Electric heating inventions

20090266797 - Spot welding tongs for robotic applications in resistance welding or workpieces: There are spot welding tongs for robotic applications in resistance welding of workpieces, in particular sheets, comprising tong arms, mounted such as to pivot on a base body, which may be adjusted using an operator and to which electrode holders for the electrodes are fixed and a winding device with... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090266798 - Resistance welding head and method for manufacturing the same: The present invention relates to a resistance welding head for use in production of electronic components with various kinds of small coils. The resistance welding head has a welding head tip and two opposite electrodes integrally extending from two sides of the welding head tip. A separating slot is defined... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090266799 - Method for operating a steam plasma burner and steam cutting device: The invention relates to a method for operation of a steam plasma burner (6), comprising a cathode (22) and an anode (24) in the form of a nozzle (23) for machining a workpiece (20), wherein during the operation a current is applied between the cathode (22) and the anode (24)... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090266800 - Laser processing method for transparent plate: A laser processing method for a transparent plate having a predetermined breaking line including the step of applying a pulsed laser beam to the transparent plate along the breaking line to thereby form a laser processed groove. The pulsed laser beam has an absorption wavelength to the transparent plate. The... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090266801 - Method of laser welding metal plated plates: The invention provides a method of laser welding zinc plated steel plates which surely realizes excellent welding without a melting defect such as blowholes. By irradiating a line on a superposed portion of a lower plate and an upper plate with a first laser beam having a high energy density... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090266802 - Laser processing apparatus: A laser processing apparatus including a height detecting device for detecting the height of a workpiece held on a chuck table. The height detecting device includes an annular spot forming unit for forming the spot shape of a detecting laser beam into an annular spot shape, a pinhole mask for... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090266804 - Combination extrusion and laser-marking system, and related method: A combination extrusion and laser marking system and corresponding method are provided for creating an extruded article with a surface graphic image. The system includes an extruder, a laser, and a controller or encoder. The extruder is operable to pass an extrudable material through a die and discharge an extrudate... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20090266803 - Process chamber and method for processing a material by a directed beam of electromagnetic radiation, in particular for a laser sintering device: A process chamber for a processing of a material by means of a directed beam of electromagnetic radiation is provided, which comprises an optical element (9) for coupling the beam (7) into the process chamber (10), wherein the optical element has a surface (9a) facing the inside of the process... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090266805 - Method and apparatus for receiving a universal input voltage in a welding power source: A method and apparatus for providing a welding current is disclosed. The power source is capable of receiving any input voltage over a wide range of input voltages and includes an input rectifier that rectifies the ac input into a dc signal. A dc voltage stage converts the dc signal... Agent: Corrigan Law Office

20090266806 - Memory-like heat source device: A memory-like heat source device includes a substrate, a conductive layer disposed on the substrate, and at least one simulative heat source region. The simulative heat source region has at least one passive element and a simulative package. The passive element is disposed on the conductive layer and electrically connected... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20090266807 - Oven control system: An oven control system and methods of operating the same are disclosed. The oven control system provides various automated tracking and control functions to reduce errors and defects in oven cure operations.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090266808 - Planar heater and semiconductor heat treatment apparatus provided with the heater: A plane heater and a semiconductor heat treatment apparatus having the heater which suppress high frequency induction heating by having an earth electrode therein for suppressing high frequency induction and do not corrode with an excited reaction gas is provided. A plane heater 1 includes a carbon wire heating element... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090266809 - High rate method for stable temperature control of a substrate: A method for multi-step temperature control of a substrate includes selecting a first set-point temperature and a second set-point temperature for the substrate, and selecting a first PID parameter set including a first proportional constant KP1, a first integral constant KI1 and a first derivative constant KD1, and selecting a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090266810 - Planar heating element for underfloor heating: A heating element includes two flexible plastics layers connected in overlying relationship with first and second conductors each running along the element between the layers the side edges with a row of printed conductive strips at right angles to the conductors. A grounding layer comprising a sheet of foil laminated... Agent: Mr. Adrian D. Battison Ade & Company Inc.

20090266811 - Soldering apparatus and soldering method: A soldering apparatus has a sealable container which accommodates a circuit board therein, weights disposed immediately upon semiconductor devices to press the semiconductor devices toward the circuit board, and high-frequency heating coils causing the weight to generate heat due to electromagnetic induction. The high-frequency heating coils are disposed away from... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan Transition Team C/o Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell

20090266812 - Electrical connection between sealing coil and voltage source: An apparatus is provided for foil sealing containers and includes a sealing head having a frame containing an induction coil. The frame has a mating surface with a pair of electrical contacts disposed thereon. A power supply cabinet has a mating surface with a pair of electrical contacts disposed thereon.... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090261072 - De-stacker with a lifter table and welding device for container bodies including a de-stacker: Thus a lifter table de-stacker 1 is provided comprising a lifter table 3 with a stack 10 holding device 4 above the lifter table. The holding unit positions the stack by motorized guiding elements 14 and 15. A de-stacking unit and in particular a suction unit is provided which can... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090261073 - System and methods of using variable waveform ac arc welding to achieve specific weld metal chemistries: A system and methods for overlaying metal in an arc welding operation to achieve a resultant weld metal chemistry of the resultant weld metal. Various combinations of DC+/DC− balance settings and DC offset settings for an AC Waveform of an arc welding overlaying process may be correlated to resultant chemistries... Agent: Hahn Loeser / Lincoln

20090261074 - Thermode device for a multitude of semiconductor components: A thermode device for connecting and/or electrically contacting a plurality of first semiconductor components to at least one support element and/or to a plurality of second semiconductor components by heating an adhesive under the application of pressure. An example thermode device includes a basic body and a heating element which... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090261075 - Bolt for projection welding and method of welding the same: Provided are a bolt for projection welding and a method of welding the same in which a portion of large fusion depth is formed in a small region and in which junction to a steel sheet part is secured in other regions, thereby realizing high weld strength and stable junction... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090261076 - Method and welding apparatus for the determination of the strength of the welding current to be used in the welding of container bodies: For the determination of the welding current to be used for the resistance welding of the overlap seam of container bodies, welding with a test body is carried out with a changing strength of welding current which in the test body produces a varying welding of the seam. The current... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090261077 - Heat treatment holder and heat treatment apparatus and method: The object of the present invention is suppression of a cost increase of a heat treatment holder as well as achievement of equalization of heater output and improvement of thermal efficiency by broadening the selection scope of materials of the heat treatment holder (particularly, materials of the resistance heating element).... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090261079 - Process for high-energy density beam welding: A high-energy density beam welding process for two panels includes a step that include placing a metal band on the upper face of at least one panel, in the axis of the desired welded joint before welding the panels, so that the metal band is inserted between the panels and... Agent: Perman & Green, LLP

20090261080 - Enhanced plasma filter: A device is provided for compressing a plasma stream flowing in a plasma flow direction and maintaining the plasma stream in the compressed state. The device has a plasma compression region; a plurality of first magnets positioned around the plasma compression region for compressing the plasma stream, each of the... Agent: Stuart Smith

20090261081 - Transferred-arc plasma torch: A transferred-arc plasma torch comprising a sheath cooled using a cooling fluid and an electrode inserted in said sheath. The electrode is made of a consumable material and the torch comprises means to supply the electrode with this material so as to offset its erosion.... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090261082 - Methods and systems for forming microstructures in glass substrates: A method for forming microstructure cavities in a glass substrate includes directing a first laser pulse onto the glass substrate thereby forming a first microstructure cavity having a tapered configuration. The first laser pulse may have first spot area on the surface of the glass substrate. A second laser pulse... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20090261083 - Laser processing method and laser processing device: In the laser processing method, the cross-sectional form of laser light L at a converging point P is such that the maximum length in a direction perpendicular to a line to cut 5 is shorter than the maximum length in a direction parallel to the line to cut 5. Therefore,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090261078 - Radiant anneal throughput optimization and thermal history minimization by interlacing: The time between illumination of adjacent zones of a workpiece edge is extended by a long cool-down period or delay, by interlacing a radiation beam scanning pattern. During the cool-down period, the beam successively scans (along the fast axis) two rows separated by about half the wafer diameter, and travels... Agent: Law Office Of Robert M. Wallace

20090261084 - Laser dicing sheet and manufacturing method for chip body: e

20090261085 - Pure ar gas shielded welding mig flux-cored wire and mig arc welding method: A pure Ar-MIG welding wire for welding steel according to the present invention is formed of a flux-cored wire. The flux-cored wire is formed in the manner that a formation formed by welding a carbon steel hoop into a pipe shape or a seamless pipe is used as an outer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090261086 - Laser heating of aqueous samples on a micro-optical-electro-mechanical system: A system of heating a sample on a microchip includes the steps of providing a microchannel flow channel in the microchip; positioning the sample within the microchannel flow channel, providing a laser that directs a laser beam onto the sample for heating the sample; providing the microchannel flow channel with... Agent: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

20090261087 - Cooking appliance having a broiling element with loops of non-uniform length: An electric resistance heating element for an oven is provided. The electric resistance heating element includes a sinuous-shaped element having a front side flank portion and a front side flank portion and at least one front side interior portion. The at least one front side interior portion is disposed intermediate... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090261088 - Heating cooker: An appliance including a top plate has its operability improved and prevents an operation error. The appliance includes electrostatic touch keys provided on a lower surface of the top plate, the electrostatic touch keys including electrodes made of conductive films having predetermined light-blocking property, respectively, operation-unit illuminators emitting light toward... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/panasonic

20090261089 - Heating device having dual-core heating cable: The heating device mainly contains a dual-core heat cable and a control circuit. The dual-core heating cable mainly contains a core, a heating wire winding spirally around the core, a NTC (negative-temperature-coefficient) layer wrapping around the core and the heating wire, a PTC heating wire winding spirally around the NTC... Agent: Leong C Lei

20090261090 - heat treatment oven with inductive heating: The invention relates to a heat treatment oven comprising a loading or treatment zone, at least one gas inlet, a gas preheater chamber situated in the oven between the gas inlet and the loading or treatment zone, a susceptor comprising at least a side wall surrounding the preheater chamber and... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20090255907 - Weld-on-weld device: An apparatus for forming a metal body of a predetermined shape by the deposition of a weld material. The apparatus comprises a support base on which the body can be formed, a means for rotating the base about an axis, a welding torch for depositing weld material to form the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090255908 - 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.

20090255909 - Nozzle head with increased shoulder thickness: A consumable for a plasma arc torch, such as a nozzle, having a body and a head defining a shoulder portion having a frusto-conical portion and a flared portion. The flared portion increases the cross-sectional thickness to provide a greater heat-conduction path for removal of heat generated by a plasma... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090255910 - Laser machining system with protective enclosure: The present invention relates to a laser machining system with a protective enclosure wherein the protective enclosure is basically formed by a protective hood which encloses a workpiece that is mounted on a mounting device in such a manner that a laser head can be moved within the protective hood... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Ny Patent Department

20090255911 - Laser scribing platform and hybrid writing strategy: Laser scribing can be performed on a workpiece (104) such as substrates with layers formed thereon for use in a solar panel without need to rotate the workpiece (104) during the scribing process. A series of lasers (602, 622) can be used to concurrently remove material from multiple positions on... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090255912 - Purge and sealant cap for selective laser sintering build frame: A selective laser sintering apparatus is adapted contain or receive a build frame and comprises a cap assembly which includes a removable plate assembly having at least one gas inlet formed therein. The removable plate assembly sealingly covers the build frame. The cap assembly further comprises at least one gas... Agent: NovatechIPLaw

20090255913 - Rotatable welding frame assembly and method for welding a number of workpiece components into a single workpiece: A rotatable welding frame assembly for aligning and welding a number of workpiece components into a single workpiece may include a first frame for supporting one of the workpiece components. The assembly may further include a second frame for supporting another workpiece component. The assembly may further include a pivot... Agent: Reising Ethington P.C.

20090255914 - Heat-generating element and heating device comprising the same: A heat-generating element includes at least one PTC heating element and an insulating housing enclosing the PTC heating element, as well as electric conductors whose inner surfaces are in contact with opposed sides of the PTC heating element. The respective outer surfaces of the electric conductors are covered by an... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090255915 - Automated loading/unloading of devices for burn-in testing: The automatic loading and unloading of devices for burn-in testing is facilitated by loading burn-in boards in a magazine with the stacked boards in the magazine moved into and out of a burn-in oven by means of a trolley. The trolley can include an elevator whereby a plurality of magazines... Agent: Spansion LLC C/o Murabito , Hao & Barnes LLP

20090255916 - Sensor isolation plane for planer elements: Elimination of sodium contamination at the negative terminal of an electrical stri resistance heater (1, FIGS. 2 and 4) for a gas sensor (3) can be accomplished by providing a grounding plane (-18′) electrically connected to system ground and located between the heater (1) and the sensor (3).... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090255917 - Electrically-heated, insulated warming bag for ignition system interlock device: An electrically-heated insulated warming bag, in which the handheld unit of an ignition interlock device can be stored while not in use so that the handheld unit can be used on cold days without experiencing condensation problems, plugs into a cigarette lighter receptacle. The warming bag, which has resistive wire... Agent: Angus C. Fox, Iii

20090255918 - Full glass oven door: An oven door comprises a structure with internal glass plates, the external glass plate being bigger than the internal glass plates. The door further comprises a housing of polymeric material for electrical and/or electronic components of an user interface integral with the door, the housing being shell-shaped and being mounted... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090255919 - Built-in oven with an improved cooling system: A built-in oven has a door, a control panel positioned above the door and a cooling system including a fan-motor assembly for drawing cooling air around the outside surface of the oven and an exhaust duct for discharging air to the ambient. The cooling system comprises a cooling air supply... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090255920 - Cooking method: A cooking method which provides optimized cooking results when starting the cooking process at ambient temperature and that is applicable to the majority of the food categories.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090255921 - Apparatus including heating source reflective filter for pyrometry: Methods and apparatus for processing substrates and measuring the temperature using radiation pyrometry are disclosed. A reflective layer is provided on a window of a processing chamber. A radiation source providing radiation in a first range of wavelengths heats the substrate, the substrate being transparent to radiation in a second... Agent: Diehl Servilla LLC

20090255922 - System and method for reducing current exiting a roll through its bearings using balanced magnetic flux vectors in induction heating applications: A system includes a roll formed from a conductive material, where the roll is configured to rotate about an axis. The system also includes at least one induction heating workcoil configured to generate multiple magnetic fluxes within the roll. Each induction heating workcoil includes at least two separately wound coils.... Agent: Anthony Miologos Honeywell International Inc.

20090255923 - Induction heating method: During induction heating of a billet of an electrically conducting material by rotating the billet relative to a magnetic field that is generated by means of at least one direct-current-carrying superconducting winding on an iron core, the reverse-induction voltage can be reduced when a direct current is generated and maintained... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090255924 - Variable width transverse flux electric induction coils: A variable width transverse flux electric inductor has a fixed powered coil section and associated box-like moveable passive coil sections that electromagnetically couple with magnetic flux generated by current flowing through the fixed powered section. The passive coil sections can be transversely moved across the workpiece to accommodate induction heating... Agent: Philip O. Post Indel, Inc.

20090255925 - System, apparatus, and method for induction heating using flux-balanced induction heating workcoil: An apparatus includes one or more magnetic cores collectively having an inner leg located between two outer legs. The legs are coupled to one or more connecting portions. The apparatus also includes one or more conductive coils wound around the inner leg. The one or more magnetic cores and the... Agent: Anthony Miologos Honeywell International Inc.

20090255926 - Method and apparatus for rapid thermal processing and bonding of materials using rf and microwaves: A method and apparatus for rapid and selective heating of materials using variable frequency RF and microwaves. The apparatus uses variable frequency solid state electronics as a microwave power source, a novel microwave heating head to couple microwave energy to the target materials and a match-up network to tune the... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090250437 - Apparatus for butt-welding tube joints: Welding devices and methods of using the same are provided. The welding device includes a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a first semi-collar associated with a second semi-collar to form a collar. The collar is adapted to be disposed about a tube to be welded, and associated with an... Agent: Greenberg Traurig (hou) Intellectual Property Department

20090250438 - Screen manufacturing method and welding apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a screen and welding apparatus thereof, putting a metal filter net around the outside of a support sheath and fixing the metal filter net to the outside of the support sheath by way of welding, such that the metal filter net... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090250439 - Method of creating a clad structure utilizing a moving resistance energy source: A method for forming a clad structure utilizing a moving resistance energy source. The method forms a metallurgical bond between a cladding layer and a primary layer such that at least 2% of a cladding layer surface is metallurgically fusion bonded to a primary layer surface. The fusion bond does... Agent: Gallagher & Dawsey Co., L.p.a.

20090250440 - Out-of-phase electrical welder and process: Electrical welding process and device using intersecting, electrically contacting welding elements are disclosed. The intersecting welding elements are powered out of phase from each other, such that there is no short circuiting around the welding elements being heated and no electrical insulation is needed between intersecting welding elements. Current directors... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090250441 - Bolt hole repair technique: A method of hole defect repair includes removing one or more defects at or near a desired hole in a part by removing a portion of the part proximate the desired hole in a series of chain link patterns, and welding a filler material to the part after removing the... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090250442 - Joining of difficult-to-weld materials: The present invention discloses a process for joining materials. The process can include providing a first component with a first joint face and a second component with a second joint face. The first component, second component, and bonding layer can be assembled such that the first joint face is oppositely... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090250443 - Plasma processing apparatus: Provided is a plasma processing apparatus including a chamber, a lower electrode, an upper electrode, and a substrate sensor. The chamber is configured to provide a reaction space. The lower electrode is disposed at a lower region in the chamber to mount a substrate thereon. The upper electrode is disposed... Agent: Hosoon Lee

20090250444 - Microwave plasma processing device: A microwave plasma processing device includes a fixing device for fixing a substrate as a processing target on a central axis in a plasma processing chamber, a exhausting device for depressurizing an inside and outside of the substrate, a metal processing gas supply member which is present in the substrate... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090250445 - Automatic cutting device and production method for beveled product: A plasma cutting device performs cutting in a plurality of stages. In a first cutting sub-process, a manufactured product is cut out from a base material upon a stage according to an NC program. Next, images of respective regions in the vicinities of proper positions at two corner points of... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090250446 - Laser processing method and laser processing apparatus: In six rows of molten processed regions 131, 132, the molten processed region 131 closest to a front face 17a of a metal film 17 opposing a front face 3 of an object to be processed 1 acting as a laser light entrance surface is formed by irradiating a silicon... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090250447 - Capilary electrical welding process for the repair of carbon steel, of high, medium and low alloy, in the condition of tempered or not; hadfield steel; cast iron; nickel and its alloys; metallic covering and dissimilar bonds, to produce an appropriate mic: A capilary electrical welding process for the repair of carbon steel of high, medium and low alloy, in the condition of tempere dor not; Hadfield steel; cast iron; nickel and its alloys; metallic covering and dissimilar bonds, to produce an appropriate microstructure in the welded bond without the need of... Agent: Notaro & Michalos P.C.

20090250448 - Ironing appliance comprising a safety device and method of making an ironing appliance safe.: Ironing appliance comprising a heating element (1) controlled by means of a thermostat (2), the appliance having a safety device comprising motion detection means (5) and a safety relay (3) connected in series with the heating element (1) to interrupt the supply to said heating element (1) when the appliance... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090250449 - System and method for deicing of power line cables: A system and method for deicing power transmission cables divides the cable into sections. Switches are provided at each end of a section for coupling the conductors together in parallel in a normal mode, and at least some of the conductors in series in an anti-icing mode. When the switches... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090250450 - Device for making a muffle: A device for making a muffle, with which dental restoration parts can be produced with the aid of an embedding compound, at least one press blank and a pressing device, the device having a muffle base, a tubular sleeve surrounding the muffle base and at least one muffle insert which... Agent: John C. Thompson

20090250451 - Auto stir: A cooking method includes operation of a convection fan and a bake heating element to stir heat within an oven cavity.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090250452 - Steam convection oven: A steam convection oven (10) has a cooking chamber (14) that has an exterior side (15) and an opening for the introduction of steam into the cooking chamber (14). The steam convection oven (10) also has a water reservoir (30) and a steam generator (60) fluidly connected to the water... Agent: Law Offices Of Raymond A. Nuzzo, LLC

20090250453 - Electric conduction heating device: s

20090250454 - Method for controlling induction heating devices in an electric cooking appliance: A method and system for controlling four induction heating devices of a hob is described. In an embodiment of said method, the induction devices are connected to a power supply with three outer conductors, every outer conductor having a maximum load. Two induction heating devices are connected to an outer... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090250455 - Heating plate for workpieces: The heating plate (2) for workpieces comprises a heatable body (20) which on a first side has a contact surface (15) for the respective workpiece, at least one heating channel (25) filled with a heating fluid for heating the heatable body (20), which heating channel (25) is formed in and/or... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090250456 - Process for manufacturing printed circuit boards and a machine for this purpose: The machine to carry out the above process comprises a variable induction magnetic field generating device adapted to generate induced currents in the press packet's metal plates and sheets, causing them to heat, and means of controlling the operation of the magnetic field generating device and controlling the temperature and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090250457 - Microwavable bag or sheet material: A microwavable material having a structure that may be used to enhance the browning and crisping, and thus improve the taste and appearance, of a food item cooked therein. The material may be in the form of a sheet material or formed as a container such as a bag, pouch,... Agent: The Clorox Company