| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 219460100 | Heating element gapped from underside of the exposed horizontal support surface (e.g., ceramic plate, radiation-type, etc.) | 15 |
| 20100176116 | Cooking apparatus and heating device including working coils thereof - A cooking apparatus performing cooking with a cooking container disposed at any desired position on a cooking plate, and a heating device thereof. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking plate to receive a cooking container thereon, and at least one working coil disposed under the cooking plate to heat the cooking container, the at least one working coil including a first portion and a second portion having a different winding structure of a conducting wire which forms the working coil so that a winding density of the conducting wire at one of the first portion and the second portion is relatively higher than the other of the first portion and the second portion. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100224620 | PLANE HEATER - [Problem to be Solved] To provide a plane heater including a carbon wire heating element which has an arrangement pattern allowing a heating surface to be a substantially uniform heating temperature plane. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110266274 | QUARTZ ENCAPSULATED HEATER ASSEMBLY - The current invention relates to a semiconductor wafer heater assembly having a frosted clear quartz material for the wafer susceptor ( | 11-03-2011 |
| 20120103970 | HEATER WITH INDEPENDENT CENTER ZONE CONTROL - A substrate heater comprising a ceramic substrate support having a substantially flat upper surface for supporting a substrate during substrate processing; a resistive heater embedded within the substrate support; a heater shaft coupled to a back surface of the substrate support, the heater having an interior cavity that extends along its longitudinal axis and ends at a bottom central surface of the substrate support; and a supplemental heater, separate from the ceramic substrate support, positioned within the interior cavity of the heater shaft in thermal contact with a portion of the bottom central surface of the substrate support such that the supplemental heater can alter the temperature of a central area of the upper surface of the substrate support. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20140291313 | PREPARATION OF AN ARTICLE IN GLASS OR IN GLASS-CERAMIC WITH IMPROVED COATING AND SAID ARTICLE - The object of the present invention is a method for preparing an article, the structure of which comprises a substrate in a glass or in a glass-ceramic and an original coating fixed to at least one portion of the surface of said substrate, in a characteristic way, said coating, most particularly proposed with reference to the technical problem of VOC emission when it is brought to high temperature, is generated from at least one loaded polysilsesquioxane resin; said at least one polysilsesquioxane resin not containing any aryl radical in its structure. The object of the present invention is also the article which may be obtained after carrying said method. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140305929 | GLASS CERAMIC COOKING PLATE WITH LOCALLY INCREASED TRANSMISSION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A GLASS CERAMIC COOKING PLATE - A volume-colored monolithic glass ceramic cooking plate is provided. The plate includes a first zone in which the coloration of the glass ceramic differs from that of a second, adjacent zone, so that an absorption coefficient of the first zone is lower than the absorption coefficient of the second, adjacent zone and so that integral light transmission in the visible spectral range is greater in the first zone than the integral light transmission of the second, adjacent zone. The light scattering in the glass ceramic of the first zone differs from light scattering in the glass ceramic of the second zone by not more than 20 percentage points, preferably by not more than 5 percentage points. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20150060435 | COOKTOP APPLIANCE AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A cooktop appliance is provided. The cooktop appliance includes a heating assembly with a first heating zone and a second heating zone that are radially spaced apart from each other. During a simmer or low heat mode of the cooktop appliance, the first heating zone is operated during a first portion of a time interval, and the second heating zone is operated during a second portion of the time interval. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150129575 | CONTACT-TYPE TESTING DEVICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL TEST METHOD - A contact-type testing device that has a heating plate capable of being heated and in which a desired test is conducted while a test object is in contact with the heating plate, the contact-type testing device including: a heating member that heats the heating plate, wherein the heating member includes: a plurality of strips of heat generation bodies; and a power feeding section that feeds electricity to the heat generation bodies, wherein the heat generation bodies are distributed in a planar manner, and a group or all of the heat generation bodies are parallel-connected, wherein a part or all of the heat generation bodies have a steep temperature/resistance characteristic, and resistance values of the heat generation bodies increase with temperature, and wherein the heating member is disposed to face the heating plate, and a gap is provided between the heating plate and the heating member. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150144613 | GLASS-CERAMIC ARTICLE AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS - The present invention relates to an article comprising at least one glass-ceramic substrate, in particular a plate, intended, for example, to cover or receive at least one heating element, said substrate exhibiting, in at least one zone, a surface roughness such that the characteristic dimensions of the patterns forming said roughness are between 2 and 100 μm. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20160174301 | ALKALI-FREE ALUMINOSILICATE GLASSES, SUITABLE AS SUBSTRATE FOR INDUCTION HEATING COOKTOPS APPLICATIONS | 06-16-2016 |
| 219461100 | Support for the heating element | 3 |
| 20080237216 | HEATING DEVICE - A first heating element and a second heating element, which are capable of individually controlling temperatures thereof, are embedded in a ceramic base. Each of the first heating element and the second heating element is formed into a spiral shape so as not to contact the other from a central portion of the base to an outer circumferential portion thereof in substantially the same plane parallel to a heating surface of the base. One of the first and second heating elements includes a high heating density portion on the central portion side of the base, and a low heating density portion on the peripheral portion side of the base, and the other of the first and second heating elements includes a low heating density portion on the central portion side of the base, and a high heating density portion on the peripheral portion side of the base. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090020520 | Heater assembly - An electric heater assembly for mounting in an electric clothes dryer supports an electrical heating element. The heater assembly has overlapping arcuate shaped support plates of mica for supporting a zig-zag shaped electrical heating element. The support plates have inner and outer concentrically curved side edge portions having inner and outer notches. A support wall mounted in the clothes dryer supports the support plates by series of inner and outer arcuate spaced apart tab members. The tab members each have a flap member. The flap members are positioned so that the notches of the support plates align with the flaps to permit the support plates to be positioned relative to the housing support wall, and then rotated, so that the flap members overlappingly engage at least one of the support plates to hold the support plates relative to the housing support wall. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20100044365 | HOTPLATE, AND ALSO ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A HOTPLATE - The invention relates to a hotplate, comprising a metal plate part and an electric heating element fixed on the lower side of the plate part. The hotplate furthermore comprises a ring. The ring is made of electrically insulating plastic, and the plate edge is accommodated in a watertight manner on the inside of the ring. | 02-25-2010 |
| 219462100 | Plural heating elements | 2 |
| 20110226753 | HOB COMPRISING A VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A HOB - A hob includes a visual display associating each heating zone on the hob with a control element in order to control heating zones that are variable. The visual display unit provides a user interface showing a pictogram of a heating zone that illustrates the position and/or the size of the heating zone, and a plurality of control elements are juxtaposed to the visual display unit. A detector detects the position and/or size of a cooking utensil. The control unit defines heating zones depending on the detected size and/or position of the cooking utensil element, associates one or more heating elements with the heating zone, and provides a symbol in the visual display that associates the pictogram of the heating zone with one of the control elements. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20140312026 | KITCHEN WORKTOP WITH WEIGHING MEANS - A kitchen worktop having a support plate ( | 10-23-2014 |
