Electric resistance heating devices inventions 05/07

20070122126 - Heat assister: An electric heating device that generates its own power supply. When air current travels through ventilation duct systems; the air turns an air current driven generator, which produces electricity to energize its heating elements. The heat generator case provides heat or additional hair to a space.... Agent: Ronald A. Clark

20070122127 - Highly superheated vapor generating system and method: A system for further heating superheated vapor comprises apparatus for further heating superheated vapor from superheated vapor generation devices. A method for further heating superheated vapor comprises the steps of providing superheated vapor and further heating the superheated vapor.... Agent: Joseph R Evanns Evanns & Walsh

20070122128 - Method and system for loading substrate supports into a substrate holder: Wafer supports are provided that have a diameter smaller than the diameter of the wafer that they are to support in a wafer boat. The perimeter of the wafer support is preferably continuous, extending completely around in a 360° span, and is sized to fit between the protrusions supporting a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070116442 - Air handler heat kit installation and mounting: A heating arrangement is provided for use in an air handling unit. The heating arrangement includes at least one heating device to be disposed in the airflow of an air handling unit. A base is configured to support the at least one heating device and a first guide member to... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick, LLC

20070116443 - Led heat lamp arrays for cvd heating: A reactor chamber is positioned between a top array of LED heat lamps and a bottom array of LED heat lamps. The LED heat lamps forming the top and bottom arrays are individually or controllable in groups such that power output along each array of LED heat lamps can dynamically... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070116444 - Heat blocks and heating: An apparatus and method for a thermal system comprising a top plate having a non-metal material wherein the top plate comprises a plurality of heating wells, each heating well sized to accommodate a plurality of sample tubes containing samples. A bottom plate engages to the top plate to form a... Agent: Palmer & Dodge, LLP Kathleen M. Williams / Str

20070110411 - Thermal detonator with multiple light sources and reflective enclosure: An air heater is provided for use in buildings or other structures. The air heater uses infrared lamps to generate a temperature rise in a forced air chamber that contains several infrared lamps, in which two ends of the chamber act as an inlet and an outlet, and in which... Agent: Frederick H. Gribbell Frederick H. Gribbell, LLC

20070110412 - Container for evaporation of metal and method to manufacture thereof: A refractory container for evaporating metals, having improved useful life and corrosion resistance properties, the evaporation surface of the container having a plurality of grooves formed at the bottom surface. The grooves have either a depth of at least 1.2 mm, a width of at least 1.75 mm, or an... Agent: Geam - QuartzIPLegal

20070110413 - Infrared ray lamp and heating apparatus: The present invention provides an infrared ray lamp being small in size and high in efficiency and having high versatility so at to be easily adaptable to various applications, and also provides a heating apparatus that uses the infrared ray lamp; in the infrared ray lamp according to the present... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070110414 - Non-condensing exhaust system: An exhaust system for relatively cooled gases. The exhaust system includes an exhaust pipe and a heater. The exhaust pipe is adapted to contain a flow of cold exhaust gas and the heater is adapted to heat the flow of cold exhaust gas.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070110415 - Method of heating fluid controller: The fluid controller (1) having a projecting joint (4) at the side surfaces and an operation driving part arranged at the top surface of the block shaped body (2) is heated using a heating device (11) incorporating the heaters (14) (15) and including a pair of holding members (12) (13)... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070104469 - Water supply device for humidifier: A water supply device for a humidifier having a water tank for retaining water and a vaporizing chamber for producing water vapor with the water supplied from the water tank, is disclosed in which the water supply device comprises a water tube for supplying the water from the water tank... Agent: Hyun Jong Park

20070104470 - Backside rapid thermal processing of patterned wafers: Apparatus and methods of thermally treating a wafer or other substrate, such as rapid thermal processing (RTP) apparatus and methods are disclosed. An array of radiant lamps directs radiation to the back side of a wafer to heat the wafer. In one or more embodiments, the front side of the... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc. Patent Counsel

20070104471 - Universal transfer apparatus and method to use same: The present invention provides universal transfer apparatus and method to use this universal transfer apparatus. This invention further provides a method to obtain speciation data for organometals in a complex matrix, such as cigarette smoke. Our data demonstrate that gas chromatography linked to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrophotometer with the... Agent: Butler, Snow, O'mara, Stevens & Cannada PLLC

20070098375 - Method and system for direct electric heating of a pipeline: Method and system for direct electric heating of a pipeline to contribute to removal or hindrance of plugs of ice and optionally hydrates, distinguished in that heating takes place to a temperature above the ice melting point, but below the hydrate melting point.... Agent: Jeffrey Pearce

20070098376 - Vapour dispersion: An apparatus adapted to transmit an active substance in the vapour phase to an atmosphere, comprising an active substance incorporated in a sublimable carrier substance (12) and a heating element (4) that interfaces with only part of the total sublimable carrier substance, carrier substance and heating element being so arranged... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20070098377 - Heating unit and heating apparatus: For the purpose of providing a heating unit being small in size, high in efficiency, long in service life, and high in versatility so as to be easily adaptable to various applications, and providing a heating apparatus that uses the heating unit, the heating unit is configured so that a... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs