Electric heating inventions 09/09

20090236318 - Wire electric discharge machining apparatus: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus can select a split guide formed from a pair of guide pieces, or an unsplittable dice guide, as an upper wire guide. An upper wire guide assembly includes a housing configured to selectively store the split guide or an adapter that the dice guide... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090236319 - Method for joining objects: A method for joining at least two objects by a joining means selected from resistance welding, resistance soldering and a magnetically impelled arc, in which the objects are brought into contact with one another in the area to be joined, such that the objects are joined to one another in... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20090236320 - Method for tandem gas metal arc welding, and welding torch and welding apparatus used therefor: The present invention provides a method for tandem gas metal arc welding using a leading electrode and a trailing electrode, wherein a shielding gas for the leading electrode is a two-component mixed gas containing argon and carbon dioxide, or a three-component mixed gas containing argon, carbon dioxide, and oxygen; a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090236321 - Laser welding structure and laser welding method: A laser welding structure includes a lead, a conductive member, and a welding part. The lead has a nickel plating layer and is made of copper or copper alloy. The conductive member is joined with the lead and is made of copper or copper alloy. The welding part is formed... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090236322 - Laser cutting apparatus: An exemplary cutting apparatus for cutting components from a sprue includes a sprue retainer, a laser cutting unit, and a rotating driving unit. The sprue retainer has a supporting surface. The supporting surface defines a receiving hole, and grooves extending across the entire supporting surface. The grooves are in communication... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090236323 - Method and apparatus for laser drilling holes with tailored laser pulses: An improved method and apparatus for drilling vias in electronic substrates with laser pulses is presented which uses one or more tailored pulses to reduce debris remaining in the via while maintaining system throughput and avoiding damage to the substrate. A tailored pulse is a laser pulse that features a... Agent: Electro Scientific Industries/stoel Rives, LLP

20090236324 - Laser processing method and laser processing system: An object to be processed 1 is irradiated with laser light L with a standard pulse waveform, so as to form a molten processed region 131, which has a larger size in the thickness direction of the object 1 and is easy to generate a fracture 24 in the thickness... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090236325 - Dual-conductor welding gun: Welding gun with double conductor composed by a torch body (1) and electronic scales (2) to measure the intensity of the sensors (6) located in each conductor (3) and with mechanisms to trigger an alarm when there is an imbalance of the intensities circulating through both conductors. To this end,... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20090236326 - Heat pipe cooling system for use with a welding torch: A heat pipe cooling system adapted for exemplary use with a gas metal arc welding torch, includes a container enclosing a capillary structure and quantity of working fluid, and functions to accelerate the dissipation of heat energy from a heated zone generated by the torch through the vaporization and condensation... Agent: General Motors Company Legal Staff

20090236327 - Layered heater system with honeycomb core structure: A layered heater system is provided that includes an engineered substrate having an upper face sheet, a lower face sheet, and a core disposed between the upper face sheet and the lower face sheet. A dielectric layer is formed on at least one of the upper face sheet and the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/ann Arbor

20090236328 - Soldering apparatus for connecting solar cells: A soldering apparatus for connecting solar cells includes an induction heat source to connect cell conducting tracks, provided with soldering medium, with electric conductors. The heat source has a high-frequency generator and an inductor loop in which the flow of a high-frequency current causes a high-frequency magnetic field to induce... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20090236329 - Induction heating system for a motor-driven vehicle: Disclosed is an induction heating system for a motor-driven vehicle (VC), which comprises a polyphase-type AC motor (1) adapted to drive the vehicle (VC), an electrical storage device (10) which stores an electric power to be supplied to the AC motor (1), a DC-AC converter (11) adapted to convert a... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090236330 - Microwave heating of aqueous samples on a micro-optical-electro-mechanical system: Apparatus for heating a sample includes a microchip; a microchannel flow channel in the microchip, the microchannel flow channel containing the sample; a microwave source that directs microwaves onto the sample for heating the sample; a wall section of the microchannel flow channel that receives the microwaves and enables the... Agent: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

20090236331 - High-speed cooking oven with optimized cooking efficiency: The present invention is directed to improving the conventional high-speed cooking oven based on a combination of hot air impingement and microwave heating by providing a time-dependent spatial variation in the net air impingement and/or net microwave energy applied to the food product in the oven. This is aimed at... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20090236333 - Food preparation: Devices and methods for RF heating of food, using techniques which allow uniformity and/or controlled non-uniformity.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090236332 - Microwave oven turntable apparatus: A turntable apparatus is provided for use in a microwave oven which includes a turntable driving motor, turntable drive mechanism connected to the turntable driving motor, an oven door, and a door switch. The subject apparatus is comprised of a turntable unit which is mechanically connected to the turntable drive... Agent: Steven L. Adams

20090236334 - Food preparation: Devices and methods for RF heating of food, using techniques which allow uniformity and/or controlled non-uniformity.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090236335 - food preparation: Devices and methods for RF heating of food, using techniques which allow uniformity and/or controlled non-uniformity.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090236336 - Outer case for cooking appliance: An opening (42) is formed in a first external face plate (40) of an outer case (38) defining an external appearance of a cooking appliance and at a position corresponding to parts (26) and (28) installed in the cooking appliance, and the opening (42) is covered with a cover plate... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090230120 - Welding head carrier for use in welding inner surface of tube: A welding head carrier for use in welding the inner surface of a tube includes inter alia a welding head provided with a welding torch and a camera, a wireless camera mounted at the inner side of the tube to monitor whether cables are entangled, a wireless receiver for receiving... Agent: Iphorgan, Ltd.

20090230091 - Device designed to cut off the spent wire on a spark erosion machine: Cutting device for spark-erosion machine wires in which, after passing through a machining region, the wire-electrode is cut up into sections which are disposed of as waste products into a recovery receptacle. The device comprises electrical contacts connected to a voltage/current source. The wire is subjected to a dielectric fluid... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20090230092 - Power supply circuit for wire electric discharge machining apparatus: A power supply circuit for a wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes an auxiliary power supply (3) for generating an auxiliary discharge by applying a voltage between a workpiece (2) and a wire electrode (1); and a plurality of main power supplies (4 and 5), a first one of which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090230093 - Electrical discharge pocketing using loop type machining electrode: An electrode for EDM.... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090230094 - Open-top welding chamber: A novel type of welding chamber for welding refractory metals such as titanium, that is open on the top rather than completely enclosed like other welding chambers is disclosed. Pressurized argon, an inert gas, is introduced into the bottom chamber of the device through a diffuser. The argon is then... Agent: Joseph E. Corne

20090230097 - Liquid cooled shield for improved piercing performance: A shield for a plasma arc torch that pierces and cuts a metallic workpiece producing a splattering of molten metal directed at the torch, the shield protecting consumable components of the plasma arc torch from the splattering molten metal. The shield can include a body, a first surface of the... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090230096 - Vapor plasma burner: The invention relates to a vapor plasma burner (6) comprising a burner handle (6a) and a burner base (6b). Inside the burner base (6b), a liquid feed pipe (32), a heating device (26), a burner chamber (27), a cathode (22), connected to a cathode support (28), and an anode (24)... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090230095 - Apparatus and method for a liquid cooled shield for improved piercing performance: A shield for a plasma arc torch that pierces and cuts a metallic workpiece producing a splattering of molten metal directed at the torch, the shield protecting consumable components of the plasma arc torch from the splattering molten metal. The shield can include a body, a first surface of the... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090230098 - Method for detecting current transfer in a plasma arc: Methods and systems for transferring a plasma arc from between an electrode and a tip to between an electrode and a workpiece and back as dictated by the conditions at the cutting arc are provided. The present disclosure allows for arc transfer detection without use of a current sensor at... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20090230099 - Method and apparatus in connection with laser use: A method in connection with laser use, wherein one or more laser beams emitted by one or more laser sources are focused by beam guiding elements on a fusing spot. A filler delivered to the fusing spot is melted, especially for performing a welding, coating, and/or piece manufacturing process. The... Agent: Venable LLP

20090230100 - Method and device for robot-aided remote laser welding with simplified control of focusing direction of laser beam: device for remote laser welding of metal sheet structures comprises an anthropomorphous robot onto whose wrist is mounted an accessory device carrying a focusing head for the laser beam coming from a laser source, as well as means for oscillating the pointing direction of the focused laser beam around one... Agent: Young Basile

20090230101 - Method of soldering metallic join partners and an appratus for this purpose: A method of soldering metallic join partners (4, 5) which are coated with soldering material, wherein the layers of soldering material of the join partners (4, 5) are pressed together and melted in a soldering region (6), molten masses of liquid soldering material forming which, after being mixed, in the... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20090230102 - Method for creating scribe line on brittle material substrate and apparatus for creating scribe line: The surface of a brittle material substrate is heated with a laser beam along a line along which a scribed line is created at a temperature lower than the point at which the brittle material substrate softens, and the heated region is cooled immediately after heating so that a first... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090230103 - Laser beam processing machine: A laser beam processing machine comprising a chuck table for holding a workpiece, a laser beam application means for applying a laser beam to the workpiece held on the chuck table, a processing-feed means for moving the chuck table and the laser beam application means relative to each other in... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090230104 - Laser shock peening: An embodiment of an apparatus for laser shock peening a treatment region of a metallic member includes a base oriented along a longitudinal axis; an engagement member actuable to engage a surface of the metallic member, the base in connection with engagement member; and a laser peening head adapted to... Agent: Winstead PC (fcc-fki) Henry L. Ehrlich

20090230105 - Continuous furnace with coupled laser for the surface treatment of materials: The present invention relates to a continuous kiln coupled to a laser by a conventional optical means that allows for surface treatment of a part, such that it is possible to achieve temperatures of up to 3000° C. on the surface of the part while the remainder of the part... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090230106 - Buried-arc welding with thru-the-arc seam tracking: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a system for buried-arc welding with thru-the-arc seam tracking. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for buried-arc welding with thru-the-arc seam tracking.... Agent: Intellectual Property

20090230107 - Positioning attachment for a welding torch: A positioning attachment for definition of torch angle and torch to workpiece distance during welding and/or training is provided. The positioning attachment includes one or more legs of equal or varied lengths capped with a tip, which contacts the workpiece, and a body, which may be permanently attached or removably... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20090230109 - Equipment and process for applying an external structural weld to piping and similarly shaped pressure boundary components: An apparatus and/or process for applying a weld overlay to a nozzle or piping spool of complex configuration is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the welding apparatus comprises a mounting assembly having a plurality of magnetic foot pads, a tension support rod attached at one end to one of the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090230108 - Welding method and welded article: where A denotes an integrated value of an electric current over a time for which the polarity of the wire 7 is positive, and B denotes an integrated value of an electric current over a time for which the polarity of the wire 7 is negative; and thereby an amount... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090230110 - Position control with compensation for thermal cycling of a workpiece support: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to establishing a desired position control over a workpiece by compensating for thermal cycling affecting a member supporting the workpiece during processing.... Agent: Mccarthy Law Group

20090230111 - Flash heating for tubing: A chemical sample gas tube that is capable of being rapidly heated and cooled allows rapid purging of condensed chemical vapor from its inside surface. The tube may include a thin foil with an electrically conducting surface, a rigidly separated pair of clamps to shape the thin foil into a... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090230112 - Torso heating apparatus for warming hands and feet: A heating vest containing heaters for warming the torso, sensors for detecting skin temperature of the torso, and a feedback device for feeding torso skin temperature to a heater controller. Other sensors detect the skin temperature of the extremities which is also fed to the heater controller. Heating of the... Agent: George A. Seaby Seaby & Associates

20090230113 - Heated floor support structure and method of installing: A support structure includes a surface portion and a first protrusion that extends from the surface portion. The first protrusion has a first base portion extending from the surface portion the first base portion defining a first upper portion. The first upper portion overhangs the first base portion. A second... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090230114 - Image heating apparatus and heater used for the image heating apparatus: The image heating apparatus includes a heater has a first and heat-generation segment having a plurality of heat generating parts therein in the longitudinal direction respectively, and the heat generating parts each having a first electro-conductive pattern provided along the longitudinal direction on a substrate, and a second electro-conductive pattern... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090230115 - Peb apparatus and control method: There is provided a post exposure baking apparatus that can effectively restrain the fluctuation of the size of pattern between wafers in a baking process for continuously processing a plurality of wafers as a batch sequence and a control method thereof. A baking time offset amount is set for each... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20090230116 - Heating vessel: A heating vessel comprises a bottom portion made of conductive material and perimeter wall extending upward from the bottom portion to form a perimeter and covers the vessel such as to form a cavity. The perimeter wall comprises an outer wall and an inner wall, and at least an adiabatic... Agent: Guice Patents PLLC

20090230117 - Electrically heated aerosol generating system and method: An electrically heated aerosol generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate includes at least one heating element for heating the substrate to form the aerosol and a power supply for supplying power to the at least one heating element. The power supply includes a voltage source, two or more supercapacitors,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090230118 - Water-cooler compatible cylinder tray for welding machine: A novel system for securing accessory equipment to a welding machine is provided. The invention provides a tray secured to the lower portion of a welding machine and a holder secured to the upper portion of the welding machine for stabilization and support of a water cooler and/or a gas... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20090230119 - Towel warmer device: An improved towel warmer comprising a generally rectangular, water resistant, flexible, low cost, energy-efficient, and easily stowable electric heating member that releasably attaches to, and hangs from a support member such as a towel rack using one or more releasable straps. The heating member has an electric supply cord that... Agent: John C. Merchant

20090230121 - Electric induction impeder: An impeder for use in an electric induction welding process is provided. Optionally the impeder does not require internal forced cooling. In embodiments using internal forced cooling a high efficiency cooling system is provided.... Agent: Philip O. Post Indel, Inc.

20090230122 - Heater holder and electric hob including the same: Provided are a heater holder and an electric hob including the heater holder. Both end portions of a tube heater are supported by the heater holder having predetermined elasticity. Therefore, food can be cooked more rapidly, and the tube heater can be easily installed. Furthermore, damages caused by heat generated... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090230123 - Device and method for driving the induction heating means of an induction hob: A device for driving the induction heating coils of an induction hob, in which power is supplied to the induction heating coils via the electric power grid or a grid phase thereof, comprises a filter unit and a rectifier unit with at least one converter and intermediate circuit. For two... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090230124 - Apparatus and method for heating containers: The invention relates to an apparatus and method for heating containers and in particular preforms. The apparatus comprising a microwave heating device which has a microwave generator and a microwave conductor, and a transport device which transports the containers. The apparatus can further comprise a further heating device which heats... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20090230125 - Technological development for carrying out cooking and chemical reaction, chemical synthesis, metalworking, metal cyrstallization, metal sintering and metallurgy by heating pottery with microwave for converting into far infrared or infrared wave radiation: A method of heating a substance has not made much progress unlike rapid scientific developments. Although many studies have been made on the optimum heating temperature of a material, heating is not recognized in terms of the heat absorbing wavelength of a substance to be heated. Microwave heating provides a... Agent: Kono Buhei

20090230126 - Elevated microwave heating tray: Various blanks and constructs formed therefrom are provided. The various constructs include features for supporting a food item at an elevated position to enhance the heating, browning, and/or crisping of the food item in a microwave oven.... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090223935 - Method of manufacturing electric resistance welding pipe having excellent characterization of welded seam: A method of manufacturing an electric resistance welding pipe is provided in which a lateral edge shape is made to be an appropriate shape immediately before electric resistance welding is performed, whereby penetrators are securely removed during the electric resistance welding and, consequently, an electric resistance welding pipe having excellent... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper LLP (us)

20090223936 - Tool insert: A method of producing a plurality of tool inserts (20) from a body of polycrystalline ultra-hard material (10), in particular polycrystalline diamond and polycrystalline cubic boron nitride, having major surfaces (12, 14) on each of opposite sides thereof. The method includes the step of simultaneously producing a plurality of spaced... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090223937 - Apparatus and methods for forming wire bonds: A wire bonding apparatus includes a processing block, a bond head assembly and an infrared radiation source for selectively heating the bond pad areas of one or more semiconductor dies and/or bonding sites on a substrate. Methods for forming wire bonds using selective heating of the bond pad areas of... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20090223938 - Fusing quality control method and apparatus: A fusing quality control method and apparatus are disclosed in which the film detachment process is accurately controlled by monitoring the surface temperature of a terminal and detecting the timing at which the temperature provisionally drops and then rises again. The thermal caulking process, on the other hand, is accurately... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090223939 - Variable orifice torch: A variable orifice torch for use in a solid free form fabrication system for manufacturing a component from successive layers of metal feedstock material. The variable orifice torch includes a torch structure defining a torch nozzle formed of a highly conductive bulk material. The variable orifice torch further includes a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090223940 - Different metallic thin plates welding method, bimetallic thin plates jointing element, electric device, and electric device assembly: A bimetallic thin plate jointing element that is jointed, such that a good electric characteristics are maintained, is provided. Thin plate jointing element (10) is formed by welding and jointing positive-electrode terminal (1) and negative-electrode terminal (2) having different melting points, and having flexibility. A plurality of spot-like welding areas... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090223941 - Phase shifter for laser annealing: An object of the present invention is to provide a phase shifter for laser annealing which is capable of effectively preventing the sticking of particles. A first layer and a third layer are made of quartz glass, and a two-dimensional pattern of fine grooves is formed in the surfaces of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090223943 - Laser processing method, laser processing device and cable harness production method: The present invention relates to a laser processing method and the like provided with a structure for enabling realization of both preferable processing of locations not easily reached by laser light and effective inhibition of damage caused to locations easily reached by laser light during laser processing. Radiation optics scan... Agent: Venable LLP

20090223942 - Lead frame isolation using laser technology: Systems and methods for electrically isolating conductive members on an array of lead frames. In one embodiment, a system includes a stage for positioning the array to receive laser radiation, a computer system and electro-optical components. The system can sever conductive members from one another by laser ablation effected with... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20090223944 - Laser-based material processing exhaust systems and methods for using such systems: Laser-based material processing systems, exhaust systems, and methods for using such systems are disclosed herein. One embodiment of a laser-based material processing system can include an exhaust assembly configured to remove contaminants from a material processing area. The exhaust assembly can include a vacuum source and an exhaust plenum carried... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090223945 - Temperature controlled food storage compartment: A portable, temperature controlled food storage compartment. The compartment includes a base having an internal cavity including a temperature controlling element for controlling the temperature of food stored in the compartment, and a detachable cover including a number of side panels, a front panel and a top panel. Each of... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090223946 - Comb powering conductors based flexible thermal radiator: A flexible thermal radiator made by using two comb powering conductors to power the electrical heating element. The electrical current passes from one powering conductor to the other through the electrical heating element. The comb powering conductors provide an even distribution of currents throughout the structure and hence maintain a... Agent: Ravindra Wijesiriwardana

20090223947 - Ceramic heating element, ceramic heating element with terminals, and ceramic heating tube: The present invention relates to a ceramic heating element, a ceramic heating element with terminals, and a ceramic heating tube, which consists of a mixture of china clay powder in a volume of 25% to 75% and conductive graphite powder in a volume of 25% to 75%, a vitreous insulation... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090223948 - Magnetic water heater: A heater includes a first rotor rotatably mounted to a support structure, and a first magnet attached to the first rotor. A second rotor is rotatably mounted to the support structure to be substantially coaxial with the first rotor, and a second magnet is attached to the second rotor. A... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090223949 - Induction heating coil and method for melting granules composed of semiconductor material: An induction heating coil melts granules composed of semiconductor material on a plate with an outlet tube. The induction heating coil has a coil body provided with current-guiding slots, the coil body having an upper side and a lower side and having a passage opening for granules in a region... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090223950 - Sealing of ceramic substances by means of electromagnetic centimetre waves, and receptacle for carrying out the inventive method: A method for manufacturing ceramic parts with a certain porosity by sintering using microwaves, the materials to be sintered being arranged in a vessel, wherein the microwaves introduce sintering energy into the materials to be sintered via electromagnetic waves in the range of vacuum wavelengths between 5 cm-20 cm in... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090223951 - Constructs and methods for heating a liquid in a microwave oven: A method of promoting uniform heating of a liquid in a microwave oven, comprises providing a container including an interior space for receiving a liquid, the liquid within the interior space having an uppermost portion and a lowermost portion, providing a microwave energy shielding element for being substantially laterally aligned... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090223952 - Tool for forming a three dimensional article or container: A forming tool assembly and method for forming a cooking element. The forming tool assembly has an upper tool assembly and a lower tool assembly that cooperate to shape the cooking element from an annular cutout.... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090218320 - Frit sealing using direct resistive heating: An frit-sealed device comprising a resistive heating element having an electrically-closed-loop structure and process for frit-sealing a device by using such heating element. The element can be advantageously made of a metal such as Invar® and/or Kovar®. The invention enables hermetic frit sealing with low residual stress in the seal.... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20090218321 - Shape memory implant heating device: A device (20) or system (60) for heating heat-transformable shape memory implants used in surgery applications. The case (22) is configured to be hand-held by a user. The device (20) also includes a variable electronic power supply (24) contained within the case (22). The variable electronic power supply (24) includes... Agent: Wiggin And Dana LLP Attention: Patent Docketing

20090218322 - Dies for manufacturing substrates and methods of making: Extrusion dies for manufacturing substrates with peripheral strengthening are manufactured by plunge EDM machining a solid material and subsequently forming slots by wire EDM slot machining.... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20090218323 - Spot welding method, method for judging shape of nugget, spot welding machine and spot welding electrode: An electrode whose electrode surface is a substantially convex curved surface and which has at a center portion a recess set at a predetermined depth allowing a welding trace formed on a metal body surface to reach a deepest portion when a nugget is formed in a satisfactory manner by... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090218324 - Direct real-time monitoring and feedback control of rf plasma output for wafer processing: A method and apparatus for controlling power output of a capacitatively-coupled plasma are provided. A detector is disposed on the power delivery conduit carrying power to one electrode to detect fluctuations in power output to the electrode. The detector is coupled to a signal generator, which converts the RF input... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP - - Appm/tx

20090218325 - Transmission laser welding method for connecting shaped plastic bodies: The present invention relates to an apparatus for welding tube segments to a tubular shaped body, and to a laser welding method for connecting a tube segment to a tubular shaped body, in which the tube wall of the tube segment is constructed from at least two material layers that... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20090218326 - Cutting method using a laser having at least one ytterbium-based fiber, in which at least the power of the laser source, the diameter of the focused beam and the beam quality factor are controlled: The invention relates to method for cutting a part using a laser beam, involving the use of laser beam generation means comprising at least one ytterbium-based fibre having a wavelength of between 1 and 4 μm in order to generate the laser beam. The laser beam is selected to have... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property

20090218327 - Hydraulically driven tool system: A system, in one embodiment, includes a first service pack module and a second service pack module, wherein the first and second service pack modules are separate from one another. The first service pack module includes a hydraulic motor, an air compressor drivingly coupled to the hydraulic motor, and a... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (illinois Tool Works Inc.)

20090218328 - Nozzle: The invention relates to a nozzle (16) for emitting solid carbon dioxide particles. The nozzle (16) comprising an inlet (30) for receiving liquid carbon dioxide, a nozzle aperture (32) from which solid carbon dioxide particles flow from the nozzle (16), a duct extending between the inlet (30) and the nozzle... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20090218329 - Method and system for automated selection of a set of candidate weld guns including orientations of the selected guns: The disclosure relates to the automatic selection of a set of candidate weld guns and candidate orientations for the weld guns from a library of existing weld guns. Minimum values for weld points and test orientations are calculated. The calculated minimum values are added to the library. As each point... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, PLLC

20090218330 - Sheathed-element glow plug unit and system for operating a plurality of sheathed-element glow plugs: A sheathed-element glow plug unit includes an input for connecting the sheathed-element glow plug unit to a control line, via which a sheathed-element glow plug of the sheathed-element glow plug unit is able to be controlled. The sheathed-element glow plug unit has an output, via which at least one further... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090218331 - Partition-type heating apparatus: A partition-type heating apparatus has advantageous effects in that a material to be heated, i.e., a reaction gas used in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, is pre-heated and the pre-heated reaction gas flows through a flow channel defined by the vertical and horizontal partitions so that the flowing reaction... Agent: The Rafferty Patent Law Firm

20090218332 - Boilerless combination convection steamer oven: A boilerless combination convection steamer oven and controls logic therefor is provided having a cooking cavity formed of a steam generating space with two or more reservoirs and a cooking space, wherein the steam generating space is separated from the cooking space by a removable steam lid, any number from... Agent: Butler, Snow, O'mara, Stevens & Cannada PLLC

20090218333 - Heating element for application in a device for heating liquids: A heating element for use in a device for heating liquids comprising an uninterrupted and integrally constructed track-like electrical resistor having a first material for forced conduction of electric current, electrical resistor having a plurality of elongate resistor segments and at least one curved resistor segment for mutual electrical coupling... Agent: Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein

20090218334 - Heated motorcycle gas tank cover: A heat-radiating cover is disclosed for a gasoline tank of a motorcycle that has a power source. The cover includes a flexible, heat insulating, substantially water-impermeable lower web that is conformable to the shape of the gasoline tank, being made from either a flexible or malleable material. A flexible middle... Agent: Quickpatents, Inc.

20090218335 - Heated motorcycle gas tank cover: A heat-radiating cover is disclosed for a gasoline tank of a motorcycle that has a power source. The cover includes a flexible, heat insulating, substantially water-impermeable lower web that is conformable to the shape of the gasoline tank, being made from either a flexible or malleable material. A flexible middle... Agent: Quickpatents, Inc.

20090218336 - High-speed cooking oven with cooking support: An improved oven is aimed at optimizing heat transfer and delivering an optimal cooking efficiency in comparison to conventional high-speed cooking ovens. The oven includes a support for supporting a food product in a cooking chamber of the oven, which utilizes impingement of hot air and microwave energy. The support... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20090218337 - Microwave oven with rotary cooking apparatus: A rotary cooking apparatus for a microwave oven including a hollow drum for holding food, said drum including a first open end and a second closed end, a lid detachably securable onto said first end of said drum, wherein said lid includes a support shaft protruding from said lid operatively... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20090218338 - Elevated microwave heating construct: A construct for heating, browning, and/or crisping a food item in a microwave oven comprises a platform having a first surface substantially defined by a microwave energy interactive element and a pair of side members joined to the platform along respective lines of disruption. The side members extend upwardly and... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090218339 - Applique microwave oven leakage seal: This invention relates to a method for producing a low-cost solution to the problem of radiation leakage that escapes from modern microwave ovens due to the door cracks that form in the under-size bezels used in today's microwave oven market. The appliqué structure of the Patent includes a ⅛ inch... Agent: Martin P. Lepselter

20090218340 - Container provided with a microwave heatable element: The invention relates to a container having a body and a closure for an opening in the body, which body comprises a heatable content and, in heat exchange contact, a microwave heatable element.... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.