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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8436281 | Food heaters with removable rollers Food heating devices and methods of removing one or more rollers from food heating devices are disclosed herein. An embodiment of a food heating device configured in accordance with the present disclosure includes a base structure, a food rotating system, a food hea... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8420986 | Frequency-modulated electric element control A system, method, and computer-readable medium for controlling power applied to a heating element. A rectifier receives AC voltage supplied from an AC voltage supply and rectifies the AC voltage to DC voltage. A pulse-width modulation controller generates and transm... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8405006 | Small footprint heater A device for heating a biological sample, the device having a heating source comprising a semiconductor chip. A sample chamber, or other medium to be heated, is positioned adjacent the heating source, wherein the sample chamber is configured to house a biological sa... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8399812 | Cooking and storage systems A cooking and storage system comprises a refrigeration device, a cooking device and controller for controlling the cooking device, and the refrigeration device provides to the controller temperature information relating to the temperature within the refrigeration de... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8383993 | Temperature control device of electric heater using thermo-sensitive resin and safety device thereof A temperature control device is disclosed that includes a heating wire being connected to an alternating current power source though a SCR, a sensing wire being disposed parallel to the heating wire, a thermo-sensitive resin insulating the heating wire and the sensi... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8378272 | Heat treatment apparatus, heat treatment method and storage medium Disclosed is a heat treatment apparatus for performing a heat treatment on an object to-be-processed by a heater, which can inhibit variation in thermal histories among the objects to-be-processed. The heat treatment apparatus includes, among others, a correction pa... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8350195 | Method and device for heating solutions, preferably dialysis solutions A method and an apparatus for the heating of a solution, such as a dialysis solution, to a desired temperature includes heating the solution presented in a bag. The heating is effected with a heater system, which includes a heater, by means of a two-step control. Th... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8334485 | Apparatus and method for controlling temperature on a cooking appliance An apparatus and a method for measuring temperature in a cooking appliance, both of which utilize a circuit for reading an input from a thermal resistive device. By including a processor and an amplifier in the circuit, embodiments reduce the number of processor pin... | 12/18/2012 |
| 8319157 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method Fluid temperature control and sensor calibration is disclosed. In an embodiment, a fluid temperature control unit includes a heater configured to heat a first fluid in a first fluid path, a first temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the first fl... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8299406 | Electronic temperature-sensing probe An electronic temperature-sensing probe comprises a shell, a control base plate, a probe and a key group, wherein the control base plate is placed inside the shell; the probe with one end extending outside of the shell and the other end connected to the control base... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8274021 | Fully integrated temperature regulator for biochemical applications The invention is an integrated temperature regulator that can be fabricated using conventional semiconductor processing technology. The integrated temperature regulator can include a reaction chamber, for example fabricated from PDMS, in which chemical or biochemica... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8258441 | Magnetic element temperature sensors Small, low-cost wireless temperature sensors (120) are provided for sensing the temperature of servingware (121). Each temperature sensor preferably includes a substrate (124); at least one sensor element (122) positioned on the substrate... | 09/04/2012 |
| 8253078 | Temperature control circuit A temperature control circuit includes a microprocessor, a protection module, a first temperature detecting module, a second temperature detecting module, and a heating module. The first temperature detecting module includes a first thermistor and a first comparator... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8247745 | Temperature sensor for a food holding cabinet The temperature of shelves used in a food holding cabinet are measured using a transistor. The voltage across a PN junction being known to be temperature dependent, the shelf temperature can be inferred from a calculated temperature of a PN junction of a transistor ... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8242417 | Temperature control method of heat processing plate, computer storage medium, and temperature control apparatus of heat processing plate In the present invention, temperature drop amounts of heating plate regions when the substrate is mounted on a heating plate are detected to detect a warped state of the substrate. From the temperature drop amounts of the heating plate regions, correction values for... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8242418 | Golf ball bag with temperature controlling device A golf ball bag includes a main housing for receiving one or more golf balls in the receiving cavity, and a temperature controlling device. The temperature controlling device includes a heating plate disposed within the receiving cavity to substantially align with t... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8217321 | Method for generating, processing and analysing a signal correlated to temperature and corresponding device According to the invention, an improved analysis method for temperature monitoring of a hotplate (11) as a cooker with a temperature sensor (S) may be achieved by means of differentiating once over time and inverting the electronically interrogated temperatur... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8217322 | Temperature responsive back bias control for integrated circuit The present invention provides a thermostatic biasing controller for use with an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, the thermostatic biasing controller includes a temperature sensing unit configured to determine an operating temperature of the integrated circuit... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8212189 | Stovetop interface, system and methods of temperature control of cookware, and methods of cooking using numerical temperature control A temperature control interface for a stove top is provided. The temperature control interface includes a numerical temperature setting to which a temperature of an object heated on the stovetop will be regulated. A method of cooking on a stovetop is provided in whi... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8207477 | Method for cooking vegetables using steam A method of operating a household oven to cook vegetables using steam during a cooking cycle. ... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8193474 | Smart sensing oven Smart oven allows contactless detection of surface temperature of an item being heated. The temperature of the heated object can be maintained at the specified temperature for a specified time. The program for cooking can be read automatically from a package from th... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8164031 | Electric trace tube bundle with internal branch circuit An electric trace tube bundle characterized by an internal branched circuit or circuits wherein power to the branched circuit or circuits is supplied via leads contained within a tubular jacket surrounding an insulation layer and an inner core containing one or more... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8148669 | Apparatus and method for effectuating temperature control in roller grills The present invention provides an apparatus and method for effectuating temperature control in roller grill assembly. Some embodiments provide a roller grill assembly which provides enhanced measurement by utilizing temperature probes located in convective air strea... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143559 | Heating pad with temperature control and safety protection device A heating pad is provided. The heating pad includes a heating element and a control circuit operatively connected to the heating element for providing a predetermined level of power thereto. An isolation device interconnects a power source to the control circuit. Th... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8110781 | Golf club head cover with temperature controlling device The present invention provides a golf club head cover which provides conventional protection to golf clubs and in addition provides a heating function for a hitting surface of the golf club in order to keep the temperature within a optimized range for hitting. The g... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8101892 | System and method for monitoring food Systems and methods for monitoring conditions that affect the quality of food being served. Conditions such as temperature and elapsed time affect the quality of food and the safety of food consumers. Various embodiments of monitoring systems can be incorporated wit... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097835 | Temperature control circuit A temperature control circuit includes a microprocessor, a protection module, a temperature detecting module, and a heating module. The temperature detecting module includes a thermistor and a first switch. The thermistor is operable to sense a temperature to turn o... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8093535 | Temperature-controlled circuit integrated in a semiconductor material, and method for controlling the temperature of a semiconductor material having an integrated circuit A circuit is disclosed, integrated in a semiconductor material, for measuring signals of a sensor assigned to the integrated circuit. In at least one embodiment, the circuit includes an active component; a temperature sensor; and a circuit to control the temperature... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8058590 | Cooking and storage systems A cooking and storage system comprises a refrigeration device, a cooking device and controller for controlling the cooking device, and the refrigeration device provides to the controller temperature information relating to the temperature within the refrigeration de... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8008604 | Low profile heater A portable, low profile electric radiant heater has an elongated heating element. A plurality of thermistors are disposed proximate to and along the length of the elongated heating element, spaced at substantially equal intervals. A microcontroller switches a refere... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7994455 | Control circuit for fast heating of a positive-temperature-coefficient heating component Traditional temperature-control products have the problem that the temperature of the working surface reaches the setting temperature too slowly when heating up or recovering from a temperature drop. A traditional temperature control circuit and temperature-settings... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7968827 | Oxygen sensor heater control strategy A heating module for an oxygen sensor comprises an estimated mass module, a cumulative mass module, and a temperature control module. The estimated mass module determines an estimated mass of intake air to remove condensation from an exhaust system after startup of ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968828 | Temperature controlling method of electron bombardment heating apparatus A method of operating an electron bombardment heating apparatus, in which thermions emitted from filaments are accelerated and impinged upon a heating plate, so as to heat the heating plate, wherein a peripheral wall of a heated material supporting member having a h... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968826 | Calibrated thermal sensing system utilizing resistance varying jumper configuration The warming article contains a heating element and a sensing system. The sensing system has a first sensor element being a temperature dependent variable resistor and a second sensor element having at least two resistors in series and corresponding jumpers for one o... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7947931 | System and method for shaft heat treament for correction slow roll Certain exemplary embodiments comprise an computer readable storage device having instructions stored therein that are indicative of reducing slow roll electrical runout value of a shaft of an electric motor, the shaft having a runout sensing area; the instructions ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7939784 | Electrostatic chuck support assembly A method of tuning the thermal conductivity of an electrostatic chuck (ESC) support assembly comprises measuring the temperature at a plurality of sites on a support assembly surface in which each site is associated with a given cell, determining from the measuremen... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7919731 | Stirring hot plate A stirring hot plate for simultaneously heating and stirring a mixture includes a phase controlled motor that spins magnets which couple to, and thereby spin, a stir bar within the mixture. In addition to spinning the magnets, the motor includes an operational mode ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7902485 | Temperature setting method of thermal processing plate, temperature setting apparatus of thermal processing plate, program, and computer-readable recording medium recording program thereon Temperature setting of a thermal plate is performed so that the line width of a resist pattern is uniformly formed within a wafer. The thermal plate of a PEB unit is divided into a plurality of thermal plate regions so that the temperature can be set for each of the... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7858907 | Electric switching circuit for a clothes dryer An electric switching circuit with a first current path for operating an electric motor and with a second current path for operating a first heater. The electric motor drives a fan during which an air flow created by the fan is heated by the first heater. A switch f... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7820948 | Brewing machine/satellite contactless power and communication transfer-enabling system and method The present invention provides a system for enabling control of the temperature of a receptacle in a satellite for containing a brewed fluid, so as to enable control of the temperature of the brewed fluid in the receptacle upon transfer of the brewed fluid from a br... | 10/26/2010 |
