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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2018
Applicant:
Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Inventor:
Louis P. Steinhauser, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/68 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01L 21/683 (2006.01); H05B 1/02 (2006.01); H05B 3/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67248 (2013.01); H01L 21/67103 (2013.01); H01L 21/67109 (2013.01); H01L 21/67259 (2013.01); H01L 21/6831 (2013.01); H05B 1/0233 (2013.01); H05B 3/22 (2013.01); Y10T 156/10 (2015.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed toward a method that includes acquiring, by an imaging device, a thermal image of a heating surface of a heater assembly. The heater assembly includes a heating surface for heating a heating target, and the heating surface defines a plurality of heating zones. The further includes determining variations in the plurality of heating zones based on the thermal image of the heating surface. The thermal image includes a plurality of pixels corresponding to the plurality of heating zones in the heater assembly.