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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7189365 | Liquid treating equipment including a storage vessel and a discharge vessel In a liquid treating equipment to maintain a small amount of liquid to a desired liquid level with constantly supplying an additional liquid into a small capacity vessel, a storage vessel 13 to store the small amount of liquid, an injection tube 16 to ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 6895831 | Sensor device for non-intrusive diagnosis of a semiconductor processing system A sensor device, for diagnosing a processing system, generally includes a support platform and one or more sensors mounted on the support platform. The sensor senses a condition, such as direction or inclination or acceleration in one or two axes, of the sensor devi... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6773158 | Resonant circuit for measuring temperature profile of a semiconductor substrate In a method apparatus for measuring the temperature of a semiconductor substrate during processing thereof in a processing chamber, a resonant circuit formed on the substrate surface is energized by an electromagnetic field radiation device, and disturbances in the ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6473668 | Intelligent minienvironment An intelligent minienvironment control system designed to optimize the minienvironment performance, improve the protection for the multi-million dollar equipment within a fab, and to improve the safety conditions for fab personnel. The intelligent minienv... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6413481 | Sterilization tunnel A sterilization tunnel for pharmaceutical containers such as vials has an inlet zone, a sterilization zone, and a cooling zone. A conveyor belt for the vials is disposed inside the sterilization tunnel. An emptying device that can be raised and lowered is... | 07/02/2002 |
| 5915308 | Discharge apparatus A discharge apparatus includes a housing into which a discharge pipe of a carbonization drum opens. A residue discharge chute which starts from the housing opens into a conveying device ending at an outlet. A filling-level meter is disposed at the residue... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5784974 | System for improving fuel feed control of volumetric coal feeders A feeder system for measuring and controlling the massed feed rate of particulate fuel material, such as coal particles, made up of a group of volumetric feeders and a gravimetric feeder coupled to the group of volumetric feeders. The system controls the ... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5756964 | Thermal processing apparatus A thermal processing apparatus for processing a wafer is disclosed. The thermal processing apparatus includes a thermal processing plate, a plurality of spacers, a plurality of locators, and a plurality of sensors. The temperature of the thermal processin... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5475969 | System for applying a heat-shrinkable sleeve to a container An improved system for applying labels to pharmaceutical vials or the like includes a heating tunnel assembly having an insulated heating chamber defined by a first stationary portion and a second removable portion, with a heater positioned within the ins... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5002262 | Apparatus for charging material to be sintered into a sintering machine An apparatus for charging material to be sintered into a sintering machine comprises a shuttle conveyor transporting pelletized material to be sintered, a wide conveyor receiving said pelletized material from the shuttle conveyor and feeding the pelletize... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4632623 | Workpiece manipulator for a hot environment A manipulator for a workpiece, useful in conjuction with a robot, is especially designed for handling forging preforms in a hot furnace. A fluidic type sensor is used to position the structure above a furnace surface on which the preform rests. Air contin... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4615720 | Method and apparatus for melting glass This invention proposes a method of controlling the melting rate of a glass furnace to obtain substantially constant molten glass throughput. The furnace contains a pool of molten glass and a relatively thin layer of unmelted glass batch on the surface of... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4372819 | Aligning device A projectable device for aligning rail mounted equipment with track side structures, and, in particular, for aligning a coke oven door extractor, pusher ram, or jamb cleaner with a coke oven door. In one embodiment, a rod having an attached terminal fork ... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4356031 | Apparatus and method for controlling the recycle char circuit in a direct reduction process A method and means for maintaining optimum operation of the process for directly reducing iron oxides in a rotary kiln, using a solid carbonaceous reducing agent, such as coal fed at both the charge feed end and discharge end as the source of fuel and red... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4352618 | Method of, and apparatus for preventing the unintended charging of coke oven chambers A method and an apparatus are described for preventing the unintentional introduction of coal from a supply into a coke oven which already contains a charge of coal or coke. An obstruction sensor is lowered through a charging hole in the ceiling of the ov... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4336107 | Aligning device A projectable device for aligning rail mounted equipment with track side structures, and, in particular, for aligning a coke oven door extractor, pusher ram, or jamb cleaner with a coke oven door. In one embodiment, a rod having an attached terminal fork ... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4290067 | Radiant energy profilometer A non-contacting surface contour measurement device includes movable member which can selectively be actuated to form a hermetic enclosure about a transmit and/or receive antenna. The measurement device, when employed in a blast furnace, need be exposed t... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4242027 | Apparatus for charging coke oven furnaces of a coke oven battery A coke oven charging device for supplying coal to the charging chutes on the roof of a coke oven battery of a plurality of horizontally arranged coke ovens, comprises a horizontally disposed circulator conveyor supported on the roof at a spaced location t... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4181459 | Conveyor protection system In the handling and charging of pre-heated coal, the coal is transported from a coal storage container to the oven chambers by an enclosed continuous conveyor system. The coke oven chambers are charged individually in a continual manner by transporting a ... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4058230 | Arrangement for pneumatically regulating the introduction of substances into chambers An arrangement for regulating the introduction of substances into chambers is disclosed and is particularly well-suited for the feeding of coal into coke ovens. The arrangement includes a chamber which is to be filled to a predetermined level and a feedin... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4050679 | Method and apparatus for controlling the furnace top gas pressure of blast furnaces In a blast furnace installation comprising a blast furnace and a raw material charging apparatus including a hollow inverted frustum shaped rotary hopper mounted above the blast furnace, conveyor means for supplying the raw material to the rotary hopper, ... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4050592 | Charging apparatus for shaft furnaces Apparatus for charging material into a shaft furnace, such as a blast furnace. The apparatus includes gas lock means for introducing charge material into the furnace while the furnace is under gas pressure, and distributor means below the gas lock means t... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4049394 | Control system for a coal gasification plant A control system maintains a predetermined volumetric ratio between fine-particle fuel and a gasification agent which are fed separately into a reactor wherein the fuel is gasified under pressure. The control system includes a first measuring means respon... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4010857 | Coal conditioning system The output of a radioactive source is directed through a moving stream of granular material, e.g., coal on a conveyor, and the radiation passing through is sensed by a detector. The detector generates a pulse signal of which the pulse repetition rate vari... | 03/08/1977 |
| 4003803 | Control system for preventing an excessive temperature rise in a battery of coke ovens The control system includes a controller and a clocking circuit along with a computer for each one of the coke oven chambers. A first control signal is responsive to the occurrence of charging coal into a given oven chamber and starts the clock. A second ... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3972411 | Method of feedig green pellets onto grate of pretreatment furnace in the production of reduced pellets In the production of reduced pellets such as reduced iron pellets by the grate-kiln system for firing, a distributor and a belt conveyor provided with a weighing machine are arranged between a sieving machine that sieves produced green pellets to predeter... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3938976 | Processes and apparatus for feeding material to a glass melting tank Apparatus for feeding material to a glass melting tank comprises a batch material feed system and a cullet feed system. A first control unit controls the rate of the batch feed and a second control unit controls the cullet feed rate. One of the control un... | 02/17/1976 |
