US Patent Issued to SMC on Nov. 3 for "Temperature adjustment device that controls temperature gradient in process until reaching target temperature" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,983, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SMC Corp. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Temperature adjustment device that controls temperature gradient in process until reaching target temperature" was invented by Makoto Adachi (Tsukubamirai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature adjustment device is provided to gradually change the temperature of a load to a target temperature while adjusting the temperature of the load to the target temperature in the middle of temperature adjustment. A time-dependent set temperature of the load is calculated from a target temperature gradient at each elapsed time of a plurality of timings within a tar...