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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2011
Applicants:
Marc Rollo Matsen, Seattle, WA (US);
William Preston Geren, Shoreline, WA (US);
Robert James Miller, Fall City, WA (US);
Mark Alan Negley, Bellevue, WA (US);
William Chet Dykstra, Rockford, MI (US);
Inventors:
Marc Rollo Matsen, Seattle, WA (US);
William Preston Geren, Shoreline, WA (US);
Robert James Miller, Fall City, WA (US);
Mark Alan Negley, Bellevue, WA (US);
William Chet Dykstra, Rockford, MI (US);
Assignee:
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/02 (2006.01); H05B 6/10 (2006.01); H05B 6/06 (2006.01); B29C 35/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/105 (2013.01); B29C 35/0805 (2013.01); H05B 6/06 (2013.01); B29C 2035/0811 (2013.01); H05B 2206/023 (2013.01);
Abstract
A part is inductively heated by multiple, self-regulating induction coil circuits having susceptors, coupled together in parallel and in series with an AC power supply. Each of the circuits includes a tuning capacitor that tunes the circuit to resonate at the frequency of AC power supply.