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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7291809 | Soldering iron and method of manufacturing same A soldering iron provided with a soldering tip that melts solder at a distal end, having inside said soldering tip a substantially cylindrical insertion fit recess portion extending from a proximal end of the soldering tip to the distal end, opening at the proximal ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7259356 | Temperature self-regulating soldering iron with removable tip A soldering iron with a removable tip, including: a soldering iron, including: a shaft; a ferrite bobbin disposed on the shaft; a magnetic coil wrapped around the ferrite bobbin; and a removable tip with a heater element disposed thereon, wherein the heater element ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7223947 | Domestic appliance and heating structure for a domestic appliance An electric heating structure of a domestic appliance includes at least one first electric heating track (23) having a positive temperature coefficient and at least one additional electric heating track (27, 28). A control structure (22, 25, 29)... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7196295 | Two-wire layered heater system A 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 heate... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7170034 | Pulsed electric shaver A hair cutting apparatus comprising a structure (126), a portion (1216) of which being adapted for placement against a skin surface where hair is to be cut, a heat generator comprising one or more heat elements (1214) positioned to touch said ha... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7114556 | Burn-in oven heat exchanger having improved thermal conduction A heat exchange system that can accommodate a high power integrated circuit chip for burn-in temperature stressing includes a heat sink having a chip engaging surface that is adapted to engage a surface of the chip. A liquid layer fills a heat exchange gap between t... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7112765 | Food cooking container with monitoring means for monitoring the operating temperature thereof A food cooking container, with means for monitoring the operating temperature thereof, comprises, in the handle support (3) and/or in the handle (2) of the container, temperature monitoring and indicating means for monitoring and indicating a preset op... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7075035 | Hot wire control apparatus and method Control system and apparatus for controlling current input to an electrical resistance element such as a seal wire. The system and apparatus of the present invention is a closed loop feedback modification to conventional systems, and takes advantage of the inherent ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7044354 | Soldering system with indicator lights displaying system status A soldering station with indicator lights to display system status is provided. The soldering station comprising a power supply and a control board coupled to the power supply. The control board is operable to adjust output of the power supply. The soldering station... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7037104 | Device and method for exposing a candle wick embedded in candle wax A device and method for exposing the ignitable end of a candle wick embedded in wax leaving an area around the wick to facilitate future lighting. The device includes an elongate hollow heated tube, heated by a heating source which heats the elongate hollow tube to ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7012538 | Heating element condition monitor A method for monitoring the condition of a heating element involving installing the heating element in a location and setting the initial composition Ci of the material as a reference baseline at an initial time Ti corresponding to said install... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6972396 | Electric part heating device and electric part handling device Disclosed is a heating device having a elongated body to heat an electric part for soldering or desoldering the electric part. The heating device includes a tip through which the heat is applied to the part, a heater for heating the tip and a temperature sensor for ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6946623 | Appliance for liquefying solder with variable duty cycle and method of implementing The present invention relates to a solder heating appliance with variable duty cycle. Rather than applying power continuously to the heating element, the element power is intermittently switched over to a variable duty cycle. Savings are gained in three areas: exten... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6914514 | Switch for water boiling appliance such as a kettle A steam-responsive switch for use in an electrical water boiling appliance comprises a main body (12) from which extends a tubular portion (13) having at or near its leading end a heat responsive bimetal (16) extending across the mouth thereof w... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6833531 | Temperature adjusting device for a soldering iron Disclosed is a temperature adjusting device for adjusting or setting temperature of a soldering iron, with the adjustment or setting being allowed to a particular authorized operator. The device comprises a temperature control section having a moveable member... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6786386 | Soldering iron with heat pipe A soldering iron comprises a tip end; a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron; a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion: a heat pipe structure provided in the holding portion; a first heat pipe holder for h... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6726683 | Electrically heated surgical cutting instrument Surgical cutting instrument includes an electrically heated cutting edge and an automatic control system for maintaining the cutting edge at a constant high temperature for sterilizing the blade, cutting tissue, and cauterizing the incised tissue to reduce hemorrhag... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6653600 | Heating trowel such as soldering iron The present invention relates to heating trowel which processes by heat while observing the status of the working material, such as soldering iron, plastic welder, iron, hair iron and the like, and specifically it relates to heating trowel that could be u... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6580050 | Soldering station with built-in self-calibration function A soldering station with a control unit and a soldering iron having a replaceable soldering tip, the soldering iron being connected to the control unit by a power cord for receiving electrical power from said control unit is provided with an automatic cal... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6455813 | Hot iron such as soldering iron and method of controlling the iron An extremely rapidly acting heating apparatus such as for example a soldering iron, plastic welder or hair iron, wherein a fixed large amount of electricity is provided to a heating element for a short period of time by activating a power supply switch on... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6369359 | Self-feeding soldering device A self feeding soldering device includes a soldering device; a solder feed mechanism carried on the soldering device; and a solder system controller in controlling connection with the soldering device and the solder feed mechanism. The solder feed mechani... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6087631 | Soldering iron with temperature control cycles related to rectified voltage cycles A method of controlling the tip temperature of a soldering iron of the kind to which rectified commercial AC power is supplied. The tip temperature is controlled by setting a control cycle at N times the cycle of AC power and adjusting the number of suppl... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6054678 | Heater-sensor complex A heater/sensor with an electric heating coil has an insulating pipe with a bore therein has nonheating wire threaded therethrough. The nonheating wire is attached to a first end of a heating wire which is wound about the periphery of the insulating pipe.... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5837973 | Assembly of thermocouple sensor fitted to iron tip A thermocouple sensor is fitted to an iron tip of an electric soldering iron provided with a temperature controller. The sensor can detect the temperature of the iron tip and supply it to the temperature controller, which then adjusts the temperature to a... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5807392 | Resistively heated cutting and coagulating surgical instrument A surgical instrument having a resistively-heated heating component responsive to a power source for generating thermal excitation effective for cutting tissue and carrying out hemostasis. The surgical instrument includes a support assembly having two leg... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5788789 | Power device for fusing plastic pipe joints A handheld power control device adapted to be connected to an external power supply for controlling the electric power applied to a heating coil positioned in a fusible area of a thermoplastic pipe joint for thermally fusing the joint. A housing having a ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5785064 | High temperature externally heated hair-styling devices A high temperature externally heated hair-styling device is provided which has a hair-styling body. An over-temperature alarm is mounted in the hair-styling body. The over-temperature alarm has a temperature sensor which is thermally connected to the hair... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5747778 | Hot melting iron having a safety control circuit board A safety device for irons used for models includes a control electrical circuit board accommodated within an iron and mounted with a temperature setting knob controllable by a variable resistor, a central processing unit, an output control device, a heate... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5688421 | Dispenser for heat-liquefiable material with contiguous PTC heater and heat exchanging member A low wattage device for heat-liquefying material is described which employs a low volume mass electrical heat exchanger structure to generate a high power density within a dispensing tip; and simultaneously by actuation of an operator controlled momentar... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5611798 | Resistively heated cutting and coagulating surgical instrument A surgical instrument having a resistively-heated heating component responsive to a power source for generating thermal excitation effective for cutting tissue and carrying out hemostasis. The surgical instrument includes a support assembly having two leg... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5584419 | Magnetically heated susceptor A method and apparatus are provided for heating a solid material and dispensing the material as a liquid. A central housing has an inlet, a dispensing orifice and a flow passage extending through the central housing for passing the material from the inlet... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5495093 | Soldering apparatus processor having temperature selection, calibration and heating control of tip A soldering system is disclosed having a stored program microcontroller by which one or more temperatures can be selected for a soldering iron tip. The system then automatically maintains such tip temperature during the soldering operation. The programmed... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5485392 | Manual soldering process monitoring system A system for monitoring the soldering process which comprises a soldering ans including a means for monitoring analog heat flow, a means, connected to said soldering means, for converting analog heat flow readings into a digital temperature data points, a... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5412178 | Iron-tip temperature detector of electric soldering iron A contact point of a thermocouple sensor is welded to the nose of an iron tip of an electric soldering iron, and sensor wires of the sensor are laid along the surface of the iron tip through a groove to a columnar base of the iron tip. The columnar base o... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5406053 | Heating probe having a heated tip forming a thermocouple A heated probe and sensor tip incorporating a thermocouple located near the distal end of the probe. Improved temperature monitoring and control are achieved through placement of a thermocouple at or near the heating surface. In one embodiment of the devi... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5376772 | Electrothermal instrument with heat generating element of sintered BaTiO3 in contact with heat transmitting member An electrothermal color-varying instrument for inducing color change in a color-varying layer includes a heat generating element composed of a sintered barium titanate thermistor in face-to face contact with a heat transmitting member having a heating end... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5354967 | Hair styling appliance heater and control A low cost heater element is disclosed which is formed of a wire wound mica paper substrate and a mica paper cover and a low cost diode acting as a negative temperature coefficient of resistance NTC temperature sensor. A control circuit provides power to ... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5297716 | Soldering tool with attached thermocouple A soldering tip is provided with a protrusion extending from its operative region to permit an opening to extend therethrough. Thermocouple wires are disposed in the opening and mechanically urged into thermal contact with the operative region. One embodi... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5276306 | Hand-held heating device for dislodging and removing skin-embedded ticks and other arachnids A device for removing deer ticks and similar insects from a person's skin is disclosed. The device includes a heatable pointed needle and a spoon member located in spaced relationship alongside the needle with the bowl of the spoon facing the needle. The ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5220152 | Rechargeable battery powered electrically heated lock thawing device with built-in battery charger An electrical lock thawing device includes a housing formed from a water-proof rubber material and enclosing a rechargeable battery and an electrical heating element. A switch on the housing is operative to selectively connect the battery to the heating e... | 06/15/1993 |
