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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7506457 | Substrate treating apparatus A substrate treating apparatus for drying substrates by moving the substrates out of a treating liquid into a solvent atmosphere. The apparatus includes a treating tank for storing the treating liquid, a chamber enclosing the treating tank, a holding mechanism for h... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7353622 | Method and device for the drying of laundry The invention proposes a spin dryer which makes it possible to drain the laundry to approximately the same extent as a laundry press. For this purpose, a rotatable drum of the spin dryer is driven at a high rotational speed such that the laundry inside the drum is e... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7259482 | Distance extender and method making use of same A distance extender (100, 200) for increasing a distance between a first device (145) and a second device (150) in electrical communication with the first device includes an electrical cable (130, 230) electrically coupled between the fir... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7194823 | Clothes drier A clothes drying apparatus includes a heat pump mechanism, an air path for guiding drying air into a drying drum accommodating therein clothes, a blower for supplying drying air to the air path, and a controller for controlling a driving of a compressor, wherein the... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7174445 | Flash memory card with enhanced operating mode detection and user-friendly interfacing system An interfacing system facilitating user-friendly connectivity in a selected operating mode between a host computer system and a flash memory card. The interfacing system includes an interface device and a flash memory card. The interfacing system features significan... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168274 | Combination washer/dryer having common heat source The combination washer/dryer and method for operating a combination washer/dryer. The washer/dryer has a containment drum which receives wash water, and includes a perforated clothes drum which rotates within the containment drum. A heat plenum is provided in heat t... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7111085 | Flash memory card with enhanced operating mode detection and user-friendly interfacing system An interfacing system facilitating user-friendly connectivity in a selected operating mode between a host computer system and a flash memory card. The interfacing system includes an interface device and a flash memory card. The interfacing system features significan... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107701 | Substrate drying method and apparatus There are provided a substrate drying method and apparatus by which an attachment amount of particles to surfaces of substrates can be reduced when the substrates are exposed from pure water, and occurrence of non-uniform drying can be prevented by improving drying ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6990747 | Vacuum processing apparatus and substrate transfer method An etching processing apparatus 1 has a transfer chamber 2, a plurality of processing chambers 3 and 4, and a plurality of cassette chambers 7 and 8. Inside the transfer chamber 2, a transfer mechanism 14 is pr... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6941674 | Method and apparatus for detecting residual drying time of clothes dryer In a method and an apparatus for detecting a residual drying time of a clothes dryer, by detecting a quantity of moisture contained in clothes in a clothes dryer and displaying a residual clothes drying time on the basis of the detected moisture quantity, a residual... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6935142 | Washing machine water control Water temperature selection in a washing machine is accomplished by utilizing a single selector that is in communication with an associated processor. The single selector is preferably on the same board as the processor thereby defining a water temperature selection... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933017 | Method of manufacturing lithographic printing plate A method for manufacturing a lithographic printing plate is provided in which conditions for heating a support and a photosensitive coated layer in a drying and heating step can be changed rapidly over a wide range, and the photosensitive coated layer and the suppor... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6883247 | Gas delivery system A submersible gas compressor is described which has a ceramic high pressure piston in contact with a ceramic sleeve, a drive piston mounted to the ceramic high pressure piston and a crank in mechanical connection with the drive piston. The submersible gas compressor... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6775923 | Laundry drier control method A laundry drier control method is provided, by which drying time is dynamically controlled according to an amount and type of a drying object, using a calculated medium temperature to determine a medium temperature time. The method includes steps of initiating a dry... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6766595 | Apparatus and method for enhanced solvent recovery from solvent extracted material Apparatus and method for desolventizing particulate material having a solvent carried thereby wherein an upper indirect heating zone and a lower direct heating zone is provided. Each of the zones has a plurality of spaced apart horizontal trays for receiving particu... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6735883 | Electrostatic assisted web cooling and remoistening device Apparatus and a method for enhancing the effectiveness of a water spray (30) to cool and/or remoisten a web (12) of material. The apparatus includes a web dryer, preferably a flotation dryer (100), an electrostatic charge generating device (3... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6709499 | Air-routing household appliance with a washable filter An air-routing household appliance includes an improved removable and washable filter in that the filter is of a flexible fiber material and is finished such that it can bind and/or decompose odorous substances. Such a filter can be disposed, in particular, in the c... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6700102 | Dryer control circuit A control circuit for a clothes dryer operating with a 120 volt power supply compensates for changes in the ambient temperature to compensate for premature advancement of the dryer timer motor during an automatic drying cycle. The control circuit has a th... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6487794 | Substrate changing-over mechanism in vacuum tank A substrate changing-over mechanism in a vacuum processing apparatus which includes a substrate supporting means arranged within a vacuum tank which has at least two openings at a side wall of the tank, the openings being openable or closable by gate valv... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6463678 | Substrate changing-over mechanism in a vaccum tank This invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus having vacuum processing chambers the insides of which must be dry cleaned, and to a method of operating such an apparatus. When the vacuum processing chambers are dry-cleaned, dummy substrates are t... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6449871 | Semiconductor process chamber having improved gas distributor A process chamber 25 for processing a semiconductor substrate, comprises a support for supporting a substrate 50. A gas distributor 90 provided for introducing process gas into the chamber 25, comprises a gas nozzle for injecting process gas at an incline... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6440270 | Method and apparatus for controlling dryer section of paper machine In controlling the dryer section of a paper machine, the basis weight and moisture of the paper web, the energy fed into the drying cylinders of the dryer section and the machine speed are measured, and then the surface temperature of the drying cylinders... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6423184 | Method and equipment for regulation of the initial part of the dryer section in a paper machine A method and an equipment for regulation of the initial part of the dryer section in a paper machine. Moisture is removed from the paper web in the press section (10) and the paper web is dried in the dryer section (R). The paper web is dried against heat... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6418638 | Dryer control system A control system and method for a dryer used to dry a line of gypsum boards. The control system automates control of the dryer by measuring the amount of water used at the mixer to produce board segments and determining a desired amount of water to be eva... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6279250 | Apparatus for enhanced solvent recovery from solvent extracted material Apparatus and method for desolventizing particulate material having a solvent carried thereby wherein an upper indirect heating zone and a lower direct heating zone is provided. Each of the zones has a plurality of spaced apart horizontal trays for receiv... | 08/28/2001 |
| 5842288 | Clothes dryer with chiming alarm A solid state alarm for a clothes dryer receives a line voltage signal prior to termination of the tumbling cycle to provide a series of pulses with decaying amplitudes driving a piezoelectric-type transducer. A timer terminating the series of pulses comm... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5675913 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus A photosensitive material processing apparatus is equipped with a drying section in which a photosensitive material processed with a processing solution is conveyed by a plurality of rollers and dried by drying air from a drying air blowing device. In the... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5524362 | Apparatus and method of using wire harness to select controller mode An electronic controller is programmed to operate in a plurality of different modes to enable the controller to be used in a variety of different models, each requiring a different operating mode. A wire harness is used to operatively couple the controlle... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5454171 | Clothes dryer automatically determining a period of crease-preventing, intermittent operation A clothes dryer includes a drum for accommodating clothes to be dried, a heater and a fan for supplying hot air into the drum in a drying operation, and a temperature sensor sensing the temperature in the drum. A drying operation includes a drying step in... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5398427 | Apparatus and method for differentially shrinking selected portions of heat shrinkable film wrapped around a product The present invention provides a method and apparatus directed, in the first preferred embodiment, to insulating a selected portion of a heat shrinkable film prior to applying heat. The insulating material is a roller applied liquid such as water which ac... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5325605 | Method and apparatus for waste treatment A computer based material processing system 10 allows for the processing of contaminated material in a manner which allows the material to be discharged into a sewage facility or placed in a landfill.... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5291667 | Electronic control of clothes dryer A control system for a clothes dryer is disclosed. A microprocessor monitors the heated inlet air temperature and the exhaust temperature. If the inlet temperature exceeds a high limit value a given number of times, an air blockage indicator is activated.... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5172490 | Clothes dryer with neurocontrol device A clothes dryer of the dehumidification type is disclosed in which hot air induced by a heater is circulated from a drying compartment through a heat exchanger. A volume, wetness, wetness unevenness, temperature, temperature unevenness of clothes to be dr... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5100623 | Laboratory evaporation apparatus An apparatus for use in isolating solids from liquids by evaporating the liquid, including a vessel for receiving a composition of liquid and solid substances; a gas supply for supplying a drying gas; a gas line for directing the drying gas from the gas s... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5079852 | Sludge treating apparatus A sludge treating apparatus is disclosed which includes a gas turbine engine generator, an exhaust boiler for generating heated vapor using exhaust heat coming from the gas turbine engine generator, and a dryer for drying a sludge supplied from an externa... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5031337 | Automatic hand dryer An automatic hand dryer contains a heating element and a motor which drives a squirrel cage fan. The fan exhausts air past the heating element to a downwardly-directed outlet. A base or mounting plate is adapted for flush mounting to a wall. The axis of t... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4985720 | Method of controlling temperature for drying photosensitive material The temperature within a drying section of a photosensitive material processing apparatus is controlled at a proper standby temperature when there is no photosensitive material within the apparatus. The standby temperature is estimated from temperature in... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4953298 | Kiln controller A kiln controller controls the drying of lumber in a kiln by executing a drying schedule and adjusting the drying schedule in response to actual measured conditions in the kiln. A computer within the controller controls heating coils, spray nozzles and ve... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4914833 | Automatic hand dryer An automatic hand dryer contains a heating element and a motor which drives a squirrel cage fan. The fan exhausts air past the heating element to a downwardly-directed outlet. A base or mounting plate is adapted for flush mounting to a wall. The axis of t... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4866859 | Transducerized pressurized hot-vapor spraying device In a preferred embodiment, a commercial dry-cleaning or pressing apparatus has a perforated horizontal substrate with a heated pressing iron pivotably mounted thereon for lowering onto and pressing a garment positioned on the upper face of the perforated ... | 09/19/1989 |
