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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8124918 | Positive temperature coefficient light emitting diode light An apparatus includes a light source, a substrate, a temperature-based controller and an insulator. The light source is mounted to the substrate. The temperature-based controller is electrically coupled to the light source and causes the light source to provide a re... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8049145 | Semiconductor device having variable parameter selection based on temperature and test method A semiconductor device that may include temperature sensing circuits is disclosed. The temperature sensing circuits may be used to control various parameters, such as internal regulated supply voltages, internal refresh frequency, a word line low voltage, or the lik... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044330 | Electrically conductive adhesive Disclosed is an electrically conductive adhesive that includes an electrically conductive powder, a heat-curable silicone resin, and a solvent. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8003922 | Solid state switch with over-temperature and over-current protection An intake air heating system for an internal combustion engine includes an electric heater that heats the intake air, a control circuit that switches a voltage to the electric heater based on a control signal and an over-temperature signal, a temperature sensor that... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7932481 | Operating device, electrical appliance with such an operating device, arrangement of a glass ceramic hob or an oven with such an operating device and method for operating such an operating device An operating device and an electrical appliance provided with said operating device is disclosed. The electrical appliance comprises light barriers mounted on a frame that rests on a worktop. The light barriers can detect whether a finger is placed on one or more of... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7667163 | Thermostat with adjustable color for aesthetics and readability The thermostat includes a housing having at least a portion thereof illuminated by a light that changes color via a manual input. The light illuminates the display for easy readability while the variable color of the light allows a user to match the appearance of th... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7633037 | Positive temperature coefficient light emitting diode light An apparatus includes electrical contacts coupled to a LED. The apparatus further includes a positive temperature coefficient resistor in operative thermal communication and electrically in series with the LED. A resistance of the PTC resistor varies as a function o... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7414223 | Method and apparatus for monitoring safety glass production or controlling a treatment process The invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring safety glass production or controlling a treatment process, such as a tempering process. Information representing a load of glass panels is used in controlling a treatment process, such as heating of gla... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7371997 | Thermal processing apparatus and thermal processing method In a thermal processing apparatus, using a lamp for heating a substrate, an opening is formed for a camera unit, which is used to image portions of an auxiliary ring supporting the substrate, to obtain the position of the center of the auxiliary ring. The camera fur... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367138 | Devices and methods for thermophoretic and electrophoretic reduction of particulate contamination of lithographic reticles Apparatus and methods are disclosed for reducing particle contamination of a surface of an object such as a reticle used in an EUV lithography system. An exemplary apparatus includes a thermophoresis device and an electrophoresis device. The thermophoresis device is... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7329250 | Method and apparatus for converting supplies and reducing waste A method and apparatus for technique and cycling (Techni-cycling as herein defined) such that converting delivery supply containers (supplies) into waste and disposal receptacles is disclosed. More particularly, a container transformation comprising deriving a suppl... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7301623 | Transferring, buffering and measuring a substrate in a metrology system A chuck that clamps a substrate to the top surface using, e.g., a vacuum, electrostatic force, or other appropriate means, includes a plurality of lift pins that can raise the substrate off the top surface of the chuck. The chuck may be used with a metrology device ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286764 | Reconfigurable modulator-based optical add-and-drop multiplexer An optical add and drop multiplexer system comprising a first module for providing a first signal; a second module for providing a second signal; and a modulator for receiving a channel of the first signal at a first location, the first location configured to actuat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7258954 | Method to recover the exposure sensitivity of chemically amplified resins from post coat delay effect Methods of fabricating a photomask, methods of treating a chemically amplified resist-coated photomask blank, a photomask blank resulting from the methods, and systems for fabricating a photomask are provided. The method is useful for recovering the exposure sensiti... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7235762 | Factory preset temperature warming appliance A warming appliance having factory preset temperature modes. The warming appliance comprises an enclosure having a wall. The enclosure defines an interior space having an opening. A drawer is configured to be reciprocally moved within the interior space. The drawer ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234862 | Apparatus for measuring temperatures of a wafer using specular reflection spectroscopy An apparatus (295) using specular reflection spectroscopy to measure a temperature of a substrate (135). By reflecting light (100) from a substrate, the temperature of the substrate can be determined using the band-edge characteristics of the su... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7229725 | Method to recover the exposure sensitivity of chemically amplified resins from post coat delay effect Methods of fabricating a photomask, methods of treating a chemically amplified resist-coated photomask blank, a photomask blank resulting from the methods, and systems for fabricating a photomask are provided. The method is useful for recovering the exposure sensiti... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227103 | Induction hot plate comprising heating regions having a reconfigurable structure, and method for increasing the maximum power of said heating regions An induction hot plate including a plurality of heating regions with a reconfigurable structure. The hot plate includes at least two power modules, each supplying electrical power to at least one first and one second induction heating element. The maximum power to e... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7211771 | De-icing system for traffic signals A circuit is disclosed for detecting and eliminating the buildup of snow and/or ice on the viewable face of an LED traffic signal lens. The circuit measures the ambient temperature within the LED signal, and when the temperature falls to a level where snow and/or ic... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7187227 | Driver circuit A driver circuit includes first and second three-terminal active elements, and first and second delay units. The first and second three-terminal active elements are series-connected. Each of the first and second three-terminal active elements has an amplification fu... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177081 | High contrast grating light valve type device A grating light valve has with a plurality of spaced reflective ribbons are spatially arranged over a substrate with reflective surfaces. The grating light valve is configured to optimized the conditions for constructive and destructive interference with an incident... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7147973 | Method to recover the exposure sensitivity of chemically amplified resins from post coat delay effect Methods of fabricating a photomask, methods of treating a chemically amplified resist-coated photomask blank, a photomask blank resulting from the methods, and systems for fabricating a photomask are provided. The method is useful for recovering the exposure sensiti... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145108 | Configurable heating pad controller According to the present invention, a heating pad controller incorporating a discrete ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) is provided which varies the duty cycle characteristics of a periodic signal during which power is applied to a heating pad heating e... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7120354 | Gases delivery conduit A gases delivery conduit for the supply of humidified medical gases as formed from an extruded plastic tube. The extruded plastic tube includes at least one heating element embedded within the wall of the tube. The heating element includes a pair of electrical condu... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7090751 | Apparatus and methods for electrochemical processing of microelectronic workpieces A processing chamber comprising a reaction vessel having an electro-reaction cell including a virtual electrode unit, an electrode assembly disposed relative to the electro-reaction cell to be in fluid communication with the virtual electrode unit, and an electrode ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7068372 | MEMS interferometer-based reconfigurable optical add-and-drop multiplexor The interferometer comprises a beam splitter, a mirror and a phase modulator. The beam splitter splits a signal into a first portion and a second portion. The mirror reflects the first portion. The first portion includes an optical path length, which is fixed. The p... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057819 | High contrast tilting ribbon blazed grating The light modulator includes elongated elements and a support structure coupled to the elongated elements. Each element includes one or more lengthwise slits within an active optical area, and a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective planar surfac... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054515 | Diffractive light modulator-based dynamic equalizer with integrated spectral monitor An integrated device of the present invention comprises free-space optics, a bi-directional multiplexor/de-multiplexor, a diffractive light modulator, a beam splitter, an optical performance monitor, and a controller. The free-space optics collimate, transform and i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047871 | Electric toaster with expanding tray walls Apparatus 10 for a toaster appliance having at least one circular-like carriage 14 forming a support element for food articles 12 such as tortillas, pita, naan and other flatbreads during a warming/toasting session. The support walls 16, 20 | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049164 | Microelectronic mechanical system and methods The current invention provides for encapsulated release structures, intermediates thereof and methods for their fabrication. The multi-layer structure has a capping layer, that preferably comprises silicon oxide and/or silicon nitride, and which is formed over an et... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042611 | Pre-deflected bias ribbons A modulator for and a method of modulating an incident beam of light including means for supporting a plurality of active elements and a plurality of bias elements, each active and bias element including a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective pl... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7026260 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device using thermal treatment that features lower speed wafer rotation at low temperatures and higher speed wafer rotation at high temperatures A technique capable of preventing breakage of a semiconductor wafer in a single-wafer RTP apparatus is provided. Open-loop control is made in a temperature rising process, in which the temperature of the semiconductor wafer is 500° C. or lower, and a revolution spe... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027202 | Silicon substrate as a light modulator sacrificial layer An optical MEM device is fabricated with a patterned device layer formed on a silicon wafer. Preferably, the patterned device layer is patterned with plurality of ribbons and/or access trenches. The central portion of the ribbon is released from the silicon wafer us... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6963816 | Systems and methods for integrated emissivity and temperature measurement of a surface A multi-channel spectrometer and a light source are used to measure both the emitted and the reflected light from a surface which is at an elevated temperature relative to its environment. In a first method, the temperature of the surface and emissivity in each wave... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6956995 | Optical communication arrangement An arrangement for optical communication comprises an optical coupler, an opto-electronic board, and an optical fiber. The optical fiber comprises a first refraction surface, a second refraction surface, and an internal reflector. The first refraction surface has a ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6947613 | Wavelength selective switch and equalizer A device comprising a light modulator including a plurality of elements wherein each element is selectively operable such that the plurality of elements are dynamically configurable to combine selected ones of a plurality of grating periods such that selected portio... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6933475 | Method and system for turning on an optical radiation source An optical communication module includes an optical radiation source as well as control circuitry to control the temperature and the power emitted by he optical source. In order to permit soft start-up of the source while avoiding undesired wavelength variations, th... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6934070 | Chirped optical MEM device A light modulator comprises a series of ribbons divided by a series of gaps. Sequences of consecutive ribbons and gaps are grouped together to form a plurality of pixels that are configured to process a respective plurality of wavelengths. The spacing from center-li... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930287 | Random positioning cooking hob with user interface A cooking hob with random positioning of pans or the like, comprising a plurality of electrical heating elements disposed within a cooking area and individually powered under the control of a control circuit, the heating elements also being used as position sensors ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6927891 | Tilt-able grating plane for improved crosstalk in 1×N blaze switches A light modulator includes elongated elements arranged parallel to each other. Each elongated element includes a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective planar surfaces configured in a first grating plane. A support structure is coupled to the elon... | 08/09/2005 |
