Heating inventions 05/08

20080124670 - Inductively heated trap: An inductively heated trap for treating and removing compounds from an exhaust stream. More particularly, a method and apparatus for inductively heating a trap installed in the exhaust stream of a semiconductor process, wherein the trap decomposes exhaust gas compounds prior to entering a vacuum exhaust pump. The trap treats... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20080118880 - Process and apparatus for calcining solids or sludges: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for calcining solids or sludges in a multiple-deck furnace having a firing region, which has at least one upper heated hearth and at least one lower heated hearth, and having a cooling region, which is provided with one or more unheated... Agent: Stites & Harbison Pllc

20080118881 - Furnace for continuous gas curing, especially of rubber products: A continuous gas baking furnace includes elements for heating a baking area through which the product which is to be treated passes, formed by at least one module including a heat exchanger with a gas burner and elements for propelling and directing heated air towards a baking area, wherein the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080108005 - Method and apparatus for forming nano-particles: Nano-scale particles of materials can be produced by vaporizing material and allowing the material to flow in a non-violently turbulent manner into thermal communication with a cooling fluid, thereby forming small particles of the material that can be in the nano-scale size range. A raw material feeder can be configured... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080108006 - Feeding device for a belt-type sintering machine: The invention relates to a feeding device for a belt-type sintering machine, with a feeding container for receiving the material to be sintered, with a conveying device for filling the feeding container with material to be sintered, with a feeding drum and a drum chute for feeding the material to... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080102412 - Method for in-line monitoring and controlling in heat-treating of resist coated wafers: A method of heat-treating resist coated manufacturing wafers in a processing system by establishing a temperature profile for each of a plurality of hotplates in the processing system, heat-treating the resist coated manufacturing wafers on the hotplates, obtaining CD metrology data from test areas on the heat-treated resist coated manufacturing... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (tokyo Electron)

20080102413 - Thermally insulating liner for in-container vitrification: A liner system for in-container vitrification that can withstand high temperature is critical to the overall in-container vitrification process. A treatment vessel comprising a treatment vessel having an inner and outer wall wherein the inner wall defines a void therein. An insulation layer is deposited inside the void so as... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP