Configuring Signal Devices in Thermal Processing Systems

• Main Authors: Shipulski, E. Michael, Hoffa, Michael
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.09.2020
• Subjects: ABRASIVE OR RELATED BLASTING WITH PARTICULATE MATERIAL; CALCULATING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; COMPUTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; CUTTING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; CUTTING-OUT; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; GRINDING; HAND CUTTING TOOLS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PERFORATING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PLASMA TECHNIQUE; POLISHING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; PRODUCTION OF ACCELERATED ELECTRICALLY-CHARGED PARTICLES OR OFNEUTRONS; PRODUCTION OR ACCELERATION OF NEUTRAL MOLECULAR OR ATOMICBEAMS; PUNCHING; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; REGULATING; SEVERING; SEVERING BY MEANS OTHER THAN CUTTING; SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; STAMPING-OUT; TRANSPORTING; WELDING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM

In some aspects, material processing head can include a body; an antenna disposed within the body; a first tag, associated with a first consumable component, disposed within a flux communication zone of the body at a first distance from the antenna, the first tag having a first resonant frequency; and a second tag, associated with a second consumable component, disposed within the flux communication zone of the body at a second distance from the antenna, the second tag having a second resonant frequency that is different than the first resonant frequency, where the first and second resonant frequencies are tuned based upon at least one of: i) a difference between the first distance and the second distance; or ii) a characteristic (e.g., shape) of the flux communication zone in which the first tag and/or the second tag is disposed.