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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8075829 | Method for drying honeycomb formed article There is provided a method for drying a honeycomb formed article 1. The method has the first step, where an unfired honeycomb formed article 1 having a plurality of cells separated by partition walls made from raw material composition containing a cera... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7348182 | Directed microwave chemistry The present invention concerns a novel means by which chemical preparations can be made. Reactions can be accelerated on special chips using microwave energy. The chips contain materials that efficiently absorb microwave energy causing chemical reaction rate increas... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7320183 | Method for drying honeycomb formed structure The invention provides a honeycomb formed structure drying method including causing undried honeycomb formed structures 10 placed on stands 12 to pass through a drying apparatus 1, thereby drying the undried honeycomb formed structures through h... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7303723 | Method of forming nanostructures on ceramics A method for manufacturing oriented arrays of ceramic or metal oxide nanostructures, such as titania (TiO2) nanofibers. The nanofibers are formed on the surface of a body that is first sintered at a temperature in the range of about 1,100 to about 1,400 d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7273580 | Ferromagnetic resonance excitation and its use for heating substrates that are filled with particles Process for heating a substrate, which contains, relative to the total weight of the substrate, 0.1 to 70 wt. % of metallic, magnetic, ferrimagnetic, ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic or superparamagnetic particles having an average particle size of between 1 and 500... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7232574 | Long chain alcohols provided in edible oils The present invention provides a method for incorporating long chain alcohols into edible oils. The long chain alcohol/edible oil admixture is then suitable for use in preparation of various foods. The long chain alcohol is added by the introduction of energy and in... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7197839 | Microwave drying method of honeycomb formed bodies A method for drying a honeycomb formed body using microwaves is provided. The method can reduce the difference in the drying speed inside the honeycomb formed bodies during the drying process and can dry the honeycomb formed bodies without cell deformation. The meth... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196297 | Process and system for thermally uniform materials processing The present invention provides a system and method for binder removal and sintering of materials such as ceramic materials and products, LTCC intervals, solid oxide fuel cells and powder metals. A combination of microwave and convection/radiation heating is employed... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7179407 | Zero order release and temperature-controlled microcapsules and process for the preparation thereof A microcapsule composition comprising a core material in a matrix of polymorphic shell material, releases said core material in an aqueous environment in accordance with zero order linear release profile. A preferred composition comprises a core material having a de... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7153465 | Method of producing hybrid tubular metal/ceramic composites There are disclosed inventions relating to tubular hybrid metal/ceramic composites and the methods of making them wherein the ceramic chosen has a lower thermal expansion than that of the metal. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7132621 | Plasma catalyst Methods and apparatus are provided for igniting, modulating, and sustaining a plasma for various plasma processes and treatments. In one embodiment, a plasma is ignited by subjecting a gas in a multi-mode processing cavity to electromagnetic radiation having a frequ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7109642 | Composite piezoelectric apparatus and method The present invention relates to composite piezoelectric apparatus, transducers and methods of manufacture. In an embodiment, a composite piezoelectric apparatus has a sacrificial base and pillar array. Different volume percents of piezoelectric material are used in... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7097798 | Equipment and method for manufacturing honeycomb structural body An apparatus for molding a honeycomb structure provided with an extruder for the honeycomb structure capable of extruding a honeycomb structure in the gravity direction or an oblique direction at an angle of smaller than 30° with the gravity direction and at least ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7081605 | Microwave intensification system for a conveyorized microwave oven A microwave oven includes an oven cavity arranged within a housing. The oven includes a door and a motorized conveyor belt for transporting food items through the oven cavity. A microwave energy intensification system is provided below the conveyor belt to concentra... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7041366 | Porous silicon nitride ceramics and method for producing the same The invention provides porous silicon nitride ceramics that having uniform, fine closed pores and a manufacturing method thereof. Metal Si powder is mixed with a sintering additive, followed by thermal treatment, which is a pre-process for forming a specific grain b... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036983 | Thermocouple for use in gasification process An improved apparatus comprising a thermocouple for measuring the temperature in a gasification process is provided. The improvement comprises a sapphire envelope for enclosing at least a portion of the thermocouple. The sapphire envelope may be in the form of a sap... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7022198 | Microwave assisted reactive brazing of ceramic materials A method for joining similar materials to create multi-component assemblies so the joint materials share similar physical, chemical, and electrical characteristics with the base materials. The method includes aligning the materials, applying joining material, focusi... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7011136 | Method and apparatus for melting metals A method and apparatus for melting metals uses microwave energy as the primary source of heat. The metal or mixture of metals are placed in a ceramic crucible which couples, at least partially, with the microwaves to be used. The crucible is encased in a ceramic cas... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6994816 | Equipment and method for manufacturing honeycomb structural body An apparatus for producing a honeycomb structure having an extruder, at least one cradle and a cutting device comprising a small-gage wire for cutting the honeycomb structure and a notching member; said cradle is provided with a means capable of moving the honeycomb... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6955745 | Method of spark-processing silicon and resulting materials The subject invention pertains to a method of spark processing silicon and resulting materials. The subject invention also relates to electroluminescent devices incorporating the materials produced by the subject method. The subject method for spark-processing can e... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6938441 | Method and apparatus for heat treatment of glass material and natural materials specifically of volcanic origin A method of heat treatment of glass materials and natural materials specifically of volcanic origin according to which the treated material is exposed to microwave radiation at a frequency range from 1 MHz to 10 GHz and temperature range from the ambient temperature... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6932932 | Method of fabricating honeycomb body Method of fabricating at least a honeycomb body include drying a plurality of honeycomb bodies, each having a multiplicity of cells arranged in the shape of a honeycomb and having a wall thickness of 0.125 mm or less, without cracking or wrinkling in the outer perip... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6878337 | Process for production of honeycomb structure A process for producing a honeycomb structure, which comprises adding water to a mixed raw material of a raw material powder and a binder, kneading the mixture to obtain a plastic mixture, molding the plastic mixture into a honeycomb shape to obtain a green honeycom... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6824727 | Method for preparing SiAlON ceramic material A SiAlON-based ceramic particularly suited for use as a cutting tool in the high speed chip forming machining of metals composed of a SiAlON matrix including a) a phase of alpha′ SiAlON represented by the general formula of Mx (Si,Al)12(O,N) | 11/30/2004 |
| 6709622 | Porous nanostructures and method of fabrication thereof A method of fabricating nanostructures containing isotropically distributed, interconnected pores having cross-sectional diameters in the nanometer and Angstrom range by integrating the steps of attriting precursor nanometer-sized particulate materials, desorbing th... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6706233 | Method for processing ceramics using electromagnetic energy The method for heating a plurality of ceramic bodies, includes: a) providing ceramic-forming raw materials and blending the raw materials with an effective amount of vehicle and forming aids to form a plastic mixture therefrom and thereafter forming the plast... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6699810 | Method of producing hybrid metal/ceramic composites A method of making a ceramic composite wherein a polymeric ceramic precursor or fiber reinforcement infiltrated with a polymeric ceramic precursor is associated with at least one metallic element to form a preceramic composite and the said composite is py... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6610241 | Microwave sintering of multilayer dielectrics with base metal electrodes Certain embodiments relate to a process for forming a multilayer electrical device. The process includes providing a multilayer structure including layers of a dielectric material and an electrode material. The electrode material may include at least one ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6568215 | Method and apparatus for melting a particulate material Apparatus suitable for vitrifying nuclear waste comprises a tunable microwave cavity connected by a first wave guide to a source of microwave energy; cooling coils for cooling the exterior of the cavity; a hopper for loading particulate fusible material t... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6537481 | Hybrid method for firing of ceramics A ceramic article is fired using a combination of microwave energy and conventional heating energy according to a microwave power-time heating schedule comprising a series of separate firing segments at predetermined microwave power settings, the core and... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6511628 | Method for controlling the firing of ceramics A method of firing ceramic bodies and includes placing the ceramic material in a heating apparatus and subjecting the ceramic material to an amount of heat energy that results in the ceramic article exhibiting a ceramic body core temperature, Tc | 01/28/2003 |
| 6512216 | Microwave processing using highly microwave absorbing powdered material layers A method of heating an article with microwave energy is described in which a thin layer of highly microwave absorbent powdered material is provided around at least a portion of a container made of microwave transparent material. The article to be heated i... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6420002 | Vacuum IG unit with spacer/pillar getter A vacuum insulating glass (IG) unit is provided with a plurality of spacers/pillars between opposing substrates. The spacers/pillars function (i) to support and space the substrates from one another, and (ii) as a getter to adsorb gas(es) located within t... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6408649 | Method for the rapid thermal treatment of glass and glass-like materials using microwave radiation A method of thermally treating a glass or glass-like material, preferably a glass sheet, without the use of conventional tunnel-type furnaces, to effect rapid heating of glass and glass-like materials from any initial temperature to any required temperatu... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6399012 | Production of passive devices Varistors are produced by pressing ceramic ZnO powder to provide discs, sintering the discs with microwave radiation, and firing outer electrodes with microwave radiation. The sintering has a maximum plateau temperature of 1000° C. to 1300° C. and the d... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6387295 | Alkali metal-containing niobate-based piezoelectric material composition and a method for producing the same An alkali metal-containing niobate-based piezoelectric material composition comprises a solid solution represented by a composition formula (ANbO3) (A: alkali metal), and at least one additive selected from Cu, Li and Ta.... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6355098 | Light-weight material containing blown perlite and methods of producing the same The present light-weight material contains expanded perlite, alkali silicates and optionally added hardeners for aqueous alkali silicates, wherein said expanded perlite has a grain of from 0.8 to 6 mm, a hydrophobizing agent is present, the bulk densities... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6342195 | Method for synthesizing solids such as diamond and products produced thereby The present invention relates generally to methods for the synthesis of various solids such as diamonds, diamonds films, boron nitride and other similar materials. This invention specifically relates to utilizing novel sources of reaction species (e.g., i... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6309594 | Metal consolidation process employing microwave heated pressure transmitting particulate A method of consolidating metal powder to form an object, includes: a) pressing the powder into a preform, and preheating the preform to elevated temperature, b) providing flowable pressure transmitting particles and transmitting microwaves into the particles ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6211503 | Device and method of heating components made of microwave absorbing plastic With a device for heating parts 8 made of a microwave absorbing plastic and having a microwave generator 1 that generates microwaves of a certain wavelength, an antenna 4 to which the microwaves are conducted, having at least one free end 5 and a device 6... | 04/03/2001 |
