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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8093534 | Cooking device There is provided a cooking device capable of preventing heating operations from being unintentionally turned on and off and the setting of heating operations from being changed even when water droplets are scattered around touch switches or the vicinity of the touc... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8071920 | Planar heater A planar heater 1 in which a power supply terminal unit 108 which supplies an electric power is arranged on a central portion on a lower surface of a silica glass plate-like member 102. The power supply terminal unit includes small-diameter sili... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071919 | Heating cooker In a heating cooker, an object to be heated is placed on a top plate and is heated by a heating unit located below the top plate. The top plate is translucent and a fluorescent display tube is located below the top plate. The top plate is configured to have spectral... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8049143 | Hot plate heater for a respiratory system A heater unit for a respiratory system includes a hot plate heater including a heat conducting hot plate and a plastic hub mounted together. The hot plate may define a thin heat conducting disc and may further define a depending flange circumferentially surrounding ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7718929 | Cooking top plate A substrate is made of a crystallized glass having translucency and an average linear thermal expansion coefficient of −5×10−7/° C. at 30 to 500° C. The substrate has a first surface (working surface) of a smooth surface having a surface roughness ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7696455 | Power terminals for ceramic heater and method of making the same A ceramic heater is provided that includes a power terminal for connecting a resistive heating element to a power source. An intermediate layer is disposed on an AlN ceramic substrate proximate the resistive heating element. The power terminal is bonded to the inter... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7671303 | Glass-ceramic plate and method for making same The present invention relates to a glass-ceramic plate intended especially for covering heating elements and provided on at least one face with at least one enamel patch and/or at least one coat of paint, with the exception, where appropriate, of functional and/or d... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7605350 | System for two-step resist soft bake to prevent ILD outgassing during semiconductor processing In general, the system provides for soft baking a semiconductor wafer so that photoresist layers on the wafer are free of surface voids or craters. In particular, the system provides for manufacturing a semiconductor wafer having no photoresist craters at the comple... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7544916 | Heating device A heating device is provided, including a ceramic base in which a resistance heating body is embedded, gas flow passages formed in an inside portion of the base, and adjustment members which vary flow rates of a gas provided in the gas flow passages. ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7432474 | Heating device A heating device includes a substantially cylindrical shaft joined to a joint surface of a plate-shaped ceramic substrate opposite to a heating surface, the ceramic substrate including a resistance heating element embedded in the ceramic substrate. The shaft include... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429718 | Heating and cooling of substrate support A substrate support assembly and method for controlling the temperature of a substrate within a process chamber are provided. A substrate support assembly includes an thermally conductive body comprising a stainless steel material, a substrate support surface on the... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427728 | Zone control heater plate for track lithography systems A substrate heater comprising a bake plate having an upper surface, a lower surface and a peripheral side surface extending between the upper and lower surfaces, the bake plate including at least one heating element, at least one temperature sensor and a plurality o... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7420143 | Durable graphite connector and method for manufacturing thereof An article comprising a graphite part coated with a pyrolytic graphite (pG) for increased mechanical strength of at least 25% over an uncoated graphite part. In connector applications for use in a semiconductor processing assembly such as a heater, the pG coated com... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415312 | Process module tuning A process module tuning method characterizes a process module by gathering data using a process condition measuring device to measure process outputs while inputs are excited. The data is used to identify a dynamic process model. The dynamic process model is then be... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7401399 | Method of manufacturing a substrate heating device A manufacturing method for a substrate heating device comprises forming a base plate having a substrate heating surface in which a resistance heating element is buried, forming a tubular member, joining the tubular member to the base plate, measuring temperature dis... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7390990 | Heating device A heating device is provided, including an insulating ceramic base having a heating surface for heating an object. A high frequency electrode is embedded in the insulating ceramic base in the vicinity of the heating surface, and a heating body is embedded in the bas... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390994 | Electric cooker having a composite heat source An electric cooker having a composite heat source includes an external case having an air inlet and an air outlet, a cooking plate mounted on an upper surface of the external case to be a top plate thereof, a heat generating unit mounted between the external case an... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7377776 | Semiconductor wafer baking apparatus A semiconductor wafer baking apparatus includes a hot plate, a container of which an upper part is open, and a cover that covers the upper part of the container. The cover includes an upper plate, a lower plate and a side wall that form a gas circulating space there... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7355151 | Magnetic safety feature for cookware and cooking stoves Methods and devices for securing the bottom of an item of cookware to the burner of a stove top by use of magnetism. The magnet(s) may be permanent magnets or electromagnets. The cookware may comprise a permanent magnet disposed on or in the base of the cookware. Th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7345260 | Heater and method of manufacturing the same A heater including a plate-shaped substrate having a heating surface for heating an object and a heater element provided in the substrate or on its surface. A central axis C2 of a circumscribed circle of the heater element and a central axis C1 of the ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7327949 | Heater assembly for a respiratory treatment machine A heating assembly for a respiratory treatment machine includes a base and a water tank. The base has a receiving space communicating with a recessed platform at a via an opening, and a heating plate securely placed on a bottom face of the receiving space. The water... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326885 | Hot plate with stainless steel top A hotplate with a stainless steel top plate to support a vessel. The stainless steel top plate has an upper surface with a substantially centrally located depression having a depth and area generally sufficient to absorb upward crowning of the top plate when heated.... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315450 | Heat-generating component cooling structure A heat-generating component cooling structure includes a hollow heat sink having a portion made of a thermally conductive material. The heat sink has an interior path extending from first to second ends of the heat sink. A fan device is disposed at the first end of ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312994 | Heat dissipation device with a heat pipe A heat dissipation device includes a heat conducting base, a heat sink on the base and two heat pipes thermally contacting with the heat sink and the base. The heat sink is made of metal extrusion and includes a heat conducting cylinder at a periphery of the heat si... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7288229 | Parallel reactor with sensing of internal properties An apparatus and method for carrying out and monitoring the progress and properties of multiple reactions is disclosed. The method and apparatus are especially useful for synthesizing, screening, and characterizing combinatorial libraries, but also offer significant... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285757 | Bottom electric heating element systems and ovens A bottom electric heating element for an oven wherein the electric heating element is positioned in a recessed portion in the oven bottom and comprises at least one corrugated ribbon of conductive material partially embedded in an insulating base. A glass panel is p... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7227103 | Induction hot plate comprising heating regions having a reconfigurable structure, and method for increasing the maximum power of said heating regions An induction hot plate including a plurality of heating regions with a reconfigurable structure. The hot plate includes at least two power modules, each supplying electrical power to at least one first and one second induction heating element. The maximum power to e... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7208703 | Cooking top plate A substrate is made of a crystallized glass having translucency and an average linear thermal expansion coefficient of −5×10−7/° C. at 30 to 500° C. The substrate has a first surface (working surface) of a smooth surface having a surface roughness ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203565 | Temperature abnormality detection method and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a hot plate that heats an article to be processed; a temperature control section that controls temperature of the hot plate; a main body control section that controls the entirety of the apparatus based on a process ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7180040 | Crimp splice for an electrical resistance heating cable An electrical resistance heating cable, including a resistance heating wire having a resistive conductor, an insulation at least partially surrounding said resistive conductor; and an end. A crimp connector is connected to the end. A thermally conductive sleeve at l... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173219 | Ceramic heaters An object of the present invention is to provide a heater having a ceramic substrate with a through hole formed therein so that the uniformity of temperature on the heating face of the substrate can be improved and the use life of the ceramic substrate can be improv... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7148452 | Heat sink for printed circuit board components The present invention provides a heat sink for cooling a component. The component may be one of several components on a circuit board. The heat sink includes a tubular body and a plurality of internal fins. The tubular body has an interior surface and an exterior su... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7141763 | Method and apparatus for rapid temperature change and control An apparatus and a method for controlling the temperature of a substrate during substrate processing. The apparatus comprises a substrate table having a thermal surface supporting the substrate. The apparatus also comprises a first thermal assembly arranged in the s... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7135658 | Magnetic safety feature for cookware and cooking stoves Methods and devices for securing the bottom of an item of cookware to the burner of a stove top by use of magnetism. The magnet(s) may be permanent magnets or electromagnets. The cookware may comprise a permanent magnet disposed on or in the base of the cookware. Th... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7115839 | Heaters A heater is provided, including an insulating substrate and a heating resistance, wherein the temperature on the heating face is easily controlled without providing a separate temperature controlling member. The heating resistance includes at least one parallel-conn... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7115838 | Unit for varying a temperature of a test piece and testing instrument incorporating same A disc-type unit 10 adjusts temperature of a control face 14 by means of a heater 12 and coolant, with a hollow plate 11 to which the heater 12 is secured, a cavity 13 formed in the hollow plate 11 and a piping 20 | 10/03/2006 |
| 7115837 | Selective reflectivity process chamber with customized wavelength response and method 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... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7107793 | Lithium-aluminosilicate glass ceramic with high keatite content and structural member made thereof A lithium-aluminosilicate glass ceramic is transformed by a suitable heat treatment into a glass ceramic comprising at least 80 vol.-% of keatite mixed crystals. This may be utilized for the preparation of optical or mechanical high-precision parts having a high tem... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7088887 | Isothermal thin film heater Systems and methods for an isothermal thin film heater are provided. The isothermal thin film heater mitigates temperature variations in an optical circuit, such as an arrayed-waveguide grating. The thin film heater comprises a conductive plate and at least one heat... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7081603 | Composite cooking apparatus A composite cooking apparatus having a body, a heating unit, an induction heating unit, and an insulating plate. The heating unit is positioned in the body to generate heat used to heat food. The induction heating unit is positioned adjacent to the heating unit to g... | 07/25/2006 |
