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7619186 Intelligent user interface for multi-purpose oven using infrared heating for reduced cooking time  
An intelligent user interface for the selection of predefined cooking profiles for a number of different foods to be cooked in a multi-purpose oven using infrared heating. When a food has not been...
7619185 Image forming apparatus and electric-power control method  
An electric power supply is controlled below a maximum suppliable current value by detecting the applied current of a heater. The image forming apparatus includes a heater which includes heating...
7619181 Heating system for bathing unit  
A control system suitable for use with a bathing unit system having a water receptacle is provided. The control system comprises a heating module, a power source and a controller in communication...
7617764 Remote controllable automatic apparatus for preparing fried potato product from dehydrated potato  
A remote controllable automatic apparatus for preparing fried potato product from dehydrated potato, frying the potato product prepared with addition of at least water in subsequent operational...
7616873 Thermo-plastic heat exchanger  
A flow-through instantaneous fluid heater system is designed to satisfy the need for a heater not limited by being connected to a storage tank and which can be made using a plastic casing,...
7615725 Heater controlling apparatus for gas sensor  
A heater controlling apparatus for controlling a heater that heats a sensing element of a gas sensor provided in an exhaust system of a diesel engine includes a device that changes a reference...
7615724 Electric water heater  
An electrical water heater includes a housing, a filling opening delimited by a rim, heating elements, a pouring member, a lid, a tongue mobile between an extended position wherein it seals the...
7612315 System for controlling humidity  
An apparatus for cooking foods comprises a cooking chamber provided with humidity-detecting device arranged in such a way as to detect the humidity in said cooking chamber, wherein said...
7612311 Methods and systems for controlling electric heaters  
Systems and methods for controlling a heater to drive a load temperature to approximate a setpoint. At the beginning of each ½ AC cycle, a sigma delta modulation algorithm is computed to determine...
7608805 Control system for battery powered heating device  
A control system and method of controlling a battery powered heating device such as a soldering or desoldering tool that includes a control circuit to control the delivery of power to a cartridge...
7605351 Redundant control circuit for hot melt adhesive hose assembly heater circuits and temperature sensors  
A hot melt adhesive hose assembly has a redundant control circuit fixedly mounted thereon which comprises a pair of heater circuits for heating a hot melt adhesive hose assembly to a predetermined...
7605349 Slow cooker and method of operation  
A cooking appliance for cooking a foodstuff over a period of time including a shell having a heating cavity and a heating element to heat the heating cavity. A container is removably positionable...
7603204 System and method for controlling temperature of a liquid residing within a tank  
A system for controlling a temperature of a liquid residing within a tank comprises a temperature sensor, a temperature control element, memory, and logic. The temperature sensor is configured to...
7598476 Image forming apparatus having improved flicker characteristics and method thereof  
A fusing apparatus in an image forming apparatus that heats a fusing unit by applying an induced current is provided. The flicker characteristics of the fusing apparatus are improved by gradually...
7595467 Fault detection system and method for managing the same  
A fault detection system comprises a data server configured to collect parameters incoming from at least one apparatus, at least one fault-sensing module configured to generate an alarm signal if...
7594343 Drying mode for automatic clothes dryer  
A method of drying clothes in a clothes dryer comprising a clothes chamber for receiving clothes, an air supply system for directing air through the clothes chamber, and a heater for heating the...
7593789 Water flow detection system for a bathing unit  
The present invention provides a control system for a bathing unit that comprises a heating module, a temperature sensing entity and a heating module controller. The heating module includes a body...
7586065 Electric cooker  
A device for cooking food is disclosed. The device has an elongated body for containing the food to be cooked with a heater at one end and a simmer temperature sensor at the other end. The heater...
7586064 Method and system for providing thermostatic temperature control in an integrated circuit  
A method for providing thermostatic temperature control in an integrated circuit is provided that includes internally heating the integrated circuit until the integrated circuit reaches an elevated...
7582849 Thermal head, driving method and thermal head drive circuit  
A thermal head driving method of driving thermal heads is disclosed. The method includes a step of dividing the thermal heads into plural groups, providing for each of the groups a common potential...
7577493 Temperature regulating method, thermal processing system and semiconductor device manufacturing method  
A temperature regulating method in a thermal processing system includes controlling a heating means by performing integral operation, differential operation and proportional operation by means of a...
7576304 Monitor device for monitoring the exposure of circuits to current and voltage from a tool  
A device for monitoring the voltage or current applied to sensitive components on a circuit board by an assembly tool protects the sensitive components from damage caused by the voltage or current...
7573007 Power supply, image forming apparatus, and electric current supply method  
This invention provides a power supply which supplies an AC electric current to the coil of a heating unit employing the electromagnetic induced heating method via a connector connecting a...
7573006 Apparatus relating to the reconstruction of semiconductor wafers for wafer-level processing  
Apparatus, systems and methods relating to the reconstruction of semiconductor wafers for wafer-level processing are disclosed. Selected semiconductor dice having alignment cavities formed in a...
7573005 Boil detection method and computer program  
A method, computer program, and cooking device for detecting boiling of liquids. The invention is implemented with a computer program executed by a processor or other computing device of a cooking...
7569797 Electric liquid-heating  
An electric liquid-heating appliance includes a housing, an upper fill hole which is defined by a rim ( 9 ), heating elements, a spout and a lid. The lid includes: a lock which can engage with a...
7566848 Catalytic combustion type gas sensor  
A catalytic combustion type gas sensor includes a gas sensing unit 10 , in which a sensing element having a heater coil embedded in a thermal conduction layer provided with an oxidation catalyst...
7566846 Multi-zone blanket arrangement  
A multi-zone blanket includes a body including first heat zones juxtaposed side-by-side and symmetrically aligned within a body cavity. A first primary heating element passes through each of the...
7566845 Overheat protection circuit for power supply devices and direct-current power supply device  
In an overheat protection circuit for power supply devices in the present invention, overheat protection is provided by using a Schottky barrier diode (SBD) in place of a dedicated thermosensor....
7560669 Method of thermal treatment of components  
A method of thermal treatment of components. The optimum thermal amplitude of the components at which the phase transformation kinetics of the components is maximum is determined by subjecting...
7557328 High rate method for stable temperature control of a substrate  
A method for multi-step temperature control of a substrate includes selecting a first set-point temperature and a second set-point temperature for the substrate, and selecting a first PID parameter...
7554061 Method for controlling the oven temperature, and temperature control unit  
Method for controlling the temperature of an oven, in particular a kitchen oven, so as to reach a preset temperature through a heating process during a predetermined heating period based on a...
7514652 Spa with circuit for detecting excessive ground current  
A spa heater/control includes sensors and processors to monitor and display indicia of common failures. The heater/control includes voltage sensors and processing to measure proper power...
7508671 Computer system having controlled cooling  
A computer system and its method of cooling are provided. A vapor chamber serves as a heat spreader for heat from the microelectronic die. A thermoelectric module serves to cool the vapor chamber...
7507937 Electronic power control for cooktop heaters  
An electronic cook top control system has a cooktop including a heating element. An electronic controller is operatively connected to the cooktop. A rotary position input is operatively connected...
7501605 Method of tuning thermal conductivity of electrostatic chuck support assembly  
A method of tuning the thermal conductivity of an electrostatic chuck (ESC) support assembly comprises measuring the temperature at a plurality of sites on a support assembly surface in which each...
7498823 Physical quantity, particularly humidity detection device, and related detecting method  
A pair of identical humidity sensors (S 1 ) and (S 2 ) are in the same environment, so that they identically react to humidity effects; a sensing circuit includes an operational amplifier ( 10 ),...
7498545 Electric motor controller in electric compressor  
A coil of an electric motor is cooled by refrigerant. A controller for the electric motor controls a current supplied to the coil within a range less than or equal to a predetermined maximum value....
7495194 Heating apparatus and heating method  
A heating apparatus includes a plurality of heating means that heat a heated object, a temperature measuring means that measures temperatures of some of the plurality of heating means, a heated...
7491911 MEMS bubble generator for large stable vapor bubbles  
A MEMS vapour bubble generator that uses a heater in thermal contact with a liquid to generate a bubble. The heater is energized by an electrical pulse that is shaped to have a relatively low...
7488921 Adaptive startup control method for electric drives  
A controlled start up technique may eliminate the excessive peak junction temperature by controlling the speed of the electric device. Lower speed may result in reduced power to the load. Reduced...
7473868 Fail safe HVAC temperature and medium presence sensor  
A system and method is presented for a fail-safe sensor for an HVAC system. The sensor comprises a temperature detector operable to measure a temperature of a component or a medium present at the...
7469840 Controller for a fuel fired water heating application  
A controller is provided for controlling the operation of a gas-fired water heating appliance. In one embodiment of the present invention, a controller is provided that comprises a switching means...
7454308 System for detection of waterlogging in steam heating coils  
A system is disclosed for detecting the occurrence and extent of waterlogging in steam heating coils which consists of a series of two or more sensors disposed to measure temperature at strategic...
7449662 Air heating apparatus  
An embodiment of an air heating apparatus includes a mass to store heat energy and a heater to provide the heat energy to the mass.
7442902 Adaptive temperature controller  
The adaptive temperature controller includes an ambient temperature sensor, a device for measuring resistance, an electrically-conductive material, a power supply, and a device for controlling...
7435929 Methods for monitoring or controlling the ratio of hydrogen to water vapor in metal heat treating atmospheres  
Methods for monitoring a heat treating atmosphere supply a preselected gas atmosphere at a preselected temperature to a heat treating furnace. The preselected temperature is not greater than a...
7423243 Heating system and method  
A fluid heating system includes a fluid receptacle having a fluid reservoir, and a heating control system configured to heat fluid retained within the fluid reservoir. The heating control system...
7423240 Pulse width modulated defroster  
A window defroster system that includes a heater grid and a controller. The controller includes a pulse width modulator configured to provide a driving signal to the heater grid. The driving signal...
7418957 Vehicle control method and vehicle control apparatus  
A vehicle control apparatus and methodology relate to an exhaust gas sensor and sensor heater associated with an exhaust passage of a vehicle engine. The exhaust gas sensor is selectively heated to...