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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7881593 | Gas cooking appliance with removable burners and useable work area A gas cooking appliance for use with at least one removable burner, the cooking appliance including a structural housing supporting a cooktop surface having at least one convertible area for use with the at least one removable burner. When the at least one removable... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7865073 | Heating module comprising a heating surface, flow heater, and method for the production thereof A heating module is provided for integrating into an electrical appliance, for example in a household appliance such as a coffee machine, or in a laboratory apparatus. Said module includes at least one heating surface formed from a body, at least one heating element... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7496284 | Tubular heater with insulating material in the connection end region A heating apparatus for heating a fluid, in particular in domestic appliances, which comprises a tubular casing, at least one electrical resistance heating wire which is arranged in the interior of the tubular casing and which is embedded in an electrically insulati... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7439473 | Method and arrangement for supporting vertically depending electrical resistance elements A method of supporting vertically hanging electrical resistance elements for heating furnaces or ovens in industrial operations. Each resistance element includes current-conducting legs that extend downward and upward a number of times, and the element includes alon... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7367216 | Phased micro analyzer V, VI A micro fluid analyzer having a concentrator and two or more separators. The analyzer may have one, two or more pumps. The analyzer may have a hyper pre-concentrator having a number of channels. There are numerous detectors positioned along the flow path of the anal... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360546 | Cleaning apparatus for semiconductor wafer A cleaning apparatus for a semiconductor wafer comprising: a double container including an inner container with an upper opening for accommodating a substrate to be cleaned and an outer container having an airtight space accommodating the inner container therein, th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7332140 | Air sterilization system An improved air sterilization system has unobstructed air passageways from a chamber substantially enclosing a volume of air to the air sterilization assembly unit in which the air sterilization assembly unit has heating elements located within air passageways in th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322415 | Subterranean electro-thermal heating system and method A subterranean electro-thermal heating system including one or more heater cable sections extending through one or more heat target regions of a subterranean environment and one or more cold lead sections coupled to the heater cable section(s) and extending through ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324746 | Fluid heater and evaluation equipment incorporating the same A temperature regulator has two headers connected to both ends of a heat receiving tube in which gas flows. The heat receiving tube has a heating element at the outer periphery thereof and a mixer accommodated therein to cause turbulent flow of gas passing through t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7254320 | Water supply device for humidifier A water supply device for a humidifier having a water tank for retaining water and a vaporizing chamber for producing water vapor with the water supplied from the water tank, is disclosed in which the water supply device comprises a water tube for supplying the wate... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7241131 | Thick film heater apparatus A thick-film electric heater having thick-film layers applied directly on a thermally conductive non-flat substrate. Preferably, the substrate is cylindrically shaped. A dielectric layer is silk-screened on the substrate surface. A resistive layer is silk-screened o... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234523 | Hydraulic friction fluid heater and method of using same A method and apparatus for heating a portion of a subsea structure is provided. The method includes pumping a fluid through a length of tubing such that the temperature of the fluid increases. The temperature increase of the fluid is created by friction in the tubin... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228067 | Chromatography column assembly with woven tubular mesh heater element A direct-heating column assembly for chromatography, includes at least one capillary column and at least one element made of electrically conductive material in contact with the capillary column. The element includes a plurality of filaments woven together to form a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223947 | Domestic appliance and heating structure for a domestic appliance An electric heating structure of a domestic appliance includes at least one first electric heating track (23) having a positive temperature coefficient and at least one additional electric heating track (27, 28). A control structure (22, 25, 29)... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7190892 | Fluid line A fluid line with a pipe provided with a sleeve of a woven or braided fabric, wherein the pipe, in turn, includes at least one conductor. In the finished state of the fluid line, the sleeve immediately surrounds the pipe and each conductor is loosely arranged in the... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7173222 | Aerosol generator having temperature controlled heating zone and method of use thereof A temperature and flow rate controlled capillary aerosol generator includes two heating zones optionally separated by a region in which a pressure drop is induced. Power is metered or applied to the downstream, second zone to achieve a target resistance, and therefo... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162933 | Gas sample conditioning system A gas sample and conditioning device for sampling gas in a storage or transport device and conditioning the gas to avoid dew point dropout of the gas. A chamber for regulating the temperature and the pressure of the gas is provided with external A.C. or D.C. power u... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158718 | Electric heating device An electric heating device especially for fluids, such as liquid fuel, includes a heat element with an electrical resistance. The heat element can be connected to an electrical power source and also includes a carrier element to which en electrically conductive heat... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151892 | Rapid electric heating water dispenser A rapid electric heating water dispenser includes a body, a base, an electric heating element located in the body, a hot water drain valve and a hot water outlet. A water pipe and an electric heating tube cling to each other through a casting body. A liquefaction in... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7120354 | Gases delivery conduit A gases delivery conduit for the supply of humidified medical gases as formed from an extruded plastic tube. The extruded plastic tube includes at least one heating element embedded within the wall of the tube. The heating element includes a pair of electrical condu... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7104112 | Phased micro analyzer IV A fluid analyzer having a concentrator and separator for concentrating and separating fluid samples at pressures up to about 10,000 psi (˜700 bar). The concentrator and separator may consist of a solid-state thin-film heater-adsorber and a channel supported by a so... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106957 | Heat exchanger for high purity fluid handling systems A novel heat exchanger includes a thermal reservoir and a tube, the tube having straight sections and corrugated bends, and being in thermal contact with the thermal reservoir. The thermal reservoir has a first plate and a second plate fixed to the first plate. The ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7081602 | Fail-safe, resistive-film, immersion heater A heater comprising a conduit made of corundum (e.g. synthetic sapphire) and having a wall forming a closed cross-section with an interior surface, and an exterior surface. At least one of the interior and exterior surfaces may have a roughened portion comprising in... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7052791 | Apparatus for humidification and temperature control of incoming fuel cell process gas An apparatus for humidifying and controlling the temperature of a process gas stream; has a first humidification unit for super-saturating and heating the process gas stream at a first pre-set temperature; and a first heat exchanger for cooling the process gas strea... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049560 | Tape heater A tape heater includes an electric heating wire disposed on a surface of a heat-resistant, flexible substrate strip. The electric heating wire and the substrate strip are wrapped with a heat-resistant resin wrap. ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043151 | Pipe heater manufacturing method and pipe heater The pipe heater manufacturing process comprises a vacuum making process A for introducing a stainless steel pipe into a furnace and evacuating the inside of the furnace, for example, to a pressure of 0.5 Torr, a pipe end sealing process B for brazing and sealing plu... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036596 | Hydraulic friction fluid heater and method of using same A method and apparatus for heating a portion of a subsea structure is provided. The method includes pumping a fluid through a length of tubing such that the temperature of the fluid increases. The temperature increase of the fluid is created by friction in the tubin... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034258 | Hot runner heater device and method of manufacture thereof A heater device used for mold injection processes and related method for manufacturing the same is disclosed. The heater device comprises an inner sleeve having a hollow tubular body with opposed flanges formed at either end thereof and a resistive element applied a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024106 | System and method for melting ice in an exhaust tube of a container holding helium A system and a method for melting ice that has formed in an exhaust tube operably coupled to a container holding helium are provided. The exhaust tube is configured to exhaust pressurized helium from the container. The method includes determining when a pressure lev... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021197 | Hot beverage machine A multifunctional beverage machine designed for automatically making various kinds of hot drinks, such as coffee, tea, hot chocolate or soups, and incorporates an advanced microprocessor control system such that multifunctional appliance operation can be easily be a... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6996337 | Electrically heatable liquid line An electrically heatable liquid line in which a heating wire is arranged on an inner plastic layer and an electrically insulating tape is helically wound around the plastic layer and the heating wire. This object is met in the liquid line of the above-type by provid... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6974504 | Electrical pipeline remediation A method of remediating deposits within a pipeline comprising inserting a removable smaller pipe within said pipeline, providing an electrically insulating coating on said smaller pipe, providing a contactor proximate said distal end of said smaller pipe to electric... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6965732 | Liquid heating method and apparatus particularly useful for vaporizing a liquid condensate from cooling devices A method and heating device for heating a liquid, particularly useful for removing liquid condensate from cooling devices, by wetting a heating plate with the liquid and controlling the electrical power supply to maintain the heating plate at a the predetermined tem... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6957015 | Liquid heating device A liquid heating device includes a heater having its front and rear end respectively connected with two output terminals of a control circuit. When the control circuit is started, the heater will immediately generate high temperature to let the liquid inside heated ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6946627 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICAL CABLE SYSTEM COMPRISING AN ELECTRICAL CABLE CONTAINING A CONDUCTOR CORE AND FOR INSTALLING SAID ELECTRICAL CABLE SYSTEM OVER A LONGITUDINALLY EXPANDABLE-CONTRACTIBLE ELEMENT An electrical cable system and a method for manufacturing an electrical cable system (1) has an electrical cable (10) containing a conductor core (2). The method for installing the electrical cable system of a longitudinally expandable contracti... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943325 | Water heater An improved water heater for use in spas, hot tubs, pools, hydrotherapy pools, bath tubs, and similar bodies of water used indoors, outdoors, or both indoors and outdoors are used for both therapeutic and recreational purposes. The water heater uses heating element ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944394 | Rapid response electric heat exchanger A fluid heat exchanger for use in a fluid heating system is disclosed that includes a rapidly heatable inside tube surrounded by a hollow outside tube for heating a fluid flowing between the inside tube and the outside tube for circulation through the fluid heating ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6928237 | Fluid heating apparatus In a fluid heating apparatus, a heat protect temperature sensor indirectly detects temperature of fluid heated by an electric heater adjacent to the electric heater. Also, a heated fluid sensor detects the temperature of the fluid adjacent to a fluid inlet of a heat... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6919540 | Heating element, liquid container and method for detecting temperature changes The invention relates to a heating element with at least one electrical resistance, wherein between a surface for heating and the electrical resistance is situated a dielectric, onto which dielectric connects an ammeter for detecting a leakage current. In addition, ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6915070 | Quick heater for drinking water A quick heater for drinking water includes a helical water pipe defining a narrow space therebetween for fitting an electric heating tube and having a water inlet and a water outlet. The water pipe and the electric heating tube are wrapped up with a support base hav... | 07/05/2005 |
