Armando Luis Alvite

US Patent:

6664512, Dec 16, 2003

Filed:

Sep 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/243335

Inventors:

Leonard I. Horey - Boca Raton FL
Armando Alvite - Miami FL

Assignee:

Sunbeam Products, Inc. - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

H05B 100

US Classification:

219212, 219211, 219528, 219529, 219543, 219549

Abstract:

Heat losses from electric heating pads, blankets and pillows are reduced by aligning heat reflective strips or coatings over the top of a heating wire arranged inside the pads, blankets and pillows. By reducing heat losses, lower wattage can be applied to the heating wire to transfer the same amount of heat to a user as equivalent higher wattage blankets which do not have the heat reflective strips. By lowering the applied wattage, a more efficient blanket results.

US Patent:

6686561, Feb 3, 2004

Filed:

May 31, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/160624

Inventors:

Leonard I. Horey - Boca Raton FL
Armando Alvite - Miami Lakes FL
Gabriel S. Kohn - Boca Raton FL

Assignee:

Sunbeam Products, Inc. - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

H05B 334

US Classification:

219212, 219202, 219387, 219528, 219494, 5421, 165240

Abstract:

Disclosed is a warming blanket system having a fabric comprising a heating element, a data temperature mechanism configured to provide ambient air temperature data, a user input configured to provide user heat output preference data for a given normal ambient temperature, and a control system configured to input said air temperature and user heat output preference data and adjust heat output to said heating element based upon a deviation of a measured ambient temperature from said normal ambient temperature.

US Patent:

6730887, May 4, 2004

Filed:

Sep 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/242905

Inventors:

Leonard I. Horey - Boca Raton FL
Armando Alvite - Miami FL
Gabriel Kohn - Boca Raton FL

Assignee:

Sunbeam Products, Inc. - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

H05B 102

US Classification:

219497, 219212, 219217, 219505

Abstract:

One or more current sensors are mounted externally of a heating member so as to simplify construction of the heating member. The sensors are particularly useful in safety control circuits for heating members using PTC wire as resistance heating elements.

US Patent:

6768086, Jul 27, 2004

Filed:

Jul 8, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/191953

Inventors:

W. Mark Sullivan - Laurel MS
Mitchell Brewer - Waynesboro MS
Wayne Dearman - Laurel MS
Armando Alvite - Miami Lakes FL

Assignee:

Sunbeam Products, Inc. - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

H05B 102

US Classification:

219494, 219212, 219217, 219528, 219505

Abstract:

A warming blanket having a temperature sensing element for sensing the temperature of the warming blanket. The temperature sensor may be a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) element that is threaded throughout the blanket. In one embodiment, the temperature sensing element runs perpendicular or transverse to the heating wires in the warming blanket, permitting the temperature sensing element to measure an average blanket temperature. In another embodiment, the heating element is supplied as a pair of buss wires extending along opposite sides of the warming blanket and having a number of heating wires extending therebetween. In this embodiment, the temperature sensing elements may run either parallel to or transverse to the heating elements. Temperature changes/signals in the temperature sensing element are sent to a microprocessor, which in turn changes the wattage of the heating elements to prevent overheating of the warming blanket.

US Patent:

6794610, Sep 21, 2004

Filed:

Sep 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/242904

Inventors:

Leonard I. Horey - Boca Raton FL
Armando Alvite - Miami FL

Assignee:

Sunbeam Products, Inc. - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

H05B 100

US Classification:

219212, 219528, 219202, 219211, 219548, 219549

Abstract:

A heating blanket reduces the possibility of electrical arcing by providing a series of individual heating elements each carrying a low current.

US Patent:

20030047550, Mar 13, 2003

Filed:

Sep 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/244158

Inventors:

Leonard Horey - Boca Raton FL, US
Armando Alvite - Miami FL, US

International Classification:

H05B003/34

US Classification:

219/212000, 219/529000

Abstract:

A heating blanket, pad or pillow is produced from a continuous roll of substrate material over which a continuous length of resistance heating wire is arranged. Predetermined lengths of the resulting substrate and heating element are cut from the roll to produce individual heating products. PTC wire is preferably used for the resistance wire and facilitates a continuous manufacturing process.

US Patent:

20040026405, Feb 12, 2004

Filed:

Aug 7, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/215414

Inventors:

Armando Alvite - Miami Lakes FL, US
Leonard Horey - Boca Raton FL, US

Assignee:

Sunbean Products, Inc. - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

H05B001/02
H05B003/02

US Classification:

219/486000, 219/212000

Abstract:

A warming fabric that utilizes a multiplex circuit to provide heat to at least two different zones of the warming fabric. A controller for the warming fabric may alternate power supplied to the separate zones during a duty cycle. For example, the controller may supply power to a first zone of the warming fabric for a specified time based upon the heat setting for the first zone. During this specified time period, a second zone would not be supplied power. When the on time for the first zone is finished, the controller may apply power to the second zone for a specified time. If desired, separate zones may operate at different lengths of time during the duty cycle so that the separate zones would be supplied different levels of heating.

US Patent:

20040262294, Dec 30, 2004

Filed:

Jun 24, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/603045

Inventors:

Leonard Horey - Boca Raton FL, US
Armando Alvite - Miami FL, US

International Classification:

H05B003/34
H05B003/10

US Classification:

219/545000, 219/548000

Abstract:

A serpentine conductive path has a plurality of generally parallel wires, a pair of conductive busses running generally parallel to one another and generally perpendicular to the wires, wherein the wires are electrically connected to the conductive busses, and wherein the conductive busses further include a plurality of isolation punches so as to form an electrically conductive serpentine pattern in conjunction with the wires. The wires may be formed of positive temperature coefficient material for sensing and controlling the temperature of a heating fabric.