Abstract: The present application discloses an automated kitchen system comprising a first computer and a plurality of second computers which are connected so that the first computer may communicate with any of the second computers.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to control welding electrode preheating are disclosed. An example consumable electrode-fed welding-type system includes a welding-type current source configured to provide welding-type current to a welding-type circuit, the welding-type circuit comprising a welding-type electrode and a first contact tip of a welding torch; an electrode preheating circuit configured to provide preheating current through a first portion of the welding-type electrode via a second contact tip of the welding torch; an electrode preheating control circuit configured to adjust at least one of the preheating current or an electrode feed speed based on the change in the contact-tip-to-work-distance; and a current interpreter configured to determine a change in a contact-tip-to-work-distance of the welding torch based on at least one of the welding-type current or the preheating current.

Abstract: The present application discloses an automated kitchen system comprising: a ingredient containers each configured to contain or store food ingredients; caps configured to close on the ingredient containers; a storage apparatus; a cap opening apparatus; a first transfer apparatus configured to move a capped ingredient container to the cap opening apparatus; a cyclic transport apparatus; a transfer apparatus configured to move an ingredient container from the location of cap opening apparatus; and a plurality of cooking systems, etc.

Abstract: An exchangeable supply pack for a beverage dispensing machine. The pack comprises a doser including a pump assembly comprising a pump channel between an inlet and an outlet, for receiving a fluid from an ingredient container and for pumping it to the outlet. The pump assembly comprises a pump chamber and at least two engaging gears forming a gear pump. At least one of said gears forms a driving gear and comprises a shaft opening for receiving a driving axle of the beverage dispensing machine. The shaft opening coincides with an axle reception opening of a support wall of the pump chamber, and a flexible seal is arranged at least between the driving gear and the support wall. The seal comprises a through opening coinciding with the shaft opening and the axle reception opening for receiving the driving axle.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking plate, a plurality of induction heating coils installed under the cooking plate, a plurality of drivers configured to supply driving power to the plurality of induction heating coils, and a controller configured to control the plurality of drivers to drive a plurality of groups to which the plurality of induction heating coils belong, respectively. Power output by a first driver, among the plurality of drivers, which drives a first group among the plurality of groups may be increased and power output by a second driver, among the plurality of drivers, which drives a second group among the plurality of groups may be decreased.

Abstract: Systems and methods of shielding a hand sensor system in a steering wheel are disclosed herein. An exemplary hand sensor system includes a sensor mat and a heater mat that is disposed between the sensor mat and a frame of the steering wheel. A power source selectively provides a heating current to the heater mat to provide heat to the steering wheel and a shielding voltage signal to the heater mat to provide electrical shielding for the sensor mat when heating is not needed or when sensing takes priority over heating. Alternatively, the system may include a shield mat that is separate from the heater mat and is disposed between the sensor mat and the heater mat. In addition, to isolate the signal carried by individual sensor return wires, a metallic or insulating covering or conduit may be provided around the wires or portions thereof.

Abstract: A device for machining a work piece creates an electrical potential between an electrode and the work piece or another conducting body proximate to the work piece. The electrical potential establishes an electrical field within the work piece that is expected to repel electrons and create a region of positively charged ions which repel one another. This region is expected to be weakened and material is expected to be removable from this region of the work piece using less force and energy than when machined by traditional machining techniques.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an induction heating device and a method for controlling the same. In accordance with the present disclosure, first, inductive sensing is periodically performed to detect a specific object with inductive heating property. Next, current sensing of the specific object having the inductive heating property is performed to again check whether the specific object has the inductive heating property. Thus, when the user simply places the loaded object on the device, the device may allow the user to quickly and intuitively confirm whether the corresponding loaded object has the inductive heating property.

Abstract: A system for preparing beverage consumptions comprising an appliance to prepare and dispense a beverage and at least one exchangeable supply pack. The appliance includes a loading channel to receive the exchangeable supply pack. The exchangeable supply pack has a container to hold a beverage related ingredient, a drive port to receive a driving torque and an ingredient outlet port. The loading channel has a protruding drive shaft for transmitting torque from the appliance to the supply pack, and an ingredient receiving connector for conveying the ingredient from the supply pack to the appliance. The drive port and outlet port of the supply pack are coupled to the drive shaft and the receiving connector. The drive port includes an opening with a concave tapered inner wall defining a funnel shape and cooperates with the protruding drive shaft to assist in aligning the outlet port with respect to the receiving connector.

Abstract: A weld wheel cleaning system is provided to clean or remove a layer of embedded material and other debris produced from welding from the working surface of a weld wheel. Such a weld wheel cleaning system includes a cleaner with an abrasive material positioned on an outer surface of the cleaner. The cleaner is positionable adjacent to the weld wheel such that the abrasive material is aligned with the working surface of the weld wheel. An actuator can be used to selectively actuate the cleaner with a force sufficient to remove the layer of embedded material from the working surface of the weld wheel with the abrasive material. The debris from the cleaner can be removed by a vacuum.

Abstract: A wire cut electric discharge machining apparatus cannot maintain high machining accuracy because the arm may expand/contract as it receives more heat from the machining fluid. The wire cut electric discharge machining apparatus has guide parts that guide a wire and arms that support the guide parts, wherein at least one of the guide parts has a machining fluid ejection nozzle, and at least one of the arms has an ejection connection pipe and a thermal insulation part. The ejection connection pipe is a hole penetrating the arm and supplies the machining fluid to the machining fluid ejection nozzle, and the thermal insulation part covers the inner peripheral surface of the ejection connection pipe to thermally insulate the inner hole of the ejection connection pipe.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a loaded-object sensor and an induction heating device including the loaded-object sensor. The loaded-object sensor has a cylindrical hollow body with a sensing coil wound on its outer surface. Further, a receiving space formed inside the body of the loaded-object sensor accommodates a temperature sensor. The loaded-object sensor is concentrically provided in a central region of the working coil. The sensor may measure the temperature of the loaded object while discriminating a type of the loaded object placed on a corresponding position to the working coil.

Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus of heating a substrate mounted on a mounting plate heated by a heating part includes: plural types of physical quantity detecting parts for detecting plural types of physical quantities, respectively; a state estimating part for estimating an occurrence probability occurring for each of abnormality modes by a neural network, and including an input layer to which a group of time-series detection values obtained for each of physical quantity detection values detected respectively by the physical quantity detecting parts is inputted; and a selecting part for selecting one of correspondence processes based on the occurrence probability of each of the abnormality modes estimated by the state estimating part. One of the physical quantity detection values is a temperature detection value detected by a temperature physical quantity detecting part for detecting a temperature of the mounting plate among the physical quantity detecting parts.

Abstract: An induction heating device and a method for sensing a cooking vessel on an induction heating device are provided. The induction heating device may include a controller that converts a resonance waveform generated as current is applied to a sensing coil into a square waveform. The controller may determine whether a cooking vessel placed on the induction heating device has an inductive heating property based on a number of pulses of the converted square waveform.

Abstract: Control device for aerosol inhalation device includes operational amplifier for performing output according to voltage applied to load for heating aerosol source and having correlation between temperature and electrical resistance value, control unit for performing processing based on the voltage according to the output, diode having anode electrically connected to one of inverting input terminal and noninverting input terminal, and circuit for electrically connecting power supply and the load. The circuit is formed by first region, and second region in which maximum voltage is lower than that in the first region, or applied voltage is lower than that to the first region. Of the inverting input terminal and the noninverting input terminal, terminal to which the anode of the diode is electrically connected is electrically connected to the first region.

Abstract: A powder melting device for an additive manufacturing system is provided. The powder melting device includes at least one laser device configured to generate at least one energy beam for forming at least one melt pool in a layer of powdered material. The powder melting device also includes at least two optical elements configured to dynamically induce beam distortion in the at least one energy beam to modify a beam spot incident on the layer of powdered material. The at least two optical elements are configured to induce at least one of an aspect ratio adjustment of the at least one energy beam, an optical powder redistribution between a periphery and a center of the at least one energy beam, and a rotation of the at least one energy beam.

Abstract: A food production system creating folded par-baked units (e.g. mini tacos) for frying, including a sheeter for continuously creating a succession of substantially flat raw dough units and an oven having a plurality of hanging conveyors (e.g. chains). The hanging conveyors are narrow so that the raw dough units raw fold down on either side thereof to form folded dough units. The oven includes a first plurality of cross-burners to pre-heat the hanging conveyor for transferring shape-setting heat directly from the hanging conveyor to the folded dough units. The oven further includes a second plurality of substantially longitudinal shape-setting burners that are substantially in parallel with and adjacent to the top dough carrying side of the hanging conveyor for providing further shape-setting heat to the folded dough units. The oven discharges par-baked units ready for frying.

Abstract: A cooking vessel sensor and an induction heating device including a cooking vessel sensor is provided. The cooking vessel sensor may include a cylindrical hollow body having a first receiving space defined therein; a hollow cylindrical magnetic core received in the first space and having a second receiving space defined therein; and a sensing coil wound on an outer face of the side wall by a predetermined number of winding counts. The cylindrical hollow body may have a side wall having a coil outlet defined therein, and the sensing coil may pass through the coil outlet out of the body. The cooking vessel sensor may further include a controller that applies a current to the sensing coil and determines, based on a sensing result of the cooking vessel sensor, whether the cooking vessel is inductive or has an inductive heating property.

Abstract: A device for pitting drupes, the device comprising at least one support member to receive a drupe, the at least one support member having at least one opening; and at least one knife for pitting the drupe, the at least one knife defining an internal bore for permitting a fluid to pass through the tip of the knife and favoring ejection of a pitted element from the drupe; the at least one knife and the at least one support member being movable with respect to one another.

Abstract: An electromagnetic apparatus for active intervention to a shape of a molten pool is provided. In the present invention, a workpiece is placed on stepped surfaces of a test bench. Upon power on, a metal rod rotates to generate a toroidal magnetic field centered on the metal rod, and the toroidal magnetic field acts on the molten pool to generate an induced current. The induced current generates Lorentz force under the action of the magnetic field, which acts perpendicularly on an outer surface of the molten pool, thereby changing the height, depth and width of the molten pool, and finally realizing the active intervention to the molten pool shape.