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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367201 | Air conditioning fan An air conditioning fan apparatus including a ceiling fan unit, an air conditioning unit and a motor unit, all suspended as an integral device to a ceiling inside a user's home or office. The ceiling fan unit includes a multiplicity of fan blades each having evapora... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7081805 | Constant-power constant-temperature resistive network A thermally stabilized device is described. Single or multiple input ports are accommodated and single and multiple power ports are described. The variation of resistance of a resistor subject to varying power dissipations is minimized by injecting complementary pow... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7053749 | Metal plate resistor A metal plate resistor includes a resistive body comprising a metal plate, and at least a pair of electrodes joined respectively to opposite ends of the resistive body, the electrodes being made of a highly conductive metal conductor. The resistive body has a main s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6441718 | Overlay surface mount resistor A surface mount resistor includes an elongated piece of resistive material having strips of conductive material attached to its opposite ends. The strips of conductive material are separated to create an exposed central portion of the resistive material t... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6184775 | Surface mount resistor An improved surface mount resistor and method for making the same includes a body comprised of an elongated strip of electrically resistive material and a resistor terminal formed at each end of the resistive material. The resistive material is machined w... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6181234 | Monolithic heat sinking resistor A monolithic resistor is provided with a central resistive metallic foil strip positioned between and attached to a pair of wings formed from an electrically conductive metallic foil. The wings include large surface areas to dissipate heat. A plurality of... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5488334 | Air-cooled power load The power loads in certain applications such as dummy antennas must have a substantially constant impedance in a wide band of frequencies. The power load is air-cooled and its resistive element is constituted by the series-connection of resistor modules m... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5218334 | Surface mountable high current resistor A surface mountable, high current resistor (20) is formed generally in the shape of an inverted "U". The top portion (22) of the inverted "U" is flat and contains one or more openings (26, 27) that serve to alter the resistivity of the resistor. The openi... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5034721 | Heating element conveniently formed from flat blank The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a heating element from a flat metal foil blank in which strips (1) are formed whose ends (2) are interconnected by connecting portions (3, 4) with alternate connecting portions disposed at opposite ends o... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4594280 | Expanded perforated sheet having integral unexpanded sides and method of manufacturing the same A perforated structure of expanded material, including at least one solid unstretched strip (4) parallel to the direction of expansion and of a length less than the length of the expanded region. The expanded region is formed with a tool that simultaneous... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4577093 | Device for electric heating of a gas mixture by direct Joule effect The high-power electric heating device is capable of heating gas mixtures such as a mixture of hydrocarbons and hydrogen to temperatures and pressures attaining 900° C. and 60 bar respectively. A central duct connects the gas mixture inlet to the outlet ... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4339743 | Multiple resistance element assembly and method of making same A multiple resistance element assembly having two parts, an insulator base and a multiple resistance element having expanded metal resistance members. The ends of the expanded metal resistance members are serially connected by contiguous non-expanded meta... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4292504 | Expanded metal electric heating element with edge support An electric resistance heating unit in which the heating element is a thin, foil-like strip of expanded metal supported on edge substantially along its entire length on a board of insulating material. The heating element is formed in a serpentine pattern,... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4151398 | Clothes dryer heating unit A forced convection electrical heater assembly advantgeously utilizing expanded resistance alloy foil or grid in a pattern which produces a uniform temperature distribution in the existing airstream and which produces relatively little flow restriction on... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4066865 | Portable hair drying appliance and heating element assembly therefor A heater assembly for an electrical appliance such as a portable hair dryer. The heater assembly includes an elongated flexible foil resistance element having opposite longitudinal edge portions mounted on spaced disc support members. T-shaped tabs extend... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4052588 | Electric heater panel A panel heater with a flat metal sheet of substantially even thickness of from 0.06 to 0.2 mm and having a mesh-like radiation section formed in the central portion of the sheet, the mesh-like radiation section being composed of a plurality of units of wa... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4025754 | Electrically heated dryer An electrically heated dryer for articles comprises a drying container and an air duct leading thereto for directing air in a stream through the duct and into the container. An electric resistance heating element is provided in the duct and comprises an e... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4019023 | Electrically heated dryer A dryer for articles such as a clothes dryer having a container for the articles and an air duct leading to the container for directing an air stream into the container for contact with the articles therein. Located in the duct is a heater for heating the... | 04/19/1977 |
