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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965928 | Pump, in particular for water-bearing domestic appliances The invention provides a pump, in particular for water-bearing domestic appliances such as dishwashers, washing machines or the like, comprising a pump housing and a heater device which is in thermal contact with the liquid-bearing interior of the pump housing. The ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7519280 | Apparatus and method of removing carrier from a recording element An apparatus and method of removing carrier from an article are provided. The apparatus includes a heater positioned to direct heat toward an article travel path. The heat has an emission spectrum with a peak emission wavelength and the carrier having an absorption ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7285129 | High efficiency tanning apparatus Tanning apparatuses and methods of operating tanning apparatuses for high efficiency use. In an embodiment, a tanning apparatus including a tanning lamp is operated by delivering a first input voltage to the tanning lamp to generate an ultraviolet radiation output. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7141761 | Printing device heating element and method of use thereof A printing apparatus may include a heating element with at least one of a contact fuser, a radiant fuser, a substrate preheater, an image bearing member heater, and a transfuser, the heating element including a lattice of filaments wherein the filaments are separate... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133606 | Pipe heating assembly with hingedly attached light emitters A pipe heating assembly includes a housing that has a pair of openings extending therethrough. The openings are axially aligned. A light emitter is hingedly attached to the housing and is selectively positioned in a first position facing inward of the housing or in ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7011869 | Multi-stage processes for coating substrates with multi-component composite coating compositions A process for coating a substrate is provided which includes the following steps: (a) applying a waterborne base coat composition to a surface of the substrate; (b) applying infrared radiation at a power density of... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7000433 | Device for heating plates of glass A device for heating plates of glass (3) which are hardened or deformed, includes two ceramic heating plates (1) between which a plate of glass (3) is arranged. Compensation plates (20) are associated with the heating plates (1) at... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6696801 | Microwave excited ultraviolet lamp system with improved lamp cooling A reflector (42) for use in a microwave excited ultra-violet lamp system (10) having a plasma lamp bulb (20). The reflector (42) includes a pair of longitudinally extending reflector panels (46) that are mounted in opposing, i.e., mirror facing relationsh... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6601318 | Dryer unit A drier unit (10) for drying printed products has a plurality of drier rails (12), which comprise in each case a supporting body (14) manufactured from a hollow section (16). The clear outer contour of the cross-sectional area of the supporting bodies (14... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6452135 | Heating unit with selectively energized heating modules A heating unit is provided with heating modules in a housing. Each module has a heating element. An electrical connection is attached to each heating module such that each heating module can be selectively energized to heat its heating element to a high t... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6345149 | UV oven for curing magnet wire coatings An UV oven comprises a compact longitudinal elliptical reflector with first and second focal lines; a longitudinal small diameter bulb disposed along the first focal line that generates short wavelength UV radiation, IR radiation, visible radiation and he... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6195505 | Method and apparatus for photopyrolitically removing a contaminant A method for safely removing a contaminant from a substrate surface without the need for any precoating of the substrate. Because the resultant molecular decomposition of the contaminant occurs relatively faster than heat transfer to the underlying substr... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6169848 | Cross-direction dryer for a machine producing sheet material moving in a machine direction having both gas powered and electric heating portions A cross-direction dryer for typically drying a continuous web of paper or paper to which coating has just been applied provides both for baseline drying and a linear moisture profile by the use of respectively gas and electric heating portions of the heat... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6130408 | Recording apparatus with conveyed recording sheet heated by movable heater A heating belt is laid along a conveying path for a recording medium moved after development, a halogen lamp is incorporated in a belt drive roller for driving the heating belt so as to heat the heating belt by heat generated by the halogen lamp, and acco... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6072158 | Method and apparatus for heating thin plastic sheet with air diffuser plate preventing sagging of the sheet A method and apparatus heats a thin sheet of material prior to subjecting the sheet to a process for forming the sheet into a desired shape, such as by vacuum forming. The sheet is supported in a generally horizontal manner during transport through the ap... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6031971 | Arrangement in an apparatus for forming a windscreen interlayer The invention relates to an arrangement in an apparatus for forming a windscreen interlayer that includes a heating unit for heat treating a moving web. The heating unit includes individually adjustable radiation units for directing radiation towards the ... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6026748 | Infrared dryer system for printing presses A printing press having a plurality of laterally spaced printing stations is provided with an interstation dryer system, interposed between the printing stations, for effectively drying liquid printing substances, such as inks, coatings, and the like, on ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5976258 | High temperature substrate transfer module A system and method for processing a substrate. The system includes a substrate heating station, a processing station, a conveyor for transporting the heated substrate from the substrate heating station to the processing station and a conveyor heating sta... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5939107 | Preheater for differential pressure forming machine A preheater and method of preheating a thermoplastic sheet prior to entry of the sheet into a differential pressure forming machine which forms an article in the sheet. The preheater includes mechanism for initially threading a sheet in a generally horizo... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5930914 | Method and device for drying a moving web material A method and device for drying a moving web including a first infrared radiator arranged on a first side of the web and a second infrared radiator arranged on a second side of the web at least partially opposite to the first infrared radiator and proximat... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5831248 | Heat-controlling device A heat-controlling device is provided with a transporting carriage for supporting and transporting a semiconductor substrate and a heating device having a plurality of heaters which apply heat in the width-wise direction of the heat-receiving member that ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5760374 | Heating apparatus for an advancing yarn An apparatus for heating an advancing thermoplastic yarn led over heating ridges along a heated surface. An essential feature of the invention is that the heating ridges can be maintained at a temperature as high as that of the heating surface, in particu... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5751897 | System for photopyrolitically removing a contaminant A system for safely removing even a hazardous contaminant from a substrate surface includes a light energy source whose output is controlled to selectively provide components primarily in the visible and infrared spectrum, and a power unit for energizing ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5616264 | Method and apparatus for controlling temperature in rapid heat treatment system A temperature control method in a rapid heat treatment apparatus comprising simulatively heating dummy wafers in a process tube and previously detecting and grasping by temperature sensors a wafer temperature rising pattern, a heater temperature rising pa... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5578231 | Heater for an advancing yarn A heater (1) for an advancing thermoplastic yarn which is guided along a heated surface over ring segments (2). The flow of heat to the yarn is adjustable by changing the geometric parameters of the heat transfer.... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5528016 | Drying apparatus for use in photosensitive material processing system A drying apparatus for use in a photosensitive material processing system, which is designed so that nonuniformity of drying in a direction intersecting a belt-shaped photosensitive material, e.g., a photographic negative film, photographic paper, etc., i... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5502788 | Radiant-heat drier strip with cooling air distributor element A radiant-heat drier for printing presses or the like has a plurality of spaced radiant-heat drier strips (22) which extend transversely with respect to the conveyance direction and which each have in turn a radiator bar (44) and a cooling air distributor... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5475788 | Radiation fixing device with natural convection airflow A radiation fixing device for fixing a powder image on a sheet with the aid of heat-radiating lamellae which extend on both sides of a horizontal sheet conveyor path, the heat-radiating lamellae being situated in a housing having slot-shaped openings thro... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5337393 | Method for heating a flat glass sheet A roller conveyor furnace (12) for heating flat glass sheets has top and bottom heating arrays (28,30) respectively located above and below the plane of conveyance with each heating array including a plurality of elongated heaters (32,34) extending parall... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5323485 | Paint baking oven having a bring-up zone utilizing short and medium wave infrared lamps A first bring up zone of a camel-back oven utilizes a plurality of short and/or medium wave infrared lamps to raise the component temperature up to a desired level. Once within the paint baking oven, the component enters into the bring up zone where a com... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5180096 | Method and apparatus for reflow-soldering of printed circuit boards A method and apparatus for reflow-soldering of printed circuit boards are disclosed. A printed circuit board having electronic parts with lead wires having low temperature resistance alone or together with electronic part of high temperature resistance ca... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5155798 | Quick-response quartz tube infra-red heater An infra-red heater for a hybrid oven drying a web with an elongate foil having transverse corrugations heating element within a quartz tube. A thermocouple sensor is used to provide a control signal to a controller to regulate the infra-red output.... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5113479 | Method of infrared heating a restricted area on a continuous thermoplastic laminated web A method of heating a portion of a continuous material strip includes heating the web through use of one or more IR lamps provided with radiation-concentrating reflectors. The IR lamps are directed towards a restricted area on the web to thereby heat the ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5101578 | System and process for drying a moving sheet A system for drying a moving sheet includes a housing, support means connected to the housing to support heater bulbs adjacent to moving sheet and a power supply connected to the bulbs. The heater bulbs are located so that at least part of the radiation f... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5040236 | Apparatus for irradiation of printed wiring boards and the like An open-weave conveyor moves a printed wiring board through a region of radiant energy. The conveyor has a plurality of supporting projections extending from the major surface of the conveyor to minimize engagement between the conveyor and the board, prov... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4894517 | Shrinking apparatus Shrinking apparatus for heating and shrinking articles such as disused molded articles of thermoplastic expanded resin by a plurality of far-infrared heaters, thereby to reduce the articles in bulk. In the shrinking apparatus, the distances between articl... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4783908 | Infrared drying apparatus An infrared heating apparatus for drying a traveling textile fabric web or the like wherein radiators having a first gas-heated radiator surface and a second electrically-heated radiator surface are pivotably mounted for selective alternating movement of ... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4756091 | Hybrid high-velocity heated air/infra-red drying oven A hybrid oven for drying a coating on a continuous web is disclosed, including a chamber, a plenum for collecting and delivering heated air at high velocity adjacent said chamber, a plurality of air impingement nozzles interconnecting said plenum and said... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4740342 | Thermoforming flexible plastic foam shells An improved method and apparatus for rapidly forming plastic foam shells from a flexible foam sheet. The foam sheet is intermittently passed through a radiant heating unit and is rapidly heated on both sides to 130°-250° F. to soften the foam. The heate... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4658716 | Infrared heating calender roll controller The present invention is directed toward a controller for controlling the local diameters of a temperature sensitive calender roll by selectively heating sections of a sheet of calenderable material with infrared lamps while the sheet is in contact with t... | 04/21/1987 |
