Electric resistance heating devices inventions 04/09

20090110378 - Environmentally protected thermistor for respiratory system: A temperature probe, such as for a respiratory system in which breathable gases are supplied to a patient, includes a housing having a cavity sized to snugly receive therein a generally cylindrical container within which is secured a thermistor, with the container adapted to provide a barrier to moisture. The... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20090110379 - Pid coefficient adjustment for respiratory heater closed loop control: A heater system is provided for a respiratory system having a PID feedback control in which the coefficients are adjusted, such as in a warm-up process, to correspond to a likely flow rate of gas through a chamber of heated water based on the difference between heat input and heat... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20090103904 - Water level sensor for steam humidifier: A water level sensor for a steam humidifier. The water level sensor includes a plurality of conductive probes, where the plurality of conductive probes includes at least one common probe and a plurality of water level probes. Each of the conductive probes are separated from each other conductive probe. The... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090103905 - Filament lamp and heat treatment device of the light irradiation type: Filament lamps whose individual filament coils can be set to specific temperatures in filament lamps that are supplied with electric power independently and to provide a heat treatment device of the light irradiation type that uses said lamps. Inside of a light emitting tube of each lamp, which has the... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090103906 - Heat treatment apparatus and method for heating substrate by irradiation thereof with light: A semiconductor wafer preheated to a preheating temperature is irradiated with light from flash lamps. With the light emission from the flash lamps, a surface temperature of the semiconductor wafer is maintained at a recovery temperature during a period of 10 to 100 milliseconds to induce recovery of defects created... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090103907 - Method and device for water dispensers on sabbath: s

20090103908 - Combined heater and space heating system including the combined heater: An object of the present invention is to provide a highly-reliable combined heater. Heater 1 includes hot water pipe 1a for allowing hot water to flow therethrough, and metal pipe 1b that is coaxial with hot water pipe 1a and that is secured in contact with an inner peripheral surface... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090097831 - Liquid material vaporizer: A liquid material vaporizer comprises a gas-liquid mixing section (1) for mixing a liquid material (LM) and a carrier gas (CG) to generate a gas-liquid mixture (GL); a heating type vaporizing section (2) for vaporizing the gas-liquid mixture (GL) from the gas-liquid mixing section (1) and exhausting outside with an... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090092384 - High frequency induction heating instantaneous tankless water heaters: A tankless water heater comprising a pipe, at least one coil around the pipe, at least one heating element located within the pipe and responsive to an electromagnetic field generated by the coil, and a controller to apply an alternating current (AC) signal to the at least one coil, the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP