Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Heat seal bar sensorless temperature sensing and control
-
Application No.: US17330668Application Date: 2021-05-26
-
Publication No.: US11673348B1Publication Date: 2023-06-13
- Inventor: Brody Alan Viator , Clifford Dunlap
- Applicant: AMERIGLOBE, LLC
- Applicant Address: US LA Lafayette
- Assignee: AMERIGLOBE, LLC
- Current Assignee: AMERIGLOBE, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US LA Lafayette
- Agency: Garvey, Smith & Nehrbass, Patent Attorneys, L.L.C.
- Agent Juila M. FitzPatrick; Gregory C. Smith
- Main IPC: B29C65/20
- IPC: B29C65/20 ; B29C65/00 ; B65D88/16 ; B65D88/54 ; G01K7/02 ; G01K15/00 ; B29L31/00

Abstract:
A sensorless temperature sensing and control system and method uses electrical voltage and current feedback signals to monitor and control the temperature of heating elements used in a heat sealing process wherein sensors are not physically connected to a heat seal bar during the heat sealing process. After calibration of a heat seal bar using a sensor, voltage and current feedback signals are processed by a programmable logic controller (PLC) to calculate the real-time electrical resistance of each heating element. Data and electrical resistance is used to calculate real-time temperature of the heat seal bar during heating.
Information query