Jeffrey Trent Triplett

US Patent:

6753512, Jun 22, 2004

Filed:

Jan 2, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/038764

Inventors:

Jeffrey S. Triplett - Pleasant Garden NC
Edward J. Robbins - Liberty NC
Ricky D. Glaze - Greensboro NC

Assignee:

SimTek, Inc. - Greensboro NC

International Classification:

H05B 102

US Classification:

219497, 219388

Abstract:

An oven for thermal treating a web includes: an over chamber; a web transport for transporting a web through the oven chamber; a heater for heating the web in the oven chamber; an exhaust system connected to the oven chamber; a model-based controller for controlling the web temperature profile; and an air delivery system. The model-based controller includes: (i) a plurality of sensor inputs; (ii) a plurality of control signal outputs; (iii) a multi-variable controller with first principles guidelines and oven and process boundaries for a first specific oven; (iv) a desire process profile; and (v) a translator module for permitting the desire process profile to be transferred to at least a second specific oven.