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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2012
Nike, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Shih-Yuan Wu, Taichung, TW;
Patrick Conall Regan, Taichung, TW;
Guo-Chang Wang, Taichung, TW;
Geoff M. Nichols, Ho Chi Minh, VN;
Chih-Chi Chang, Yunlin County, TW;
NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
An oven may facilitate heating, curing, and/or drying processes for manufactured items, such as shoe parts, using multiple groups of infrared sources. Each group of infrared sources may comprise a plurality of sources having heating parameters, such as a peak wavelength, power, distance from items to be cured, number of infrared sources, etc. By staging different types of sources throughout an oven, different aspects of the curing process may be performed in an efficient fashion. Further, conditions within the oven such as temperature and relative humidity may be monitored and adjusted to optimize curing conditions.