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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:
Dec. 13, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
George D Pfaffmann, Farmington, MI (US);
Assignee:
Tocco, Inc., Boaz, AL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219637 ; 219635 ; 219639 ; 266129 ; 148573 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for measuring the temperature and heating rate of a workpiece during the induction heating cycle by inducing and detecting a plurality of eddy current pulses at varying frequencies during a short power interruption to the induction coil and correlating the pulses to generate a workpiece profile which is compared to a reference profile to determine whether to reject the inductively heated workpiece.