Electric heating – Inductive heating – With heat exchange
Patent
1997-07-30
1999-09-21
Leung, Philip H.
Electric heating
Inductive heating
With heat exchange
219626, 219665, 219666, 126246, H05B 608, H05B 612
Patent
active
059549840
ABSTRACT:
A heat retentive, temperature self-regulating, food retaining apparatus (10) includes a body (12), heat retentive core (14) and magnetic induction heating element (16). The body (12) includes a substantially rigid, heatable, food-contacting wall (18) defining a cavity (24). The core (14) is positioned in the cavity (24), and in thermal contact with the wall (18) for selective heating of the wall (18). The core (14) includes a solid state phase change material for storing latent heat during a solid-to-solid phase transformation at a phase transformation temperature. A resilient material is in contact with the phase change material to permit expansion of the phase change material during a phase transformation. The heating element (16) is in thermal contact with the core (14) for heating the core (14) to a temperature above the phase transformation temperature to effect a phase transformation in the phase change material. The element (16) includes a ferromagnetic material responsive to a magnetic field for inducing an electric current in the element (16) to heat the element (16). The ferromagnetic material has a Curie temperature between the phase transformation temperature and the melting temperature of the phase change material. A food warming device (42) includes a heater (44) having a holder (46), a magnetic field generator (48), and a no load detector (50), and a food retaining apparatus (10) positioned on the holder (46).
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