Abstract: A heat induction workstation has a base, a housing, a working station, an electrical power supplier and a cooling device. The housing has two baffles to divide the inner space of the housing into a central chamber and two side chambers. The working station is mounted in the central chamber and has at least one induction heating device. The electrical power supplier and the cooling device are respectively received in the side chambers. The electrical power supplier is electrically connected to the working station to provide electrical power to the working station. The cooling device is connected to the electrical power supplier to reduce the temperature of the electrical power supplier while the electrical power supplier is in operation.

Abstract: An RFID-based induction heating/vending system for quickly and efficiently heating, vending, and recollecting stadium seats (10) or other objects. The system includes a plurality of objects each including an induction-heatable body (22), a charging/vending station (12) for heating and vending the objects; a self-serve warming station (14) that may be used by consumers to reheat their objects; and a check-out station (16) that automatically collects objects from consumers after use.

Abstract: A disc tribometer for measuring tribological, mechanical and thermal phenomena including at least a first rotary support for receiving a test sample, a second rotary support for receiving a second test sample, means for measuring torque applied to each of the supports, and at least one induction coil positioned to heat one of the test samples.

Abstract: A high-frequency induction heating power control method comprises: detecting the input current of an inverter circuit for rectifying the voltage of an AC power source to convert the rectified voltage into an AC voltage of a predetermined frequency; rectifying the detected current to determine an input current waveform; shaping the waveform to determine a reference waveform; determining the difference between the input current waveform and the reference waveform; and mixing the differential information and the current control output by a mix circuit to convert the mixed one into the drive output of a switching transistor of the inverter circuit.

Abstract: An induction heating system and method of using the same are described. The system includes a locator system that eccentrically positions the central axis of the internal central void of the work piece with respect to the central axis of the locator system. The locator system also includes a rotation system that allows the work piece to be eccentrically rotated during the heat-treating process. In this manner, the lobe and heel portions of a cammed surface are substantially equidistant from the internal surfaces of an inductor so as to ensure substantially uniform heating of the external surfaces of the work piece.

Abstract: In the method according to the invention cold or unheated hardened glass and/or glass-ceramic parts are bonded together with a metallic ductile joining material, preferably silver, copper, aluminum or an alloy of those metals, to form a brittle article. The parts to be joined in an initial unheated state are placed with the metallic ductile joining material between them in a high frequency alternating field with frequencies preferably from 100 to 500 kHz. Then the joining material is inductively heated locally to melt it by means of the alternating field and the parts are pressed together to form a sufficiently strong bond between the parts.

Abstract: The induction coil (13) of an arrangement which heats a tool-holder (1) inductively for the purpose of changing a tool shank (11) retained with a press-fit therein has a winding (19), in the case of which the number of coil turns per unit of length in the direction of the coil axis and/or the number of coil turns per unit of surface area is smaller in an intermediate region located, in the direction of the coil axis, between two main winding regions (21, 23) than in the two main winding regions (21, 23) and/or the internal winding diameter is smaller in the two main winding regions (21, 23) than in the intermediate region and/or, at least in an axial sub-region of the induction coil (13), increases from the two main winding regions (21, 23) in the direction of the intermediate region.

Abstract: Gastight and vacuum-tight chamber intended to be used in a device for heating a product advancing inside the said chamber by electromagnetic induction, characterized in that it comprises a sheath made of an electrically insulating, gastight and vacuum-tight material, the inner faces of the said sheath being protected by a heat shield consisting of a matrix of tiles made of a thermally insulating material and of a plurality of tubes cooled by the flow of a fluid, the latter being trapped in the said matrix of tiles.

Abstract: A disc tribometer for measuring tribological, mechanical and thermal phenomena including at least a first rotary support for receiving a test sample, a second rotary support for receiving a second test sample, means for measuring torque applied to each of the supports, and at least one induction coil positioned to heat one of the test samples.

Abstract: The device and the method are used to de-ice an elongated structural element having a closed contour. The device is formed of pairs of electrically conductive and insulated wires, preformed for winding, one next to the other, along and around the structural element following an helicoidal trajectory while embracing the contour of the structural element with a certain gap. The conductive wires have ends for receiving electromagnetic impulses, and opposite ends electrically connected together. The conductive wires are sized to withstand a current causing a repulsion force whose intensity is capable of breaking the ice or the frost on the structural element by the separation of the conductive wires from each other in response to the repulsion. The conductive wires have rigidity and elasticity properties such that they recover their shape around the structural element after the separation caused by the repulsion.

Abstract: A method and system for cleaning the silicon microlenses in an electron-beam microcolumn in situ. The microlenses individually are heated by passing a current through each microlens. The current is utilized to heat the microlens to at least two hundred degrees Centigrade to prevent contamination and occasionally to a temperature on the order of six to seven hundred degrees Centigrade to remove any builtup or potential contamination.

Abstract: An induction heating source is provided for use with an electrical smoking article. The induction heating source provides an alternating electromagnetic field which inductively heats a susceptor in thermal proximity with tobacco flavor medium to generate aerosols. A plurality of induction heaters are employed and/or the tobacco flavor medium is translated with respect to the induction heater or susceptor. The tobacco flavor medium can form an intimate structure with the susceptor and can take the form of a cylindrical cigarette or a web.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for superplastic forming. The workpiece is held between a pair of dies that are electrically and thermally nonconductive, and is heated inductively by a coil embedded within the dies. The dies are formed of a material that is substantially transparent to inductive heating. A plurality of electrical conductors are embedded within the die. The electrical conductors are interconnected into one or more electrically conductive coils that surround the workpiece. The electrical conductors are used to produce a time varying magnetic field that is used to heat the workpiece. In one embodiment, the workpiece is a composite material that is susceptible to inductive heating. The composite material includes an electrically conductive material. The time varying magnetic field heats the electrical conductive material, thereby heating the workpiece. The die also includes a forming surface having a shape corresponding to a desired shape of the workpiece.

Abstract: The present invention related to a method for joining ceramic members and an insertion member to be employed in the joining method. In the present invention, ceramic members are heated by the induction heating in a state that a heating ceramic member having a conductivity larger than those of the ceramic members to be jointed is intervened between the ceramic members to be jointed. In this induction heating, the heating ceramic member having a larger conductivity is mainly heated and the temperature of the butting portion is raised up to a temperature needed to join the ceramic members. Upon joining the ceramic members, it is desirable to press the butting portion but is not necessarily needed. In the case without the pressing, it is desirable to form a layer of a joining agent on each of the butting surfaces of the heating insertion member beforehand.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for superplastic forming. The workpiece is held between a pair of dies that are electrically and thermally nonconductive, and is heated inductively by a coil embedded within the dies.

Abstract: A hot dip batch coating pot for containing a coating material in a liquid state. The pot comprises a container portion having a horizontal bottom and vertical side walls, with the bottom and said side walls defining an interior volume for containing said coating material. At least one coreless induction furnace is mounted on a side wall of the container portion. The coreless induction furnace defines an interior volume in communication with the interior volume of the container portion for inductively heating the coating material. The coreless induction furnace is disposed at an angle to the vertical.