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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8096805 | Manufacturing apparatus for semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device A manufacturing apparatus for a semiconductor device that includes a bake chamber for a wafer with a coating film formed thereon to be baked at a predetermined temperature, a cooling chamber connected to the bake chamber, a first carrying unit for the baked wafer to... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7771193 | Double-chamber type heat-treating furnace A double-chamber type heat-treating furnace comprises a hermetically closable cooling furnace, a hermetically closable heating furnace, and a transfer unit. The transfer unit has free rollers disposed within the heating and cooling chambers and for supporting the ob... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7520746 | Annealing furnace cooling and purging system and method In a method and system for an improved annealing furnace cooling and purging, atmosphere injection jets are provided in close proximity to a bottom of a tray carrying a lamination product in a cooling section. Atmospheric extraction tubes are also provided extractin... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7442037 | Reflow Furnace In the first buffering area provided between the inlet of the furnace and the heating chamber, the ambient gas is blown to the printed circuit board from the lower side of the carrier device, while the ambient gas is sucked in the upper side of the carrier device, t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7399180 | Brazing furnace The object of this invention is to have shorter sealing chambers (preheating chamber and gradual cooling chamber) located before and after the brazing atmospheric chamber, to make higher sealing of the atmosphere, and to prevent the scratch caused by the conventiona... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7377775 | Heating apparatus According to one embodiment, a heating apparatus includes, a heating chamber, a fan provided in the heating chamber, the fan blowing atmosphere upward, a heater provided in the heating chamber and above the fan, the heater heating the atmosphere blown by the fan, a ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7357953 | Method for manufacturing sausages, and container for containing sausages to be processed The invention relates to a method for manufacturing dry sausages by the successive processing steps of: A) manufacturing a half-finished product which is still to be dried and consists of a skin filled with a sausage filling, and B) drying the half-finished product ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7338629 | Integrated metal processing facility A system and method for forming and heat treating a metal casting are provided. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331374 | Method and apparatus for assisting removal of sand moldings from castings Disclosed is a method for dislodging a mold from a casting formed within the mold. The mold may be removed from the casting by scoring the mold and applying a force sufficient to cause the mold to fracture and break into pieces. Additionally, the mold may be fractur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7316080 | Methodology and apparatus to reduce fuel consumption in conveyor dryers and ovens A method and apparatus for reducing fuel consumption in conveyor ovens by creating a barrier to the infiltration of heated air from a heating section of the oven into a cooling section of the oven thereby reducing the loss of heated air and reducing consumption of f... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7275582 | Methods and apparatus for heat treatment and sand removal for castings A system and method for heat treating castings and removing sand cores therefrom. The castings are initially located in indexed positions with their x, y, and z coordinates known. The castings are passed through a heat treatment station typically having a series of ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258755 | Integrated metal processing facility An integrated metal processing facility in which molten metal is poured into a series of molds at a pouring station to form metal castings, which are then transferred to a heat treatment line. Prior to introduction of the castings into a heat treatment station of th... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7220944 | Modular cooking oven and related methods An improved, modular convection/impingement oven assembly for continuously cooking food. In certain embodiments, the assembly comprises at least one non-recirculating impingement oven unit and at least one additional oven unit, arranged as a series, in any sequence.... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216464 | Modular oven wall panel assembly A modular oven, such as a batch process oven, includes a standardized set of self supporting, interconnectable panels which, when assembled, from a self-supporting heat containment shell, free of added structural support members. The present invention is also direct... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210245 | Football warming and drying device Football warming and drying device with a housing, a propane powered heat source, the housing including a plurality of drawers for gaining football access, the housing also including a battery powered fan affixed to one wall, the fan wall including apertures to allo... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208047 | Apparatus and method for thermally isolating a heat chamber An apparatus through which a substrate may be transferred between a first chamber and a second chamber in which the first chamber is maintained at a high temperature relative to the ambient temperature of the second chamber. The apparatus comprises a passageway for ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7150627 | Transported material heating with controlled atmosphere A tunnel oven for heating transported carbonaceous materials includes an enclosure having a passage and a transport device for moving solid carbonaceous materials through and along a length of the passage. A direct convection heater is operably connected to the encl... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7090488 | Heat treatment furnace A heating zone (4), a cooling zone (5), and a quenching zone (6) are provided inside a linear furnace body in this order, the heating zone (4), the cooling zone (5), and the quenching zone (6) being separated by partition do... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7043970 | Method for monitoring wood-drying kiln state The method utilizes a known good set of moisture content data for wood dried in a kiln under set conditions to estimate parameters for a Lognormal distribution which approximates the moisture content data for those conditions. The method creates control charts which... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7018201 | Dual-zone dehydration tunnel A dehydration tunnel for fruits, vegetables, and other products reduces the vulnerability of the products to damage from carmelization and case hardening by dividing a row of product vessels into two segments, passing heated air simultaneously over both segments but... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6997704 | Method and apparatus to aid in the delubrification of parts A method and apparatus for delubrification of parts. The method comprising the steps of moving the parts on the belt into a chamber of the furnace, heating the parts, igniting the unused combustible atmosphere above the parts, and allowing the atmosphere above the p... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6971571 | Reflow soldering apparatus and reflow soldering method A bath apparatus 12 reserves a liquid 13 as a heating medium and includes an input partition bath 31, a first intermediate partition bath 32, a heat partition bath 33, a second intermediate partition bath 34 and a removing p... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6935856 | Method of improving the temperature profile of a furnace A furnace apparatus and method for increasing the productivity and/or quality of reheated products by improving the temperature profile of a furnace for reheating products. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929015 | Process for the at least partial elimination of carbon deposits in a heat exchanger The invention proposes a process and device for the at least partial elimination of carbon deposits in a heat exchanger in which an oxidation treatment is carried out comprising at least one controlled-oxidation stage at a conventional temperature between 400 and ab... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6905332 | Modular oven, panel assembly and method of assembling the same A modular oven, such as a batch process oven, having a standardized set of self supporting, interconnectable panels which, when assembled, from a self-supporting heat containment shell, free of added structural support members. Also described are the self-supporting... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6901990 | Method and system for processing castings A method and system of processing castings is provided in which one or more castings are deposited into a mobile furnace and moved from one station to another of a multi-station casting processing system. The interior of the mobile furnace is heated so as to maintai... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6887074 | Continuous production vacuum sintering apparatus and vacuum sintering system adopted to the same A continuous production vacuum sintering apparatus has a conveyer unit and a plurality of vacuum sintering systems individually transferred by the conveyer unit. Each of the vacuum sintering systems includes a sintering furnace, a vacuum control unit communicating w... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6840763 | Wafer processing apparatus A wafer processing system which requires no isolation between the operational areas within the processing system. The system of the present invention includes operational areas, such as a loading area, a transport area, and a reactor or thermal processing area. Adva... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6837706 | Unit for drying gypsum plaster board Modern drying units for gypsum plaster board have a feed device, comprising several roller feed units (1) arranged in levels one above the other. The drying section is generally divided into several zones (3 to 7), in particular three longitudin... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6682343 | Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holder for holding a substrate with a holding angle of 45 degrees to 90 degrees with respect to a horizontal plane, a conveying system to convey the substrate with the substrate holder, a process chamb... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6644962 | Heating furnace having heat regenerating burners and operation method thereof A method of controlling a furnace pressure for preventing air from intruding to a heating furnace, a method of stable operation during low combustion load of heat regenerating burners and a method of measuring concentration of an atmospheric gas in a heat... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6629838 | Endothermic heat treatment of solids loaded on trolleys moving in a kiln The invention provides a process and installation for the treatment of a solid. The process includes passing the solid along a kiln having a hollow interior, while supporting the solid on supports moved successively along the kiln and heating the solid, b... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6623269 | Thermal treatment apparatus A thermal treatment apparatus has a plurality of thermal treatment chambers in which an object to be treated is thermally treated while being transported, and at least one pair of two adjacent thermal treatment chambers of which inside temperatures are di... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6619953 | Reflow furnace The present invention relates to a reflow furnace for heating a carried circuit module to perform reflow soldering. The reflow furnace has a nozzle 60 for performing an operation of spraying the inert gas on a soldering portion for the circuit module carr... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6619531 | Temperature control method of solder bumps in reflow furnace, and reflow furnace A method for determining the condition of a reflow furnace so as to prevent the semiconductor element from tilting due to different collapsed amounts of solder bumps in the single semiconductor element of multiple chip modules mounted on the semiconductor... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6547556 | Combination conduction/convection furnace A single furnace system integrates, in combination, two or more distinct heating environments (which in the preferred embodiments include a conduction heating environment and a convection heating environment) integrated such that the multiple environments... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6533577 | Compartmentalized oven An oven compartment in an oven for subjecting items to a selected heating sequence having a compartment container with a transport opening therein to permit selectively entering such items adjacent to first plenum structure at a perforated surface to allo... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6530780 | Continuous sintering furnace and use thereof A continuous sintering furnace has an entrance-side deaerating chamber through which trays each with an material to be sintered being mounted thereon may pass, preheating, heating and cooling zones into which the trays are sequentially fed from the deaera... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6524100 | Facility for the thermal treatment of workpieces A facility for the thermal treatment of workpieces has a processing or heating chamber and at least one transport device, extending essentially completely through the processing or heating chamber, with which the workpieces to be treated can be transporte... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6499994 | Heating apparatus in reflow system To save a space for heating remarkably than that of a conventional case, to apply main heating at a high temperature only to portions of chips to be soldered and to perform heating operation in a short period of time, a heating apparatus is composed of a ... | 12/31/2002 |
