Patents Examined by Shawntina T Fuqua
  • Patent number: 10976055
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electromagnetic heating device, comprising: an electromagnetic heating unit, an infrared heating unit and a MCU. The MCU is coupled with the electromagnetic heating unit and the infrared heating unit, so as to control the electromagnetic heating unit and the infrared heating unit to heat individually or simultaneously. The electromagnetic heating device of the present disclosure, since it comprises an electro electromagnetic heating unit and an infrared heating unit, the heating of the heating appliances of different materials can be performed, the application thereof is wide and unrestricted. In addition, since the infrared heating unit is comprised, the maximum heating power thereof is not limited by that of the coil disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: FOSHAN SHUNDE MIDEA ELECTRICAL HEATING APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjian Mao, Zhicai Liu, Zhifeng Wang, Yifan Chen, Jiangping Feng, Zhihai Ma, Dali Ou
  • Patent number: 10975531
    Abstract: A bridge heating system includes mounting boxes, each of the mounting boxes having one or more access doors; and one or more mounting points to provide a point to attach the mounting boxes to an underneath side of a bridge; the one or more access doors are to provide access to an interior of the mounting box; heating devices secured inside each of the mounting boxes; a control system, having a thermostat; a heat generator; and a power source; the heat generator is to heat the devices; the control system is to activate heating devices based upon a predetermined temperature recorded by the thermostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventor: Jackson Tyler Christie
  • Patent number: 10971389
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a heated pedestal is provided. In one embodiment, the heated pedestal includes a body comprising a ceramic material, a plurality of heating elements encapsulated within the body, and one or more grooves formed in a surface of the body adjacent each of the plurality of heating elements, at least one side of the grooves being bounded by a ceramic plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Xing Lin, Bozhi Yang, Jianhua Zhou, Dale R. Dubois, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Ramprakash Sankarakrishnan
  • Patent number: 10962231
    Abstract: A pyrolytic oven comprises a housing and a muffle delimiting a cooking chamber inside the housing. A lighting module serves to illuminate the cooking chamber, wherein the lighting module has a cooling structure with an arrangement of cooling extensions formed in particular as pins or ribs, which project into a gap between housing and muffle and have a convection effect in a cooking mode of the oven. A fan device of the oven is configured and controlled to generate an air flow encountering the cooling structure in the gap in a pyrolytic mode of the oven. The cooling structure of the lighting module further has a wall formation, which in pyrolytic mode generates a wind shadow relative to the air flow for a number of cooling extensions of the cooling structure arranged distributed in a transverse plane to the flow direction of the air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Manfredi Signorino, Johann Schenkl, Martin Brabec
  • Patent number: 10964564
    Abstract: A side surface unit of a heat treatment space S is formed by a shutter member 250 including an outer shutter 260 and an inner shutter 270. Supply air A is supplied as a horizontal laminar flow toward a wafer W from a lower end side of the shutter member 250, that is, from a gap d1 located on the level with the wafer W placed on a heat plate 211 of a mounting table 210. Supply air B is supplied into the heat treatment space S from an upper end side of the shutter member 250, that is, from a gap d2 positioned higher than the wafer W. A ratio between a flow rate of the supply air A and a flow rate of the supply air B is 4:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideaki Iwasaka, Kouichi Mizunaga, Takahiro Hayashida
  • Patent number: 10966288
    Abstract: This SiC heater includes a heating element having a thin plate-shaped silicon carbide sintered body and an insulating coat film formed on a surface of the silicon carbide sintered body, a pair of electrodes for conducting electricity in the heating element, and a heater base that holds the heating element from one surface side while insulating the heating element from heat from the heating element, the insulating coat film is located on a surface of the silicon carbide sintered body opposite to the heater base, an electrical resistivity at room temperature of the insulating coat film is 109 ?·cm or more, a thermal expansion coefficient of the insulating coat film is 2×10?6/K or more and 6×10?6/K or less, SiO2 is included as a matrix, 1% by weight or more and 35% by weight or less of a first additive component including at least one of B2O3 and Al2O3 is contained, and 1% by weight or more and 35% by weight or less of a second additive component including at least one of MgO and CaO is contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nagatomo, Yuki Uchikawa, Yoshihiko Murakami
  • Patent number: 10955599
    Abstract: A light emitter device includes an emitter component including a heater structure arranged on a membrane structure. The membrane structure is located above a first cavity. Additionally, the first cavity is located between the membrane structure and at least a portion of a supporting substrate of the emitter component. Further, the heater structure is configured to emit light, if a predefined current flows through the heater structure. Additionally, the light emitter device includes a lid substrate having a recess. The lid substrate is attached to the emitter component so that the recess forms a second cavity between the membrane structure and the lid substrate. Further, a pressure in the second cavity is less than 100 mbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Stephan Pindl, Christoph Glacer
  • Patent number: 10952559
    Abstract: An electric kettle system designed for particular use onboard passenger transportation vehicles. In many instances, hot beverages are brewed using a separate beverage maker system, but it may be desirable to maintain the warmth/heat of a kettle containing the hot beverage that is separate from the beverage maker system. The electric kettle system described provides a base and a carafe with a locking connection therebetween. The system incorporates a heater plate within the carafe, and the heater plate is activated when the carafe is positioned on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Cabin Sterling, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Ghalambor Dezfuli, Ali Yaghoobi
  • Patent number: 10946839
    Abstract: An exemplary extruded heater assembly includes, among other things, a backing, a heating layer having a conductive ink printed on a film, and a wear layer. The heating layer is sandwiched between the backing and the wear layer. An exemplary method includes, among other things, extruding together a backing, a heating layer having a conductive ink printed on a film, and a wear layer to provide an extruded structure. The method further includes mounting the extruded structure within a wheel well of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Annette Huebner, Pietro Buttolo, David Brian Glickman
  • Patent number: 10945444
    Abstract: A cooking appliance including a cleaning environment provided to be able to easily remove contaminants inside the cooking appliance by heating the inside of a cooking room to a temperature for amorphization of the contaminants, and method for controlling the same. The cooking appliance includes a main body configured to have a cooking room; a steam generator configured to supply steam to the cooking room; a water supplier arranged in the main body and configured to store water; and a pump assembly configured to supply water to the steam generator and the cooking room from the water supplier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung Mok Kim, Jung Soo Lim, Yu Jeong Oh, Seulkiro Kim, Han Jun Sung, Jae Min Park, Tae-Hun Kim, In Ki Jeon
  • Patent number: 10952284
    Abstract: A cable includes a first wire-shaped metal conductor, a second metal conductor extending a predetermined distance away from and parallel to the first conductor, and a matrix made of a PTC material extending along the conductors, touching the latter and connecting them to one another electrically, with temperature-dependent electrical resistance and a positive temperature coefficient. At least one electrically insulating outer insulation layer surrounds the conductors and the matrix annularly. At least a third and a fourth metal conductor extend a predetermined distance away from and parallel to the first conductor, touch the matrix and are connected electrically by means of the latter to the first conductor, the second, the third and the fourth conductor being made in a wire shape and, considering the cross-section of the cable, being arranged distributed evenly over a circular track surrounding the first conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Schluter Systems L.P.
    Inventors: Werner Schluter, Christian Babilon, Gilles Gagnon
  • Patent number: 10945311
    Abstract: A braze-free substrate heating device including a heater block body, a heater block lid, and a heating element. The heating element sits inside the heater block body. The heater block lid is on the heating element, such that the heating element is sandwiched between the heater block lid and the floor of the heater block body. The heating element is held in place by compressing the heater block lid into the heater block body and attaching the heater block lid to the top of the heater block body so that the heating element is fully supported over its surface area, and can maintain uniform thermal contact with the heater block lid and heater block body over its entire surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Triad National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Dowden, Quanxi Jia
  • Patent number: 10941912
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of simulating flames/smoke using a flames/smoke simulating device or system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: FOSHAN TONGHUI ELECTRONIC FIREPLACE LTD.
    Inventors: Antoine Andre Jacques Belverge, Jean-Luc Starczan
  • Patent number: 10938086
    Abstract: A glass pane includes an electrical heating assembly for use with an operating voltage of more than 14 V. A part of the heating assembly is adapted for acting as an antenna and the heating assembly has a first and a second number of electrically conductive meandering sections. The meandering sections within the first or second number, respectively, are arranged parallel to one another substantially in a first orientation. The respective beginnings and ends of the meandering sections within the first or second number, respectively, each end at a common electrical conductor, which extends in each case substantially perpendicular to the first orientation. One of the electrical conductors extended substantially perpendicular to the first orientation acts as an antenna and has, during use with the operating voltage, a potential different from the operating voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Volkmar Offermann, Stefan Droste
  • Patent number: 10932326
    Abstract: A flexible heated hose assembly for an aircraft is provided. The flexible heated hose assembly including: an inner fluid tube enclosing a fluid passageway, the inner fluid tube having tubular shape; a first silicone liner located radially outward from the inner fluid tube; and a printed positive temperature co-efficient (PTC) heater located radially outward from the first silicone liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: GOODRICH AEROSPACE SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Raghavendra Hassan Venkataramu, Rhushikesh Patil, Gururaja Bambila, Aruna Kumar Huluvangala Krishnappa
  • Patent number: 10925313
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette with an improved atomizer includes a suction nozzle and a main body. The main body is provided with an atomizing core mounting groove. The atomizing core mounting groove contains an atomizing core. The suction nozzle and the main body are integrated into one piece, or the suction nozzle and the main body can be connected to or detached from each other. The atomizing core includes a casing, a liquid storage assembly, and a heating assembly. A wire passes through a first wire guide hole and is electrically connected to a power supply and a control system. A first air guide hole and a second air guide hole are connected through which an airflow passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yi Han, Shoubo Li, Tinghua Li, Donglai Zhu, Jun Wu, Xia Zhang, Xiaowei Gong, Wei Zhao, Liu Hong, Yongkuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10925119
    Abstract: A fabric heating element including an electrically conductive, non-woven fiber layer having a plurality of conductive fibers collectively having an average length of less than 12 mm. The fabric heating element also including at least two conductive strips electrically connected to the fiber layer over a predetermined length, positioned adjacent opposite ends of the fiber layer, and configured to be electrically connected to a power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Laminaheat Holding Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Sajic, Vincent Moulin
  • Patent number: 10912306
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mesh heating system including: two or more electrodes configured to supply a current to the wire mesh heating element; a mesh heating element comprising filaments disposed between the two or more electrodes; and a tensioner to maintain the wire mesh heating element at tension along an axis of tension as the wire mesh heating element is heated, wherein some of the filaments of the mesh heating element are disposed to intersect the axis of tension at a non-orthogonal angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: De Luca Oven Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas P. De Luca, Andrew Perkins
  • Patent number: 10912307
    Abstract: An enhanced electric oven (10) comprising an oven-body (12) and a vault or dome (14) which externally enclose an oven cavity or cooking cavity (17), a flue (16) for fume exhaust, a mouth (18) for accessing the oven cavity (17), closable by way of a door (20), a dish supporting plane (22) placed outside the mouth (18), a hood (23), if any, a lower heating plate (33), and an upper heating plate (33A) which accommodate electric resistors, a modular and removable cooking plane (34) made from a refractory material, and means for controlling and distributing heat flow within the oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: MORETTI FORNl S.P.A.
    Inventor: Mario Moretti
  • Patent number: 10912155
    Abstract: A heating plate 10 includes: a pair of glass plates 11, 12; a conductive pattern 40, 70 disposed between the pair of glass plates 11, 12 and defining a plurality of opening areas 43, 73; and a joint layer 13, 14 disposed between the conductive pattern 40, 70 and at least one of the pair of glass plates 11, 12; wherein the conductive pattern 40, 70 includes a plurality of connection elements 44, 74 that extend between two branch points 42, 72 to define the opening areas 43, 73; and a total value of lengths of straight line segments connecting the two branch points 42, 72 is less than 20% of a total value of the plurality of connection elements 44, 74.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Suetsugu, Manabu Hirakawa, Satoshi Goishihara, Koichi Kinoshita, Hidenori Nakamura, Koujiro Ohkawa, Tetsuo Matsukura, Isao Inoue