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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7963631 | Printhead maintenance station The present teachings relate to a printhead maintenance station for an industrial printing apparatus which is used to prevent clogging of the printhead, particularly during periods in which the printheads are idle. The maintenance station includes a capping station ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7951463 | Water collapsible aluminum film In an Al composite material collapsible in the presence of moisture, the external surface of small pieces or powder constructed from a single or a plurality of crystalline grains of Al or an Al alloy is covered with a film of a low melting point metal or alloy selec... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7927472 | Optical film thickness controlling method, optical film thickness controlling apparatus, dielectric multilayer film manufacturing apparatus, and dielectric multilayer film manufactured using the same controlling apparatus or manufacturing apparatus To provide a method of controlling film thickness of dielectric multilayer film, such as optical thin film, with high precision, an optical film thickness controlling apparatus and a dielectric multilayer film manufacturing apparatus that can control the film thickn... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7901026 | Drop analysis system A drop analysis/drop check system allows a plurality of printheads to remain stationary during analysis to emulate operation of an actual piezoelectric microdeposition system. The system provides accurate tuning of individual nozzle ejectors and allows for substrate... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7896968 | Winding type plasma CVD apparatus The object of this invention is to provide a winding type plasma CVD apparatus in which quality of a layer can be made uniform by supplying a reaction gas uniformly to a deposition area of a film, and can perform a self-cleaning process of a deposition portion in th... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7887156 | Integral printhead assembly The present invention relates to an integral printhead assembly for use in association with an industrial printing apparatus. The integral printhead assembly is a self-contained unit which can be quickly removed and replaced with another assembly with minimum downti... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7815965 | Industrial microdeposition system including masking to reduce the impact of droplet alignment and droplet volume tolerances and errors A microdeposition system microdeposits droplets of fluid material to define a feature pattern on a substrate. The feature pattern for the substrate is defined. A mask is created for the feature pattern that reduces a density of defects that occur due to a malfunctio... | 10/19/2010 |
| D625748 | Vacuum transfer robot | 10/19/2010 |
| 7790590 | Selective W-CVD method and method for forming multi-layered Cu electrical interconnection A substrate provided thereon with an electrical insulating film which carries holes or the like filled with a Cu-containing electrical interconnection film is subjected to a pre-treatment in which the surface of the electrical insulating film and that of the Cu-cont... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7763115 | Vacuum film-forming apparatus A vacuum film-forming apparatus comprising substrate stages; vacuum chamber-forming containers opposed to the stages; a means for moving the substrate between the stages; and gas-introduction means connected to every containers, wherein one of the stage and the cont... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7728252 | Etching method and system An etching method and an etching system are adapted to produce a high etch selectivity for a mask, an excellent anisotropic profile and a large etching depth. An etching system according to the invention comprises a floating electrode arranged vis-Ã -vis a substrate... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7708910 | Ink for ink jet printing and method for preparing the same The present invention relates to ink jet printing ink consisting of an independently dispersed metal ultrafine particles-containing liquid dispersion in which the metal ultrafine particles having a particle size of not more than 100 nm are independently and uniforml... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7671962 | Spacer forming method and spacer forming apparatus Providing a spacer forming method by which spacers can be securely formed in a predetermined region on a substrate. Ink containing granular spacers is jetted onto a crossing portion of a black matrix 5 in the shape of a lattice. Red pixel R, green pixel G and... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7670433 | Vacuum deposition apparatus of the winding type The problem solved by this Invention is to provide a vacuum evaporation deposition method of the winding type and a vacuum evaporation deposition apparatus of the winding type which can form a metal film on a base film made of single layer plastic film without therm... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7642530 | Ion implantation apparatus and ion implanting method An ion implantation apparatus includes an ion irradiation unit. The ion irradiation unit irradiates a plurality of areas of a target substrate with ion beams each of which reaches the substrate at corresponding one incident angle. An incident angle measuring instrum... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7628840 | Metal nano-particles and method for preparing the same, dispersion of metal nano-particles and method for preparing the same, and thin metallic wire and metal film and method for preparing these substances Each of the metal nano-particles present in a dispersion, which comprises at least one metal selected from the group consisting of precious metals and transition metals or an alloy of at least two metals selected from the foregoing metals, comprises a metal particle... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7607356 | Pirani vacuum gauge A Pirani vacuum gauge in which dependency of temperature of a filament on variation of gas pressure is raised and the gas pressure can be measured with high accuracy. The Pirani vacuum gauge includes a cylindrical body 2 in which the interior communicates wit... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7594406 | Regenerator and cryogenics pump The invention has an object to provide a regenerator and cryogenics pump using a regenerator material which fulfills such requirements as specific heat, thermal conductivity, manufacturing easiness, strength, hardness, chemical stabilization and low cost instead of ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7585789 | Method for forming porous insulation film A method of forming a porous film on a semiconductor substrate includes: supplying a silicon compound containing at least one Si—O bond in its molecule in a gaseous phase into a reaction chamber; forming a siloxane oligomer through plasma reaction of the silicon c... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7436068 | Components for film forming device Herein disclosed are a component of a film-forming device, in which a thin films is formed on a substrate using a film-forming material, whose surface structure makes any breakage, peeling off and/or falling off of a film adhered to the component quite difficult, wh... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7279543 | Anti-bacterial polymer and method for the preparation thereof, anti-bacterial polymer film and method for the preparation thereof, and article having such a film on the surface thereof An anti-bacterial polymer of the present invention consists of a vapor deposition-polymerization reaction product of a diaminobenzoic acid monomer or halogen atom-containing diamine monomer and a monomer reactive with these monomers. The anti-bacterial polymer can b... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7247341 | Method for forming electrodes of flat panel display The present invention provides a method for forming an electrode of a flat panel display device using ink for ink jet printing and an ink jet printer. The ink for ink jet printing is prepared by a method comprising the first step of contacting the vapor of a metal w... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7209339 | Electrostatic chuck for an electrically insulative substrate, and a method of using same An electrostatic chuck for attracting an insulative substrate to be processed, the electrostatic chuck comprising a dielectric layer having a first surface which attracts an insulative substrate, and a second surface on which are provided a plurality of electrodes, ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7070829 | Production method of gas sensor To provide a method for producing a sensing film for gas sensors by sintering particles comprising a metal or a metal oxide on a substrate, where the sensing film for gas sensors having excellent sensor properties such as sensitivity and responsibility can be easily... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6946161 | Method for forming porous silica film A method for forming a porous silica film having mechanical strength utilizeses a surfactant, one or more kinds of nonionic surfactant(s) having a 0.1 weight % concentration according to the Du Nouy method expression and a surface tension of 45 mN/m or larger at 25Â... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6930316 | Ion implantation system and ion implantation method In an ion implantation system including (a) an ion source (b) a mass analyzing portion, (c) an ion acceleration portion, (d) an ion beam focusing/deflecting portion, and (e) an end station chamber for implanting ions onto a semiconductor substrate. The ion source co... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6768627 | Electrostatic chuck and processing apparatus for insulative substrate According to the present invention, there is provided an electrostatic chuck for electrostatically attracting an insulative substrate, an apparatus for heating/cooling an insulative substrate using the electrostatic chuck, and a method for controlling the temperatur... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6312761 | Film forming method for processing tungsten nitride film A tungsten nitride film, having a high growth speed without causing any dusting, is formed. The film forming apparatus 2, according to the present invention, includes an adhesion preventive container 8 which is placed in a reactor 11; and an object on whi... | 11/06/2001 |
