E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Picker International, Inc.

Invista North America S.a.r.l.

Dupont Electronics, Inc.

Mehrdad Mehdizadeh

William Robert Corcoran

Theodore Augur Koch

Karl Robert Krause

Ronald Jack Riegert

Sourav Kumar Sengupta

Benny E Blackwell

Dariusz Wlodzimierz Kawka

John Lester Patrick

Joseph Anthony Perrotto

John L Patrick, Iii

George J Misic

Nicole L Blankenbeckler

G Neil Holland

Mark Allan Lamontia

David M Dean

Gregory S Kirby

Carmo Joseph Pereira

David A Molyneaux

David A Lampman

Stewart Carl Feinberg

Michael R Moseley

Paul T Orlando

Cheng-Hang Chi

Gary W Foggin

William L Geigle

Gregory C Hurst

Cynthia K Fallon

Steven F Fecanin

Earl Williams, Jr

Roy Quinn Freeman, Iii

This invention provides gloves and socks containing printed heaters. The glove or sock with a heater comprises a glove or sock, a substrate with the outline of the glove or sock, and a heater printed on the substrate wherein the substrate is laminated to the glove or sock. The heater comprises two printed conductive bus bars with extensions traversing the substrate and an array of printed resistive areas arranged so that each area is between and overlaps and is contiguous to two conductors, one of which is one of the bus bars or its extensions and the second is the other bus bar or its extensions.

Hand and foot heaters

A field director assembly includes electrically conductive vanes configured to prevent arcing in an unloaded microwave oven.

Field director assembly having arc-resistant conductive vanes

A reusable self-supporting field director useful for heating an article in a microwave oven is characterized by a plurality of vanes, each vane extending radially outwardly from a central axis and being angularly adjacent to two other vanes. The vanes are attached to each other at their inner ends. Each vane has a substrate formed from an electrically non-conductive material, and an electrically conductive sheath encasing the substrate so that a portion of the first and second major surfaces are covered by an electrically conductive material. The sheath is arranged on the substrate in a laterally symmetric fashion so that thermal expansion effects due to heating are equalized across the thickness of each vane.

Microwave field director structure having vanes covered with a conductive sheath

A reusable self-supporting field director for use in heating an article in a microwave oven is characterized by a plurality of vanes, each vane extending radially outwardly from a central axis and being angularly adjacent to two other vanes. The vanes are attached to each other at their inner ends. Each vane has a substrate formed from an electrically non-conductive material and an electrically conductive wrapper that wraps the substrate so that a portion of the first and second major surfaces are covered and the radially outer end of each vane is wrapped by an electrically conductive material. The wrapper and the substrate are arranged in a laterally symmetric fashion so that thermal expansion effects due to heating are equalized across the thickness of each vane.

Microwave field director structure having vanes with outer ends wrapped with a conductive wrapper

A susceptor assembly includes electrically conductive vanes configured to prevent arcing in an unloaded microwave oven.

Arc-resistant microwave susceptor assembly

A reusable self-supporting field director for use in a microwave oven is characterized by a plurality of vanes, each extending radially outwardly from a central axis. The vanes are supported in a slotted central support member. Each vane has a predetermined thickness dimension. Each vane comprises a substrate formed from an electrically non-conductive material having a predetermined coefficient of thermal expansion and an electrically conductive wrapper having a predetermined coefficient of thermal expansion that is different from the coefficient of thermal expansion of the substrate. The wrapper wraps the substrate so that a portion of the first and second major surfaces are covered and the radially inner end of each vane is wrapped by an electrically conductive material. The wrapper and the substrate are arranged in a laterally symmetric fashion so that thermal expansion effects due to heating are equalized across the thickness of each vane.

Microwave field director structure having metal vanes

Microwave field director structure having vanes with inner ends wrapped with a conductive wrapper

A reusable self-supporting field director for use in heating an article in a microwave oven is characterized by a plurality of vanes, each vane extending radially outwardly from a central axis and being angularly adjacent to two other vanes. The vanes are attached to each other at their inner ends. Each vane has a substrate formed from an electrically non-conductive material, and an electrically conductive sheath encasing the substrate so that a portion of the first and second major surfaces are covered by an electrically conductive material. The sheath is arranged on the substrate in a laterally symmetric fashion so that thermal expansion effects due to heating are equalized across the thickness of each vane.

A susceptor assembly includes a generally planar susceptor having an electric field director structure mechanically connected thereto. The field director structure includes at least one, but more preferably, a plurality of two or more vanes mechanically connected to the susceptor. Each vane has a surface at least a portion of which is electrically conductive. The vane(s) are most preferably disposed substantially orthogonal to the planar susceptor. The connection may be either a fixed or a flexible articulating connection. In use, such as in the presence of a standing electromagnetic wave generated within a microwave oven, only an attenuated electric field component of the electromagnetic wave exists in a plane tangent to the surface of the vane in the vicinity of the conductive portion of the vane.

Susceptor assembly for use in a microwave oven

A method for coupling a radio frequency electronic device () to a passive element (), such as an antenna, the passive element including a body having an impedance at the operating frequency. the method comprises the steps of attaching a conductive pad having a shape and area corresponding to the predetermined shape and coupling area on the surface of passive element in a nonpenetrating manner, and electrically connecting the device to the conductive pad, such that, in use, the pad and the body have an impedance that is substantially capacitively reactive in nature defined therebetween, whereby the pad is electrically coupled to the body to facilitate: the transfer of electromagnetic energy at the operating radio frequency between the body and the pad. The conductive pad may take the form of a discrete conductive member attached to the passive element by an adhesive or by a biasing member. Alternatively, the conductive pad may take the form of a metallization layer formed on the passive element.

Method for coupling a radio frequency electronic device to a passive element

A coupling structure for coupling a device operable at a radio frequency with a body is formed of a polymeric material loaded with a conductive filler. A portion of the surface of the body defines a coupling area of a predetermined shape that receives a conductive pad having a shape and area corresponding to the predetermined shape and coupling area. The conductive pad is positioned on the surface of the body in non-penetrating contact with the body such that, in use, the pad and the body have an impedance, substantially capacitively reactive in nature, defined therebetween that is less than the impedance of the body at the operating frequency, thereby facilitating the transfer of electromagnetic energy at the operating radio frequency between the body and the pad.

Radio frequency coupling structure for coupling a passive element to an electronic device and a system incorporating the same

Methods of detecting an interface between materials having different dielectric loss factors using an apparatus having a transmission line including an inner conductor surrounded by dielectric and a shielding conductor are disclosed. Sublengths of inner conductor are exposed along the line, with adjacent sublengths being separated by shielded sublengths. In one embodiment the apparatus is excited by a signal and inserted into the materials to a predetermined depth. Signal attenuation is measured. The interface between strata is identified based upon signal attenuation. In another embodiment the apparatus is excited by a signal and progressively inserted into the materials. Apparatus position is tracked and t-he attenuation of the signal is monitored as a function of insertion distance to detect ranges having a substantial rate of change of attenuation and ranges having substantially no change of attenuation. The interface is identified based upon differences in the rate of change in attenuation.

Method for detecting an interface between first and second strata of materials

Method for making a coupling structure () comprises the steps of forming a body (B) of a polymeric material loaded with a conductive filler, providing a coupling area (C) of a predetermined shape on a portion of the surface of the body (S), and attaching a conductive pad (IOP) having a shape corresponding to the shape of the coupling area (C) in non-penetrating contact with the body (B).

Method for making a radio frequency coupling structure

A rotary transformer for coupling electrical power at a high level into a rotor operable at a high rotational speed without the introduction of undesirable electromagnetic torque and problems of dynamic mechanical instability comprises a stationary primary mounted in surrounding relationship with respect to the rotor, an electromagnetic shield having an exterior surface thereon mounted to the rotor, and a secondary mounted on the exterior surface of the shield. The secondary is connected in an electrical circuit with the load such that the application of an alternating current having a frequency of at least one (1) kilohertz to the primary produces an alternating electromagnetic field having flux lines in the secondary in the secondary oriented generally parallel to the axis of rotation. The alternation of the electromagnetic field induces a voltage in the secondary that generates an electric current to the load. The shield isolates the rotor from the alternating electromagnetic field to prevent eddy current heating of the rotor.

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Avondale, PA, United States of America

Mehrdad Mehdizadeh