Abstract: Apparatus for making a drink or liquid food from a capsule (3) containing a substance to be mixed with water injected at pressure into the capsule, the apparatus comprising a mixing unit (4) with a capsule insertion channel (14), a capsule holder (8) with a mixing wall (22), an injecting head (10) for injecting water into the capsule, and an opening and closing mechanism (12) for producing a relative movement between the capsule holder and the injecting head to open and close the injecting head on the capsule holder. The insertion channel is inclined at an angle of between 30 and 60 degrees relative to a horizontal plane (HZ).

Abstract: A control unit can select a large-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is large, and a small-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is small. When a temperature is increased or decreased, the control unit can select the small-number control zone model so as to control, based on signals from temperature sensors of the respective control zones C1 . . . C5 whose number is small, heaters located on the respective control zones C1 . . . C5. When a temperature is stabilized, the control unit can select the large-number control zone model so as to control, based on signals from the temperature sensors of the respective control zones C1 . . . C10 whose number is large, the heaters located on the respective control zones C1 . . . C10.

Abstract: In a coffee maker (1) having a boiler (6) and heating means (62) for heating a content of the boiler (6), safety measures are taken to prevent breakdown of the coffee maker (1) in the case in which the heating means (62) are activated while the boiler (6) is empty. The coffee maker (1) comprises a controller (10) having a memory (15) in which a flag indicating a filled state of the boiler (6) can be raised, which controller (10) is programmed to activate the heating means (62) to supply reduced heating power if the memory (15) does not contain the flag. A situation in which the boiler (6) gets overheated, even if the heating means (62) are shut off after having been operated, is prevented thereby.

Abstract: A system and process for production of nanometric or sub-micrometric powders in continuous flux under the action of laser pyrolysis in at least one interaction zone between a beam emitted by a laser and a flux of reagents emitted by an injector, in which the laser is followed by optical means for distributing the energy of the beam emitted by the latter according to an axis perpendicular to the axis of each flux of reagents, in an elongated cross-section having adjustable dimensions at the level of this at least one interaction zone.

Abstract: A food processing vat is provided with a zoned heat transfer system that includes a heat exchanger with a baffle that extends between a pair of spaced apart sheets. The baffle directs a flow of a heat transfer fluid through a void space between the sheets of the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger may also include multiple spaced apart posts that extend through the heat exchanger and around which the heat transfer fluid can flow. The posts and/or baffle may be defined by welded points of joinder between the sheets, and the sheets may be inflated to provide the space therebetween, such that the posts and/or baffles extend as webs of material that connect the sheets of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A fiber optic device for enabling soldering is described. The fiber optic device includes an entry portion comprising an optical fiber bundle for receiving a single light beam wherein the optical fiber bundle splits the light beam into a plurality of separate portions, each of the separate portions for enabling soldering. The fiber optic device further includes an exit portion for emitting each of the plurality of separate portions of the light beam in a pattern to enable soldering at a plurality of locations simultaneously utilizing the single light beam.

Abstract: Patterns are written on workpieces, such as, glass sheets and/or plastic sheets used in, for example, electronic display devices such as LCDs. The workpiece may be larger than about 1500 mm may be used. An optical writing head with a plurality of writing units may be used. The workpiece and the writing head may be moved relative to one another to provide oblique writing.

Abstract: A laser beam irradiation apparatus irradiates a laser beam onto a sealing unit disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate so as to seal the first substrate and the second substrate. A center portion of the laser beam comprises a first beam profile having a beam intensity which increases toward a beam center portion, and a center of each of a plurality of peripheral portions of the laser beam is included in an area onto which the first beam profile is irradiated. The plurality of peripheral portions are symmetrically distributed around the first beam profile, and comprise a plurality of second beam profiles having the same beam intensities. The first beam profile and the plurality of second beam profiles are symmetrically distributed around a center point of the first beam profile and move in synchronization with one another.

Abstract: A heating rack includes a plurality of elongate collector units (26), each elongate collector unit including an elongate support section (126) which defines a contact surface for supporting an object (16) to be heated and an elongate collector section (226) shaped to define a channel (35) for receiving exudate flowing via the support sections from a supported object and, in use, to direct the exudate to a collection zone at an end of the channel, wherein the support section and collector section are spaced apart over at least a part of the length of the elongate collector unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing trichlorosilane, comprising: a reaction chamber into which the raw gas is introduced to produce a reaction gas; a plurality of heaters disposed inside the reaction chamber to heat the raw gas; and a plurality of electrodes connected to basal portions of the heaters, wherein the heaters include first heaters each having an exothermic portion and second heaters each having an exothermic portion shorter than that of the first heater and a radiation plate connected to the exothermic portion, wherein a partial portion of the exothermic portion of the first heater faces the radiation plate of the second heaters; the reaction chamber has an introducing port of the raw gas on a side of the exothermic portion of the second heater; and the reaction chamber has discharge port of the reaction product gas on a side of the radiation plate of the second heater is arranged.

Abstract: A steering wheel is provided and may include an armature having a rim and a coating at least partially surrounding the rim. A pair of electrodes may be respectively disposed within a pair of grooves formed in the coating. A polymer paint may be disposed on the coating and may include a plurality of carbon filaments that receive voltage from at least one of the pair of electrodes to selectively generate heat.

Abstract: A dialysis fluid heating system includes a plurality of conductive tubes; first and second end caps located at first and second ends of the tubes, respectively, the first end cap including a dialysis fluid inlet and a dialysis fluid outlet, the end caps and the tubes configured such that dialysis fluid can flow from the fluid inlet of the first end cap, through at least one first tube to the second end cap, and through at least one second tube back to the first end cap; a conductive wire wound around an outside of the conductive tubes; and electronics configured to supply power to the conductive wire, the wire forming a primary coil of a transformer, the tubes forming a secondary coil of the transformer.

Abstract: A method and system for efficiently extending the operating temperature range of high power components within a system/device. An embedded monitor measures local temperatures such as junction temperatures of components. When the measured temperature is less than the lowest operational temperature threshold of the component, temperature control logic initiates pre-heating to raise the component's temperature to an operational level, utilizing a heating source. The component (or device) is made operational only when the temperature is at or above the operational level. The temperature control logic maintains the operational temperature of the component using the high power dissipated by components within the operating system/device as a self heating source.

Abstract: A resonant power supply (900) for use with high inductive loads includes an input rectifier (903) and a switching inverter formed using a plurality of parallel connected half bridge networks for switching the voltage provided from the input rectifier (903). A transformer (927) is used whose primary is connected to the switching inverter and whose secondary is connected to load such as a crucible (931). A capacitor (929) is used in series with the primary of the transformer (927) for resonating the inductance in the secondary circuit at the frequency of the switching inverter to provide maximum power transfer to the crucible (931).

Abstract: An integrated apparatus able to condition a dry low-temperature environment in a baking process includes a baking unit, a drying unit, and at least a dry air introducing part. The baking unit has a heating unit to heat a first room at a baking period. The drying unit includes a dryer for dehumidifying a second room thereof at a dry low-temperature environment-conditioning period by providing the second room a dry low-temperature air. The dry air introducing part located between the first room and the second room is to separate the first room and the second room at the baking period, and to introduce the dry low-temperature air from the second room to the first room at the dry low-temperature environment-conditioning period.

Abstract: A steaming oven having a clad plate bottom. The stainless steel clad material constitutes the bottom of the boiling water reservoir in the oven chamber. The stainless steel clad material is composed of a thin layer of stainless material clad to a thicker plate of base, heat conducting metal like steel, copper or aluminum.

Abstract: Methods and system for controlling a heater conductor in a heating element including a sensor conductor separated from the heater conductor by an NTC layer. The heating element is coupled to a control circuit and the flow of electricity from a direct current source through the circuit is controlled such that a change of the resistance of the NTC layer is indicative of the temperature of the heater conductor. This resistance is detected based on a time or amplitude analysis and based thereon, a heating mode of the heater conductor is controlled. In a variation, the circuit is operated in a two-period measurement mode wherein the energy transferred through the NTC layer in one period is equal and opposite to the energy transferred through the NTC layer in the other period.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing tofu coagulant includes a liquid food oil pumping pathway, a liquid food oil tank, a mineral salt solution pumping pathway, a mineral salt solution tank, a plurality of metering pumps, and an emulsion dispersion machine for stirring the liquid food oil with the mineral salt solution to an emulsification phase. The liquid food oil pumping pathway is connected with the mineral salt solution pumping pathway, the mineral salt solution is added in a predetermined ratio for producing the tofu coagulant, and the water phase and the oil phase are stirred and mixed to W/O type (water in oil type) emulsion (without emulsifier).

Abstract: A welding system including a welding power source including power conversion circuitry adapted to receive primary power and to convert the primary power to a weld power output for use in a welding operation and a controller communicatively coupled to the welding power source are provided. The controller is adapted to determine a statistical signature of at least one parameter of a welding process and to utilize the statistical signature to determine at least one of an electrode type, an electrode diameter, and a shielding gas type during the welding operation.

Abstract: A steam plasma torch includes a anode in the form of a nozzle, a first body for receiving the anode, a flow swirler mounted between the anode and the rod type cathode for inducing vorticity into working gas flow, an insulator connected to the first body, a second body connected to the insulator and formed with a thread, an adjusting element formed with a thread engaged with the thread of the second body, a collet fit in the adjusting element and a cathode in the form of a rod fit in the collet. A gap between the anode and cathode is adjusted when the adjusting element is rotated relative to the second body.