Heating inventions

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

20080096148 - Method for operating a firing furnace, in particular for the dental sector, and firing furnace: The invention relates to a method for operating a firing furnace, in particular for the dental sector, in which the temperature is measured and, based on the measured temperature, a temperature control is performed. If appropriate, the temperature integral, recorded at discrete points, is determined over the course of time... Agent: John C. Thompson

20080096149 - Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method: A substrate processing apparatus is provided which has a plurality of heat treatment apparatus blocks each comprised of a plurality of stacked heat treatment apparatuses HP each having a temperature adjustment mechanism 70 configured to be able to move a processing target substrate to a heat treatment section and adjust... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080090193 - Apparatus for heat treatment of materials and process for real time controlling of a heat treatment process: A programmable control unit with sensors capable of measuring heat treatment parameters. The programmable control unit is used to input workpiece heat treatment data, measure the true exposure data, compare the corresponding values, and generate the appropriate control signals that may be used to adjust the heat treatment parameters to... Agent: Law Office Of Tracy P. Jong

20080090194 - Stratified staging in kilns: In a kiln whose interior is heated by combustion with oxidant having a higher oxygen content than air, streams of staging oxidant are fed into the space between the combustion zone and the inner surface of the kiln, and the stoichiometric ratios and amounts of oxygen in the combustion zone... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20080090195 - Heat treatment apparatus: Disclosed is a heat treatment apparatus which includes a processing vessel having a furnace throat at its bottom and adapted to accommodate process objects therein to perform a heat treatment to the process objects under reduced pressure, the processing vessel having a vessel main body made of quartz, a metallic... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell