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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 10, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219 1077 ; 219 / ; 363 97 ;
Abstract
An induction heating apparatus comprises a heating coil and a transistor which is connected to a direct current power source in series thereto to form an inverter for converting the direct current to an alternating current, and furthermore, a first coupling coil for supplying a forward base current to the transistor is coupled with the heating coil inductively and a second coupling coil for supplying a inverse base current for the transistor is also coupled to the heating coil inductively, and the inverter is controlled by a switching device which is controlled by a control circuit.