With Plural Section Heating Element Patents (Class 219/410)
  • Patent number: 11006776
    Abstract: A cooking apparatus includes a cooking system exhibiting a cooking site, a communication unit able to exchange information with a remote terminal according to a communication protocol, the communication unit being designed to receive a cooking parametrization information item including a set of coefficients, a control and command unit for the cooking system including a processor designed to regulate a cooking temperature according to a cooking setpoint. The control and command unit is designed to be disposed in a first configuration in which the cooking setpoint is dependent on the selected category of food, or alternatively in a second configuration in which the cooking setpoint is dependent on the set of coefficients received by the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventors: Laurent Blond, Sébastien Volatier, Thomas Leterrier
  • Patent number: 10739069
    Abstract: A low-temperature drying apparatus includes a furnace body, an object holder, an infrared light transmitting plate, a supply device, a discharge device, and infrared heaters. The object holder holds an object to be dried so that the object to be dried is placed in the furnace body. The infrared light transmitting plate is arranged on a surface of the furnace body that faces the object holder. The cooling flow generating device generates a cooling flow in a space between the object to be dried that is held by the object holder and the infrared light transmitting plate. The infrared heater is disposed to face the infrared light transmitting plate in an open space outside the furnace body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Komaki, Taiki Kinnan
  • Publication number: 20150048075
    Abstract: Apparatus for curing of nanoparticle material, the apparatus comprising: a receptacle for receiving a substrate upon which a laser of the nanoparticle ink has been placed; and a laser bar diode array comprising a first bar diode laser, the array configured to emit a laser as a continuous wave and to cure the deposited nanoparticle material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: INTRINSIQ MATERIALS LTD.
    Inventors: Jose Pedrosa, Daniel Johnson, Richard Dixon
  • Patent number: 8901518
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a heating assembly using a heat exchange device to cool a plurality of heating element. The heating assembly includes a plurality of heating elements, a cooling element having one or more cooling channels for receiving cooling fluid therein, and a heat exchange device disposed between the plurality of heating elements and the cooling element. The heat exchange device comprises a hot interface disposed adjacent to and in thermal contact with the plurality of heating elements and a cold interface disposed adjacent to and in thermal contact with the cooling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph M. Ranish, Aaron Muir Hunter
  • Patent number: 8748780
    Abstract: A disclosed substrate processing apparatus comprises a heat exchange plate configured to heat and/or cool the substrate; plural protrusions provided on the heat exchange plate so as to allow the substrate to be placed on the plural protrusions, leaving a gap between the substrate and the heat exchange plate; a suction portion configured to attract the substrate onto the plural protrusion by suction through plural holes formed in the heat exchange plate; and a partition member that is provided on the heat exchange plate and lower than the plural protrusions, wherein the partition member is configured to divide the gap into two or more regions including at least one of the holes so that at least one of the two or more regions is two-dimensionally closed by the partition member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Shouken Moro, Yasuhiro Takaki, Masatoshi Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20140117005
    Abstract: A diffusion furnace in the shape of polygonal-prism, including two end frame plates arranged in opposite basal planes of the diffusion furnace and a plurality of heating panels connected between the two end frame plates. Each heating panel includes at least one beam connected between the two end frame plates and a plurality of heating block interconnected in succession along and secured to the respective beam. Each heating block includes a block body, at least one heating element arranged on one side of the block body and amounting assembly mounted on the opposite side of the block body for securing the heating element. Thus, the disclosed diffusion furnace can be customized to satisfy different measurements requirement and can be easily decomposed for repair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: TANGTECK EQUIPMENT INC.
    Inventors: MING-HUI YU, CHIA-JUNG KAO, A-TZU CHEN, WANG-TSUNG LIANG, CHANG-FA CHEN
  • Publication number: 20130313245
    Abstract: A high speed cooking apparatus employing a low voltage high current system for heating foods employing a novel wire mesh heating element. The system herein described providing the benefits of high speed cooking like that further described by U.S. Provisional Application 60/822,028 filed on Aug. 10, 2006, but yet providing significant cost benefit and simplicity over said system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: De Luca Oven Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Patent number: 8575520
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to heating systems. In various embodiments, a tray may be supported adjacent a housing having a plurality of heating compartments configured to provide heat to food items within each of the heating compartments. In other embodiments, a vessel may be configured to be disposed in a housing having a plurality of heating compartments configured to provide heat within each of the heating compartments. In further embodiments, a housing may have a plurality of heating compartments configured to provide heat within each of the heating compartments, and the heating compartment may have open ends arranged around a circumference of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Inventor: Daniel Garr
  • Patent number: 8563900
    Abstract: An oven body includes a grilling chamber provided with several far infrared ray heaters and a smoking chamber that emits smoke from the charcoal heated by electric heaters, wherein the meat to be roasted is rotated in the grilling chamber by a rotating means, rotating alternately through a far infrared ray heating area where far infrared ray concentrates and through a smoking area where smoke concentrates, in which process the roasting operation by the far infrared ray and the smoking operation with particular scent of a charcoal are carried out simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Inventor: Dae-Hee Han
  • Publication number: 20130161314
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a high performance heater. In an embodiment, the high performance heater comprises a first stackable tray comprising a first alignment pin that insulates a first heating element disposed in the first stackable tray; a second stackable tray comprising a second alignment pin that insulates a second heating element disposed in the second stackable tray, wherein a top of the first alignment pin fits into a cutout of a bottom of the second alignment pin when the first and second stackable trays are stacked, and wherein the first and second stackable trays comprise one or more materials, an outer diameter and an inner diameter, and wherein an area between the outer diameter and the inner diameter of the stackable trays comprises at least one cutout portion that allows expansion of the material(s) when the high performance heater is at high temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventor: Arsalan Emami
  • Publication number: 20120223066
    Abstract: A control unit can select a large-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is large, and a small-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is small. When a temperature is increased or decreased, the control unit can select the small-number control zone model so as to control, based on signals from temperature sensors of the respective control zones C1 . . . C5 whose number is small, heaters located on the respective control zones C1 . . . C5. When a temperature is stabilized, the control unit can select the large-number control zone model so as to control, based on signals from the temperature sensors of the respective control zones C1 . . . C10 whose number is large, the heaters located on the respective control zones C1 . . . C10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Koji YOSHII, Tatsuya YAMAGUCHI, Wenling WANG, Takanori SAITO
  • Patent number: 7943887
    Abstract: An oven includes: an inlet elevator having multiple receiving bays for receiving a piece to be heated in the oven where the receiving bays are stacked vertically and the elevator is configured to move up or down to align a receiving bay; a mandrel having multiple shelves to correspond a shelf to a bay of the inlet elevator, each shelf configured to support a piece received from the inlet elevator, the mandrel configured to rotate each piece on a shelf between a loading position, a baking position, and an unloading position; an outlet elevator having multiple receiving bays for unloading a piece heated in the oven, the unloading bays are stacked vertically and the elevator is configured to move up or down to align an unloading bay with a material handling system moving the heated pieces; and a microwave generator configured to heat at least one of the pieces when the pieces are in the baking position. A method of heating a material is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Lunare Limited (A PA Corp.)
    Inventors: Christopher Vincent, Drew Knopfel, Richard Heckert
  • Patent number: 7875833
    Abstract: Contemplated fully automated coffee roaster have significantly reduced energy demands, use electrical heat as a heat source in a temperature-only driven program mode, and eliminate smoke and smell within the roaster. Most preferably, contemplated fully automated roasters will consume only about 10 percent of the energy as compared to known devices on a per kilogram basis of beans and require no operator experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventor: Eugene Song
  • Patent number: 7828387
    Abstract: A headrest storage recession of seat back in an upside-recessed-and-headrest-storage type of seat has, provided at the backward side thereof, an integral combination of a cover element and an upward extension of a back board disposed behind the seat back. Namely, the cover element is connected continuously with the back board upward extension, without any connection line therebetween. A thin hinge portion is defined in boundary between those cover element and upward extension, and the cover element is folded relative to such thin hinge portion and securely attached to the upward extension, thereby constituting a backward wall of the headrest storage recession.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Tachi-S Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hisayuki Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 7622695
    Abstract: A multi-layered carrier comprising: a first layer; a jacket; a laminated fabric heater disposed between the first layer and the jacket, wherein the heater comprises a consolidated electrically conductive fabric layer, a plurality of bus bars, a first thermoplastic layer, and a second thermoplastic layer, wherein the first and second thermoplastic layers sandwich the consolidated electrically conductive fabric layer and the plurality of bus bars to form a fused single sheet; and a cavity formed from the assembly of the first layer, the jacket, and the heater; wherein the multi-layer carrier provides for the even distribution of heat throughout the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Inventors: Jay DiPucchio, Thomas J. Luck
  • Patent number: 7616017
    Abstract: To reduce the time to make measurements and the noise in measurements obtained by probing a device supported on surface of a thermal chuck in a probe station, a conductive member is arranged to intercept current coupling the thermal unit of the chuck to the surface supporting the device. The conductive member is capacitively coupled to the thermal unit but free of direct electrical connection thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Cascade Microtech, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence E. Cowan, Paul A. Tervo, John L. Dunklee
  • Publication number: 20080308546
    Abstract: An oven includes: an inlet elevator having multiple receiving bays for receiving a piece to be heated in the oven where the receiving bays are stacked vertically and the elevator is configured to move up or down to align a receiving bay; a mandrel having multiple shelves to correspond a shelf to a bay of the inlet elevator, each shelf configured to support a piece received from the inlet elevator, the mandrel configured to rotate each piece on a shelf between a loading position, a baking position, and an unloading position; an outlet elevator having multiple receiving bays for unloading a piece heated in the oven, the unloading bays are stacked vertically and the elevator is configured to move up or down to align an unloading bay with a material handling system moving the heated pieces; and a microwave generator configured to heat at least one of the pieces when the pieces are in the baking position. A method of heating a material is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Christopher Vincent, Drew Knopfel, Richard Heckert
  • Patent number: 7411160
    Abstract: A convection cooking appliance includes a convection fan for establishing a convection airflow which is heated by a heating element including first and second sections that are symmetrically disposed about the convection fan substantially parallel to and downstream of the convection fan. Each of the first and second sections is formed so as to include at least three lobes and four 180° turns, while establishing a thin profile heating element. A convection fan cover extends across the convection fan and includes a main body portion having an outlet portion for directing the convection airflow into a cooking chamber of the appliance. The outlet portion includes an angled louver and a trip edge portion. The angled louver and trip edge portion cooperate to alter a direction of the convection airflow from being substantially parallel to the main body portion to being substantially perpendicular the main body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Thu-Ha Duncan, Christopher A. Larsen, Steven M. Swayne, Robert Z. Whipple, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7378617
    Abstract: A heating system for a cooking appliance includes a first upper heating element and a second upper heating element positioned within a cooking cavity defined by a cabinet of the cooking appliance. The cooking cavity is configured to support a food item therein during a cooking process. Each of the first upper heating element and the second upper heating element is positioned with respect to an upper portion of the food item. A lower heating element is positioned within the cooking cavity. The lower heating element is positioned with respect to a bottom portion of the food item. A controller is operatively coupled to the lower heating element and the first and second upper heating elements. The controller is configured to asynchronously energize the first upper heating element and the second upper heating element to heat the upper portion of the food item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Sherry Leigh Layne Brockman
  • Patent number: 7202447
    Abstract: A conveyor type oven (10) for processing food products (32) and a method of use that includes heating sections and/or zones, each of the heating sections/and or zones being individually temperature controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Inventors: Charles J. Kingdon, Christopher J. Adelmann, Abel Anthony Arellano, Joe Louis Gallardo
  • Patent number: 6949720
    Abstract: A bottom electric heating element for an oven wherein the electric heating element is positioned in a recessed portion in the oven bottom and has at least one corrugated ribbon of conductive material partially embedded in an insulating base. A glass panel is positioned over the recessed portion and on a compressible heat resistant gasket. The glass panel is transparent or semi-transparent, high temperature resistant and high impact resistant. A frame extends around the glass panel and fastens it to the oven bottom while partially and resiliently compressing the gasket to support the glass panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Distintive Applicances, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Muńoz, Jesus Rios, Jr., Joey J. Kitabayashi
  • Patent number: 6441346
    Abstract: A burn-out furnace having heating system configured in a series or plurality of radiating sleeves aligned on top of one another against at least one wall of the burn-out furnace. At least one heating element is disposed in the radiating sleeves. The heating element is preferably a single piece of wire which is coiled or wound along its entire length and curved after it exits each radiating sleeve to continue into the next tube, and “zig-zag” through the plurality of tubes. The heating element is stretched to a point whereby during operation of the furnace, when the heating element is heated, there is little or no creeping of the wire occurring. Moreover, the heating element contains very tight turns between the sleeves as the direction of the element reverses and it continues the zig-zag configuration through the plurality of radiating sleeves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Jeneric/Pentron, Inc.
    Inventor: George Zychek
  • Patent number: 6384381
    Abstract: An oven device for final finishing of a food item includes an oven housing defining a heating cavity configured to receive at least one food item to be heated, and an upper heating unit within the oven housing above the heating cavity. The upper heating unit includes a heating element that generates radiant heat directed onto the food item in the heating cavity. The oven housing includes at least one reflective panel for distributing radiant heat within the heating cavity. The upper heating element includes a rapidly-heating, high-intensity heating element capable of being cycled on for final finishing of the food item when the food item is received in the heating cavity, and capable of being cycled off when final finishing is not being performed. The final finishing typically includes browning a top surface of the food item, or melting a topping onto the top surface of the food item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Hatco Corporation
    Inventors: Allan E. Witt, Gerhard H. Wenzel
  • Patent number: 6331212
    Abstract: The apparatus provides a temperature controlled environment for processing semiconductor wafers at elevated temperatures. A hot wall process chamber is used for the process steps. The process chamber includes three zones with independent temperature control capabilities. The apparatus is capable of rotating the wafer in addition to providing a gas flow velocity gradient above the wafer for improved temperature and processing uniformity results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Avansys, LLC
    Inventor: James J. Mezey, Sr.
  • Patent number: 6262396
    Abstract: An oven device for final finishing of a food item includes an oven housing defining a heating cavity, and an upper heating unit disposed within the oven housing above the heating cavity. The heating cavity is configured to receive at least one food item to be heated by the oven device. The upper heating unit includes an upper heating element. The upper heating unit generates radiant heat which is directed onto the at least one food item when the at least one food item is received in the heating cavity. The upper heating element includes a rapidly-heating, high-intensity heating element capable of being cycled on for final finishing of the at least one food item when the at least one food item is received in the heating cavity, and capable of being cycled off when such final finishing is not being performed. The final finishing typically includes browning a top surface of the food item, or melting a topping onto the top surface of the food item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Hatco Corporation
    Inventors: Allan E. Witt, Gerhard H. Wenzel
  • Patent number: 6252206
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a cooking apparatus operates a plurality of cooking energy sources with a control including switches that reduce the input manipulations required by a user in order to operate one or more of the cooking energy sources to complete a cooking operation. The control responds to a first selection of a particular food type from a predetermined catalog of food category listings, responds to a second selection for setting a time duration corresponding to an instructional cooking period or recipe, and operates in response to the first and second selectors for generating operating parameters for at least one first cooking source for a predetermined time and for at least one second cooking source for a second predetermined time over a time period of less than and bearing a predetermined relationship to the instructional cooking period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: H. Alan Leukhardt, III, Dindo S. Uy, Cyral Martin Walsh
  • Patent number: 5908569
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a three-dimensional object by successive solidification of layers of a solidifiable material (7) at places corresponding to the respective cross-section of the object by means of radiation is provided whereby the apparatus comprises a support (4) for supporting the object (6) to be formed, a coating device (12) for applying layers of the solidifiable material (7) onto the support (4) or a previously solidified layer, a solidifying device (14) for solidifying the layers of the material (7) at places corresponding to the respective cross-section of the object and a heating apparatus (8) disposed above the support (4) in operational position for heating the solidifiable material (7), the heating apparatus (8) comprising at least one straight radiant heater (81) with a varying heating power along its length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems
    Inventors: Christian Wilkening, Tim Sievers
  • Patent number: 5844205
    Abstract: A heated substrate support plate for use in a process chamber. The support plate has grooves disposed therein for receiving heating elements. The heating elements are comprised of an outer sheath, a heater coil and a heat-conducting filler material. The heating element is disposed within a groove and compressed to compact the heat-conducting filler material about the heater coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Applied Komatsu Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. White, Larry Chang
  • Patent number: 5592581
    Abstract: The workpiece, which is horizontally held in the treatment chamber, is heated by the planar heat generating members disposed on the upper and lower surfaces of the treatment chamber and controlled to predetermined temperature through respective heat equalizing members. Thus, the workpiece can be quickly heated with an equal temperature distribution and high repeatability on the entire surface regardless of the diameter thereof. Further, a stream that is vertically symmetrical is obtained due to the shapes of the shoulder portions. Thus, since an eddy current and a turbulence that tend to take place upon supply of a process gas is prevented, the process gas can be equally contacted to the entire surface of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignees: Tokyo Electron Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo Electron Tohoku Kabushiki
    Inventor: Wataru Okase
  • Patent number: 5487224
    Abstract: Device for the heat treatment of moving yarns, during, for example, a texturizing stretching operation. The yarn is subject to two successive treatments, one at a high temperature, the other at a normal treatment temperature. The device is one wherein these successive phases are obtained by means of a heating unit formed by a cylindrical assembly comprising two heating zones on either side of which are provided guide means for the yarn. The zones are heated by means of two resistance elements embedded inside the cylindrical assembly. The two resistance elements are mounted in parallel, offset with respect to each other along the length of the unit, and each associated with a thermocouple element enabling temperature to be regulated accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: ICBT Roanne
    Inventors: Carlos M. Gabalda, Pierre Mirabel
  • Patent number: 5296681
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for hot-moistening face-towels having a heating system with a heater unit and a water pipe. A metering container is provided for metering a predetermined quantity of water to be heated in the heating system, the metering container being in fluid communication with one end of the water pipe. A chamber having a base plate is also provided where the heater unit is fixed from below to the base plate. Towel supports are disposed within the chamber, and a spray system is mounted on a ceiling of the internal chamber for spraying steam and hot water of said predetermined quantity onto towels supported on the towel supports within the internal chamber. The spray system is in fluid communication with a second end of the water pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Inventor: Gunter Tschauder
  • Patent number: 5021635
    Abstract: An electrically-heated deck type baker's oven where the electric heating elements, which are U-shaped in plan view, are supported by and slidable through metal chairs in rectangular metal tubes forming a series of lower and upper passages lining the top and bottom of the oven compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Inventor: John A. Willett
  • Patent number: 4570053
    Abstract: A turbine rotor disassembly, handling and reassembly apparatus employs a feedback-controlled electric heating oven to rapidly heat a turbine wheel while the rotor shaft is in the horizontal position. An adapter interfaces the wheel to a handling spool whose outboard end is adjusted to slide on the rotor shaft and to provide a fulcrum for supporting the wheel. A handling trolley includes a soft hydraulic system for supporting the weight of the wheel to avoid damaging the precision machined surfaces of the shrink-fit area while the wheel is being withdrawn. The handling apparatus also provides means for upending. or rotating, the removed wheel through 90 degrees to place its axis vertical for facilitating handling. A sensor system senses a radial motion of the wheel to detect clearance and to establish an appropriate fluid pressure to just balance the weight of the wheel and attached parts. The handling system includes means for rotating the wheel slightly during reassembly to align keyways or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Adrian R. Ades, George S. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4158742
    Abstract: A multi-purpose furnace for space vehicles used for material processing experiments in an outer space environment. The furnace contains three separate cavities designed to process samples of the widest possible range of materials and thermal requirements. Each cavity contains three heating elements capable of independent function under the direction of an automatic and programmable control system. A heat removable mechanism is also provided for each cavity which operates in conjunction with the control system for establishing an isothermally heated cavity or a wide range of thermal gradients and cool down rates. A monitoring system compatible with the rocket telemetry provides furnace performance and sample growth rate data throughout the processing cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1979
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Billy R. Aldrich, William D. Whitt