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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7897898 | Heat generator comprising a magneto-caloric material and thermie generating method A heat generator comprising a magneto-caloric material and a method for generating efficient and reliable thermies enabling of substantially limiting displaceable inert masses in order to produce a magnetic field variation required for obtaining a magneto caloric ef... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7858908 | Methods for inductive heating of workpiece using coiled assemblies A method for inductively heating a workpiece using a heating coil that surrounds the sides and ends of the workpiece, wherein the heating coil comprises a first coil assembly that encloses a first portion of the workpiece and a second coil assembly that encloses a s... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7791005 | Coil constructions configured for utilization in physical vapor deposition chambers, and methods of forming coil constructions The invention includes coil constructions configured for utilization in PVD chambers, and also includes methods of forming coil constructions suitable for utilization in PVD chambers. The coil constructions can include one or more cup projections extending from an o... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7446289 | Enhanced plasma filter A device is provided for adiabatically compressing a plasma stream and maintaining the plasma stream in the compressed state. The device has a plasma compression region; a first plurality of electromagnets positioned around the plasma compression region for compress... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7442906 | Induction heating coil for shaft member having multiple steps and heating method In an induction heating coil for heating a shaft member having multiple steps, annular conductors are separately disposed in the axis direction, the annular conductors having inner diameters so as to form predetermined gaps with outer peripheries of heating portions... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7432479 | Method and apparatus for inductive heating of a food container Heating devices and methods which are particularly useful in vending machines for hot Foods. Foods such as beverages contained in individual containers such as cans are rapidly heated to serving temperature by induction heating for delivery to a customer. Various ty... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7411164 | Device for inductive injection of thermal energy into a printing form for fixing an image An image fixing device inductively injects thermal energy into a rotating printing form of a press for fixing an image formed on the rotating printing form by means of a digital imaging system. The fixing device has at least one inductor with at least one induction ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7390995 | Image forming apparatus, fixing device and image heater having an adjustable exciting member An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device which fixes a toner image on a recording medium. The fixing device includes a heating device. The heating device includes a heat-generating member, an exciting member, and a changing device. The heat-generating mem... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7375986 | Method and device for producing an electric heating current, particularly for inductive heating of a workpiece A heating current used to inductively heat a metallic or magnetic work-piece is generated by an inverter supplied by a supply voltage. The inverter includes four switching elements arranged in an H-bridge circuit having two parallel longitudinal branches and a trans... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7359667 | Device for heating fusing and pressure roller using inductive-heat in a fusing device for an image forming apparatus A fusing device for an image forming apparatus including a cylindrical fusing roller, a pressure roller installed opposite to the fusing roller and pressing a sheet of paper passing therebetween, and an inductive heating element simultaneously heating the fusing rol... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355149 | Coil unit, process for producing the same, and image heating apparatus An electromagnetic induction coil unit for use with an electromagnetic induction heating-type image heating apparatus includes magnetic flux generation means comprising an exciting coil and a magnetic core; a core holder for holding the magnetic core; a coil holder ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7335857 | Glow plug including a rod-shaped heating element attached in a tubular carrier element by having been magnetically deformed A rod-shaped heating element with a tubular carrier element attached to a cylindrical carrier ring and to the rod-shaped heating element using a magnetic forming process, the carrier ring and the rod-shaped heating element being within the tubular carrier element wi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7302926 | D.C. power enhancer for battery-powered vehicles and internal combustion engines In one aspect of this invention, a battery power transfer device connected or connectable to establish an electrical path between a battery and a starter motor of an internal combustion engine. A coil of conductive hollow tubing having a plurality of complete loops ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7285761 | Hot forming system for metal workpieces A device including at least one transformer with primer/seconder coil ratio more than one and including a control unit used to control timing and magnetute of the primer current is employed to heat a metal workpiece to be subjected a subsequent forming operation. An... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7279663 | Fixing device using induction heating and method for producing same A fixing device includes a heating roller which is made of a magnetic metal, a coil which is made of a plurality of twisted wires, an exciting circuit which applies a high-frequency current to the coil, and a core which is made of a heat resistant resin and is arran... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7253380 | Induction heating of rail welds An apparatus (10) and method for preheating welds uses a centered induction plate (12) having preferably a plurality of induction coils (30, 32) to impart the generation of heat in the materials to be welded (14), being interactively cont... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7234500 | Cutting device A cutting device (10) for cutting a material (12) and providing a cut portion of the material (12). The device comprises a heating assembly comprising an electrical induction arrangement (32) for heating the cut portion of the material by... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7214912 | Installation method and material system for inductive billet heating coils An insulation application and replacement system method for use on electric induction heating coils used to heat billets in industrial applications. Re-lining induction coil heating devices with non-hazardous materials of the invention uses a multiple step process o... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7205512 | Fixing device using induction heating An electrophotography fixing device has a heating roller and an induction heating device. In order to improve heat resistance, heat radiating performance and insulation performance and in order to appropriately uniformly heat the heating roller, in the induction hea... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193369 | Method for generating gas plasma A method for generating a plasma. A gas flows along a flow path having the displacement identical to the lines of magnetic force of the main magnetic field, and high frequency alternating current is applied to the gas, thereby generating a gas plasma. For example, a... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7183526 | Apparatus and method for heating works uniformly through high frequency induction coils A high frequency induction-heating device 3 of the apparatus 1 for heating work includes a pair of opposite work coils accommodated within the coil casings 17 and 19 respectively. The casings 17 and 19 can be displaced in a ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7145116 | Induction heating coil An induction heating coil having little high-frequency loss and producing little hast is easily manufactured by covering a conductor with a first insulating material to form a wire, then bundling and twisting such wires to form a stranded wire, covering the outer su... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145115 | Apparatus for hardening a cylindrical bearing on a shaft by means of induction heating utilizing an elastic element An apparatus for hardening cylindrical bearing locations on a shaft, in particular a crankshaft, in which transition radii to the adjacent shaft parts are of undercut design, is provided with a heating unit, which is connected to a power supply, and with an inductor... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7129448 | Heating apparatus fusing apparatus and image forming apparatus A heat apparatus for an electromagnetic induction heating system comprises a heat roller that comprises magnetic and conductive material. The heating apparatus also comprises a magnetic excitation coil that is positioned around a portion of the periphery of the heat... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129450 | Method and device for manufacturing packages A method and a device for manufacturing packages are provided. The method comprises providing a tubular first package part of a sheet of thermoplastic coated packaging material including at least one layer of an induction heatable material. The first package part ha... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7095000 | Radio-frequency driven dielectric heaters for non-nuclear testing in nuclear core development Apparatus and methods are provided through which a radio-frequency dielectric heater has a cylindrical form factor, a variable thermal energy deposition through variations in geometry and composition of a dielectric, and/or has a thermally isolated power input. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7084380 | Raw tire preheating method and apparatus therefor A raw tire-preheating method and apparatus for preheating a raw tire uniformly over all the areas with a reduced running cost. The raw tire-preheating apparatus comprises a tread section-preheating mechanism (16) including a front coil (21) disposed so... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7060952 | Induction heating coil device An induction heating coil device includes a workpiece having one or more planar surfaces, and an induction coil having a number of coil turns arranged in inwardly converging shape and arranged to have planes of the coil turns offset from each other for generating hi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7045749 | Apparatus for fixing toner on transferred material The present invention relates to a device including a body to be heated to which a magnetic field is supplied to generate heat and which heats a developer on a material to be recorded, a plurality of coil bodies which generate an induced heat in the body to be heate... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7034264 | Heating systems and methods utilizing high frequency harmonics Heating systems and methods for inductive heating or a combination of resistive and inductive heating. A heater coil is inductively coupled to an article and a current signal is supplied to the heater coil. The heater coil generates a magnetic flux, based on the app... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7026587 | Composite cooking apparatus A composite cooking apparatus having a body, a heating unit, and an induction heating unit. The heating unit is positioned in the body to generate heat used to heat food. The induction heating unit is positioned adjacent to the heating unit to generate a magnetic fi... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025245 | Magnetic welder A magnetic welding and joining device is provided. The device has a separable induction coil that can be selectively coupled to provide an induction coil to be positioned around workpieces that are to be magnetically welded or joined. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7015439 | Method and system for control of on-site induction heating A workpiece heating system having an induction heating power source and a controller. The controller is operable to control the operation of the power source according to programming instructions received from a user. The controller enables a user to establish a seq... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7005619 | Induction heating device, induction heating fixing device and image forming apparatus An induction heating device for inductively heating an object to be heated which is formed of conductive material has a holder. The holder is positioned outside the object. The device has an exciting coil for inductively heating the object. The exciting coil is supp... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999496 | High efficiency induction heating and melting systems An induction heating and melting system uses a crucible formed from a material that has a high electrical resistivity or high magnetic permeability, and one or more inductor coils formed from a wound cable consisting of multiple individually insulated copper conduct... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6989517 | Apparatus and method for heated food delivery A delivery apparatus is provided by the invention. The delivery apparatus includes a container for holding an article to be delivered and a heater. The container includes a housing forming an interior area and an opening. The opening is provided with a size sufficie... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6987251 | Heating apparatus with temperature detection system for identifying and notifying the user that the material to be heated is wound around the induction heating element A heating apparatus has a magnetic flux generator and a rotatable induction heating element for generating heat through electromagnetic induction by the action of magnetic flux generated by the magnetic flux generator, and heats a material to be heated by causing th... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6963057 | Simultaneous induction heating of multiple workpieces Multiple workpieces are inductively heated by passing them through one or more induction heating coils. Passage of a section of each workpiece through a coil may oscillate in the forward and reverse directions, independent of the movement of the other workpieces, on... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963056 | Induction heating of a workpiece An apparatus and process are provided for controlling the cross sectional temperature profile of a continuously moving workpiece with an induction coil assembly that provides for a combination of longitudinal and transverse magnetic flux field heating of the workpie... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6960746 | Device for instantly pre-heating dies A device for instantly pre-heating dies includes an inductive heating coil disposed between two dies. The inductive heating coil includes a spiral shape for generating high frequency induction heat energy. When the dies are separated by a mechanical arm, the inducti... | 11/01/2005 |
