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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7882620 | Composite ceramic device for measuring the temperature of liquids A thermocouple shield assembly comprising a first tube having an upper portion and a lower portion with a lower end, the first tube including a first elongated cavity closed at the lower end and receiving the thermocouple, a second tube having a second elongated cav... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7430797 | Method for making an electrical component An method for manufacturing an electrical component comprises providing a base body of a ceramic material with at least two contact regions with terminal elements secured thereto. The base body is immersed into a solution that contains a fluid that wets the base bod... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7356912 | Method for ventilating a seat The present invention is directed towards a method of forming a ventilated seat. More specifically, in one aspect, the present invention is directed towards providing an insert in fluid communications with an air mover and a seating surface, wherein the system optio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7322099 | Method for producing heated components for injection moulding apparatus A method for producing components for injection moulding comprising a body made of thermally conducting material with expansion coefficient matching that of the insulating layers and provided with a passage for the material to be injected. At least one strip of elec... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7299552 | Methods for creating channels Methods of creating an internal channel of a fluid-ejection device are provided. One method includes encapsulating a channel core in an element of the fluid-ejection device that corresponds to the internal channel and dissolving at least a portion of the channel cor... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7281318 | Method of manufacturing a composite structural member having an integrated electrical circuit A method of manufacturing a composite structural member with an integrated electrical circuit is provided. The structural member includes a plurality of layers of structural reinforcement material, and two or more electrical devices are disposed at least partially b... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275309 | Method of manufacturing electrical resistance heating element A method of manufacturing an electrical-resistance heating element includes forming sintered ceramics or calcined ceramics, forming an electrode on the sintered ceramics or the calcined ceramics, and forming a ceramic base material having mainly a high melting point... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272885 | Method of manufacturing surge arrestor The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing surge arrestors, the method including stacking varistors; and forming a coating of composite material on the stack. Between these steps, also included is placing a bead of flexible, adhesive, and dielectric ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260885 | System and method for rigidly coupling a disk drive to a chassis of a computer Embodiments of the present invention pertain to a method of manufacturing a disk drive coupling apparatus for rigidly coupling a disk drive to a chassis of a computer. In one embodiment, a disk drive to chassis coupler is formed and a disk drive to chassis coupler e... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7246525 | Silicon pressure sensor with decreased pressure equalization between measured pressure and reference chamber This invention relates to absolute pressure sensors with two bonded wafers containing a pressure sensing structure and forming a reference pressure chamber and a buffer chamber. Since the buffer chamber collects molecules, which permeate through a bonding interface ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7201513 | Temperature sensor In a temperature sensor for an engine, abutting surfaces of two parts that form a compartment for a temperature sensing element of the sensor is interposed with a sealing material being compressed by an raised portion on one of the abutting surfaces to the other sur... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7131187 | Method of making a heater element for a seat assembly A heating element that can be incorporated into a molded foam article closely adjacent to the outer cover sheet without showing any evidence that a heating element is encapsulated within the foam portion of the article and provides essentially the same relatively so... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7075406 | Station class surge arrester A station class surge arrester includes a module assembly. The module assembly includes at least one metal oxide varistor (MOV) disk and a pre-impregnated composite that is applied around the at least one MOV disk. The pre-impregnated composite is capable of withsta... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075407 | Temperature sensor A temperature sensor has lead lines made of an elastic material each attached to a corresponding one of electrodes on a temperature sensing element such as an NTC thermistor element. The lead lines may each have a non-straight part where they are bent or deformed in... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069641 | Method for preparing composite materials of a positive temperature coefficient thermistor The present invention discloses a method for preparing a conductive polymeric composite material having carbon black utilized to a structure for composite materials of a positive temperature coefficient thermistor. The method first provides a metal laminated materia... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7053750 | Voltage probe systems having improved bandwidth capability A resistive pin for use in a voltage probe includes a pin-head that is configured to contact a test point in a device under test, and a resistor that is attached to the pin-head. Other systems are also provided for establishing electrical connections between testing... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047626 | Encapsulated electrically resistive heater Electrically resistive heating element, with metal strip electrodes secured thereto, and with electrical wires secured to said metal strip electrodes, is encapsulated with thermoset-molding compound. ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047637 | Method of manufacture of ceramic composite wiring structures for semiconductor devices Method of manufacture of a composite wiring structure for use with at least one semiconductor device, the structure having a first conductive member upon which the semiconductor device can be mounted for electrical connection thereto. A dielectric member, made of ce... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046116 | Temperature probe and its use A temperature probe is provided having a sensor element formed from a ceramic substrate and a platinum thin-film resistor arranged thereon. The platinum thin-film resistor is electrically connected with at least two terminal wires, with the at least two terminal wir... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7028387 | Method of making a miniaturized positional assembly A method of producing a miniaturized set of inductive coils set mutually orthogonally inside a tube. In the method a positional template made of a sheet of substantially rigid material that defines a set of guide apertures, each of which is in the shape of one of th... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7020952 | Method for producing a glow plug A green ceramic heater including a green heating resistor formed of an electrically conductive ceramic (e.g., silicide or carbide of a metal element such as W, Ta, or Nb) and an insulative ceramic (e.g., silicon nitride) and power supply leads (e.g., made of W), a f... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015786 | Mechanical reinforcement to improve high current, short duration withstand of a monolithic disk or bonded disk stack A mechanical reinforcement for an electrical apparatus has at least one electrical element with an outer surface and a reinforcing structure attached to the outer surface. The electrical element may be a monolithic MOV disk or a bonded MOV disk stack. The monolithic... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010849 | Methods for manufacturing a resistor-pin assembly of a voltage probe A pin having a voltage probe pin-head is provided. The pin includes a pin-head having a substantially flat surface at one end and a pin-head tip at an opposing end, the substantially flat surface is configured to attach to a resistor, and the pin-head tip contacts a... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012501 | Electrical multi-layer component An electrical component includes a base body that contains dielectric layers. The dielectric layers are superimposed and contain ceramic. The component also includes outer contacts on an exterior of the base body, and a resistor in an interior of the base body locat... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6994124 | Three dimensional waffleweave and stitching method thereof A three dimensional waffleweave includes a plurality of light coloring yarns interlaced with a plurality of dark coloring yarns to form a plurality of waffleweave units, wherein each of the waffleweave units, having an oblong shaped, defines four sidewalls and a cen... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6925704 | Method for making high power resistor having improved operating temperature range A high power resistor includes a resistance element with first and second leads extending out from the opposite ends thereof. A heat sink of dielectric material is in heat conducting relation to the resistance element. The heat conducting relationship of the resista... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6918696 | Temperature sensor and method for manufacturing the same A temperature sensor includes a casing having a first part and a second part, a temperature detector for detecting temperature of fluid and a pair of outside wires connecting to the temperature detector. The casing further includes a mold portion and an insert porti... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6911893 | Ceramic electronic component A ceramic electronic component includes a component body having semiconductive ceramic layers and internal electrodes. The semiconductive ceramic layers and the internal electrodes are alternately laminated. The semiconductive ceramic layers have a relative density ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6889425 | Method for producing a resistive heating element Method for producing a resistive heating element by coating a substrate with an electrically insulating material from the gaseous phase, depositing an electrically conducting material from the gaseous phase onto the layer of insulating material deposited onto the su... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6841191 | Varistor and fabricating method of zinc phosphate insulation for the same A fabricating method and apparatus of an zinc phosphate coating for a varistor has a insulation formed on a surface of a body which does not include two opposite ends of the body formed two outer terminals. The insulation has anti-etch feature for the electrolyte, s... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6829820 | Method of manufacturing temperature sensor and temperature sensor manufactured thereby A temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of, for example, an exhaust gas of a vehicle is manufactured by inserting a thermistor element into a bottomed metal tube while filling an inside of the metal tube with a filler material, preferably of silicone oil, t... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6820324 | Method of manufacturing a resistor connector A resistor connector (C) includes a pair of parallel lead frames (1, 1), a resistor (10) with a pair of electrodes (14, 14) and a mold resin (2). Each said lead frame (1) includes a terminal portion (1a) and an electr... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6802116 | Method of manufacturing a metal-oxide varistor with improved energy absorption capability A method of manufacturing a metal-oxide varistor with improved energy absorption capability. Electrodes are arranged making contact with the end surfaces of the varistor, these end surfaces being coated with metal. The envelope surfaces are supplied with a high-resi... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6785956 | Method of fabricating a fluid jet printhead A fluid-jet printhead has a substrate having at least one layer defining a fluid chamber for ejecting fluid. The printhead also includes a resistive layer disposed between the fluid chamber and the substrate wherein the fluid chamber has a smooth planer surface betw... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6759631 | Ceramic sheathed-element glow plug with electrically conductive powder pellet contacting element and method for making A ceramic sheathed-element glow plug includes a ceramic glow element made of an electrically conductive layer and an electrically insulating layer, in which the conductive layer is made of supply layers and a heating layer. The higher specific electrical resistance ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6751862 | Method of making an electronic device An electronic device containing an electronic element such as a thermistor element is produced first by providing the element with electrodes formed on its two main surfaces facing outward away from each other, at least two terminals and a casing. Each terminal has ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6748646 | Method of manufacturing a molded heating element assembly A heated element assembly and method of manufacturing heated element assemblies is provided. The heated element assembly including a first and second molded sections shaped to mate with each other is provided. A resistance heating element is secured between the firs... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6732422 | Method of forming resistors A method of forming a resistor is described which achieves improved resistor stability and voltage coefficient of resistance. A resistor is formed from a conducting material such as doped silicon or polysilicon. The resistor has a rectangular first, second, third, f... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6704997 | Method of producing organic thermistor devices Organic thermistor devices are produced by a first step of molding an organic thermistor material by covering a plurality of electrically conductive members to form a conductor-containing member, which is elongated in a longitudinal direction, has a pair of mutually... | 03/16/2004 |
