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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:
May. 23, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shigeki Ueda, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219518 ; 219 / ; 99325 ; 340686 ;
Abstract
A heating appliance for heating an object within a heating chamber. In the heating chamber are formed rack rails on which a table is located and a heater. The rack rails are stepwise arranged so as to allow the table to take a desired position corresponding to the kind of an object to be heated. The heating applicance includes a distance-measuring sensor for measuring a distance to the table means or the object. A control unit, may comprising a known microcomputer, controls the heater on the basis of the distance measured by the sensor so as to appropriately heat the object in accordance with its kind.