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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115146 | Positive temperature coefficient heater A positive temperature coefficient heater may include at least one positive temperature coefficient rod having a heating module inserted into a rod case made of brass and plated with tin, at least one heat-radiating fin made of brass, plated with tin, and contacted ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7829826 | Electric heater for a clothes dryer The invention refers to an electric heater for a clothes dryer, said heater comprising at least one heating wire, a ring shaped support structure carrying the at least one heating wire. The at least one heating wire is a flat wire bent into loops. ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7723652 | Adjusting device for adjusting tension of heating straps on heating assembly A heating strap assembly includes a of heating strap engaged with positioning recesses of supports which are connected between two sides of a rectangular frame which includes a first end board, a second end board and the two sides connected between the first and sec... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7667165 | Electric heating device for motor vehicles An auxiliary heater for motor vehicles includes an open housing accommodating a layered structure which includes at least one radiator element and at least one heat-emitting element having at least one PTC heating element, and further accommodating at least one spri... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7365288 | Heater assembly for dryer A heater assembly for a dryer is stably assembled and reduces noise. The heater assembly for a dryer includes hot wires electrically heated an insulator provided with a groove at the center, having lower and upper portions into which the hot wires are fixed, and a p... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358460 | Deployment system for thermal radiating materials An autonomous deployment system is herein for functional utilization in the physical placement and deployment of a heating or thermal mat(s). The system is designed to enhance human productivity and ease deployment of the prior art thermal radiating or generating de... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355147 | Ice removal for a pond A floating ice removal device with a disk shaped upper cover, a disk shaped lower cover and a heat emitting cup. An electric circuit board is mounted on an inner bottom of the lower cover, and a helical heat emitting wire is mounted on the inner top surface of the u... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351899 | Quick action drum lug assembly and method Lug assemblies and associated methods of attaching a drum head to a drum body. The lug assembly may comprise a lug body having a seating surface; an elongate link having a proximate end disposed proximate the drum head and a distal end disposed distal from the drum ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7335855 | Electric PCB heating component, electronic circuit board and heating method An electric PCB heating component for a heating electric component is coupleable to an electronic circuit board. The PCB heating component includes a fastening element, a heating element for generating thermal energy, and a heating body. The heating body emits therm... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7312426 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus includes a heater mounting unit that mounts a heater on a reflecting plate in a simple manner and allows an internal construction of the cooking apparatus to be simple. The cooking apparatus also includes a cabinet, at least one heater mounted in... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7235761 | Heating apparatus with mechanical attachment In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, an image heating apparatus is provided for fusing an unfixed toner image to a substrate including a housing base for supporting a heater, and a thin film or belt extending around the housing base and heater. The... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7208705 | Heater bracket assembly for dryer A heater bracket assembly for securing a heater case in a dryer is disclosed. The heater bracket assembly includes a supporting part secured to a bottom end of the heater case for supporting the heater case, a fixing part secured to a base plate of the dryer, and a ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205511 | Combined heater and heat diffuser for an injection nozzle for moulding plastics materials and a method for the manufacture thereof A combined heater and heat diffuser for fitting to an injection nozzle (10) for moulding plastics materials, where the nozzle comprises a tubular metal core (12) with an injection duct (14) and a cylindrical lateral surface (13). The heat... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7159756 | Method of soldering and solder compositions The invention relates to using the heat generated during thermal treatment of one or more glass sheets to melt solder. In one nonlimiting embodiment, a lead providing external access to an electrical conductive arrangement, e.g. a conductive member between and conne... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161118 | Toilet seat heating device A device for warming a toilet seat includes a heatable section removably attachable to a toilet lid via an adhesive layer. The present invention further includes flexible heating elements formed from heat-absorbing material and a cover that protects a user from such... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154072 | Method of using open coil resistance heater in appliances with right and left hand installation capability An open coil resistance heater assembly is made for universal mounting between left and right hand installations in an appliance or other equipment. The heater assembly has its coils arranged symmetrically about a bisecting plane of the heater assembly and/or a cent... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149416 | Clothes dryer heater with air flow increasing device adjacent the heating element A heater for a washer-dryer includes a duct in which heating elements for heating the air flowing through the duct are disposed. A device for increasing the airflow in the area of a heating element is provided in the duct to improve the transportation of heat away f... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145932 | Electric furnace An electric furnace has a furnace wall, a cylindrical spiral member made of a wire of heat resistant material, a part of the cylindrical portion of which being embedded into the furnace wall and the remaining cylindrical portion of which being projected from an inne... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7105782 | Electrothermal article An electrothermal article including a fabric member defining an inner space. A connector is disposed outwardly of the inner space in the fabric member and has conductive first and second terminals. A plurality of elongated flat heating elements is disposed in the in... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7104706 | Heating device The present invention relates to a heating device having at least a first heating element 102 for heating at least one protective sleeve 105, 602 arranged around at least a first uncoated optical fiber section 501, 603. Said sleeve 105, 602 | 09/12/2006 |
| 7075043 | Standoff for use with uncoiled bare wire and insulated runs of an open coil electric resistance heater, method of use, and an open coil resistance heater using the standoff An open coil resistance heater uses one or more standoffs to engage and support the generally straight or uncoiled run of bare or insulated wire that is part of the resistance wire of the heater. The standoff has slots, which are sized to engage the bare or insulate... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7067773 | Food warming device and methods for its manufacture A food warming is provided with a partially open housing having an open side extending along a longitudinal length of the housing. A heating element is also provided, extending along the longitudinal length of the housing. A support member is disposed to maintain a ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064301 | Electric heater The present invention relates to an electric heater, which electrically and mechanically protects heating means from the outside, increases heating value and thermal conductivity by increasing contact efficiency among components, and improves assembly efficiency and... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7060950 | Heating element, a thawing mat and a hot mat comprising the heating element The invention provides a linear and/or plane heating element, and a thawing mat, and a hot mat comprising the linear and/or plane heating element that provides necessary heat quantity at low electric power without burning fossil fuel and the like. A heating element ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060949 | End seal design for temperature sensing probes An end seal for a temperature sensing probe. Electrical interface wiring is passed through a restraining element and is operatively coupled to a temperature sensing element or heater element mounted in the sheath. The sheath is formed around the restraining element ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7049555 | Electrical sleeve heater A sleeve heater has an electrical and generally cylindrical heater coil centered on an axis and shaped to fit over a part to be heated, a radially compressible and generally cylindrical inner sleeve snugly coaxially surrounding the heater coil, and a radially genera... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7015428 | Electrical heater A heater formed of multiple layers with at least two envelope layers sealed to each other to form a closed envelope and with at least one of the layers within the sealed envelope layers comprising a gas permeable internal ground member that permit one to heat seal t... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012225 | Electric heating apparatus with housing Electric heating apparatus and manufacturing method for an electric heating apparatus, wherein prefabricated constructional units are used. The prefabricated constructional units consist of PTC heating elements fastened to contact sheets by means of a lacquer. This ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6917020 | Ceramic heater A ceramic heater capable of reducing temperature uniformity at the periphery of through holes such as insertion holes and vacuum suction holes is provided, which protects wafer against thermal shocks and has improved controllability for temperature control parts suc... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6913375 | Lamp masking method and apparatus A motor vehicle lamp assembly having a light source for emitting light and a source enclosure having a light transmissive portion for transmitting light from the light source to an illumination zone. The enclosure is affixed with a material which covers a selected r... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6884974 | Mica board electrical resistance wire heater, subassemblies, components, and methods of assembly A mica board open coil resistance heater assembly includes a mica board subassembly of at least one pair of mica boards, a resistance wire wound around the boards, an electrical connection clip secured to each mica board, wherein each end of the resistance wire is c... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6864467 | Heater for gaseous media An electric heater for gaseous media with at least one support plate and at least one helix of corrugated, electric resistance heating wire wound continuously around the support plate and whose turns are held by means of heating wire bend-offs on the longitudinal ed... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6852955 | Adhesive composition for electrical PTC heating device The invention relates to an electrically and thermally conductive adhesive composition for cementing together at least one metallized (e.g. aluminized or silvered) surface of a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) element to at least one metallic (e.g. aluminum) e... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6770855 | Methods of assembling open coil electrical resistance heaters involving butt welding of rails and using welded insulator support clips with bendable tabs A heater having a frame rail and clips, attached to the rail, for securing insulators for supporting a heater coil. Each clip has a main body having a structural member for securing to the rail, and having a pair of flanges symmetrical about a central axis. Each fla... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6762395 | Thermally-conductive, electrically non-conductive heat transfer material and articles made thereof A heat transfer material comprised of a polymeric material and a nitride or oxide is provided and is thermally conductive, but electrically non-conductive. The polymeric material may be silicone rubber, and the nitride or oxide may be aluminum nitride, boron nitride... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6740852 | Heating facility having magnetically attached temperature sensing device An electrical heating facility includes an electrical heating element attached to a base and having two terminals, and a temperature sensing device having two conductors for electrically coupling to the terminals of the electrical heating element and to detect the t... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6737615 | Heat conductor coil for heating a flowing gaseous medium and electrical resistance heating element A heat conductor coil for heating a flowing gaseous medium is configured to be attached to a support configuration and has a heat conductor wound in windings following an ascending line of a coil to form the heat conductor coil, wherein the ascending line of the coi... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6737616 | Open coil electric resistance heater using twisted resistance wires and methods of making An open coil resistance heating apparatus uses a pair of twisted wires having a particular gauge and pitch as the resistance heating wire. Using the twisted pair of wires in the selected gauge and pitch results in significant cost reductions; less wire is needed to ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6730878 | Heater having electrically conductive substrate and image heating apparatus with heater An image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material has a heater having a heat generating resistor, an electrically conductive substrate, an intermediate insulating layer formed between the resistor and the substrate and two surface insula... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6723968 | Conductive U-shaped jumper strap and method of use A conductive metal jumper strap has a plate portion with a pair of connection legs forming a u-shape. The connection legs are adapted to connect to terminals to make an electrical connection between two components of a heating device. The plate portion has a bend in... | 04/20/2004 |
