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Apparatus for microwave heating of a planar product including a multi-segment waveguide element

  • US 8,173,943 B2
  • Filed: 09/14/2009
  • Issued: 05/08/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A waveguide element, wherein the waveguide element is in form of a rectangular pipe made of electrically conducting material, the waveguide element comprisingan input port having a standard rectangular cross-section with the width of the input port being bA in a direction of an electric field of the fundamental mode propagating in the waveguide element, the direction of the electric field being perpendicular to a propagation direction of a microwave power,an output port having an enlarged rectangular cross-section, the width of the output port being C*bA in the direction of the electric field of the fundamental mode, wherein C is an enlargement factor greater than one,a plurality of intermediate waveguide segments cascaded in the propagation direction of the microwave power and arranged to split the waveguide element into two symmetrical waveguide branches which are combined at the output port, the waveguide branches terminating to symmetrical horn-shaped waveguide segments of width C*bA/2 which are arranged to open to the output port, and wherein each one of the intermediate waveguide segments comprisea first intermediate waveguide segment having width bB in the direction of the electric field of the fundamental mode, wherein bB>

  • bA,a second intermediate waveguide segment having width bC in the direction of the electric field of the fundamental mode, wherein bC>

    bB,third and fourth intermediate waveguide segments located in parallel to each other with a spacing bG to form first segments of said symmetrical waveguide branches, the third and fourth intermediate waveguide segments each having width bD in the direction of the electric field of the fundamental mode, wherein (2*bD+bG)>

    bC.

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