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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7773865 | Assembly for conducting and tempering fluids and method for producing said assembly An assembly for conducting and tempering a fluid includes at least one connector having at least three outlets/intakes. A hose is attached to a first one of the outlets/intakes of the at least one connector. A tempering device is arranged inside a cavity of the hose... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7428373 | Delivery of solid chemical precursors Systems and methods are provided for delivering solid precursors. In certain embodiments of the present application, a flow monitor, pressure sensor, or temperature sensor is used to measure and regulate the flow of vaporized solid precursor material from a vaporiza... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7323207 | Method and apparatus for fingerprint detection A portable apparatus for detecting latent fingerprints that discharges a vapor of a cyanoacrylate-containing solution. The apparatus comprises a reservoir for holding a liquid solution comprising cyanoacrylate, a valve for controlling the release of the solution thr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7302170 | Heating device for smoke generator A heating device for a smoke generator includes at least one heating rod and a vaporization tube. The vaporization tube includes a longitudinal passageway. The vaporization tube coils around the heating rod and includes an end connected to an outlet of a pump of a s... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7116899 | Operating method for a horizontal steam generator and a steam generator for carrying out said method The invention relates to a steam generator in which the continuous heating panel of an evaporator is arranged in a heating gas channel which can be cross-flown in a more or less horizontal direction of a heating gas. Said continuous heating panel of the evaporator c... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7112770 | Humidification system and method for a mobile platform A humidification system and method particularly well adapted for use in commercial aircraft to provide substantially micro-organism free humidified air within a passenger cabin of the aircraft. The system employs a vessel for holding a quantity of water therein. The... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7061252 | Electrical arcing protection circuit A protection circuit, configured to detect and suppress electrical pre-arcing and arcing conditions in a resistive heater wire circuit, comprises a transient voltage suppressor, signal level sensing load coupled to the output of the voltage suppressor, detection and... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055763 | Mist generating device A mist generating apparatus having a casing that is divided into a storage chamber, a pump chamber, a waterwheel chamber and a mist chamber. The storage chamber is provided with a water storage tank having a heater, while the pump chamber is provided with a pump. A ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050708 | Delivery of solid chemical precursors Systems and methods are provided for delivering solid precursors. In certain embodiments of the present application, a flow monitor is used to measure and regulate the flow of vaporized solid precursor material from a vaporization chamber to a deposition chamber. Th... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7045745 | Heating cooker having a steam generating unit A heating cooker, capable of supplying steam into a cooking chamber thereof, includes a cabinet defined therein with a cooking chamber, and a steam generating unit for supplying steam into the cooking chamber. The steam generating unit includes a heating tank detach... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6996334 | Boilerless steamer apparatus and method to reduce water useage A boilerless steamer apparatus is provided having a steamer cavity formed of a steam generating space and a cooking space, wherein the steam generating space is separated from the cooking space by a removable steam lid. The present boilerless steamer apparatus can p... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6968125 | Suspendable industrial electrical liquid heater An electric heater for industrial liquids comprises a plastic flat box that contains a stainless steel pressure vessel holding a number of parallel electrical heating rods. These heating rods are interlaced with shorter “I” shaped Teflon rods which generates a t... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6941064 | Heater for vacuum cleaners A heater for fluids including a housing made of a non-metallic material and having an internal cavity. The housing has an inlet and an outlet, each of which are in fluid communication with the internal cavity. An elongated electrical heating element is disposed with... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6909071 | Overheated steam oven and method of controlling the same An overheated steam oven which cleans an interior of a cooking cavity of the overheated steam oven using hot water and overheated steam, and executes a cooking operation using the overheated steam. The overheated steam oven includes a cabinet to define the cooking c... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6839505 | Delivery of solid chemical precursors Systems and methods are provided for delivering solid precursors in deposition processes. A flow monitor is used to measure and regulate the flow of vaporized solid precursor material from a vaporization chamber to a deposition chamber. The flow monitor chokes the s... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6701066 | Delivery of solid chemical precursors Systems and methods are provided for delivering solid precursors in deposition processes. A flow monitor is used to measure and regulate the flow of vaporized solid precursor material from a vaporization chamber to a deposition chamber. The flow monitor c... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6402126 | Method and apparatus for vaporizing liquid precursors and system for using same A vaporizing apparatus and method for providing a vaporized liquid precursor to a process chamber in a vapor deposition process includes a microdroplet forming device for generating microdroplets from a liquid precursor and a heated housing defining a vap... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6317559 | Apparatus for sealing the end portion of a hot-water tube in which electric heating wires are inserted An apparatus for sealing an end portion of a hot-water tube in which electric heating wires are inserted enables electric heating wires in hot-water tubes to extend through to the outside, while preventing leakage of water from the hot-water tubes. A plug... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6244575 | Method and apparatus for vaporizing liquid precursors and system for using same A vaporizing apparatus for providing a vaporized liquid precursor to a process chamber in a vapor deposition process includes a microdroplet forming device for generating microdroplets from a liquid precursor and a heated housing defining a vaporization z... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6242712 | Air heater with perforated resistance element A heater for heating air in an intake passage of an internal combustion engine. The heater includes a heating element coupled to a first holder and a second holder. The heating element has a preselected resistance corresponding to plurality apertures form... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6181874 | Heating element A heating element made of metal mesh through which electric current may be passed to heat fluid passing through the mesh. The mesh is made of intersecting metal wires defining apertures though which the fluid to be heated passes. These apertures are made ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5906800 | Steam delivery system for a decontamination apparatus A steam sterilizer device having a steam generation system is disclosed. The steam generation system has a fluid connection to a water source (1) to provide water to a venturi apparatus (27) for the selective creation of a vacuum in a sterilization chambe... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5892888 | Means for electrically heating a circulating fluid in a basin or pool An electric heating apparatus heats a circulating fluid for a basin or pool. A section of a duct is connected, at its upstream end, to an intake duct for the fluid. Its downstream end is connected to a duct for the discharge of that fluid, this forming an... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5559923 | Vapor generator wand A device for producing a stream of vapor for wind tunnel airflow visualization is described. An electrically conductive heating tube is used to resistively heat a vapor producing liquid. The heating and delivery systems are integrated to allow the device ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5549078 | Device for superheating steam The present invention relates to a heating device for submersion within a tank of water to boil the water to produce steam, and for superheating the steam, comprising an outer sleeve; an inner sleeve partially disposed through the outer sleeve and having ... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5537996 | Heated respiratory humidifier conduit A heated respiratory humidifier conduit for use with a respiratory humidifier/ventilator circuit. The conduit consists of an inspiratory tube passing gases from the humidifier/ventilator to the patient and an expiratory tube passing exhaled gases from the... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5400969 | Liquid vaporizer and diffuser Apparatus for vaporizing liquids to be burned in an internal combustion engine or furnace for the purpose of increasing fuel efficiency, improving cold weather starting and reducing pollution. The device may also be used in non combustion processes such a... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5355456 | Pebble-bed evaporation and superheater assembly for vaporizing and heating a liquified cryogenic gas A pebble-bed evaporator and superheater assembly includes a tubular pressure shell with internal baffles, the latter including a plurality of apertures therein for passage of gas therethrough. Contained within the shell are heater elements and pebble elem... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5113478 | Liquid fuel vaporizing apparatus This liquid fuel vaporizing apparatus is so designed that liquid fuel is vaporized by a heating plug disposed in a tubular body when the temperature in a combustion chamber is low while it is vaporized by a radiant heat of the combustion chamber received ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4870249 | Electric fuel heating device A fuel heating device comprises an electroconductive inner tube which forms a passageway for fuel to be heated. A heater having a positive coefficient of resistance (PTC) is fixed to the side of the outside surface of this electroconductive inner tube, a ... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4823767 | Apparatus for steaming food The steamer comprises a first heating chamber (5) intended to generate wet steam from supplied water, and a second heating chamber (6) arranged between the first heating chamber (5) and the cooking chamber (2) and used for heating the wet steam coming fro... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4800252 | Apparatus for heating liquid media by infrared irradiation An apparatus for heating liquid media, especially for the heating of used oil during its reprocessing by cracking distillation, includes at least one infrared irradiation element located in a vertical cracking vessel. The irradiation elements are separate... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4518847 | Electrically-powered portable space heater A portable electrically-powered space heater includes an electrically-powered boiler generating steam at subatmospheric pressure from a mixture of water and ethylene glycol that is circulated through a closed loop heat exchanger, portions of which compris... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4427875 | Electric steam radiator space heating unit An electric steam radiator unit for heating residential and commercial spaces comprises an elongated vertical stack having a cylindrical central bore. The top of the stack communicates with one end of a generally horizontal heat exchange tube slightly dow... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4380431 | Technique for elevating the temperature of a fluid A technique for elevating the temperature of a heat transfer liquid is disclosed. The liquid, at a low temperature (e.g., 70° F.), is directed through a coil (72) located in the upper portion of an enclosed chamber (71). Condensing, hot vapor on the coil... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4297563 | Electric steam generating unit A electric steam generating unit includes a housing having an upper end having a steam outlet and a lower end having a water inlet. An elongated tubular electric immersion heating element is vertically disposed in the housing in such a manner that an insu... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4260873 | Electrically heated hand held vaporizer for vapor polishing plastic surfaces A hand held apparatus for the vapor polishing of plastic surfaces by movement of the apparatus over a plastic surface to be polished includes a body portion defining a vaporizing chamber. A container for plastic solvent, such as methylene chloride, is mou... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4219725 | Heating apparatus for vaporizing liquefied gases A heating apparatus for the vaporization of a mixture of two liquefied gases in chemical equilibrium with a binary compound thereof includes a vertically disposed enclosed vessel having a lower liquid zone to which the mixture to be vaporized is supplied ... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4197819 | Hot fuel gas generator A hot fuel gas generator for an internal combustion engine simultaneously vaporizes gasoline and water in a multi-chambered heated pressure vessel having built in regulators for controlling pressure and volume and delivers the resulting superheated steam ... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4131658 | Method for atomizing oil and an apparatus therefor A method and apparatus for atomizing oil of high viscosity by a venturi tube, whereby pressurized air is introduced from the outside into a reservoir through said venturi tube, while the oil in the reservoir is transported to the venturi through a conduit... | 12/26/1978 |
