Patents Examined by Shawntina Fuqua
  • Radiant heat barrier insulation system
    Patent number: 9629203
    Abstract: A radiant heat barrier insulation system includes a first substrate with a first layer of aluminum thereon. The system also includes a second substrate with a second layer of aluminum thereon. The first substrate is positioned to oppose the second substrate such that a gap is defined between the first substrate and the second substrate. The gap is filled with a randomly-oriented nest of carbon nanotube fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Edward F. Downs, Jr.
  • Heating elements for aircraft heated floor panels
    Patent number: 9623951
    Abstract: A method of forming a heating element includes depositing a conductive ink of silver particles in an epoxy resin on a dielectric film to create a conductive circuit, and heat curing the conductive circuit to achieve a resistivity of the heating element less than 1.68×10?6 ohm·meter. An aircraft heated floor panel includes at least one floor panel of an aircraft includes a conductive circuit positioned within the floor panel having a conductive ink of silver particles in an epoxy resin on a dielectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Hu, Richard R. Hamm, Kevin E. Roach
  • Detection and correction of window moisture condensation
    Patent number: 9629204
    Abstract: Condensation mitigation devices and condensation prediction/detection techniques configured to prevent window condensation with reduced power consumption are disclosed. A condensation mitigation device is configured to predict and/or detect a window condensation event. The condensation mitigation device is powered on only during such an event, and the condensation mitigation device is powered off afterwards to conserve power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Teledyne Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Armstrong, Shannon Cushman, Phillip B. Liescheski, Paul Spieker
  • Semiconductor device including asymmetric electrode arrangement
    Patent number: 9585197
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including an asymmetric electrode arrangement in which a plurality of electrodes are arranged asymmetrically in a vertical or horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chin-sung Park, Won-seok Chung
  • Kettle
    Patent number: 9565965
    Abstract: A kettle comprising a base and a frame pivotally mounted relative to the base. The frame includes first electrical contacts connectable to a power source and a vessel is receivable in and removable from the frame. The vessel includes an internal element in connection with second electrical contacts and an opening from which liquid can be poured. When the vessel is received in the frame the first electrical contacts make connection with the second electrical contacts such that power is supplied to the internal element to heat water within the vessel. Pivoting of the vessel and frame relative to the base allows pouring of liquid, from the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: NANGALA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Andy De Petra, Edward Joseph Khoury
  • Disk having an electric connecting element and compensator plates
    Patent number: 9572200
    Abstract: A disk with at least one connecting element having compensator plates, including; a substrate having an electrically conductive structure on at least one partial region of the substrate, at least one compensator plate on at least one partial region of the conductive structure, at least one electric connecting element on at least one partial region of the at least one compensator plate, a lead-free soldering mass which connects the compensator plate via at least one contact surface including; one partial region of the electrically conductive structure, wherein the difference of the thermal expansion coefficient of the substrate and the compensator plate is less than 5×10?6/° C. and wherein the connecting element comprises copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Mitja Rateiczak, Bernhard Reul, Klaus Schmalbuch
  • Yttria-based material coated chemical vapor deposition chamber heater
    Patent number: 9556507
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to heated substrate supports having a protective coating thereon. The protective coating is formed from yttrium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 50 mole percent to about 75 mole percent; zirconium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 10 mole percent to about 30 mole percent; and at least one other component, selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, hafnium oxide, scandium oxide, neodymium oxide, niobium oxide, samarium oxide, ytterbium oxide, erbium oxide, cerium oxide, and combinations thereof, at a molar concentration ranging from about 10 mole percent to about 30 mole percent. The alloying of yttrium oxide with a compatible oxide improves wear resistance, flexural strength, and fracture toughness of the protective coating, relative to pure yttrium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Ren-Guan Duan, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Jianhua Zhou
  • Heat exchanger, heater and galley
    Patent number: 9557122
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling air, with a coolant onward-flow connection for feeding liquid coolant for cooling air and a coolant return-flow connection for discharging liquid coolant. For removing ice by melting accumulated ice in the heat exchanger, a heater is provided that is associated with an electrical heating element. An operational safety device prevents overheating of the heater. The operational safety device comprises a fault-current detection device. Such a heater, with a heating element for heating air for subjecting accumulated ice to heated air, and with such an operational safety device is provided. Also, a galley for a commercial aircraft is provided with a receiving space for trolleys, and a cooling device for cooling the receiving space. The cooling device comprises such a heat exchanger for cooling air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Schult, Thorsten Truemper
  • Hybrid heater with dual function heating capability
    Patent number: 9551962
    Abstract: A fuser heater member for an electrophotographic imaging device, including a heater member. According to an example embodiment, the heater member includes positive temperature coefficient (PTC) material disposed along a width of a fuser nip of the fuser assembly; first and second electrodes disposed along disposed surfaces of the PTC material; an intermediate layer disposed over the second electrode; and at least one resistive trace disposed along the intermediate layer along the width of the fuser nip. The heater member includes a plurality of wire segments coupled to the first and second electrodes and the resistive elements for use in generating heat from at least one of the PTC material and the at least one resistive trace during a fusing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Clark Campbell, Paul Wesley Etter, James Adrian Riley, Jerry Wayne Smith
  • Insulated heating module for a supplemental heating device
    Patent number: 9539881
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating module for a supplemental electric heating device for heating an airflow, comprising at least one heat-conductive bar against which at least one electric resistor is arranged. The heat-conductive bar is partially electrically insulated by an insulating coating in order to prevent potential short-circuits and to ensure proper operation and optimal safety when heating the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Jean Gatinois, Pierre Derveloy, Laurent Tellier
  • Assembly for inclusion in a heated insole
    Patent number: 9538807
    Abstract: An assembly for inclusion in a heated insole has a heating member and a frame. The frame has a connector that allows a person to couple a battery to and decouple the battery from the heating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Schawbel Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Veronica M. Zsolcsak, Micha Eizen, Thomas John William Bayes, Ian Nicholson Whitehead
  • Shoe with a heated insole
    Patent number: 9538806
    Abstract: A shoe has a heated insole with a battery-receiving portion. A battery is insertable into and removable from the battery-receiving portion of the shoe's insole while the insole is disposed within the shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Schawbel Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Veronica M. Zsolcsak, Micha Eizen, Thomas John William Bayes, Ian Nicholson Whitehead
  • Ceramic heater and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 9533920
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck 10 includes a disc-shaped alumina ceramic base 12, and a heater electrode 14 and an electrostatic electrode 16 that are embedded in the alumina ceramic base 12. An upper surface of the alumina ceramic base 12 functions as a wafer-receiving surface 12a. The heater electrode 14 is formed in a pattern shape, for example, in the manner of a single brush stroke so as to be arranged over the entire surface of the alumina ceramic base 12. When a voltage is applied to the heater electrode 14, the heater electrode 14 generates heat, and heats a wafer W. This heater electrode 14 contains TiSi2 as a main component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nobori, Takuji Kimura, Hidemi Nakagawa
  • Resistor
    Patent number: 9511587
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide a resistor electrically connected to an electrically conductive trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Galen P. Cook, Bradley D. Chung
  • Warm window buss bar system and safety mechanism
    Patent number: 9516701
    Abstract: Disclosed is a warm window system that utilizes individual buss bars that are placed within the space between an inside window pane and an outside window pane and creates sufficient physical force to create an electrical contact on the tin oxide layer on the inside surface of the inside pane of glass. The buss bars have a modulus of elasticity to ensure sufficient electrical contact with the tin oxide layer to prevent the formation of hot spots and securely hold the buss bars in place. Both a z buss bar and c buss bar are also disclosed that are capable of generating a sufficient amount of reactive force to create a secure contact with a tin oxide layer on the interior surface of an interior pane of glass in a warm window system to hold the buss bar in place and provide a large contact surface area to provide sufficient electrical contact with the tin oxide layer to prevent hot spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Energized Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Steven X. Johnson, Dave B. Lundahl
  • Electrically operable heating device
    Patent number: 9506698
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically operable heating device through which liquid flows, comprising a housing. The heating device comprises an electrically operable heating apparatus and a liquid chamber for accommodating a heat-transferring liquid. The liquid chamber has a plurality of plate pairs comprising plates connected to each other at specified distances from each other, whereby liquid flow channels can be created between the plate pairs. The electrically operable heating apparatus is designed as a heating combination having a plurality of heating elements, wherein the heating combination can be arranged between the liquid chambers by inserting the heating units into the accommodating spaces produced between the plate pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Kohl, Karl-Gerd Krumbach, Thomas Spranger
  • Honeycomb structure
    Patent number: 9506391
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body and a pair of electrode members, an electrical resistivity of the honeycomb structure body is from 1 to 200 ?cm, each of the pair of electrode members is formed into a band-like shape extending in a cell extending direction of the honeycomb structure body, one electrode member is disposed on a side opposite to the other electrode member via a center of the honeycomb structure body, there are formed one or more electrode member slits as slits opened in an electrode member region, there are formed one or more honeycomb structure body slits as slits opened in a honeycomb structure body region, and a depth of at least one of the electrode member slits is deeper than a depth of at least one of the honeycomb structure body slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi Mase, Yoshiyuki Kasai, Yoshimasa Omiya
  • Layered thin film heater and method of fabrication
    Patent number: 9499898
    Abstract: A method of forming thin film heater traces on a wafer chuck includes positioning a pattern, that forms openings corresponding to a desired layout of the heater traces, in proximity to the wafer chuck. The method includes sputtering a material toward the pattern and the wafer chuck such that a portion of the material passes through the openings and adheres to the wafer chuck to form the heater traces. A method of forming thin film heater traces on a wafer chuck includes sputtering a blanket layer of a material onto the wafer chuck, and patterning a photoresist layer utilizing photolithography. The photoresist layer covers the blanket layer in an intended layout of the heater traces, exposing the blanket layer in areas that are not part of the intended layout. The method removes the areas that are not part of the intended layout by etching, and removes the photoresist layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Son T. Nguyen, Dmitry Lubomirsky
  • Full support heating element apparatus
    Patent number: 9504097
    Abstract: An electric heater apparatus for heating air is disclosed, comprising a heater coil assembly including a coil support comprising a panel around which lies a coil of an electrical resistance element from approximately one end of the panel to approximately an opposite end, the coil of the electrical resistance element comprising a pass of spaced apart loops, the coil support configured to support the spaced apart loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: BACKER EHP INC.
    Inventors: Lucas Lee Fowler, Donald Edmond Porterfield, Rickey James Schexnayder
  • Supporting system for a heating element and heating system
    Patent number: 9497803
    Abstract: A support system for supporting a heating element is formed with a supporting member and a resilient system. The supporting member has a main extension direction extending substantially in a height direction and a proximal and distal end. The proximal end is adapted to support the heating element. The resilient system includes a spring element, which is coupled to a distal portion of the supporting member and provides resiliency of the supporting member in a resilient direction and substantially restricts movements of the supporting member in a rigid direction. Furthermore, the resilient system extends at least partially from the distal portion in the height direction towards the proximal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: Plansee SE, Plansee USA LLC
    Inventors: Vadim Boguslavskiy, Arno Plankensteiner