Abstract: A ceramic block with a built in electrode, including a first insulating ceramic sheet having a bearing surface, a sheet electrode having an inner edge and extending generally parallel to the bearing surface, a second insulating ceramic sheet disposed to enclose the sheet electrode between the second insulating ceramic sheet and the first insulating ceramic sheet, and a cylindrical, thin film shaped drawn-out conductor perpendicularly connected to the inner edge of the sheet electrode to supply voltage to the sheet electrode. The drawn-out conductor is attached to the inner wall of a through hole of the second insulating ceramic sheet, and an insulating ceramic shaft is packed into the through hole.

Abstract: Certain embodiments pertain to a heater for warming a patient's extremity in order to cause vasodilation for facilitating venous catheterization.

Abstract: A ceramic heater according to the present invention includes a heating portion made of ceramics, and a cooling plate portion. In the heating portion, a belt like printed electrode is formed continuously in a spiral shape along a circumferential direction, and in the printed electrode, slits extended in a width direction of the printed electrode are provided. In such a way, a ceramic heater in which uniform heating performance in the heating surface is high can be obtained.

Abstract: A heater that may be applied to a substrate. The heater may include a graduating material deposited on at least a portion of a substrate, a resistive material and a thermal barrier dielectric coating. The resistive material may include at least two resistive compositions, wherein the resistivity of the material may be altered by varying the composition in given areas.

Abstract: This heating cartridge includes a thermally conductive tube (42) to be immersed in a thermo-expandable substance of the thermostatic element, electric heating means (6) arranged inside the tube, and a base (7) made of a plastic substance, integral with a terminal longitudinal portion (44) of the tube and adapted to support the electric connection between the heating means and an external current source. In order to make the connection between the base and the tube both resistant and precisely adaptable to various heating cartridge geometries, and to do so economically, the terminal portion of the tube comprises an outwardly flared free end (45), which extends protruding both radially and axially from the rest of the terminal portion and in which the base is attached by overmolding.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a highly durable sheet-heating element that has flexibility for making a seat more comfortable, that alleviates load stress for a heater wire while being seated, and that prevents the heater wire from being disconnected. Since a sheet-heating element related to the invention has a configuration in which a base member (11) of a sheet-heating element (10) is made of a flexible non-woven, it is possible to obtain flexibility for making the seat more comfortable. Also, since a surface of the base member (11) is subjected to a calender process so as to harden the surface, it is possible to stably obtain a hardness of for preventing a heater wire (12) from being disconnected when the load stress occurs while being seated. Accordingly, it is possible to make the seat more comfortable and to obtain high durability for preventing the heater wire (12) from being disconnected when the load stress occurs while being seated.

Abstract: A heated mouse includes a shell having a heat-conductive part, a heating device installed in the shell, and an insulating layer. The heating device comprises a heat source. The insulating layer forms a closed space together with the heat-conductive part for accommodating the heat source therein. The heat-conductive part absorbs heat from the heat source. The heat-preserving mouse can not only heat the mouse, but also avoid reducing the lifespan of the mouse caused by overheat.

Abstract: The invention provides a planar element which is intrinsically heatable and which is particularly suitable for attachment to multi-dimensionally curved surfaces. For this purpose the planar element features particularly high deformability, achieved in accordance with the invention through a planar element having a layer sequence comprising a heating layer and a contacting layer, each of these two layers being composed of a polymeric material based on elastomers and/or on plastic polymers which have a particular elongation at break and at the same time a particular tensile elasticity modulus. Furthermore, the invention provides an adhesively bonded assembly comprising a bonding substrate and a planar element of the aforesaid kind, a method of producing a planar element of the aforesaid kind, and the use of such a planar element for heating an adhesively bonded assembly.

Abstract: An electrical heating element for vertical installation, includes vertically suspended electrical resistance elements for heating furnaces in industrial operation, each element having conductive legs, where along the length of the element there are placed ceramic disks provided with holes, through which holes the relevant legs of the element pass, where the ceramic disks are arranged between ceramic tubes and where an upper metallic central rod is positioned within the ceramic tubes, which central rod supports the element and where the element is surrounded by a radiative tube. There are a number of upper ceramic tubes outside of the upper central rod, with intermediate ceramic disks. The central rod extends a certain distance down into the radiative tube. A number of lower ceramic tubes with intermediate ceramic disks are positioned outside of a lower central rod.

Abstract: A heating element includes a continuous planar strip and a plurality of mounting members. A path of the continuous strip from a first end to a second end is circuitous and includes a plurality of repeating cycles, each of which includes a plurality of first straight segments, a plurality of second straight segments and a plurality of radiused segments. A length of the first straight segment is greater than a length of the second straight segment and an angular sum of a single cycle of the circuitous path is greater than 360 degrees. The heating element can be incorporated into a heating assembly for, as an example, semiconductor processing equipment.

Abstract: A micro-heater according to example embodiments may include a substrate, a metal pattern, and a passivation layer. The metal pattern may be spaced apart from the substrate. The passivation layer may be on the metal pattern and made of a solid solution including a material constituting the metal pattern. Alternatively, the passivation layer may be on the substrate and the metal pattern. A method for manufacturing a micro-heater according to example embodiments may include arranging a metal pattern so as to be spaced apart from a substrate. A first passivation layer may be formed on the substrate and the metal pattern. A voltage may be applied to the metal pattern to heat the metal pattern. As a result, a material constituting the metal pattern may diffuse into the first passivation layer to form a second passivation layer.

Abstract: Provided is a ceramic heater, which can be manufactured at a reasonable cost. The ceramic heater comprises a heating resistor comprising a first conducting portion and a second conducting portion which face each other and a ceramic base in which the heating resistor is embedded. The first conducting portion comprises a first burr which extends from the first conducting portion and is located between the first conducting portion and the second conducting portion. The second conducting portion comprises a second burr which extends from the second conducting portion and is located between the second conducting portion and the first conducting portion. At least a part of the first and second burrs is spaced apart from the line that linking a starting point of the first burr and a starting point of the second burr in a cross-section perpendicular to a conduction direction of the first and second conducting portions.

Abstract: A customizable chamber spectral response is described which can be used at least to tailor chamber performance for wafer heating, wafer cooling, temperature measurement, and stray light. In one aspect, a system is described for processing a treatment object having a given emission spectrum at a treatment object temperature which causes the treatment object to produce a treatment object radiated energy. The chamber responds in a first way to the heating arrangement radiated energy and in a second way to the treatment object radiated energy that is incident thereon. The chamber may respond in the first way by reflecting the majority of the heat source radiated energy and in the second way by absorbing the majority of the treatment object radiated energy. Different portions of the chamber may be treated with selectively reflectivity based on design considerations to achieve objectives with respect to a particular chamber performance parameter.

Abstract: A sunshade for an automobile placed upon a dashboard in the interior of the vehicle provides a reflective outer surface to deflect heat and sunlight through the windshield into a vehicle during hot weather conditions and also provides the outer surface with heat strip elements when enabled during cold weather to provide a radiant heat to the windshield to prevent ice build-up on the windshield maintaining a clear windshield during freezing temperatures, the heat strip elements drawings a low voltage current from a rechargeable battery supply or a 12 volt DC power from a cigarette lighter plug, or both.

Abstract: A thermal processing system has a processing vessel 4, a support post 30 stood on the bottom wall of the processing vessel 4, and a support table 32 internally provided with a heating means 38 and supported on the support post 30. A workpiece W is placed on the upper surface of the support table 32 and is subjected to a predetermined thermal process. The upper, the side and the lower surface of the support table 32 are covered with heat-resistant covering members 72, 74 and 76 to prevent the thermal diffusion of metal atoms causative of contamination from the support table 32. thus, various types of contamination, such as metal and organic contamination, can be prevented.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric heating material. Said electric heating material comprises a substrate and an electric heating layer substantially homogeneously attached to said substrate. Said electric heating layer is obtained from an electric heating coating that contains an electric heating base material and a binder. Said electric heating base material is selected from the group consisting of natural graphite, artificial graphite or conductive carbon black; said binder is selected from the group consisting of acrylic resin, epoxy resin, polyurethane, melamine, gelatin, carboxymethyl cellulose, or polyvinyl alcohol. In some embodiments, the substrate is paper. Said electric heating material can be applied to make an electric heating laminate floor the temperature of the surface of which can be heated to 15-70° C. within 5 minutes when a 220 V power source is supplied, and this temperature can be kept consistent for a long period of time.

Abstract: The positioning rack for electrothermo straps includes a base with multiple arms extending radially from the base and each arm is connected with a board. Two engaging members each have a neck connected to the arm and an enlarged block IS connected to the neck. Each board is made of thermal insulation material and has multiple positioning recesses defined in two sides thereof. Each board has two holes and two secure slots which communicate with the two holes respectively. The block passes through the hole and the neck is moved to be engaged with the secure slot to connect the board to the arm. At least two electrothermal straps are engaged with the positioning recesses and spirally mounted to the boards. The boards can be easily replaced without use of rivets.

Abstract: A heating device is presented for surface heating of a body so as to maintain a required temperature of the body. The heating device comprises an electrical heating element and a power source for supplying a required voltage thereto. The heating element comprises first and second conductors, wherein the first conductor is made of a material with relatively high specific resistivity as compared to that of the second conductor, and the second conductor is made of a material with high heat conductivity. The first and second conductors are accommodated in spaced-apart parallel relationship along their lengths such that, when they are connected to the power source, electric currents flow in the conductors in opposite directions, and magnetic fields created in the vicinity of the first and second conductors are completely compensated. The first conductor thus serves as a heater and the second conductor as a heat diffuser.

Abstract: A flexible surface heating element, particularly for seat heaters, having a heating field of conductive fibers electrically connected to at least one contact strip. The contact strip contains a portion of conductors in the form of steel filaments and a portion of conductors in the form of filaments of a higher conductivity than that of the steel filaments. The two types of conductors are electrically interconnected and affixed by means of a yarn on a textile band, the conductors of higher conductivity extending above and/or under the steel filament conductors and being electrically connected to the steel filament conductors. A method for producing the flexible heating element is also provided.

Abstract: A heater that may include an outer housing and an inner tube is provided. The inner tube is in a coaxial relation to and within the outer housing. An inward facing surface of the inner tube defines a volume sufficient to receive a reaction capsule, and the outward facing surface is radially spaced from an inward facing surface of the outer housing sufficient to define a gap. A filler material is disposed within the gap. The filler material responds to pressure such that the filler volume is reduced by less than 5 volume percent at greater than 500 MPa pressure and at greater than 500° C. temperature. One or more heating elements are disposed in the gap. The heating elements are in thermal communication with the inner tube.

Abstract: A method for forming a ceramic laminate ceramic laminate from first and second sheets of ceramic material, the sheets having a first and a second surface, wherein the first ceramic material has a different coefficient of thermal expansion than the second ceramic material and the outer layers comprises ceramic materials having substantially the same thermal properties, comprising (a) heating the first and the second sheets of ceramic material; (b) stacking the first and the second sheets of ceramic material wherein the second surfaces are opposed to one another to provide stacked sheets; and (c) pressing the stacked sheets and forming the ceramic laminate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heatable covering system for floors, ceilings, and walls. The covering system comprises covering panels which at least on one longitudinal edge comprise coupling means in order to be able to join covering panels with each other wherein the covering panels are provided with electrical heating means and have electrical contacting means in order to electrically contact the panels.

Abstract: A ceramic heat conductor support disc for supporting an electrical heating element for electrically heated furnace installations. The support disc has a center aperture lying parallel to the longitudinal axis of the heating element, and one or more apertures located between the center aperture and the periphery of the disc. The disc is provided with one or more elongated openings running from the periphery to one of the apertures or to the center aperture, wherein each elongated opening penetrates the entire thickness of the disc.

Abstract: A heating element including a current conductor through which electric power is conducted and electricity converted into heat by a voltage drop across an ohmic resistor. The heating element is a planar or a strip-shaped structure and is provided with at least one support layer and an adhesive layer, while the current conductor is designed as an additional, current-conducting layer which is arranged between the support layer and the adhesive layer. The support layer, the current-conducting layer, and the adhesive layer are transparent.

Abstract: Connector bushings are crimped to the terminal ends of tubular electrical heating elements for heating equipment, particularly equipment intended for use in hazardous environments, e.g. where there is a risk of explosion.

Abstract: An auxiliary heater for motor vehicles includes an open housing accommodating a layered structure which includes at least one radiator element and at least one heat-emitting element having at least one PTC heating element, and further accommodating at least one spring element pretensioning the layered structure, a plurality of contacts being held in said housing in an insulating manner and electrically connected to the at least one PTC heating element. The layered structure is pretensioned by a displacer which is inserted into a lower housing component when the elements of the layered structure have been inserted in the lower housing component in a tension-free manner. The displacer is inserted into the lower housing component in a direction approximately perpendicular to the plane of the layered structure and, in the mounted position, it is secured in position relative to said lower housing component.

Abstract: A heater (A1) includes a substrate (1), a heating resistor (2) formed on the substrate (1) and a protective film (3) covering the heating resistor (2). The protective film (3) includes a crystallized glass layer (31) and an amorphous glass layer (33) covering the crystallized glass layer (31). The protective film (3) further includes a semi-crystalline glass layer (32) surrounding an edge (31a) of the crystallized glass layer (32) The semi-crystalline glass layer (32) intervenes between the substrate (1) and a portion of the amorphous glass layer (33) that projects relative to the crystallized glass layer (31).

Abstract: Disclosed is a layer for use in a domestic appliance, based on a sol-gel precursor. This layer can be obtained by screen-printing and comprises an organosilane compound. The layer is obtained from a concentrated pre-polymerized sol-gel precursor. The layer can be used as an insulating layer or as a conductive layer in a heating element. Furthermore, the layer can be used for decorative purposes.

Abstract: The invention relates to conductive materials particularly to serve as a heater. Heating means formed by or with electrically conductive materials are known and particularly effective for its flexibility is that sold under the British, Community and US Registered Trade Mark INDITHERM. Conductive rails are used to provide electrical connection to a source of power that need to have a commensurate flexibility, and the object of the invention is to ensure the maintenance of power to the full length of the conductive rail. This objective, is met by a construction comprising spaced first rails for the supply and return of electrical power, the said rails having a flexibility compatible with the semi-conductive material, and there being a supplementary rail attached to each first rail along the length thereof, the supplementary rails being flexible and having strength characteristics greater than those of the first rails.

Abstract: A heating device having a layer containing electrically conductive plastic. The layer exhibits adhesive characteristics at least in some sections on at least one side. A heatable object equipped with a heating device of this type. The layer containing electrically conductive plastic is connected to at least one component of an object. A. radiant heating system including a support and a heating layer containing electrically conductive plastic, whereby the heating layer is formed by a flexible film and the support is also flexible. Methods to produce such products and apparatus.

Abstract: An electric heater assembly for heating molten metal such as aluminum.

Abstract: A heating body is provided. The heating body includes a tube, a heating member disposed in the tube, and a supporting unit disposed along a length of the tube to maintain a predetermined space between the tube and the heating member.

Abstract: An integrate device includes a heater thermally coupled to a plurality of flow-through tubes to perform thermally-driven chemical reactions. A wire mesh heater is wrapped around each of multiple flow-through tubes, thereby creating a thermal interface between the mesh and the tubes. Each end of the wire mesh is coupled to an electrical contact. The electrical contacts are preferable positioned at an exterior portion of the integrated device to be easily placed in electrical contact with a voltage source. As current passes through the mesh, heat is produced. The heat passes from the mesh to each of the flow-through tubes via the thermal interface. The flow-through tubes can be fluidically coupled to a sample preparation module. The sample preparation module, the flow-through tubes, and the heater can be integrated within a single integrated device that provides automated sample preparation and thermally-driven chemical reactions for a variety of applications.

Abstract: A hot runner nozzle heater system is provided with a layered heater in communication with a two-wire controller, wherein a resistive layer of the layered heater is both a heater element and a temperature sensor. The two-wire controller thus determines temperature of the layered heater using the resistance of the resistive layer and controls heater temperature through a power source.

Abstract: A jig for calcining an electronic component including a substrate 11 and a zirconia layer 12 coated on a surface of the substrate characterized in that the zirconia layer including one or more metal oxides forming a liquid phase is calcined for improving peel-off resistance and wear resistance to crystallize the liquid phase after the calcination. In the jig for calcining the electronic component, when the zirconia layer is formed by using an inexpensive method such as an application method, the zirconia layer is not peeled off from the substrate, and grains are not detached.

Abstract: A wafer mounting table constituted as a ceramic heater has a power feeding terminal section for a heating element and a bonding section to a supporting member as portions which are likely to be crack starting points. The wafer mounting table is constituted to permit compressive stress to be generated in the power feeding terminal section and/or the bonding section which are likely to be the crack starting points.

Abstract: The present invention provides an infrared ray lamp being small in size and high in efficiency and having high versatility so at to be easily adaptable to various applications, and also provides a heating apparatus that uses the infrared ray lamp; in the infrared ray lamp according to the present invention, plural heating elements made of a carbonaceous substance having high emissivity and large radiation energy are disposed accurately at desired positions and desired angles, and sealed inside a glass tube; a heating apparatus is configured by using this infrared ray lamp as a heat source.

Abstract: An electrical device includes a compound material. The compound material includes a mixture of an electrically conductive material and an electrically insulative material. The conductive material is aligned within the compound material, such that the resistivity of the compound material in a first direction is different from the resistivity of the compound material in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A material comprises: a first component having a first positive temperature coefficient of resistance characteristic; and a second component having a second positive temperature coefficient of resistance characteristic, the second positive temperature coefficient of resistance characteristic being different from the first positive temperature coefficient of resistance characteristic, the proportions of the two components being such that the material has a positive temperature coefficient of resistance characteristic which is a combination of the first and second positive temperature coefficient of resistance characteristics of the first and second components.

Abstract: New coaxial ceramic heating elements and methods for manufacture wherein a conductive core region extends into a resistive hot zone at the distal end of the heating element, thereby moving the interface between the core conductive region and the resistive hot zone away from the distal tip of the heating element. Methods comprise bringing together a pre-formed or hardened zone of material with a zone of one or more materials having flow, curing, gelling, drying or otherwise solidifying or hardening the material having flow, and sintering to thereby forming an integral coaxial heating element.

Abstract: A heater panel of a radiant heater includes a heating spiral provided on a panel element and mechanically connected to the panel element with a portion of a spiral turn. With the object of providing a heater panel with a stable arrangement of the heating spiral on the panel element by which a high power density is achievable, each spiral turn is detachably connected to the panel element by three spaced-apart contact spots. Two of said contact spots are located on the outer circumference of the spiral turn in such a distance to each other that the radii originating at them define an angle of less than 180°, and the third contact spot is located on the inner circumference of the spiral turn within the portion of the spiral turn facing the panel element and confined by the two outer contacts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image thermal apparatus including a flexible metallic sleeve, the inner peripheral surface of which contacts a heater. In order to provide increased durability for the sliding face of the heater, an imide resin that contains silicon nitride elementary particles is used to coat the sliding face of the heater.

Abstract: An electric heating device includes an electric heater (10) and at least one heat radiator (30, 40) thermally attached to the electric heater. The electric heater includes a pair of electrode plates (12, 14) parallel to each other and a plurality of PTC (Positive Temperature Coefficient) heating elements (16) sandwiched between and electrically connecting the electrode plates. The heating elements are alternately arranged with a plurality of insulation sheets (18). An electrically-insulating and heat-conductive insulation frame (19) encloses the electrode plates therein for electrically insulating the electric heater from the heat radiator.

Abstract: A rare earth element contained substrate for heat generating device contains the rare earth elements, compounds of the rare earth elements, or rare earth minerals so as to heighten its withstanding temperature and improve its heat dissipation. The substrate is also able to radiate a far infrared ray and yield negative ions for purifying the air.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heating element with electrically insulated metallic filaments wherein those metallic filaments have a diameter of 2 to 200 ?m, each metallic filament is separately electrically insulated and the electric insulation is a continuous and coherent glass coating. This provides thus a product which is very corrosion and oxidation resistant and has a high cut resistance. The high cut resistance makes it highly suitable for being sewn in textiles, e.g. in car seating. A further advantage of the invention is the small dimensions of the material used which make it more flexible thereby increasing the wear resistance and also increasing the flexibility for use, e.g. weaving, knitting or braiding the product into textile products. The metallic filaments can be of a metal with a specific electrical resistance between 17 and 2000 ?.mm2/km. Preferably, a specific electrical resistance between 17 and 200 ?.mm2/km, even more preferably, a specific electrical resistance between 17 and 100 ?.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic field-blocking panel heater. The magnetic field-blocking panel heater includes a panel heating element comprising a heat generating electrical conductor enclosed in an electrical insulator and first electrodes for transferring current to the electrical conductor. A magnetic field-blocking material surrounds the panel heating element. Second electrodes are respectively connected to the first electrodes of the panel heating element and extended outside of the magnetic field-blocking material for transferring current to the first electrodes, wherein the magnetic field-blocking material absorbs a magnetic field generated by the panel heating element when current is applied to the electrical conductor via the first and second electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plate-type heater designed to allow uniform generation of heat across the entire surface of the heater, comprising an upper component composed of a first outer covering and a first intermediate layer joined together and a lower component composed of a second outer covering and a second intermediate layer joined together, with a heating element being placed between said upper component and lower component and wires laminated onto the two end surfaces of said heating element.

Abstract: In the method of manufacturing a cooking stove its stove top can be equipped with different glass ceramic tops, which each have at least one cooking area, which is heated by a radiant heating body cooperating with a temperature-limiting adjusting device, which limits a surface temperature of the glass ceramic top. To economically and individually adjust the IR transmission of a glass ceramic top with a higher IR transmittance to that of a lower IR transmittance corresponding to that of another glass ceramic top so that they are interchangeable, the glass ceramic top with the higher IR transmittance is provided with an absorbing and/or reflecting coating. When the glass ceramic tops are interchangeable, either can be used in a given cooking stove without changing the expensive temperature-limiting device.

Abstract: An electric heating blanket including a flexible sheet-like heating element and a shell. The shell covers the heating blanket an includes two sheets of flexible material welded together.

Abstract: In a ceramic heater according to the invention, a heating section has a meandering shape to include a pair of first straight segments, a plurality of second straight segments, and a plurality of curved segments. Each of the first straight segments extends in the longitudinal direction of a ceramic sheet and has a center line. The second straight segments are interposed between the first straight segments in the lateral direction of the ceramic sheet. Each of the second straight segments extends obliquely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the ceramic sheet. Each of the curved segments connects ends of an adjacent pair of the first and second straight segments and has a center line. The sum of curvature diameters of the center lines of the curved segments is greater than a distance between the center lines of the first straight segments in the lateral direction of the ceramic sheet.