| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 432004000 | Including apparatus heat-up, cool-down or protection | 18 |
| 20100248176 | BOILER CONTROL METHODS - A method for controlling a boiler includes firing a boiler, and monitoring a temperature deviation between a boiler temperature and a heating temperature profile over time. If the temperature deviation exceeds an allowable deviation, the boiler is shut off. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100273121 | OVEN EXHAUST FAN SYSTEM AND METHOD - An oven apparatus has an oven enclosure with a heating zone and has two fans that remove air from the heating zone during purging and during normal operations. One of the two fans, called the exhaust fan, is a fixed speed fan in some embodiments. The second fan is a variable speed fan in some embodiments. The oven apparatus may have a vestibule at a conveyor opening with a fan dedicated to exhausting the vestibule. The oven apparatus may have an air seal between the vestibule and a heating zone of an oven chamber. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100285416 | Portable Catalytic Heating System for Off Grid Application - A portable catalytic heating system for off grid application, in which the heating system comprises a heating unit with a handle ( | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110143296 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPERATURE CONTROL IN A REACTOR VESSEL - A method and apparatus are disclosed for controlling a temperature within a reactor vessel such as an autoclave operating at elevated temperature and pressure. The apparatus includes a preheating vessel for preheating a feed material such as an aqueous slurry. The preheating vessel forms part of a preheating control system which provides the primary means of temperature control within the reactor vessel, and the reactor temperature is used as the setpoint for the preheating control system. The apparatus also comprises secondary means for heating and cooling the reactor. The feed material temperature is increased or decreased by the preheating control system, based on the reactor temperature. This is sufficient to heat or cool the reactor under most process conditions. Where the preheating control system is at or near its capacity for heating or cooling, the secondary heating or cooling means is activated to bring the reactor temperature within an optimum range. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110195369 | SHAFT FURNACE AND METHOD FOR HEAT-TREATING MOULDED BODIES CONTAINING CARBON - The invention relates to a shaft furnace ( | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110207067 | HEAT-GENERATING MIXTURE AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HEAT GENERATION - A heat-generating mixture includes 40 to 55 wt % of metal silicide, 40 to 60 wt. % of iron (III) oxide, and 0 to 10 wt. % of silicon. On burning, the heat-generating mixture forms a non-melting, porous slag. In a method of heat generation, to generate heat, an igniter capable of being actuated mechanically or electrically, ignites a booster charge, which in turn ignites the heat-generating mixture. A device for heat generation incudes an igniter capable of being actuated mechanically or electrically, a booster charge and the heat-generating mixture fixed and/or contained in and/or on a casing. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110223552 | VERTICAL HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COOLING THE APPARATUS - A vertical heat treatment apparatus including a furnace body having a heating section in the inner circumferential surface; a treatment container for housing a plurality of objects W to be treated. An air supply line is connected to the furnace body, and an air exhaust line is connected to the furnace body. An air supply blower and an air supply line valve mechanism, and an air exhaust blower and an air exhaust line valve mechanism are provided in the air supply line and the air exhaust line, respectively. A pressure detection system is provided for detecting the pressure in the space. A control section controls, based on a detection signal from the pressure detection system the blowers, the air supply line valve mechanism and the air exhaust line valve mechanism to keep the space at a slightly negative pressure. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110269085 | CONVEYOR OVEN APPARATUS AND METHOD - An oven with a sensor positioned to detect an event that will cause a decrease in the internal temperature of a tunnel. The oven includes a controller configured to increase the thermal output of a heating element in anticipation of the upcoming decrease in the internal temperature. In some embodiments, the oven is a conveyor over and the sensor is positioned to detect a food item approach the tunnel on a conveyor. In some embodiments, the amount of current provided to an electric heating element is increased by increasing the target temperature. In some embodiments, the amount of current provided to the electric heating element is increased by a predetermined offset. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110275024 | HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS AND HEAT TREATMENT METHOD - The present invention relates to a heat treatment apparatus and a heat treatment method that control temperature distribution during cooling. There is provided a cooling step in which a heated treatment object is cooled using a cooling liquid in mist form, and heat treatment is performed by alternatingly repeating a first step (K | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110294082 | METAL HEAT TREATING METHODS AND DEVICES - The invention and its group of variants consists of metal heat treating methods, a method for the combustion of liquid or gaseous fuel and hot air in a directly or indirectly fired furnace, and a heating device and regeneration nozzles for the carrying out of said method. The invention, and its variants, relate to the field of metallurgy and mechanical engineering, and can be used for metal heat processing (e.g., melting, heating for deformation, heat treatment) and for the sintering, drying (and other types of heat treatment) of non-metallic products such as ceramics. The essence of the invention are the novel technical features that make it possible to attain, while implementing the invention, the air excess factor (α) values in fuel and hot air mixture that are greater than 2.0 and mainly set within a range equal or less than 6.0. Said invention makes it possible to reduce the waste of metal, during the processing thereof, in a directly or indirectly fired furnace, and to decrease the metal hydrogenation levels, including aluminium, titanium and iron alloys. The use of the invention in indirectly fired furnaces makes it possible to extend the service life of radiant tubes and melting pots. Experimental data obtained by the inventors prove that the technical result is attained by the respective composition of the atmosphere (gaseous phase) of the combustion products of liquid or gaseous fuel and hot air mixture where the air excess factor (α) values are greater than 2.0. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120045728 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COOLING KILN EXHAUST GASES IN A KILN BYPASS - Described is an apparatus ( | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120270165 | HEATING METHOD FOR MAINTAINING A STABLE THERMAL BUDGET - The present invention discloses a heating method for maintaining a stable thermal budget. By following the primary procedure with a virtual procedure in such a manner that the total duration of the whole heating process remains constant, it is beneficial to maintain a stable thermal budget and further to maintain a stable device performance. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120270166 | RAPID CONDUCTIVE COOLING USING A SECONDARY PROCESS PLANE - A method and apparatus for thermally processing a substrate is provided. In one embodiment, a method for thermally treating a substrate is provided. The method includes transferring a substrate at a first temperature to a substrate support in a chamber, the chamber having a heating source and a cooling source disposed in opposing portions of the chamber, heating the substrate to a second temperature during a first time period while the substrate is disposed on the substrate support, heating the substrate to a third temperature during a second time period while the substrate is disposed on the substrate support, and cooling the substrate in the chamber to a fourth temperature that is substantially equal to the second temperature during the second time period. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20130137054 | INFRARED LIGHT- AND THERMAL-RESPONSIVE GRAPHENE OXIDE HYDROGEL POLYMER COMPOSITES - Composite hydrogels and methods for making and using the composite hydrogels are provided. The composite hydrogels comprise graphene oxide flakes distributed in, and covalently bonded to, a thermo-responsive hydrogel polymer. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20140127634 | HEATING DEVICES AND METHODS WITH AUTO-SHUTDOWN - A modular heating system and method is presented that automatically shuts down the chemical reaction within a heater if the heat generated by the reaction is excessive. Heaters are designed to generate sufficient heat to warm food or drink in an adjacent container. If the container is empty, or if the heater is dislodged from the container, the heat generated by the heater will become dangerously high. When excessive heat is generated by the reaction in the heater, systems and methods of the present invention respond by terminating the reaction before all of the reaction mixture has reacted. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140186785 | FURNACE SYSTEM WITH ACTIVE COOLING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An active cooling system for a furnace that establishes steep temperature gradients, reduces temperature variations and performs rapid cooling, improving mechanical and electrical properties of heat-treated materials, increases overall throughput and promotes low compositional variation in the growth of crystals. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20150297764 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR STERILIZING ANTISEPTIC SOLUTIONS - A method for sterilizing an antiseptic solution includes providing a plurality of containers containing the antiseptic solution, the antiseptic solution having an initial purity, selecting a sterilization temperature from about 85° C. to about 135° C. and an sterilization time from about 1 minute to about 19 hours, heating the antiseptic solution in the plurality of containers to the selected sterilization temperature, maintaining the temperature for the selected sterilization time, and terminating the heating of the antiseptic solution when the sterilization time expires. After terminating the heating, the antiseptic solution in the plurality of containers has a post-sterilization purity. The sterilization temperature and the sterilization time are selected such that after terminating the heating, the antiseptic solution is sterile and have a post-sterilization purity of at least about 92% and the percentage point change in purity from the initial purity to the post-sterilization purity is at most about 5%. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150322356 | METHOD FOR HEATING A HIGH TEMPERATURE WINKLER GASIFIER - A method for heating a high-temperature Winkler gasifier during the start-up of the gasifier includes the use of at least one burner for heating purposes. A gasifier head of the Winkler gasifier is assigned a cyclone with a return conduit for returning the particles separated off in the cyclone into the fluidized bed in the lower region of the gasifier, by means of which method the heating of a high-temperature Winkler gasifier is simplified and made substantially independent of the structural size of the gasifier. The at least one burner, which is installed in the head region of the gasifier and which acts downward into the interior of the gasifier, allows gas flow to be generated in the reverse direction through the return conduit of the cyclone. | 11-12-2015 |
