Patents Examined by Joseph M. Pelham
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Patent number: 11448532Abstract: A sensor device, a method for operating a sensor device and an electronic assembly comprising a sensor device are disclosed. In an embodiment a sensor device includes a first sensor unit and a second sensor unit in a common housing, wherein each of the first and second sensor units comprises a heater element and a temperature sensor element, wherein the housing comprises a cover element having an opening, the cover element covering the first sensor unit, and wherein the opening is arranged over the second sensor unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventor: Matthias König
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Patent number: 11445750Abstract: A pot structure of electronic cigarette for baking tobacco, the pot structure is disposed in a rod portion of the electronic cigarette, and the pot structure is in communication with a mouth piece of the electronic cigarette; the structure includes: a cage, configured to receive tobacco shreds; a heating device, configured to heat tobacco shreds within the cage to generate smoke; the heating device is a heating pot in a cup-shaped, and the cage is a cup-shaped body made of a good heat conductive material; the heating pot heats the tobacco shreds in the cage from a side of the cage, and the heat conductive tube is configured to bring the heat of the heating pot to the center of the tobacco shreds to heat the tobacco shreds, such that the heating to the tobacco shreds is more evenly.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: ALD Group LimitedInventors: Chuanzhi Lai, Yi Ding
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Patent number: 11440375Abstract: A radiant heater device for generating a radiant heat, includes a substrate portion having a plate shape and made of an electrically insulating material, a surface member having a sheet shape and disposed on one surface side of the substrate portion, and a heat generation portion formed on the other surface side of the substrate portion. The surface member is formed of a fiber fabric that is provided with a space portion recessed toward the substrate portion in a thickness direction of the surface member and that restricts a heat transfer in a surface direction of the surface member by the space portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Seki, Kimitake Ishikawa, Hiroyasu Oide, Yusuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 11412886Abstract: A bottle sleeve warmer apparatus for conveniently heating a dental procedure water bottle includes a sleeve body having a front side separated from a rear side to form an inside. An attachment mechanism is coupled to the sleeve body and is configured to secure the sleeve body around a bottle. A control housing is coupled to the front side of the sleeve body. A temperature sensor is coupled to the rear side of the sleeve body and is configured to read the temperature of the bottle. A temperature display is coupled to the control housing to display a reading from the temperature sensor. A plurality of controls is coupled to the control housing and activates a heating element coupled within the inside of the sleeve body to maintain the temperature of the bottle at a preset level.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Inventors: Jenny Stoud, Marguerite Rogers
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Patent number: 11406222Abstract: An electric heater includes a substrate and a plane heating element disposed on one surface of the substrate. The plane heating element includes a first pattern portion including a start point and an end point, a second pattern portion that surrounds at least a portion of the first pattern portion and includes a start point and an end point, which are located at an innermost side of the second pattern portion, and a third pattern portion that surrounds at least a portion of the second pattern portion and includes a start point and the end point, which are located at an outermost side of the third pattern portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Misun Song
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Patent number: 11402105Abstract: A warming drawer insert is provided that can be situated into and removed from a warming drawer without tools via a series of flanges positioned along the walls of the warming drawer insert. These flanges also suspend the warming drawer insert in the warming drawer, and create an air gap to allow heated air to flow into the warming drawer through a series of vents positioned along the walls of the warming drawer. The warming drawer is also spill proof and prevents damage to the electric components of the warming drawer while also allowing for easy cleaning.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Michael Penuel, Norman Sewell
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Patent number: 11395375Abstract: An electric heating device includes a housing having a partition wall which separates a connection chamber from a heating chamber for dissipating heat and from which at least one receiving pocket protrudes into the heating chamber as a heating rib that may taper towards its lower closed end. A PTC heating element is received in the receiving pocket. The PTC element includes at least one PTC element and conductor tracks which energize the PTC element with different polarities which are electrically conductively connected to the PTC element, and which are electrically connected in the connection chamber. A pressure element also is received in the receiving pocket. Heat extraction surfaces of the PTC element are held in the receiving pocket abutting against oppositely disposed inner surfaces of the receiving pocket. The pressure element has at least one cambered surface segment projecting toward the inner surface or toward the PTC element.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Eberspächer catem GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Daniil Salahub
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Patent number: 11395376Abstract: A PTC heating device for introduction into a receiving pocket of an electric heating device includes at least one PTC element, a conductor track that is electrically connected to the PTC element, and insulating layers that are abutted in a thermally conductive manner against the PTC element. A frame-shaped casing joins the at least one PTC element, the conductor track, and the insulating layers as a unit. The frame-shaped casing has a leading frame member with elastic guide tabs which, in an initial assembly state, project on oppositely disposed sides of the frame-shaped casing over the heat-emitting open surface respectively associated with them, which are inclined obliquely from the leading frame member in a direction of the open surface, and which are elastically pivotable. During heating device assembly, the PTC heating device is centered and guided by the elastic guide tabs when introduced into a heating rib of a heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Eberspächer catem GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael Niederer, Rüdiger Freitag
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Patent number: 11388788Abstract: Systems and methods include a cooking appliance comprising a heating element disposed within a cooking chamber and operable to selectively emit waves at any of a plurality of powers and/or peak wavelengths, a camera operable to capture an image of the cooking chamber, and a computing device operable to supply power to the heating element to vary the power and/or peak wavelength of the emitted waves and generate heat within the cooking chamber, and instruct the camera to capture the image when the heating element is emitting at a stabilized power and/or peak wavelength. The computing device is operable to generate an adjusted captured image by adjusting the captured image with respect to the stabilized power and/or peak wavelength. The computing device comprises feedback components operable to receive the adjusted captured image, extract features, and analyze the one or more features to determine an event, property, measurement and/or status.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: BRAVA HOME, INC.Inventors: Dennis Denker, Brian Williams, Shih-yu Cheng, Zinovy Dolgonosov
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Patent number: 11378902Abstract: The present invention relates to an image heating apparatus that includes a heater including a plurality of independently controllable heating blocks in a longitudinal direction thereof, each including a first conductor, a second conductor, and a heating element. At least one of electrodes corresponding to the respective heating blocks is disposed in an area where the heating element is located in the longitudinal direction on a second surface of the heater that is opposite to a first surface that comes into contact with an endless belt. An electrical contact is arranged so as to face the second surface of the heater. An overheating occurring in a no-media passage portion when an image formed on a recording material having a small size is heated is suppressed or reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Koji Nihonyanagi, Ryota Ogura
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Patent number: 11343879Abstract: A support pedestal is provided that includes a substrate having a top resistive layer defining a first set of zones and a bottom resistive layer defining a second set of zones. Each zone of the first and second set of zones is coupled to at least two electric terminals from among a plurality of electric terminals, and a total number of electric terminals is less than or equal to a total of the first and second set of zones.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Watlow Electric Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Kevin Ptasienski, Stanton Hopkins Breitlow, Mohammad Nosrati, Kevin Smith, Brittany Phillips, Ken Ames, Patrick Margavio, Kurt English
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Patent number: 11310872Abstract: Various components and methods related to a leading edge assembly are disclosed. The leading edge assembly can include an outer strike shell and a foam core. The foam core can be located inside the outer strike shell. The leading edge assembly can include a heating element with a plurality of sensors and wires. A method of manufacturing a leading edge assembly can include forming a composite layer, applying a metallic layer to the composite layer, installing an electronic device, and inserting a foam core into a cavity bounded by the composite layer and/or the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLCInventor: A. David Sandiford
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Patent number: 11282720Abstract: An apparatus for treating a substrate are provided. The apparatus includes a chamber having a treatment space therein, a substrate support unit to support the substrate in the treatment space, and a heater unit to heat the substrate supported by the substrate support unit. The substrate support unit includes a support plate having a seating surface, a support protrusion provided to protrude from the seating plate and to directly support the substrate, and a sensor provided to the support protrusion to measure a temperature of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.Inventor: Jong Seok Seo
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Patent number: 11272807Abstract: A warming apparatus for warming contents of a foodstuff container includes an enclosure defining an interior space for receiving the foodstuff container and a reservoir separate from the interior space for receiving a warming liquid. A heating element is disposed within the enclosure for warming the warming liquid within the reservoir. A conduit is configured to extend between the interior space and the reservoir so that the reservoir is in fluid communication with the interior space. The heating element is adapted to move the warming liquid from the reservoir through the conduit into the interior space as the warming liquid within the reservoir is warmed.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: HANDI-CRAFT COMPANYInventor: Douglas Hanneken
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Patent number: 11274853Abstract: A heater for an aircraft component includes a plurality of layers of an additively manufactured conductive ink. The conductive ink is printed on the heater surface, either on a substrate or directly. The heater is protected by a closeout material.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventors: Kevin Edward Roach, Maureen Elkins, Joseph Winesdoerffer
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Patent number: 11272579Abstract: Provided is a heat generating component of which volume resistivity hardly varies even if used repeatedly at a high temperature for a long period of time. Since a thin coating heater part (13) formed on a substrate part (12) is composed of a thermal sprayed coating containing TixOy (wherein, 0<y/x<2.0 is satisfied), obtained is a heat generating component (11) having volume resistivity which is suitable for a heater and hardly varies even if prescribed temperature change and temperature keeping are repeated.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: TOCALO CO., LTD.Inventors: Shikou Abukawa, Kensuke Taguchi, Toru Moriyama, Yasuhiro Sato, Akira Kumagai, Yu Asakimori
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Patent number: 11262080Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric oven capable of reducing contaminants, the electric oven comprising: an oven body having a cavity capable of accommodating food therein; and a convection assembly which is installed to protrude from one surface of the cavity and which can suck and remove contaminants generated when cooking the food and can heat the inside of the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyoung-mok Kim, Sung-kwang Kim, Hyun-sook Kim, Jung-soo Lim, In-ki Jeon
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Patent number: 11253100Abstract: An electric heater includes a substrate, a first outer pattern part disposed on one surface of the substrate and to connect with a pair of first electrodes, a second outer pattern part to connect with the pair of first electrodes in parallel with the first outer pattern part and to be spaced apart from the first outer pattern part, and an inner pattern part disposed on one surface of the substrate so as to be located such that the first outer pattern part and the second outer pattern part surround the inner pattern part, to be spaced apart from the first outer pattern part and the second outer pattern part, and to connect with a pair of second electrodes spaced apart from the pair of first electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Misun Song
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Patent number: 11257394Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking instrument. The cooking instrument can select a food cooking recipe and identify relative areas in a cooking chamber to place at least two portions of food. The relative areas would match the food cooking recipe. The cooking instrument can display information associated with an instruction to place the at least two portions of food over the relative areas. The cooking instrument can then determine a heating sequence in accordance with the food cooking recipe and control, based on the heating sequence, a heating system to directionally transfer heat under different heating characteristics respectively to the at least two portions of the food at the identified relative areas in the cooking chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: BRAVA HOME, INC.Inventors: Shih-yu Cheng, Dan Yue, Richard Metzler, Mark Janoff
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Patent number: 11252790Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress adhesion of scale to a surface of a ceramic heater that is used for fluid heating. The ceramic heater has a ceramic body and a coating layer. The ceramic body has a heat generation resistor. The coating layer contains glass as a main component and is formed so as to coat a surface of the ceramic body. The coating layer has a function of smoothing the surface of the ceramic body.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoya Nakanishi, Atsutoshi Sugiyama, Yusuke Makino