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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. 02, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Benjamin A. Flugstad, Port Hadlock, WA (US);
Qingyue Ling, Beaverton, OR (US);
Edward R. Kolbe, Portland, OR (US);
John Henry Wells, Portland, OR (US);
Yanyun Zhao, Corvallis, OR (US);
Jae W. Park, Warrenton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/46 ;
Abstract
A food product is heated by maintaining the food product in an AC electrical field generated by an RF signal. As the heating takes place, maximum energy is delivered to the food product using automatic impedance matching to adjust the rate of the process.