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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ),...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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