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7350386 Method and apparatus for making tubes  
In a method of making a tube, a sheet metal blank is placed in a U-shaped cavity of a lower mold of a shaping tool, and pressed into the cavity by a ram to shape the blank into a U-shaped...
RE40181 Infrared radiator with carbon fiber heating element centered by spacers  
The invention relates to an infrared radiator with a heating element containing carbon fibers disposed in a quartz glass tube, with its ends connected to contact elements running through the wall...
7349662 Fixing device and image forming apparatus  
An image forming unit of a copier is provided with an image fixing unit (fixing device) adopting an induction heating method. A heating roller of this image fixing unit includes a heat producing...
7349661 Fusing roller and fusing apparatus using the same  
A fusing roller and a fusing apparatus using the same are provided. The fusing roller includes a coil unit resistance heated by a predetermined alternating current, and generating an alternating...
7349660 Low mass fuser apparatus with substantially uniform axial temperature distribution  
An energy transfer device may include a fuser roll, a pressure roll, the pressure roller and the fuser roll being part of a marking system, and a heat pipe, the heat pipe being in contact with at...
7348527 Microwave oven having a door ventilation system  
A microwave oven for use in cooking food having a door and door mounted controls and a cooling system where the door mounted controls are disclosed. The microwave oven having an external enclosure...
7348526 Microwave-assisted chromatography preparation  
An instrument and associated method are disclosed for preparing samples for column chromatography. The method includes the steps of applying microwave energy to a sample composition containing at...
7348525 Sealing jaw  
A sealing jaw for manufacturing a sealing seam in a heat-sealable packaging material. The invention furthermore relates to an induction sealing device with a sealing jaw and to a packaging machine...
7348524 Image forming apparatus  
An image heating device has a magnetic flux generator, a heat generating element for generating heat by a magnetic flux from the magnetic flux generator; a magnetic flux confining member, the...
7348523 Method of induction weld forming with shear displacement step  
A shear-assisted solid state welding method for joining of metal parts, involves a first step of heating opposing surfaces in a non-passivating environment to a temperature in the hot working...
7348522 Apparatus for thawing frozen food items  
An apparatus is disclosed for thawing a frozen food item, including a chamber dimensioned to receive the frozen food item, a heat exchanger operable to either heat air in the chamber or to cool the...
7348521 Electric oven  
Provided is an electric oven. The electric oven includes a cavity having an electric component room, a light wave generating unit mounted on a top surface of the cavity, the light wave generating...
7348520 Oven with a heat circulating device  
An oven with a heat-circulating device includes a housing provided with a chamber for roasting and steaming; a motor fixed on a rear surface of a rear wall of the chamber; a fan; a heater; a...
7348519 Multi-zone griddle and grill  
A multi-zone griddle with an upper substantially continuous layer of metal adapted for cooking a food product thereon. The upper substantially continuous layer of metal is positioned adjacent to a...
7348518 Welding apparatus  
A welding apparatus capable of effecting welding completion processing which is reliable and free of wasteful time, by transmitting the completion of wire fusion prevention processing to a welding...
7348517 Laser cutting apparatus with a high quality laser beam  
A laser cutting apparatus capable of properly cutting a workpiece having a large thickness with a laser beam. The laser cutting apparatus includes a gas laser oscillator; and an optical system...
7348516 Methods of and laser systems for link processing using laser pulses with specially tailored power profiles  
A laser pulse with a specially tailored temporal power profile, instead of a conventional temporal shape or substantially square shape, severs an IC link. The specially tailored laser pulse...
7348515 Solder dispenser  
A solder dispenser provides a cylindrical dispensing container which has a solder inlet for introducing a solder member, and an opening portion for discharging the above-mentioned solder member to...
7347054 System for heating tanks of liquefied gas by induction  
The invention relates to a system for delivering gas stored in a vessel in liquefied form, said vessel having in its lower part a liquefied phase of said gas and in the upper part a gaseous phase...
7346273 Substrate processing equipment  
It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate processing equipment that can predict a temperature of a substrate and easily control temperature of the substrate. Formed in a reactor...
7345264 Built-in kitchen apparatus  
When a cooking apparatus body, such as a microwave oven, is installed in a kitchen cabinet, a power cord connected to a commercial power source from the back of the kitchen cabinet is folded and...
7345263 Method for safe and uniform microwave cooking of food article  
A method for safe and uniform microwave cooking of food articles in a container, comprising providing a microwave permeable container, wherein a portion of said container is covered with a...
7345262 Microwave interactive display package  
Various microwave energy interactive display packages, blanks for forming such packages, and methods of displaying and heating a food item are provided.
7345261 Wall-mounted microwave oven  
A wall-mounted microwave oven including a cooking chamber, a heater casing, a heater installed in the heater case, a blowing fan to supply hot air generated in accordance with a heating operation...
7345260 Heater and method of manufacturing the same  
A heater including a plate-shaped substrate having a heating surface for heating an object and a heater element provided in the substrate or on its surface. A central axis C 2 of a circumscribed...
7345259 Circuit arrangement and method for preventing overheating of a cooking appliance  
The invention relates to a method and a circuit arrangement for preventing overheating of a cooking appliance. The arrangement includes a power circuit with a heating element and a control circuit...
7345258 Beam welding apparatus and beam welding method  
A beam welding apparatus for welding a housing and transparent cover of a vehicular lighting device via beam welding has a cover fixing jig having a beam transmitting part, configured to fix a...
7345257 Nozzle presetter for laser machining tool of laser beam machine  
The invention provides a nozzle presetter for laser machining tool of laser beam machine for externally making position adjustments of nozzles for laser machining tools mounted on a laser beam...
7345256 Methods and apparatus for delivering laser energy for joining parts  
A method and apparatus for bonding a pair of tubular members are disclosed. First and second end portions of the tubular members are gripped for rotation about their axis. The tubular members are...
7345255 Composite overlay compound  
A method of forming a composite overlay compound on a substrate includes forming a mixture including at least one component from a first group of component materials including titanium, chrome,...
7344059 Apparatus and method for mounting an electrical connector to a glass sheet of a vehicle window  
An electrical connector is soldered or affixed to a conductive element of a glass sheet of a vehicular window via radiation heating of a layer of solder with an infrared radiative heating device....
7343850 Cooking appliance with an extractor fan  
A cooking appliance including at least one heating unit for heating a cooking area and including at least one extractor fan. At least one parameter of the extractor fan can be controlled to...
7343671 Process for manufacturing a composite polymeric circuit protection device  
A process for manufacturing a composite polymeric circuit protection device in which a polymeric assembly is provided and is then subdivided into individual devices. The assembly is made by...
7343258 Fusion temperature calibration  
The present invention relates to a method for accurately calibrating fusion temperature in optical fiber splicing. With assistance of direct arc-recentering technique, two optical fibers are...
7343218 Automatic part feedback compensation for laser plastics welding  
A feedback control system for controlling a laser source. The feedback control system includes a laser source outputting laser energy and an optical sensor detecting the laser energy. The optical...
7342329 Power supply for electrical domestic appliances and domestic appliances for co-action with such a power supply  
The invention relates to a power supply for electrical domestic appliances, comprising: at least one connection to the mains electricity supply, and at least one connector for releasable electrical...
7342209 Microprocessor controlled tube apparatus having reduced radio frequency emanations  
A tube apparatus is provided to detect successful or failed tube operations. The tube apparatus includes jaws mounted for movement with respect to one another between (1) a first position spaced...
7342208 Linearly Reciprocating Tray for Microwave oven  
A microwave oven in which there is substantially no difference between time when a linearly traveling tray travels from the right side to the left side of a cooking chamber and time when the...
7342207 Elevated microwaveable carton and susceptor portion and methods  
A carton for use in microwave ovens includes a base and a removable cover. The base has a cooking surface at least partially covered with a microwave susceptor material. The base defines an...
7342206 Tailored heat transfer layered heater system  
A tailored heat transfer layered heater system is provided that comprises a target part defining a room temperature periphery and a layered heater disposed around or within the target part, the...
7342205 Apparatus and method for controlling an electric heating assembly  
In apparatus and a method for providing electronic control of an electric heating assembly, a radiant electric heater ( 10, 110 ) is arranged at a lower surface ( 22, 124 ) of a glass-ceramic...
7342204 Heater and heating device  
A low-radiation-rate film, made of a material whose radiation rate is lower than that of a heater substrate, is formed at least entirely over the surface of a heat-subject-placing surface of a...
7342203 Oven chamber including shielding member  
In one example, an oven chamber has a heating element located within a first section of the oven chamber, and includes a shielding member that extends over the first section of the oven. The...
7342202 Electric grill  
An electric cooking assembly includes a main body portion that defines a cooking area. First and second cooking surfaces are contained within the cooking area. A first electric heating element...
7342201 Silcon carbide element  
A ceramic heating element arrangement in which a ceramic heating element made of SiC having electrical NTC (negative temperature coefficient) properties is provided for a circuit. At least one...
7342200 Torch for arc welding  
A welding torch has a nozzle; a contact tip positioned within the nozzle; a tube extending from the nozzle; wherein the tube has a gooseneck portion having a radius, and the tube has a second...
7342199 Ergonomic handle attachment for welding torch  
An ergonomic handle attachment to be used with a welding torch handle, the attachment has an attachment portion having a first wall that is selectively attached to a wall of the handle and a second...
7342198 Method and apparatus for generating an electrical arc  
A method of generating an electrical arc includes steps of providing a first electrode and a second electrode, determining a dielectric strength of a gap region between the electrodes, determining...
7342197 Plasma torch with corrosive protected collimator  
To protect the collimator of a transferred plasma arc torch from premature failure due to corrosion, an anti-corrosive covering is applied on the exposed face surface and a portion of the inner...
7342196 Plasma spraying apparatus and also a method for monitoring the condition of a plasma apparatus  
The invention relates to a plasma spraying apparatus ( 1 ) including a plasma torch ( 2 ) for heating up a spray powder ( 3 ) in a heating zone ( 4 ) and a metering unit ( 5 ) for metering the...