Flat Spiral Winding Patents (Class 338/297)
  • Patent number: 11758944
    Abstract: A heating wire of an electronic atomizing device includes a central end, a distal end, and a plurality of spiral heating coils extending between the central end and the distal end. The plurality of spiral heating coils is coplanar and surrounds the central end. A mounting gap is formed between any two adjacent spiral heating coils in an extending direction of a reference line connecting the center end and the distal end. The widths of the mounting gaps gradually decrease along the extending direction of the reference line away from the central end. An electronic atomizing device including the aforementioned heating wire is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN VERDEWELL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shouhao Chen, Zhiyong Ke
  • Patent number: 10993557
    Abstract: A pressure management device with an integrated warming apparatus that provides improvements to pressure management for patients in the supine and side-laying positions, warms a patient's head during surgery; and allows for compact storage. The pressure management device includes a pressure management layer and a heating layer having a heating member that includes a heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: American Sterilizer Company
    Inventors: Richard P. Nardo, Andrew M. D. Moss
  • Patent number: 8786397
    Abstract: An electric field resistor includes N coils. N coils encircle a common center in sequence, and each of the coils has a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the first coil receives a first reference voltage, the second terminal of the Nth coil receives a second reference voltage. The second terminal of the ith coil is coupled to the first terminal of the (i+1)th coil, wherein N is a positive integer greater than 1 and 1?i<N. Besides, a distance between the ith coil and the (i+1)th coil is in direct proportion to a voltage difference between the first terminal and the second terminal of the (i+1)th coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Excelliance MOS Corporation
    Inventors: Chin-Chieh Li, Hung-Che Chou, Pao-Chuan Lin
  • Patent number: 7554063
    Abstract: A heating apparatus including a housing defining a volume of air therein having an inlet and an outlet aperture. The heating apparatus also includes a heat generator having an elongate tubular metal sheath extending between an inner end and an outer end, a resistive wire within the sheath, and a substantially nonconducting material for electrically isolating the sheath relative to the resistive wire. The heat generator includes a terminal portion at the inner end and a heating portion extending between the terminal portion and the outer end of the sheath. The terminal portion is adapted for connection to a source of electrical power. Also, the heating portion of the heat generator is positioned in the housing to heat the volume of air. The heating apparatus also includes one or more insulators for electrically isolating the sheath relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Dimplex North America Limited
    Inventors: Kristoffer Hess, Jeffery J. Kube
  • Patent number: 7332694
    Abstract: A heating resistance 1 comprises a shaped body of a band made of a conductive material obtained by bending the band in a shape of a wave. The heating resistance 1 is fixed to a substrate made of an insulating material to obtain a heater. Alternatively, the heating resistance comprises a wound body of a band made of a conductive material. According to the present invention, the heating value per a unit length can be easily designed and changed, and the reliability can be improved and abnormal heat generation can be prevented at the interface where the heating value per a unit length is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Goto
  • Patent number: 6452477
    Abstract: A high voltage low inductance resistor (120) includes a resistor body (122) having a perimeter and a center. A first terminal (126) is located away from the center of the resistor near the perimeter of the body (122). A serpentine resistance element (130) includes a first end (136). A conductive ring (124) is located near the perimeter and circumscribes the serpentine resistance element (130). The ring (124) is electrically connected to the first terminal (126). The first end (136) is electrically connected to the conductive ring (124). A first resistance segment (138a) of the resistance element (130) begins at the first end (136) and extends in a first direction generally around the perimeter of the body (122). An apex (142a) has an input portion (143) and an output portion (145). The apex (142a) redirects the resistance element in a generally opposite direction, the input portion (143) transitioning into the first resistance segment (138a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Marconi Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony W. Roca, John R. Anderson
  • Patent number: 5229743
    Abstract: A protection arrangement for a high voltage tube includes a low inductance disk resistor connected in series with the anode of the tube. When an electrical discharge occurs within the tube, the increased anode current flows through the resistor which absorbs much of the potentially harmful energy surge. The resistor is a disk resistor having two counter-wound planar spirals of resistance wire electrically connected in parallel and counter-wound with respect to one another. Connection arrangements are provided to both electrically and mechanically connect the resistor to the high voltage tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Maxwell Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary R. Miscikowski, Joseph M. Briscoe
  • Patent number: 5218334
    Abstract: A surface mountable, high current resistor (20) is formed generally in the shape of an inverted "U". The top portion (22) of the inverted "U" is flat and contains one or more openings (26, 27) that serve to alter the resistivity of the resistor. The openings are formed so as to be inverted mirror images of each other, thereby cancelling inductive effects introduced by the openings. The ends of the "U" are formed into two or more legs (24) that serve to provide stability and a mounting area for soldering the resistor to a printed circuit board. A flat, unbroken portion (28) in the center of the resistor serves as a convenient area to handle the resistor with a vacuum tool during printed circuit assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael H. Bartlett
  • Patent number: 5204799
    Abstract: A circuit protection device designed to protect a pair of electrical circuits by fracturing at such time as an overcurrent condition has occurred in a first of the circuits, this novel device comprising a substantially flat substrate of non-conductive, frangible material upon which a resistive component and a fuse conductor reside in an adjacent relationship on a common surface. The resistive component is part of a first circuit, and the fuse conductor is part of a second circuit. The resistive component, at the time of an overcurrent therethrough, becomes hot and causes a heating of the near surface of the frangible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: GPT Limited
    Inventor: Michael E. Stibila
  • Patent number: 5053743
    Abstract: A resistor constituted by a spiral region (4) of a second conductivity type and having a determined doping level, formed on a first surface of a semiconductor substrate (1) of the first conductivity type, having a first terminal on the first surface of the substrate and a second terminal electrically connected to the opposite surface of the substrate through an overdoped region of the same conductivity type as the substrate, more conductive areas (11) being formed at determined places of the spiral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Jacques Mille, Daniel Quessada
  • Patent number: 4789773
    Abstract: An electric radiant heater (11) for heating a glass ceramic cooking surface (12) contains a dish-shaped insulator (14), to whose inner bottom surface (18) are fixed heater coils (20). The heater coils have an oval cross-section and are pressed by their narrow sides into surface (18) and fixed. The fixing pressing in takes place during the moulding of the moist insulator (14), made from fibrous material and by means of a male mould receiving the heater coils in slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1988
    Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Gerate Blanc u. Fischer
    Inventor: Bernhard Mikschl
  • Patent number: 4412125
    Abstract: An electrical heating element material of a sheet form is provided, which is comprised of a web of a synthetic resin having a plurality of metal conductor wires arranged therein in parallel to one another along the longitudinal direction of the web. The web is folded in succession at predetermined intervals along folding lines inclined at a small acute angle to the transverse direction of the web to form a substantially two-layer parallelogrammatic sheet. Considering the small angle, the sheet is, for practical purposes, rectangular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Nagasawa, Yoshio Nishihara
  • Patent number: 4370548
    Abstract: An electrical heating element material of a sheet form is provided, which is comprised of a web of a synthetic resin having a plurality of metal conductor wires arranged therein in parallel to one another along the longitudinal direction of the web. The web is folded in succession at predetermined intervals along folding lines inclined at a small acute angle to the transverse direction of the web to form a substantially two-layer parallelogrammatic sheet. Considering the small angle, the sheet is, for practical purposes, rectangular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1983
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Nagasawa, Yoshio Nishihara
  • Patent number: 4220846
    Abstract: A body of a specially prepared, porous vitreous carbon which does not crack or substantially change in electrical resistance with time when heated to elevated temperatures in air and which is used in a method or apparatus to heat a fluid stream flowing in the pores of the body as a result of natural convection or pumping of the fluid is described. The body is composed of electrically conductive rigid, interconnected and multidirectional continuous strands of vitreous carbon forming a rigid porous, three dimensional skeletal structure. The body as an electrical resistance element has current conductive paths between at least two regions; is shaped to provide particular cross-sections along the conductive paths; and has electrical connector means attached at the regions of the body so that current can be distributed through the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1980
    Assignee: The Fluorocarbon Company
    Inventors: Warren A. Rice, Clarence S. Vinton, Charles H. Franklin, Christopher J. Torbett
  • Patent number: 4160897
    Abstract: In a ceramic heating element comprising a ceramic substrate having on a surface thereof a resistor pattern of an electrically conductive material and a ceramic electrically insulating layer disposed on the surface of the ceramic substrate with the resistor pattern thereon, the improvement wherein the ceramic electrically insulating layer includes an opening, the resistor pattern exposed by the opening in the ceramic electrically insulating layer being electrically shorted and/or an electrical short-circuiting path previously provided in the resistor pattern being cut whereby the resistivity of the resistor pattern is adjusted to within a particular range, and a heat resistant electrically insulating coating filling the opening in the ceramic electrically insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1979
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoichi Makino
  • Patent number: 4048472
    Abstract: Heating for a vibratory spiral conveyor used to react powdery and gaseous substances is accomplished by an expanded metal resistance heater element positioned between adjacent turns of the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: Varta Batterie Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Sauer, Thomas Czerny
  • Patent number: 3955169
    Abstract: A thick film spiral shaped resistor deposited on an alumina substrate and bonded to a Kovar plate, an aluminum heat sink is coated on one side with a silicon grease and the Kovar plate is bolted thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1976
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Charles S. Kerfoot, Frank A. Halgas, Louis A. Razzetti, Gene A. Di Gennaro