Beaded Patents (Class 338/213)
  • Patent number: 7915996
    Abstract: An electronic component and a method for producing the electronic component achieve efficient production of resistive elements with various resistances. The electronic component includes a pair of terminals opposite each other and a resistive element disposed between the pair of terminals. The resistive element includes a plurality of dots arranged so as to overlap each other in a reference arrangement pattern excluding a portion of the arrangement pattern. To produce the electronic component, an electronic component is prototyped in advance and includes a resistive element in which the dots are arranged in the entire reference arrangement pattern between the pair of terminals. The prototyped resistive element is then partially removed so as to attain a desired resistance. An electronic component is then produced in which the dots are arranged in the reference arrangement pattern with a portion of the arrangement pattern excluded on the basis of the shape of the partially removed resistive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Goto, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 7595716
    Abstract: To provide an electronic component including a resistor element that can be efficiently produced with a range of resistances, and a method for manufacturing the electronic component, the electronic component includes a pair of terminals, and a resistor element disposed between the terminals. The resistor element includes at least two resistive portions (hereinafter referred to as a first resistive portion and a second resistive portion) that are continuously disposed. The first resistive portion includes a plurality of first dots overlapping one another. The second resistive portion includes a plurality of second dots having a different electric resistance from that of the first dots overlapping one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Goto, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 5614120
    Abstract: A heating element having at least one tail is provided for connection to an electrical source. The tail includes an electrically conductive wire with a sleeving around at least a portion thereof. The wire and sleeving are connected to a tubing and crimped for receipt within a connector. The connector is provided to receive the tubing and to connect to the voltage source allowing electric heat to pass through the length of electrically conductive wire and to thereby heat the heating element. The heating section is particularly suitable for pre-heating and post-stress weld stress relieving piping welds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Stresstech
    Inventor: David W. Wenzel
  • Patent number: 4504734
    Abstract: The assembly comprises coiled resistances passing through one or more holes as transversely formed in ceramics material strips so shaped as to be effective to be coupled to one another in a partial sliding relationship and to provide a structure having void spaces, engageable by the electric resistances and being restrained, on the outside thereof, by a net band wound as a ring and provided with means for removably coupling its end portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Inventor: Gaetano Piazzola
  • Patent number: 4499334
    Abstract: The leads to a heater for an electrothermal hydrazine monopropellant thruster comprise tungsten conductors wrapped with smaller diameter tungsten support wire and insulated with beads of alumina (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3). A transition section connects the leads to regular leads. An attaching support wire is attached to the heater at one end and to the transition section at the other end. The insulated conductors and attaching wire are wrapped together with nickel ribbon to form a sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Francis L. Merritt, Adriano C. Ducati
  • Patent number: 4464565
    Abstract: An elongated flexible resistance heating element includes a heat transmitting cover that is generally coextensive with the element. A resilient element is provided adjacent one end of the heating element to accommodate extension of the cover for use of the heater as desired without changing the length of the element or cover. The extensible tape heater of the present invention comprises an elongated flexible resistance wire heating element, a heat transmitting extendable cover arranged coextensive with the heating element, a substantially nonresistive wire connected about one end of the heating element, a spring surrounding the nonresistive wire and abutting the cover at one of its ends, a stop positioned about the non-resistive wire in spaced relation to the end of the cover, and a flexible sleeve extending over the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Inventor: Glenn C. Spangler
  • Patent number: 4320253
    Abstract: A heating element comprising a plurality of ceramic components strung together on a heating wire to form a flexible structure, adjacent ceramic components comprising integrally formed mating projections and depressions. The element comprises ceramic components of a type each having a body defining two generally parallel passages therethrough, both passages terminating at one end in a depression, one passage terminating at the other end in a depression and the other passage terminating at the other end in a projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1982
    Inventor: Joseph Fisher
  • Patent number: 4255649
    Abstract: A heating element comprising a plurality of ceramic components strung together on a heating wire to form a flexible structure, adjacent ceramic components comprising integrally formed mating projections and depressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1981
    Inventor: Joseph Fisher
  • Patent number: 3933200
    Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for conditioning the temperature of an elongated tubular member, and the contents therein, and comprises a plurality of cast metal shoes adapted to be connected in side-by-side relation about the periphery of the member. Certain of the shoes contain cooling means and certain other of the shoes contain electric heating means. The invention provides for identical construction of all of the shoes, apart from the contained cooling and heating means, and includes means for connecting the shoes in side-by-side relation without the need of special tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1976
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventor: Donald M. Cunningham