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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8119952 | System with flicker control and method of reducing flicker generated by a system A system is disclosed that is designed to be connected to an electrical power supply. The system comprises a plurality of electric load component comprising stages for cooperatively producing an output (Tout), each stage in a first subset of the stages co... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8049144 | Plasma arc coating system A system for coating a substrate includes a heater that heats the substrate. The heater includes a two-dimensional array of a plurality of heat sources which supply heat to the substrate when the substrate is in the presence of the array of heat sources. The heater ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7671304 | Multiple zone temperature controller for injection molding system A multiple zone temperature controller for a hot runner injection molding system. The temperature controller includes inputs for signals from two or more thermocouples corresponding to two or more heating zones. The thermocouple inputs are time-division multiplexed ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7652230 | Operating device for an electrical appliance having a control panel and subadjacent sensor element and method of operating such an operating device An operating device for a cooktop has a cover with a control panel with a plurality of operating areas. Below the panel, several FSR sensors are positioned. When a control panel is pushed down by a process of operation, the FSR sensor changes its electrical resistan... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7626144 | Method and apparatus for rapid temperature changes A method and apparatus for rapid temperature changes of thin samples is disclosed. The apparatus comprises of a thin-film resistive element embedded in a membrane, a narrow gap between the membrane and a heat sink, and a control circuit. The resistive element acts b... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7615725 | Heater controlling apparatus for gas sensor A heater controlling apparatus for controlling a heater that heats a sensing element of a gas sensor provided in an exhaust system of a diesel engine includes a device that changes a reference condition for controlling the heater after a start of the engine in a fir... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7521653 | Plasma arc coating system A system for coating a substrate includes a heater that heats the substrate. The heater includes a two-dimensional array of a plurality of heat sources which supply heat to the substrate when the substrate is in the presence of the array of heat sources. The heater ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7495194 | Heating apparatus and heating method A heating apparatus includes a plurality of heating means that heat a heated object, a temperature measuring means that measures temperatures of some of the plurality of heating means, a heated object information storing means that stores, in a coordinate manner, he... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7440820 | Water flow detection system for a bathing unit The present invention provides a control system for a bathing unit that comprises a heating module, a thermal element and a heating module controller. The heating module includes a body that defines a passage through which water can flow, that has an inner surface a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7423240 | Pulse width modulated defroster A window defroster system that includes a heater grid and a controller. The controller includes a pulse width modulator configured to provide a driving signal to the heater grid. The driving signal has an initial heating portion and a pulsed portion. The initial hea... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7408133 | Method of thermally coupling a flow tube or like component to a thermal sensor and sensor systems formed thereby A method of thermally coupling a flow tube or like component to a thermal sensor comprises bonding the component to the thermal sensor such that thermally conductive portions formed on the component are thermally coupled to corresponding sensing/heating elements dis... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404670 | Analytical furnace with predictive temperature control An analytical furnace includes a predictive temperature control which is trained to model crucible temperature during analysis by employing a pair of temperature sensors, with one sensor being mounted in the furnace in fixed relationship and a second sensor which ca... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7375306 | Cooking appliance having multiple operating configurations A cooking appliance is provided. The cooking appliance is coupled to a power supply that includes a first hot wire, a second hot wire and a ground wire. The cooking appliance includes a cabinet and a cavity defined within the cabinet. The cooking appliance also incl... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372004 | Method and device for recording the registration of the connection of a household appliance to a bus line configuration The aim of the invention is to record the registration of the connection of a household appliance to a bus line configuration to which a plurality of household appliances is to be, or is, connected, for the transmission of data. To this end, the household appliance ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371996 | Roller-equipped annealing lehr A roller-equipped annealing lehr for flat glass, having a roller conveyor inside a lehr housing, with heating units arranged in pairs above and below the roller conveyor, in rows situated one after another and extending transversely to the feed direction. Temperatur... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368832 | Circuit and fault tolerant assembly including such circuit A circuit is provided that provides for the same power characteristics to an assembly of electrical resistive elements wired in parallel as to the assembly as wired in series. An input power source provides electrical resistive power to a plurality of load elements,... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7358717 | Input by-pass circuit for a current probe An input by-pass circuit for a current probe has first and second switches coupled between current probe inputs and current sensing circuit inputs. A switch control is coupled to the switching circuit for selectively coupling and decoupling the current probe inputs ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7351937 | Control circuits for hot melt adhesive heater circuits and applicator heads An electronic control circuit, for use in connection a hot melt adhesive dispensing system having a relatively large applicator head, has a plurality of heater circuits and a plurality of temperature sensors disposed upon different regions of the relatively large ap... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346273 | Substrate processing equipment It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate processing equipment that can predict a temperature of a substrate and easily control temperature of the substrate. Formed in a reactor (processing chamber) 3 are four temperature adjustment zones, of wh... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7312425 | Programmable slow-cooker appliance A programmable slow-cooker appliance uses an application-specific integrated circuit digital controller, in which a user sets a time and temperature for cooking a food item. The digital controller prevents the unit from functioning only as a “keep warm” applianc... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307246 | System and method of detecting temperature of a cooking utensil over a radiant cooktop A system for detecting temperature of a cooking utensil over a radiant cooktop includes a cooktop having an upper surface and a lower surface and a radiant heating element adapted to heat the cooktop. A temperature detector is disposed adjacent the lower surface of ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295413 | Control circuit of power supply with selectable current-limiting modes The present invention relates to a control circuit of power supply with selectable current-limiting modes. Via a select circuit in the control circuit of the power supply of the present invention, the user himself can select and switch the operating mode of the curr... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7273998 | System and method for monitoring laser shock processing A method and system for monitoring laser shock peening of a work piece. A line spectrum is obtained from radiation emitted by a plasma produced by a laser shock peening process. The shape of the line spectrum about its emission peak is compared to a defined line sha... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274007 | Control system for operating automotive vehicle components There is disclosed a control system for operating automotive vehicle components. The control system typically includes at least a control module programmed with instructions for controlling a heater, a ventilator or both. ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268324 | Electric cooking assembly with hot-warning indicator An electric cooking assembly includes a cooking surface having supported under the surface an electric heater incorporating an electric heating element and a temperature limiter including a thermally responsive assembly incorporating only a single switch, the switch... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7246940 | Method and apparatus for managing the temperature of thermal components A temperature management system for managing the temperature of a discrete, thermal component. The temperature management system comprises a heat exchanger thermally coupled with the thermal component. The system also comprises a fluid transfer device that circulate... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7238923 | Cooking apparatus having a bar code reader and a cooking method of the same A cooking apparatus and method thereof capable of performing a cooking process based upon a cooking condition corresponding to the amount of food introduced into a cooking chamber when the cooking process is performed using a bar code printed on a food package to be... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7230204 | Method and system for temperature control of a substrate A substrate holder for supporting a substrate in a processing system and controlling the temperature thereof is described. The substrate holder comprises a first heating element positioned in a first region for elevating the temperature of the first region. A second... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7216496 | Heating medium circulating device and thermal, treatment equipment using the device There is provided a heating medium circulating apparatus which is small and which does not require a very large installation space. In a heating medium circulating apparatus wherein a temperature controlling object being an object to be temperature-controlled, a mai... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7202449 | Brewing machine power management system and method A power management system for managing the power supplied to a plurality of warming elements in a brewing machine, so as to conform to pre-set power safety requirements. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196286 | Heating apparatus, auxiliary power supply apparatus, auxiliary power supply system, fixation apparatus, and moving picture formation apparatus A heating device of the invention comprises a heater, a main power supply, and an auxiliary power supply. The heater includes a main heating element which generates heat with power supplied from the main power supply, and an auxiliary heating element which has a res... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7189947 | Oven temperature control A control system for controlling an appliance at a predetermined temperature. The control system comprises a sensor capable of providing a temperature signal representative of a temperature in the appliance and a controller capable of receiving the temperature signa... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7186955 | Electronic power control for cooktop heaters In one aspect, a cooktop heating system that include a first cooktop heating element, a second cooktop heating element, and an interface device. The system also includes a controller for selectively associating the interface device with any one or both of the first ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7183507 | Appliance having a timer A timer for an appliance is activated by the appliance user to display elapsed time on a time display device mounted on and/or integral with the appliance. The timer may be initialized by a separate initialization mechanism or simultaneously with the user activating... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180038 | Device for switching on and off several heating mechanisms of cooking equipment as well as cooking equipment with such a device A control is provided for switching on and off two heating devices of a hob forming a hotplate. In cyclic manner the continuous energy or power generation level can be adjusted by an energy control device. A temperature limiter monitors a maximum temperature via the... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7179334 | System and method for performing semiconductor processing on substrate being processed A semiconductor process system (10) includes a measuring section (40), an information processing section (51), and a control section (52). The measuring section (40) measures a characteristic of a test target film formed on a targe... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176418 | Cooking stove The present invention provides a cooking stove that prevents an instruction from being given using the touch switch owing to a factor different from the user's operation, while hindering the user from having an incongruous or anxious feeling when operating the touch... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167776 | Method and system for controlling a vapor generator A programmable vapor generator forms a volatilized liquid by supplying a material in liquid form to a flow passage and heating the flow passage, such that the material volatilizes and expands out of an outlet of the channel. The volatilized material, if desired, mix... | 01/23/2007 |
