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Microwave Oven With Removable Storage Cassette in Dashboard of Motor Vehicle
A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8014895 | Temperature setting method of heat processing plate, temperature setting apparatus of heat processing plate, program, and computer-readable recording medium recording program thereon An object of the present invention is to perform temperature setting of a heating plate so that a wafer is uniformly heated in an actual heat processing time. The temperature of a wafer is measured during a heat processing period from immediately after a temperature... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7778726 | Nonlinear controller and nonlinear control method An object of the present invention is to provide a novel controller and a control method which, in a nonlinear system in which a controller 1 and a controlled object 2 cannot be clearly separated, can converge the relationship between the controller | 08/17/2010 |
| 7548796 | Method, apparatus, and program for controlling temperature within a heating system A temperature variation of a glass substrate 2 at a plurality of measuring points in a continuous furnace 3 when preset temperatures of respective furnaces 31-33 are changed is estimated in the form of a matrix based... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7236841 | Method for fast manufacturing and assembling of hot runner systems The method and apparatus of the present invention includes a computer implemented injection molding configuring subsystem which enables a customer to interactively specify and design a system using a mix of parameters that the customer specifies and are manufacturin... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7206660 | Navigation apparatus and method, and computer program product A navigation apparatus is provided with: a first storing device for storing original data for a navigation based on a predetermined format and including map data, in such a manner that an empty area exists on the predetermined format in each processing unit for a pr... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7174239 | Retrieving diagnostic information from an HVAC component A control is provided for controlling the operation of a climate control system, which includes a processor that is capable of receiving power from a low voltage power supply adapted to be connected to an external alternating current power source, or a second extern... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7130720 | Radio frequency enabled control of environmental zones A system, apparatus and method for controlling environmental zones in a residence or other building using radio frequency enabled environmental controllers. At least one damper is associated with each of the various zones. From each environmental controller, a comma... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7076324 | Directionless rotary encoder control system for a household appliance An embodiment of the present invention uses an on-board microcontroller of a household appliance to receive signals from a directionless encoder attached to a knob for receiving user input and processing the signals from the direction encoder according to a control ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7020540 | Temperature control A method and apparatus are disclosed for controlling temperature of a plant comprising plural temperature control zones, wherein an effective control parameter for a first zone for which a signal representing measured temperature is available is produced according t... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7003377 | Controlling cooling air intake for air cooled equipment A method and apparatus for supplying cooling air to electronic equipment from ones of at least two sources. A detector detects whether the quality, such as the temperature of the cooling air from a source, is satisfactory and if not shuts the damper to that source a... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6681137 | Communications medium for controlling the attributes of a physical, chemical, or thermodynamic process An interpretive system architecture for a seamless transfer of energy to a physical, chemical, or thermodynamic process stream, or microwave oven. The interpretive system architecture overlays the operational functions of the process stream or host microw... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6606537 | Method for correcting process temperature profile in a multi-zone thermal processor A method for adjusting process temperature measurements used to monitor zone conditions in a reflow oven selects values for exclusion from correlation with the predicted part temperature profile. During the thermal process, a plurality of process temperat... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6560514 | Method and apparatus for optimizing control of a part temperature in conveyorized thermal processor A method and apparatus for controlling a part temperature profile by optimizing response characteristics based on control parameters acquires part temperature response characteristics at selected conditions to form an index value and calculates linear rel... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6505099 | Radiant energy control system In a radiant energy heating system having one or more types of radiant energy heating sub-systems, a control system comprising a solid state electronic control panel pre-programmed to control two or more of the types of radiant heating sub-systems, wherei... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6323804 | Method and apparatus for GPS time determination A system for rapidly acquiring a time reference for the location determination of a wireless communication device. The system includes a wireless communication device (200), a GPS satellite (202) and a communication satellite (208). The method comprises t... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6249710 | Method and apparatus for managing the thermal activity of a microwave oven The present invention provides an interpretive BIOS machine for controlling the cooking of food in a microwave oven or the conduct of a physical, chemical, or thermodynamic process stream wherein the microwave oven or process stream functionally operates ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6198975 | Interpretive language architecture for controlling the attributes of a physical chemical or thermodynamic process An interpretive system architecture for a seamless transfer of energy to a physical, chemical, or thermodynamic process stream, or microwave oven. The interpretive system architecture overlays the operational finctions of the process stream or host microw... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5993049 | Method and system for calculating mass and energy balance for glass furnace reburn A method and system for determining a mass and energy balance for a glass furnace proceeds through a furnace model and calculates a number of parameters for the flows within each segment of the furnace. The mass flow rate, enthalpy, and enthalpy flow rate... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5790437 | Graphical interface for programming ramping controllers An interface for graphically programming a ramping controller coupled to and controlling an electric heater is implemented with a microcomputer. The interface presents to the user via a display device, a cartesian coordinate graph of temperature versus ti... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5291514 | Heater autotone control apparatus and method A method and apparatus for automatically and dynamically tuning individual heater segments of a multi-zone furnace which allows simultaneous minimization of temperature gradients within the furnace and prevention of premature aging and failure of the segm... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5280434 | Heating system for thermoforming A programmable computer-controlled fast response infrared heating system capable of precise individual zone control and especially useful for thermoforming of plastic sheets comprises an array of fast response quartz heaters on a platen, a terminal box ha... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5274209 | Microwave oven A microwave oven includes a cooking unit for cooking food according to a cooking program for specifying cooking procedure, a cooking control data memory for storing cooking control data for controlling cooking, a selecting device for selecting one of the ... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5272300 | Microwave oven with a microcomputer operated according to cooking programs stored in a memory A microwave oven has a control unit with a memory to control heat cooking process according to a cooking program for a menu name selected The control unit includes a liquid crystal display on which character data or image data are displayed as cooking inf... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5231645 | Method of controlling continuous carburization furnace In the continuous carburization furnace in which the temperature of the heaters can be controlled individually at every carburization processing position; carburization reference data at each carburization processing position is read; a temperature and ca... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5209881 | High accuracy control system and method for panel line production The invention provides a control system and method for curing composite articles such as corrugated fiberglass resin plastic (FRP) panels. An exemplary system of the invention includes a curing oven, at least one infrared pyrometer sensor which is located... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5099442 | Furnace temperature control apparatus using adjustment input A temperature control apparatus of a learning type for a furnace which runs repetitively with a certain operating pattern of temperature change with time. The apparatus has a dual system model with respect to an enlarged system consisting of the furnace a... | 03/24/1992 |
| 4914277 | Electronic control device for automatic cooking, including learning for home electric oven An electronic control for an electric home oven comprises a microprocessor, a panel of function and memory keys used as a keyboard, a working memory of the microprocessor, a learning memory wherein are stored all the parameters of an experimental cooking ... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4907177 | Computerized multi-zone crystal growth furnace precise temperature and heating control method A computerized method of digitally controlling the temperature profile of a heated article in which the temperature profile is defined by a plurality of temperature zones spaced about the article. The temperature profile of the article is monitored and a ... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4817009 | Furnace zone temperature control A computer system for a zone fired furnace generates a plurality of temperature set point signals for a plurality of furnace zones. The set point signals are derived from a master controller acting on the measured temperature of fluid that is heated in th... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4688180 | Pattern-switching temperature control apparatus An apparatus controls the temperature of a multi-zone furnace based on a given temperature distribution pattern, which pattern is automatically switched zone by zone while considering inter-zone thermal interferences as the work being heat-treated is chan... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4686356 | Heating appliance with internal non-volatile memory A heating appliance has a control system which is arranged such that when an internal electrically rewritable nonvolatile memory is utilized in the heating appliance for cooking foods with heat, the protection of data, an the rewriting of data and the col... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4622059 | Apparatus for controlling temperature within a forehearth A temperature control system for a forehearth, said forehearth for thermally conditioning molten glass to be fed to a glassware forming machine, and being divided into a plurality of zones. Each of the forehearth zones is provided with devices for monitor... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4617638 | Method and system for determining mass temperature in a hostile environment Production-worthy method and system comprising two computer-based subsystems for determining temperature of an irradiant mass movable through process means in a hostile environment exemplified as coke guide and coke oven in a battery of ovens. System is u... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4609343 | Temperature distribution regulating sample holder-adapter for forming conditions for gradient heat treatment in heat treatment ovens or furnaces The invention concerns a temperature distribution controlling sample holding adaptor for setting up gradient heat treatment conditions in heat treatment ovens, which has a sample holder for realizing temperature distribution and setting and adjustment uni... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4577278 | Method and system for controlling a selected zone in a fuel fired furnace A method and system is provided for controlling a selected zone in a fuel fired furnace of the type used for heating work as it moves through the zone from an entrant end to an exit end. The method and system includes providing a fuel fired burner at the ... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4501552 | Method for controlling furnace temperature In controlling furnace temperature, a desired temperature profile of a slab in a direction along its movement through a furnace is calculated by using an expression for total fuel flow as a function of slab temperature and minimizing the total fuel flow. ... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4390965 | Micro-wave ovens The invention relates to a process for preparing a plurality of portions of food in a like plurality of microwave ovens, and to an electronic system in which the process is carried out. The system includes a memory for accepting and storing the time value... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4380698 | Multiprocessor control bus A control arrangement for a multifunction appliance such as a cooking appliance wherein the control activity is distributed among a plurality of microprocessor based control circuits. In the exemplary embodiment each control circuit is associated with a d... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4373364 | Method of controlling the temperature of a heating furnace A temperature controlling method for heating, with a heating furnace having at least one heating zone provided with a controllable heating means, materials charged into the heating furnace such that an aimed temperature of the material is reached by the t... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4275464 | Universal self-diagnosing appliance control A microprocessor based household appliance electronic control device is equipped with self-diagnosing cacapability and with selected option capabilities. The control includes input and output lines from an integrated circuit structure through a plug conne... | 06/23/1981 |
