Heating inventions 10/08

20080248436 - Method of filling large voids with ceramic fiber foam and kiln car blocks made via the same: A method of filling cavities in refractory bodies, comprising lofting refractory fibers in flowing air, mixing lofted refractory fibers with refractory foam to generate a fibrous refractory foam, and filling a substantially enclosed cavity in a refractory material with fibrous refractory foam to produce a foam-filled cavity, heating the foam-filled... Agent: Brannon & Associates PC

20080241778 - Apparatus and method for predictive temperature correction during thermal processing: A thermal processing apparatus and method with predictive temperature correction. Distances are measured from a backside of the wafer relative to a reference plane. Heat is transferred to the backside of the substrate in relation to the measured distances. This allows a baking unit to uniformly heat the substrate to... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (tokyo Electron)

20080241779 - Continuous-atmosphere high-temperature furnace apparatus, method of continuous production of nanocarbon, and method of burning and graphitizing nano-material: A continuous-atmosphere high-temperature furnace apparatus comprises a high-temperature furnace section, a mechanism for continuously supplying substrates or samples to the high-temperature furnace section, and a mechanism for continuously discharging treated substrates or samples from the high-temperature furnace section. Gas is exhausted from the high-temperature furnace section and ambient gas is... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq. Adams & Wilks

20080241780 - Surface warming air blanket: The present invention generally provides a system for warming an outdoor surface. The system includes a heat exchange unit to provide heated air for use across the surface to melt snow or ice or to warm, evaporate or distribute water. The heat exchange unit is used to recapture the heated... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080241781 - Hot air internal ignition burner/generator: The invention relates to a hot air internal ignition burner/generator comprising an injection device used for producing a high-speed fuel gas mixture stream and for injecting said stream into the burner head (2) which is tabular-shaped and comprises in-series arranged therein a pressure recovery chamber (10), an igniting chamber (11)... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw