Abstract: The present application discloses an automated cooking apparatus that includes a cooking container to contain or otherwise hold food or food ingredients and a stirring motion mechanism to move the cooking container by fast speed yet points on the internal surface of the container are displaced by properly small distance. The stirring motion mechanism may comprise one or more kinematic mechanisms or pairs, each comprising a first mating part and a second mating part whose movement is constrained relative the first mating part, wherein the first mating part is connected to the cooking container.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer is preheated with a halogen lamp, and then is heated by irradiation with a flash of light emitted from a flash lamp. The preheating with the halogen lamp is continued for a short time even after the flash lamp turns off. A radiation thermometer measures a front surface temperature and a back surface temperature of the semiconductor wafer. A temperature integrated value is calculated by integration of temperatures of the semiconductor wafer measured during a period from a start of the flash irradiation to an end of the heating of the semiconductor wafer. It is determined that the semiconductor wafer is cracked at the time of flash irradiation when the calculated temperature integrated value deviates from a preset range between an upper limit value and a lower limit value.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to control zone temperatures in a solar cell production system are disclosed. An example furnace to fire photovoltaic cells includes: a plurality of zones comprising firing elements configured to fire a metallization layer of photovoltaic cells by heating the photovoltaic cells in the zones; one or more belts configured to transport photovoltaic cells through a sequence of the plurality of zones; a user interface comprising one or more input devices; and control circuitry configured to: control the firing elements for the plurality of zones; and modify a configuration of two or more of the plurality of zones based on input received via the input device.

Abstract: Techniques to generate experiment trials using artificial intelligence are disclosed. A training set for an experiment generator is continuously built up by using assessed experiment trials. The experiment generator is optimized using one of a plurality of optimization algorithms, depending on which mode experiment generator is to run in for an experiment. The mode is dependent on the experiment mode of the experiment. The experiment generator generates a batch of one or more experiment trials for the experiment. Any of the generated experiment trials may be tried or experimented by a user and may be updated with assessment data as an assessed experiment trial.

Abstract: A laboratory sample/specimen temperature control device, specifically a metal bead bath that has its metal bead temperature controlled by a continuous flow of air into the bed of beads that is heated or cooled by a Peltier device that the air flows over. This provides great thermal uniformity across the bed of beads and constantly monitors and regulates the heat or cooling input rather than utilizing an on/off modulation temperature input approach.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a programmable controlled intelligent cooking machine which is adapted for running a recipe program programmed with all general recipe commands, interpreting the recipe program according to the command sequence and executing corresponding cooking operations according to each command and thereby achieving full-automatic cooking. The present invention further discloses a cooking control method of the programmable controlled intelligent cooking machine.

Abstract: An apparatus for thermal cycling can transfer heat uniformly and efficiently. The apparatus can be used in a method that reduces condensation on sample wells. The apparatus can also be manufactured to provide uniform configurations. For example, a sample illustratively for polymerase chain reaction (PCR), in each sample well and the components of the embodiment of the thermal cycler apparatus shown at including a well block, a base plate, a layer of adhesive, a peltier device, another layer of adhesive and a heat sink.

Abstract: A contact baking mechanism of a toaster comprises a baking tray, a fixed bracket, and a mobile mechanism. The baking tray is provided in the fixed bracket and includes a left baking tray and a right baking tray. The mobile mechanism includes a bread tray and a mobile bracket. The bread tray is provided between the left baking tray and the right baking tray, and one end of the bread tray is clamped in the fixed bracket through a T-shaped groove. The mobile bracket is provided outside the fixed bracket and fixedly connected with the bread tray. The left and right baking trays are moved back and forth by an elastic mechanism when the bread tray moves up and down along the T-shaped groove.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to determine an internal property of a food product. The system includes one or more analyzing devices, a camera and a central unit in communication with the camera and analyzing device. The analyzing device is configured to analyze an interior region of the food product. The camera is configured to analyze an external property of the food product. The central unit is configured to determine the internal property of the food product based on feedback provided by the analyzing device and the camera.

Abstract: A sintering furnace can include an outer shell defining an internal volume a reactive agent inlet configured to introduce a reactive agent into the internal volume; an insulation chamber within the outer shell; and a retort configured to retain an object. A method of operating a sintering furnace can include sintering a part precursor within a retort arranged within a chamber, wherein the chamber defines an intermediate volume between the retort and the chamber, wherein a sintering byproduct is oxidized within the intermediate volume.

Abstract: A photoresist apparatus and a method are provided. The photoresist apparatus includes a pre-baking apparatus. The pre-baking apparatus includes: a hot-plate, a first cover over the hot-plate, a second cover over the first cover, a first heating element extending along a topmost surface of the first cover, and a second heating element extending along a topmost surface of the second cover.

Abstract: An insert for a waterless portable heating device can include multiple containers or shelves arranged in layers for insertion into the device. For example, the insert can have multiple compartments to heat multiple separate ingredients at the same time, e.g., without the ingredients touching each other.

Abstract: A warming oven includes a housing that forms a chamber and has a heat insulating material. A support member positioned within the chamber has a support surface. Heating elements are arranged within the chamber in an opposing relationship to the support member. The heating elements generate radiant heat towards the support member and have passages to heat an air flow through these passages and across the heating elements. An air circulator communicates with the chamber and includes a fan to generate the air flow, an exhaust to direct the air flow, and an intake to receive the returning air flow. A temperature sensor senses a temperature of the air flow. A controller communicates with the temperature sensor and selectively controls the air circulator and/or the heating elements to adjust the generated air flow or the heat output for temperature regulation. This temperature regulation can provide for an operating temperature.

Abstract: A thermal management system for led luminaires that, in certain embodiments, includes a heat sink, a heat-dissipating pipe, a base plate, a variable speed air-cooling element, an air-directing structure, a temperature measuring element, and a driver that includes at least one of thermal sensing response logic, light-emitting dimming control logic, fan speed control logic and air-cooling element malfunction detection logic. In some instances, the heat sink includes a plurality of fins coupled to a base plate. In some instances, one or more heat-dissipating pipes extend partially inserted along the length of the base plate and outwardly away from an end of the base plate. In some embodiments, an LED PCB assembly is coupled to the base plate. In some embodiments, fan speed variability, LED dimming, or both are engaged in combination with heat transfer and dissipation associated with the heat sink and the one or more heat-dissipating pipes.

Abstract: Apparatus for treating biological samples disposed on substrates, including: an input buffer for receiving one or more substrate holders each being adapted to support a plurality of the substrates; a treatment zone including a plurality of treatment stations each being adapted to receive one of the substrates; a reagent dispenser configured by a controller to dispense reagents to the substrates at the treatment stations; a substrate transport device configured by the controller to transport individual substrates between the substrate holders in the input buffer and the treatment stations.

Abstract: A hair styling appliance includes a base including a mount and a removable reservoir configured to take up a disconnected position in which the reservoir is away from the mount and an operating position in which the reservoir engages fluidically with the mount, a portable unit remote from the base; a line that fluidically connects the base and the portable unit; wherein the base also includes a detection system having a detector configured to detect the passage of the reservoir from the disconnected position to the operating position.

Abstract: A container holder for an injector for injecting a fluid into the human or animal body includes at least one container clamping member for clamping onto a container that is filled with the fluid and a temperature control device for bringing the temperature of the container to a predefined temperature. To be able to clamp containers of different shapes and sizes onto the container holder and to bring the temperature of the containers to a desired temperature without any thermal loss, by means of the temperature control device, and to ensure easy and unimpeded clamping and removal of the container, the temperature control device is connected to a transporting device, by means of which the temperature control device can be brought into and out of thermal contact with the container that is clamped onto the container clamping member.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus, comprising a drive unit (1) with a drive (10) and a shaft (11) which is pivotable about a pivot axis (A) and which is operatively connected to the drive (10), a pivot receptacle (2) which is arranged on the shaft (11), wherein the pivot axis (A) is substantially horizontally aligned, wherein the pivot receptacle (2) comprises a base (20) on which receptacles (21, 22) are provided which extend away from the base (20) and into which holders (3) for containers (7) are insertable.

Abstract: A device for an adjustment of a heater control in an additive manufacturing device, in which a heater control regulates the heating of an applied building material layer by means of a heating device (17) up to a work temperature (TA) comprises: a nominal parameter provision unit (201) designed such that it provides at least one nominal parameter value, meaning the setpoint of a controlled variable and/or its change with time and/or the setpoint of a heater parameter and/or its change with time, an actual parameter detection unit (202) designed such that it is able to detect for at least one of the nominal parameter values the corresponding actual parameter value in the heater control or in the additive manufacturing device, wherein an actual parameter value is the actual value of a controlled variable and/or the actual value of its change with time and/or the actual value of a heater parameter and/or the actual value of its change with time, and a control change unit (203) that automatically changes at lea

Abstract: A cooker includes a heating coil, a housing accommodating the heating coil, a top plate provided on the housing, a partition defining a storage in the housing and below the heating coil and including a first partition extending parallel to the top plate and a second partition extending perpendicularly to the first partition, a first facing wall facing the first partition with a gap defined between the first facing wall and the first partition, a second facing wall facing the second partition with a gap defined between the second facing wall and the second partition, a heat-insulating layer provided between the first partition and the first facing wall, and a heat-insulating layer provided between the second partition and the second facing wall, the heat-insulating layers being each made of a substance having a lower thermal conductivity than one of the first facing wall and the second facing wall.

Abstract: Time periods required for a wafer W to reach a reference temperature are made to be uniform between heating modules 2 and between heating target regions in a temperature rising time period after the wafer W is placed on a heating plate 23, and temperature rise curves of temperature transition profiles in a temperature rise transition time period are made to be same. Therefore, the temperature transition profiles of the heating target regions are all same, and total heat amounts in the temperature rise transition time period are uniform within a surface of the wafer W and between the heating modules 2, so that a line width of a pattern formed on the wafer W becomes uniform. Thus, it is possible to perform a heating treatment with high uniformity within the surface of the wafer W and between the wafers W processed in the different heating modules 2.

Abstract: An auxiliary sensor can be used to measure the temperature of individual products in a heating cabinet. By arranging the temperature sensor with respect to the low mass thermal conductors and insulators, the sensor can be focused on the product to obtain the proper temperature irrespective of the immediate environment whether it is at room temperature or even within the heating cabinet.

Abstract: A multi-zone food holding bin has a continuous food supporting surface with multiple food holding zones. Each food holding zone is independently controllable so that different food temperatures may be maintained in adjacent food holding zones.

Abstract: A housing for an electronic device can include an enclosure at least partially defining an internal volume. The enclosure can include a bottom panel. The housing can also include a tubular frame that includes a first pair of tubular support members extending from the bottom panel and a second pair of tubular support members extending from the bottom panel. The housing can also include a first tubular top frame member disposed outside the internal volume and connected to an end of each of the first pair of tubular support members through an opening defined by the enclosure, and a second tubular top frame member disposed outside the internal volume and connected to an end of each of the second pair of tubular support members through an opening defined by the enclosure.

Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes an accommodating body, a dry chamber that is mounted in the accommodating body and spaced apart from the accommodating body by a preset distance, a rack provided in the dry chamber and configured to receive objects to be dried, an air inlet hole defined at a rear surface of the accommodating body, an air supply unit configured to supply heated air through the air inlet hole toward a space defined between the accommodating body and the dry chamber, and an air supply hole defined at a chamber front and allowing flow of air from the accommodating body to the dry chamber through the air supply hole.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a packaging adhesive, a packaging method, a display panel, and a display device. The packaging adhesive includes a frit, an organic solvent, and a material with a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of the frit. Using the packaging adhesive provided by the present disclosure, the thermal expansion coefficient of the packaging adhesive from which the organic solvent is removed may be enhanced by doping the material with a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of the frit into existing glass cement, so that in a packaging process using laser radiation, an expansion volume of the packaging adhesive when heated is increased. In this way, a gap between the packaging adhesive and an array substrate is effectively reduced, and a packaging effect is improved.

Abstract: The invention disclosed herein is directed to a smart slow cooker, system, and related methods for heating food to at least 50 degrees centigrade within at most two hours, then adjusting the power to a lower setting for the remainder of the desired cooking time.

Abstract: A toaster includes a first heating compartment, a first heating element associated with the first heating compartment, and a control unit in communication with the first heating element for executing an activation of the heating element by providing a current thereto and a deactivation of the heating element by disconnecting the current therefrom, the control unit further executing a main heating program comprising a succession of activations, separated by respective deactivations.

Abstract: An electromagnetic cooker includes: a plane section that faces a bottom face part of a cooking pot when the cooking pot is placed; a frame body section that is erected from the plane section and houses the cooking pot to face a side face part of the cooking pot when the cooking pot is placed; a first heating section that is provided in the plane section and heats the bottom face part of the cooking pot by an induction heating method; and a second heating section that is provided in the frame body section and heats the side face part of the cooking pot by a method different from the induction heating method.

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck heater includes an electrostatic chuck in which an electrostatic electrode is embedded in a ceramic sintered body; a small-zone formation region including a plurality of small zones in which small heater electrodes are wired; a power source to which the plurality of small heater electrodes are connected in parallel; and a small-zone control apparatus that performs control such that desired electric power is supplied to each of the small heater electrodes, wherein among the plurality of small heater electrodes, a small heater electrode that is wired in a small zone including a cool spot has a resistance that is set to a smaller value than that of the other small heater electrodes.

Abstract: A bathroom management apparatus includes a case including a air discharge port for the discharge of air, a discharge vane for opening and closing the air discharge port, and a hanger coupled to the case and including a hanger part, wherein a front end of the discharge vane is positioned behind and under the air discharge port when the air discharge port is opened, wherein the hanger part is positioned between a first tangential line and a first straight line, which define a predetermined angle with respect to each other, and wherein the predetermined angle is an angle between a second tangential line extending along a rear inner surface of the second air discharge port and a second straight line extending through a lower rear end of the second air discharge port and a front end of the opened discharge vane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for regulating a cooking process using an item of cookware having inductive properties on a cooking area, wherein a coil is arranged as part of an LC resonant circuit in the region of the cooking area and the natural frequency of the LC resonant circuit is measured repeatedly or continuously. The invention also relates to a cooking apparatus having at least one cooking area, a temperature sensor, a power controller, an LC resonant circuit having a coil, which is arranged in, around or in the region of the cooking area, and a controller, which is connected to the temperature sensor and a unit for measuring the frequency of the LC resonant circuit and which is programmed to carry out method, wherein the controller has access to a memory for storing the mathematically determined parameter function or vector function.

Abstract: A method includes: causing a processor to determine a first step from among a plurality of steps that should be executed in order in cooking; and causing the processor to display, on a display, a guide image including a first indicative contents of the determined first step and a second indicative contents of a second step that is a step that should be executed next to the first step.

Abstract: A device for measuring shear properties of asphalt mixtures includes a machine for testing the material strength, equipped with an operational frame, fixing elements and driving mechanism, the machine including a steel socket equipped at at least one of a bottom and a top edge thereof with an inner flange to accommodate a testing specimen, the testing specimen having a central open hole, and a steel insert adapted to be inserted into the open hole in the testing specimen, the steel insert being equipped with a rim at at least one of an end thereof at the top edge of the steel socket and at end thereof at the bottom of the steel socket, while a size of a clearance between the inner flange and the rim being between 5 to 60 mm, and the steel insert being equipped with elements for fixing to clamping elements of the device, and measuring probes being connected to the steel insert.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a thermocycler system for performing polymerase chain reaction. The thermocycler system can comprise a plurality of bus bars, a microplate, a clamp and a current application device in electrical communication with the bus bars. The clamp is suitable for forming a low resistance electrical connection between the microplate and an individual bus bar of the plurality of bus bars. In some instances, the clamp includes a spring-loaded pivot and a ram. Operation of the clamp forces the microplate into contact with the bus bar, or vice versa, to provide an electrical contact between the microplate and the bus bar. The microplate can comprise a substrate having a metallic material for heating samples, and a barrier layer disposed adjacent to the substrate.

Abstract: A bioreactor system comprising a base station comprising a control system, a tray arranged to be provided on the base station and arranged to house a bioreactor bag, wherein said base station comprises at least one temperature sensor means and in that said tray comprises at least one opening for receiving said temperature sensor means such that it will contact a surface of a bioreactor provided in the tray.

Abstract: A plastic container for boiling water is provided. The plastic container is lightweight, inexpensive to manufacture, and safe for cooking food by boiling. The plastic container is made of food grade high density polyethylene having a melting point of at least 120 degrees Celsius. The container includes a water heater having a heating element located near the bottom of the container. The water heater is securely attached to the side wall of the container and can be plugged into a standard alternating current electrical outlet. The water heater is capable of heating water to boiling temperature.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an infant feeding warming system useful to repeatedly and precisely warm breastmilk or formula for use in the NICU. The system in one form comprises a bedside unit that is attachable to an IV pole. The system may also comprise a centralized warming station with multiple chambers, wherein one chamber heats a bottle or syringe, and the remaining chambers are used for storage and/or refrigeration. The system will use a non-liquid heating system to heat feedings. A disposable liner may be used inside the chamber. The system may also contain heating algorithms that are based on a user inputting milk parameters such as volume and initial temperature.

Abstract: Portable clothes-drying assemblies are provided to allow travelers to quickly and easily dry articles of clothing. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, an assembly includes a specially configured garment bag from which a conventional hand held hair dryer is suspended. An adapter tube for directing hot air from the hair dryer into the interior of the garment bag is also provided. The adapter tube has a proximal end configured to sealingly engage the nozzle of the hair dryer and a distal end configured to sealingly engage an inlet formed at the bottom of the garment bag. In another preferred embodiment of the invention, the hair dryer is suspended from a horizontal rod, such as a closet rod, from which an article of clothing is also hung. An adapter assembly is also provided. The adapter assembly includes an adapter tube and a plurality of flexible distribution tubes that extend through the adapter tube and are configured to be inserted into the article of clothing.

Abstract: Apparatus for treating biological samples disposed on substrates, including: an input buffer for receiving one or more substrate holders each being adapted to support a plurality of the substrates; a treatment zone including a plurality of treatment stations each being adapted to receive one of the substrates; a reagent dispenser configured by a controller to dispense reagents to the substrates at the treatment stations; a substrate transport device configured by the controller to transport individual substrates between the substrate holders in the input buffer and the treatment stations.

Abstract: A temperature sensor means comprising a thermally conducting layer arranged to face the surface to be measured, a thermally insulating layer attached to the thermally conducting layer on the opposite side to the surface to be measured, a temperature sensor provided between the thermally conducting layer and the thermally insulating layer and being completely surrounded on all its sides by either the thermally conducting or the thermally insulating layers.

Abstract: Provided are a Gamma reference voltage generating device and a display. The Gamma reference voltage generating device comprises a Gamma reference voltage source and a Gamma reference voltage converting module, the Gamma reference voltage source being connected to the Gamma reference voltage converting module and configured to provide Gamma reference voltages, wherein the Gamma reference voltage generating device further comprises at least one temperature compensation circuit which is connected to the Gamma reference voltage converting module and configured to automatically adjust output voltages according to temperature change to compensate the Gamma reference voltages output by the Gamma reference voltage source through the Gamma reference voltage converting module. The display comprises the above Gamma reference voltage generating device, and thus can avoid poor display due to temperature influences.

Abstract: A temperature sensor means comprising a thermally conducting layer arranged to face the surface to be measured, a thermally insulating layer attached to the thermally conducting layer on the opposite side to the surface to be measured, a temperature sensor provided between the thermally conducting layer and the thermally insulating layer and being completely surrounded on all its sides by either the thermally conducting or the thermally insulating layers.

Abstract: A multi-zone food holding bin has a continuous food supporting surface with multiple food holding zones. Each food holding zone is independently controllable so that different food temperatures may be maintained in adjacent food holding zones.

Abstract: A multi-zone food holding bin has a continuous food supporting surface with multiple food holding zones. Each food holding zone is independently controllable so that different food temperatures may be maintained in adjacent food holding zones.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a steering wheel having a heating element and a fail-safety device using the same. The steering wheel having a heating element has a rim, a surface of which is coated with an electrically conductive heating element. The heating element includes a plurality of unit heating elements arranged in parallel, each of which includes a first unit line, each of two ends of which connect a positive power-applying terminal and a negative power-applying terminal together in series; a second unit line spaced apart from the first unit line, each of two ends of which connects the positive power-applying terminal and the negative power-applying terminal together in series; and a connection line for connecting the first and second unit lines.

Abstract: Apparatus for improving substrate temperature uniformity in a substrate processing chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a substrate support processing chamber may include a chamber body having a bottom portion and a sidewall having a slit valve opening to load and unload substrates, a pin lift mechanism, disposed in a pin lift mechanism opening formed in the bottom portion of the chamber body, having a plurality of substrate support pins coupled to the pin lift mechanism, a movable substrate support heater having substrate support portion and a shaft, and a cover plate disposed about the shaft of the movable substrate support, wherein the cover plate covers the pin lift mechanism and pin lift mechanism opening.

Abstract: Systems and methods for air cooling a microfluidic device using confinement channels to isolate cooling air from exposed liquids are disclosed. The systems and methods may also thermally condition the cooling airflow for improved robustness of the microfluidic device. In one embodiment, the air cooling system includes a split-level cooling manifold including an inlet duct that directs cooling air to a microfluidic device and an outlet duct that directs air heated by the microfluidic device away from the microfluidic device. The temperature of cooling air may be measured. The cooling air may be preheated to a temperature that is higher than an expected ambient temperature. The temperature of the cooling air after being heated by a microfluidic device may be measured.

Abstract: A pressurization passage that divides a constant pressure from a pressure source with passage resistances so as to have a predetermined constant pressure is disposed on a downstream side of a sample loop in order to maintain a back pressure of the sample loop constant when a sample gas is collected to the sample loop.

Abstract: A holding apparatus comprises a tray configured to hold food product therein, a holding portion configured to hold the tray therein, and a cover configured to cover the tray held in the holding portion. The cover comprises a covering portion, a pair of flange portions, the covering portion being disposed between the pair of flange portions, and a channel formed in each of the flange portions. The channel comprises a first portion extending from an edge of each of the flange portions, a supporting portion, and a second portion formed between the first portion and the supporting portion. The holding apparatus further comprises a projecting portion disposed on the holding apparatus and configured to be coupled to the channel such that the cover is suspended in the holding portion via contact between the projecting portion and the supporting portion of the channel.