclosed air in the chamber, and infusing the dry air into the chamber to mix with the enclosed air and push out the wet air. A heating apparatus is also disclosed, which will raise the chamber temperature and make the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090114636 - Controller for a food holding oven: A controller for a food holding oven determines one or more time periods during each of which heat is directed at a pre-cooked food item. By controlling the heat intensity and the time over which different amounts of heat are provided to different types of pre-cooked food items, the time... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090114637 - Household appliance for heating liquid: Household electrical appliance for heating liquid including a tank, a heating element having at least one resistive track screen-printed on an electrically insulating plate secured to part of said tank, and a device controlling the electrical supply of said heating element. The control device includes several electronic components among which... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20090114638 - Apparatus and method for effectuating temperature control in roller grills: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for effectuating temperature control in roller grill assembly. Some embodiments provide a roller grill assembly which provides enhanced measurement by utilizing temperature probes located in convective air streams generated in the roller tube. Certain embodiments also provide an improved method for maintaining... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20090114639 - Thin-film heating element: The invention relates to a heating element comprising an aluminum substrate, an electrically insulating layer based on a sol-gel precursor, and an electrically resistive layer with a thickness smaller than 2 μm. The features of this heating element solve the problem of the crack formation due to a mismatch of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090114640 - Electric power system for electric induction heating and melting of materials in a susceptor vessel: Apparatus and process for heating and melting a material in a susceptor vessel are provided wherein phase synchronized ac voltage is supplied from a separate power source to each one of at least two induction coils in separate zones around the vessel. Power magnitude from each source to an induction... Agent: Philip O. Post Indel, Inc.

20090114641 - Portable microwave oven with protective frame: The portable microwave oven with protective frame is a microwave oven adapted for use in rugged environments, such as a construction site. The portable oven includes a microwave oven and an outer protective frame mounted to the microwave housing. A plurality of connector members are provided, with each connector being... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20090114642 - Microwave oven with a tray moving in an orbital pattern: A microwave oven includes a heating cavity, a tray for supporting foodstuff to be heated inside the cavity, a driver including a motor and a shaft protruding into the cavity for moving the tray along a predetermined pattern, and a supporting frame with rollers interposed between the bottom of the... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090114643 - Collapsible field director structure: The slave vanes are flexibly displaceable with respect to the conductor flap and the conductor flap is articulably movable with respect to the flange so that the field director structure, in the deployed state, is able to occupy a self-supported disposition in which the conductor flap is oriented substantially perpendicular... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20090114644 - Uniform microwave heating of food in a container: The invention relates to a device and method for ensuring more uniform heating of food by microwaves. The method includes providing food in a portion having a predetermined size and shape; and providing a container adapted for receiving and reheating the portion of food in a microwave oven. The container... Agent: K&l Gates LLP