ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,281, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CHONGQING LE-MARK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chongqing, China).
"Control strategy for hot surface igniter" was invented by Peter Leigh (Chongqing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a control strategy for a hot surface igniter. On the basis of a hardware circuit of the hot surface igniter and a software algorithm, a working time of the hot surface igniter is divided into t1, t2.., and tn time periods. In each time period, an output voltage or an output power of the hardware circuit is adjusted by the software algorithm to make the hot surface igniter reach an expected temperature. Thro...