Heraeus Noblelight Gmbh

Siegfried Grob

Joachim Scherzer

Klaus Schmitz

Walter Dieudonn&eacute;

Sven Linow

Stefan Fuchs

Thomas Piela

Thomas Meyer

An IR radiant heater has at least one planar carbon heating element () arranged in a housing, which is transparent or at least partially transparent to IR radiation. At least one carbon heating element () is a carbon fiber-reinforced carbon (CFC) web arranged in a plane and arranged between two plates (), of which at least one is transparent or partially transparent.

CFC radiant heater

The invention relates to an infrared radiator with a heating element containing carbon fibers disposed in a quartz glass tube, with its ends connected to contact elements running through the wall of the quartz glass tube. The known radiators are improved by the fact that the heating element is spaced away from the wall of the quartz glass tube and it is centered on the axis of the quartz glass tube by means of spacers. The invention furthermore relates to a method by which the infrared radiator is operated at heating element temperatures greater than 1000&#xb0; C.

Infrared radiator with carbon fiber heating element centered by spacers

An infrared lamp with a closed-off enveloping tube which encloses an emission source joined with contacts for a power supply in the form of a carbon ribbon which, extending in a direction of a long axis of the enveloping tube, determines an irradiation length of the infrared lamp in the sense of a higher irradiation output. The carbon ribbon has a length which is larger than the irradiation length by a factor of at least 1.5. With a procedure for heating a material to be processed using the infrared lamp, which makes possible short processing times in connection with a simultaneous high degree of energy efficiency, the infrared lamp may be operated such that its maximum emission lies within a wavelength range from 1.8 &mgr;m to 2.9 &mgr;m, and such that its power output comes to at least 15 Watts per cm of the volume enclosed by the enveloping tube over the irradiation length.

Infrared lamp and procedure for heating material to be processed

The invention relates to an infrared radiator with a heating element containing carbon fibers disposed in a quartz glass tube, with its ends connected to contact elements running through the wall of the quartz glass tube. The known radiators are improved by the fact that the heating element is spaced away from the wall of the quartz glass tube and it is centered on the axis of the quartz glass tube by means of spacers. The invention furthermore relates to a method by which the infrared radiator is operated at heating element temperatures greater than 1000&deg; C.

A radiation system has at least two elongated envelope tubes permeable to light and infrared radiation which are joined together and sealed from the ambient atmosphere, a first envelope tube of which contains an incandescent coil which is electrically connected through sealed tube ends and external contacts to an external power supply and emits infrared radiation in the near IR range; furthermore, at least a second envelope tube is provided which has an elongated carbon strip as an infrared radiator for radiation in the medium IR range, which is likewise connected through sealed ends and external contacts with the external power supply or with an additional external power supply. Preferably a carbon strip is used as the radiator strip, which is configured either as an elongated coil or forms an elongated strip. It is thus possible to produce both infrared radiation in the near IR range and infrared radiation in the medium IR range, so that in the case, for example, of the surface application of paints both paint pigments and pigment solvents can be rapidly vaporized and dried.

Infrared radiation system with multiple IR radiators of different wavelength

Infrared lamp with carbon ribbon being longer than a radiation length

In the production of spiral-shaped heating elements, a device winds an oblong base material onto a mandrel while forming a spiral with the base material and equips the ends of the spiral with contacts for electrical connection. The device includes a feeding device for supplying the mandrel, onto whose casing surface the base material is wound in a spiral shape, with the oblong base material. In order to carry out a method for the production of a spiral-shaped heating element made of material containing carbon fibers, the method is as follows: utilize a base material that comprises carbon fibers which have been embedded into IBM a thermoplastic embedding compound, heat the base material to a temperature at which the embedding compound softens, wind the softened base material onto the mandrel while forming the spiral, and set the spiral shape by removing the embedding compound. On the device used to carry out the method, there is included a heating device which affects the base material in the area of the casing surface of the mandrel and can be adjusted to a temperature above the softening temperature of the embedding compound. The invented heating element, which distinguished itself due to its low thermal inertia and high radiation capacity at comparatively low temperatures, is formed in the shape of a spiral having a series of carbon fibers that are connected with each other.

Method for production of a spiral-shaped heating element

A radiant device comprising an envelope tube, which tube contains a long axis, and inside the tube, at least one radiant source oriented in the direction of the long axis of the envelope tube which is sealed at both ends, with a metal, electrical connecting part at each end of the envelope tube, and at least one elastic intermediate part which absorbs length changes of the radiant source and which is firmly joined at one end to an electrical connecting part and at the other end to the radiant source, and wherein the intermediate part comprises a molybdenum sheet provided with at least one folding portion having two kink points perpendicular to the long axis.

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Maintal, Germany

Siegfried Grob