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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7838806 | Resonator with adjustable capacitor for medical device An apparatus, system and method of a resonator device with an adjustable capacitor for allowing the resonance frequency (F) of the resonator device to continue to be matched to the Larmor frequency of the MRI system. The resonator device includes an inductor coil, a... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7442906 | Induction heating coil for shaft member having multiple steps and heating method In an induction heating coil for heating a shaft member having multiple steps, annular conductors are separately disposed in the axis direction, the annular conductors having inner diameters so as to form predetermined gaps with outer peripheries of heating portions... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7335864 | Magnetic field reduction resistive heating elements Heating element assemblies, heating furnaces incorporating heating element assemblies, methods to form heating element assemblies, methods to form heating furnaces and methods to reduce a magnetic field in a bifilar coil are disclosed. The heating element assembly i... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7304277 | Resonator with adjustable capacitor for medical device An apparatus, system and method of a resonator device with an adjustable capacitor for allowing the resonance frequency (F) of the resonator device to continue to be matched to the Larmor frequency of the MRI system. The resonator device includes an inductor coil, a... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7234500 | Cutting device A cutting device (10) for cutting a material (12) and providing a cut portion of the material (12). The device comprises a heating assembly comprising an electrical induction arrangement (32) for heating the cut portion of the material by... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7195739 | Aromatic container heater An aromatic container heater and assembly adapted to enhance the release of desirable scent from an aromatic or fragrant candle by heating the exterior of a candle container and thereby melting the candle to release the desired scent. The heater includes a conductor... | 03/27/2007 |
| 6991411 | Device for clamping tools The invention is concerned with a device for clamping and releasing work tools (16) in a tool receptacle (10). The tool receptacle (10) includes on its free end for this purpose an open socket part (12), which is adapted for frictional en... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6946629 | Induction heating type fixing device for an image forming apparatus and induction heating coil therefor An induction heating type fixing device for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is disclosed. An inducting heating coil has a plurality of bobbins each having a particular diameter and assembled in a telescopic manner. A particular conductor is wound roun... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6900418 | Induction coil for an inductive shrinking apparatus The induction coil (13) of an arrangement which heats a tool-holder (1) inductively for the purpose of changing a tool shank (11) retained with a press-fit therein has a winding (19), in the case of which the number of coil turns per unit... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6878911 | Device and method for cleaning microwave devices Cleaning a microwave device, in particular for drying print substrate in a printing machine, with a microwave source providing an irradiation field and a resonator chamber, wherein a microwave-penetrable material on the inside surfaces of the resonator chamber for f... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6861627 | Induction heat fixing device An induction heat fixing device has coil portions with electric wires wound around the outer surface of a cylindrical main bobbin, grooves and flanges formed at both ends of the main bobbin. Further, plural ribs are formed in the main bobbin. The main bobbin is put ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6844533 | Induction heating apparatus An induction heating apparatus seals a container, such as a bottle, with a non-tampering seal. The induction heating apparatus has a concentrator and a coil assembly. The coil assembly includes multiple coil devices. Each coil device includes a bobbin with a central... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6818871 | Induction heating roller unit, fixing device and image forming apparatus To provide an induction heating roller unit that can efficiently supply power to a heating roller, and fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same. The induction heating roller unit includes: a heating roller; and an induction coil having an out... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6806447 | Spatula induction heating apparatus A spatula heating apparatus with excellent usability which overcomes drawbacks inherent to conventional gas burner type and electro-thermal type apparatuses. A spatula heating apparatus for heating spatulas 9, 9a for wax molding includes a heating coil... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6764818 | Device for effecting heat transfer with a solution held in a through-hole well of a holding tray A holding plate for selectively heating and cooling samples in a solution has two opposing surfaces, and a plurality of cylindrically-shaped through-hole wells for holding the samples. Each well extends between the two surfaces of the holding plate, and has an aspec... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6753515 | Induction heating type fixing device for an image forming apparatus and induction heating coil therefor An induction heating type fixing device for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is disclosed. An inducting heating coil has a plurality of bobbins each having a particular diameter and assembled in a telescopic manner. A particular conductor is wound roun... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6681998 | Aerosol generator having inductive heater and method of use thereof An aerosol generator includes an induction heating arrangement to vaporize fluid contained in a fluid passage. The vapor is then expelled from the fluid passage into the air creating a mist that forms the aerosol. The aerosol generator includes an excitat... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6677560 | Apparatus for inductively heating a workpiece The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for heating a workpiece of an inductively heatable material, for example a turbine blade. Such a turbine blade consists of a massive blade base and a low-mass blade leaf. To enable the blade base and blad... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6635856 | Billet induction heating A plurality of billets are inductively heated in a staged process wherein the output current of a power supply is repeatedly time shared among a plurality of induction coils within which the plurality of billets have been placed. The time periods of the a... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6635492 | Heating specimen carriers A method and apparatus for heating specimens in wells of a metallic specimen carrier. The specimen carrier is heated by applying resistive heating directly to the carrier. An AC source and transformer may be used where the specimen carrier is in series wi... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6555801 | Induction heating coil, device and method of use The invention provides an improved induction heating coil, an induction heating device including the induction heating coil and a method for heating a workpiece with the induction heating device. The induction heating coil for heating a workpiece includes... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6495811 | Induction heating device and method, and processor An induction heating device having a hollow cylindrical body made of electrically conductive material, at least one primary induction coil and at least one auxiliary induction coil, the at least one primary induction coil and the at least one auxiliary in... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6362462 | Induction hardening coil for a crankshaft An first induction hardening coil assembly according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a coil having a top surface, an underside surface, and an inner coil curvature disposed between the top surface and the underside surface. The inner ... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6340810 | Device with induction heating roller including projecting portions at both ends and a central portion of a bobbin for maintaining a gap between an inner surface of the heating roller and a coil on the bobbin A device configured to be heated to a temperature sufficient to fuse an image forming substance to a sheet includes a hollow roller made of a conductive material and a coil arranged in a hollow portion of the hollow roller. The coil is configured to carry... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6316754 | Frequency selected, variable output inductor heater system An induction heating systems using a plurality of zones in a coil provides selective heating control for better uniformity especially for semiconductor and other thin film processing applications. By arranging the zones to have different resonance frequen... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6297483 | Induction heating of heating element A heating apparatus includes a heating element having a conductor, at least a part of which is an electrically closed circuit along which an eddy current flows; a container for accommodating the heating element; a magnetic field induction section for indu... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6262404 | Induction heating type fixing device and method of producing an induced current generating member therefor An induction heating type fixing device for an electrophotographic printer, facsimile apparatus, copier or similar image forming apparatus and an induced current generating member therefore are disclosed. A coil is wound round a bobbin applied with an adh... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6255632 | Device with induction heating roller with a projection between coil windings A device configured to be heated to a temperature sufficient to fuse an image forming substance to a sheet includes a hollow roller made of a conductive material and a coil arranged in a hollow portion of the hollow roller. The coil is configured to carry... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6246036 | Induction heating fusing device The object of the present invention is to provide an induction heating fusing device in which the rotary heating member, such as a fusing roller or fusing belt, may be easily replaced. In order to attain this objective, the induction heating fusing device... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6230936 | Folded susceptor for glue gun An apparatus such as a glue gun system that utilizes either a stick or solid beads of meltable material such as glue. A motor in the interior of a body of the glue gun drives a drive member. The drive member forces the meltable material towards a nose ass... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6223950 | Bulk feed glue gun An apparatus such as a glue gun system that utilizes solid beads of meltable material such as glue. The glue gun has a housing that contains a pervious barrier. The pervious diaphragm separates the beads from an airstream that is used to deliver the beads... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6195382 | High temperature molten metal reactor and waste treatment method A molten metal reactor (10) includes a reactor vessel having a heating section (11) formed from a dielectric material. The reactor vessel also includes a reaction section (12) connected to heating section (11). An induction heating coil (18) is associated... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6153865 | Induction hardening apparatus for a crankshaft An induction hardening apparatus for inductively heating and quench hardening a crankshaft includes an arrangement of two workstations similarly configured and a robotic device indexing the crankshaft from a first workstation to a second workstation. The ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6084225 | RF induction coil A getter heating coil assembly producing a focused magnetic field for heating objects in close proximity to the coil assembly. The coil assembly comprises electrical conductors wound on a coil bobbin, the coil bobbin having a central spindle around which ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6011246 | Induction-heating device for surface treating the teeth of a mechanical part An induction heating device for surface treating the teeth (11) of a mechanical part on which each tooth (111) has a projecting tip (111s) and a tooth root linking the tooth to an adjacent tooth, wherein an in duction coil (12, 12') is spaced from the too... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5990465 | Electromagnetic induction-heated fluid energy conversion processing appliance This invention pertains to an electromagnetic induction fluid heating apparatus equipped with a heating element constructed from a conductive material installed in a fluid flow passage, a coil installed around this heating element, and a high frequency el... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5990464 | Method for producing hot rolled steel sheet using induction heating and apparatus therefor A method and hot rolling apparatus for producing a hot rolled steel sheet include a roughing rolling mill to roughing roll a heated slab into a sheet bar, at least one solenoid-type induction heater arranged for re-heating the sheet bar over its entire wi... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5987054 | Induction coil and coreless induction furnace employing same An induction coil for inductively heating electrically conductive materials includes a plurality of individual coil turns, each turn lying in a plane substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the coil and comprising an electrical conductor for... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5874713 | Single turn induction heating coil A single turn induction heating coil provides a varied magnetic flux density for heating a portion of a load having a thermally and magnetically responsive sealant and tubing. The varied interior diameter of the cylindrical coil structure increases the ma... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5872352 | Swingable induction heating chamber for melting ingot for metal casting A heating machine for heating an ingot of a metal such as a magnesium alloy. The heating machine has a heating chamber equipped with a RF induction coil capable of swinging about a horizontally axis. The coil is placed horizontally, and the metal ingot is... | 02/16/1999 |
