Patent ID: 6420688
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: B29B,B29C,H01Q,H05B

Abstract:
Device for heating microwave-absorbing plastic components comprising:a microwave generator designed to generate microwaves of a particular frequency, an antenna with at least one free end to which the microwaves are conducted, an enclosure surrounding and shielding the antenna, with a heating zone provided between the free end of the antenna and the shielding enclosure in which heating zone components can be heated in localized fashion, the shielding enclosure provided with an opening in the form of a conical port for receiving an optical gauge of a temperature sensor, and at least one temperature sensor which does not interact with the microwaves and which measures the temperature of a component as it is being heated, wherein the at least one temperature sensor includes an optical gauge and is mounted in the conical port such that the optical gauge is focused on a measuring point on a surface of a component positioned in the heating zone.