Heating inventions 01/09

20090029307 - Heat-treating furnace: A heat treating furnace capable of continuously performing binder removal and subsequent firing without requiring a complicated configuration and increasing the equipment size and cost, for example, for degreasing a ceramic molding which is to be fired in a process for manufacturing a ceramic electronic component. A heat insulator is... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090029308 - Heat shield plate for substrate annealing apparatus: A heat shield plate for a substrate annealing apparatus is provided with a horizontally supported flat-plate-like substrate 1, a heater 5 positioned above the substrate to heat the upper surface of the substrate with radiation heat, and a heat shield plate 10 horizontally movable between a shielding position where the... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, Pc

20090017408 - Radiant convection oven: A radiant convection oven for baking a coating on an article which includes an oven enclosure receiving coating articles, a fan receiving fresh air and directing the fresh air to a burner or burners, a plurality of heat radiators each having an internal chamber receiving heated fresh air from the... Agent: Raymond E. Scott Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20090017409 - Equipment and method for heating gas in connection with sintering: The invention relates to equipment for heating gas in connection with continuous sintering in gas channels placed above a strand, the gas channels comprising at least a wall and at least two gas units, the gas coming from the gas units being in contact with the material on the strand,... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20090004615 - Roller hearth calcining furnace and method of use: A roller hearth calcining furnace that uses a movable fluid bed that is transported through plural heating modules, each heating module independently heated using an indirect heating system. The indirect heating system includes an oxidizer, an all-ceramic, indirect, air-to-air heat exchanger, and one or more metal heat exchangers. The oxidizer... Agent: MckellarIPLaw, PLLC