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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6997705 | Rotating chains or rings carry vertically hanging trays for heat processes in a furnace A furnace for energy saving and space reduction used in electronic industry assembly, medical sterilization, or food process application is provided. In the furnace there is a number of trays hinged on a pair of continuous chains which movement is in a circle or ova... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6442978 | Apparatus for sintering a porous glass base material and a method therefor Apparatus (700) for sintering a glass base material (2) which is a base material for an optical fiber. The sintering apparatus (700) includes: a control unit which varies a condition for sintering the glass base material; and a furnace (12) which sinters ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6036483 | Method of controlling the conveying speed of a grate cooler Method of controlling the conveying speed of a grate cooler as a function of the state of the bed of material to be cooled in the initial region of the cooler while taking into account the flow resistance of said bed of material. According to the inventio... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5820266 | Travelling thermocouple method & apparatus A travelling thermocouple dynamically profiles the actual temperature of a substrate passing through a vertical oven without entangling the thermocouple wires. Media components, such as microprocessor chips in a semiconductor wafer, are supported on a tra... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5293404 | Thermal measuring and testing system having synchronized sample transporting means A thermal analysis device with a sample transporting machine which automatically carries out pretreatment of a sample to quickly heat or cool it. The configuration includes an electric furnace, a temperature controller, a temperature program setter, a sam... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5061176 | Apparatus and process for simultaneously positioning and oscillating a plurality of probes in the heat exchanger tubes of a nuclear steam generator An apparatus and process for positioning and for simultaneously oscillating a plurality of heater probes within a plurality of heat exchanger tubes mounted in a tubesheet of a nuclear steam generator is disclosed herein. The apparatus generally comprises ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4966547 | Heat treatment method using a zoned tunnel furnace The invention relates to the control of a tunnel furnace partitioned into a plurality of zones for heat treatment of, e.g., ceramic or glass workpieces. As usual the temperatures of the respective zones are controllable individually. Furthermore, in each ... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4857689 | Rapid thermal furnace for semiconductor processing A semiconductor wafer processing furnace includes an elongated processing chamber enclosing a first zone and a second zone extending along a first reference axis, and a wafer support assembly having a support member and associated translation elements for... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4817008 | Method of regulating a cement manufacturing installation To enable the operation of a cement manufacturing installation to be controlled by taking into account changes in essential operating parameters as soon as they appear, the quantity of the total theoretical heat (QT) required to convert the raw material t... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4815971 | Multi-tier load fixture for a top-loading furnace furnace A self-aligning fixture for use in a high temperature top-loading furnance includes multiple stacked trays to optimize load placement and capacity and to minimize fixture heat absorption. The fixture is manipulated by a handling tool to insert, position, ... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4799880 | Method and apparatus for analyzing product flow Apparatus for analyzing the density of particulate material flowing from a kiln. The apparatus includes a sampling probe actuatable to divert a sample flow of material from material falling from a kiln. This sample flow on cascading through the apparatus ... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4716532 | Clinker manufacture control using falling clinker colorific energy measurement To optimize the operation of an installation for the manufacture of clinker, which installation comprises a rotary tubular kiln having an open discharge end for the clinker produced in the kiln, a cooler for the clinker connected to the discharge end, a h... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4609343 | Temperature distribution regulating sample holder-adapter for forming conditions for gradient heat treatment in heat treatment ovens or furnaces The invention concerns a temperature distribution controlling sample holding adaptor for setting up gradient heat treatment conditions in heat treatment ovens, which has a sample holder for realizing temperature distribution and setting and adjustment uni... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4555273 | Furnace transient anneal process A method for annealing semiconductor samples, especially following ion-implantation of semiconductor samples is disclosed. A furnace on a set of rails is passed over the semiconductor sample which is supported on a stationary wire basket made of low therm... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554437 | Tunnel oven An infrared tunnel oven includes one or more oven tiers each having a horizontal cooking tunnel with entrance and exit at opposite ends, the tier(s) being supported by a base. Each tunnel is divided along its length into multiple heating zones. The roof a... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4459103 | Automatic volatile matter content analyzer An analyzer is provided for use in determining the volatile matter content of coal and coke. The analyzer automatically adjusts a position of a crucible containing a coal or coke sample relative to a furnace depending upon the temperature of the crucible.... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4391584 | Non-contact infrared fabric temperature monitoring The temperature of an open textile web is monitored by a sensing unit including an infrared pyrometer. The pyrometer is disposed at a viewing angle between about 5°-25° with respect to the horizontal. A housing mounts the pyrometer, a fan, a filter bag ... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4319874 | Fuser apparatus and control therefore Fuser apparatus for fixing toner images to copy substrates by passing the substrates between two pressure engaged fuser members one of which is heated. A control for effecting movement of the members at two different speeds is provided such that the membe... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4197273 | Apparatus for controlling the directional solidification of a liquid-solid system The growth of a solid obtained by cooling a liquid solution is observed and controlled by measuring the variation in volume of the solid-liquid system at the time of solidification. The method is applicable to the control of oriented crystallization from ... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4095645 | Linear uniform heat wrap control A heat wrap control for a preheater in a paperboard corrugator adjusts the amount of wrap of a moving web about a heated drum as a linear function of web speed to effect uniform heat transfer to the web.... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4087237 | Method and apparatus for heating an elongated article An elongated article is heated in a heating zone positioned adjacent a conveying zone for conveying the elongated article by actuating the heating zone and controlling the temperature of the heating zone to a first temperature, then actuating the conveyin... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4087239 | Apparatus for imparting combined centrosymmetric and noncentro-symmetric rotation to semiconductor bodies An apparatus for imparting combined centro-symmetric and noncentro-symmetric rotation to semiconductor bodies comprises a liquid-cooled sun gear, a stationary liquid-cooled ring gear coaxial with and radially spaced outwardly from the sun gear, and at lea... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4080158 | Heat-fixing device In a heat-fixing device for fixing a member to be fixed as it is conveyed on a conveyance path provided with a heat source, there is provided suction means having a suction port adjacent to the conveyance path. The suction means is operable to draw the me... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4030878 | Method and apparatus for the connection of a rotary drum drive of a rotary furnace A method and apparatus for connecting a rotary drum drive, particularly a rotary drum drive of a rotary furnace or kiln, after disconnection for a short time, and before standstill of the oscillating drum, features detecting the movement of the oscillatin... | 06/21/1977 |
| 3949974 | Apparatus for preventing raw mix from being unevenly sintered by a sintering machine A method of preventing a raw mix disposed on a pallet of a moving grate type sintering machine from being unevenly sintered in the transverse direction extending across the width of the sinter and an apparatus for carrying out the method are disclosed. Th... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3946800 | Preheater and method of controlling wrap of a web The amount of wrap between a web and a heated drum is varied as a function of web speed by adjusting the position of idler rollers in response to a reference speed signal.... | 03/30/1976 |
