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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5971565 | Lamp system with conditioned water coolant and diffuse reflector of polytetrafluorethylene(PTFE) A lamp system with a very soft high-intensity output is provided over a large area by water cooling a long-arc lamp inside a diffuse reflector of polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) white pigment. The water is kept clean a... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5897751 | Method of fabricating boron containing coatings Hard coatings are fabricated from boron nitride, cubic boron nitride, and multilayer boron/cubic boron nitride, and the fabrication thereof involves magnetron sputtering in a selected atmosphere. These hard coatings may be applied to tools and engine and ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5834162 | Process for 3D chip stacking A manufacturable process for fabricating electrical interconnects which extend from a top surface of an integrated circuit chip to a sidewall of the chip using laser pantography to pattern three dimensional interconnects. The electrical interconnects may ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5819749 | Microvalve Micromachined thin film cantilever actuators having means for individually controlling the deflection of the cantilevers, valve members, and rudders for steering same through blood vessels, or positioning same within a blood vessel, for example. Such cant... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5811951 | High precision redundant robotic manipulator A high precision redundant robotic manipulator for overcoming contents imposed by obstacles or imposed by a highly congested work space. One embodiment of the manipulator has four degrees of freedom and another embodiment has seven degreed of freedom. Eac... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5789338 | Process for producing carbon foams for energy storage devices A high energy density capacitor incorporating a variety of carbon foam electrodes is described. The foams, derived from the pyrolysis of resorcinol-formaldehyde and related polymers, are high density (0.1 g/cc-1.0 g/cc) electrically conductive and have hi... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5773309 | Method for producing silicon thin-film transistors with enhanced forward current drive A method for fabricating amorphous silicon thin film transistors (TFTs) with a polycrystalline silicon surface channel region for enhanced forward current drive. The method is particularly adapted for producing top-gate silicon TFTs which have the advanta... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5766747 | Magnetron sputtered boron films A method is described for the production of thin boron and titanium/boron films by magnetron sputter deposition. The amorphous boron films contain no morphological growth features, unlike those found when thin films are prepared by various physical vapor ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5763087 | Amorphous diamond films Amorphous diamond films having a significant reduction in intrinsic stress are prepared by biasing a substrate to be coated and depositing carbon ions thereon under controlled temperature conditions.... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5760443 | Silicon on insulator with active buried regions A method for forming patterned buried components, such as collectors, sources and drains, in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) devices. The method is carried out by epitaxially growing a suitable sequence of single or multiple etch stop layers ending with a thin... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5758549 | Interface structure for hub and mass attachment in flywheel rotors An interface structure for hub and mass attachment in flywheel rotors. The interface structure efficiently transmits high radial compression forces and withstands both large circumferential elongation and local stresses generated by mass-loading and hub a... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5753385 | Hybrid deposition of thin film solid oxide fuel cells and electrolyzers The use of vapor deposition techniques enables synthesis of the basic components of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC); namely, the electrolyte layer, the two electrodes, and the electrolyte-electrode interfaces. Such vapor deposition techniques provide solut... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5747120 | Laser ablated hard coating for microtools Wear-resistant coatings composed of laser ablated hard carbon films, are deposited by pulsed laser ablation using visible light, on instruments such as microscope tips and micro-surgical tools. Hard carbon, known as diamond-like carbon (DLC), films produc... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5746901 | Hybrid slab-microchannel gel electrophoresis system A hybrid slab-microchannel gel electrophoresis system. The hybrid system permits the fabrication of isolated microchannels for biomolecule separations without imposing the constraint of a totally sealed system. The hybrid system is reusable and ultimately... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5731360 | Compression molding of aerogel microspheres An aerogel composite material produced by compression molding of aerogel microspheres (powders) mixed together with a small percentage of polymer binder to form monolithic shapes in a cost-effective manner. The aerogel composites are formed by mixing aero... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5730417 | Miniature piezo electric vacuum inlet valve A miniature piezo electric vacuum inlet valve having a fast pulse rate and is battery operated with variable flow capability. The low power ( | 03/24/1998 |
| 5714404 | Fabrication of polycrystalline thin films by pulsed laser processing A method for fabricating polycrystalline thin films on low-temperature (or high-temperature) substrates which uses processing temperatures that are low enough to avoid damage to the substrate, and then transiently heating select layers of the thin films w... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5698083 | Chemiresistor urea sensor A sensor to detect and quantify urea in fluids resulting from hemodialysis procedures, and in blood and other body fluids. The sensor is based upon a chemiresistor, which consists of an interdigitated array of metal fingers between which a resistance meas... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5687575 | Miniature thermo-electric cooled cryogenic pump A miniature thermo-electric cooled cryogenic pump for removing residual water molecules from an inlet sample prior to sample analysis in a mass spectroscopy system, such as ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) mass spectroscopy. The cryogenic pump is a battery o... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5674758 | Silicon on insulator achieved using electrochemical etching Bulk crystalline silicon wafers are transferred after the completion of circuit fabrication to form thin films of crystalline circuitry on almost any support, such as metal, semiconductor, plastic, polymer, glass, wood, and paper. In particular, this tech... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5672807 | Pendulum detector testing device A detector testing device which provides consistent, cost-effective, repeatable results. The testing device is primarily constructed of PVC plastic and other non-metallic materials. Sensitivity of a walk-through detector system can be checked by: 1) provi... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5670252 | Boron containing multilayer coatings and method of fabrication Hard coatings are fabricated from multilayer boron/boron carbide, boron carbide/cubic boron nitride, and boron/boron nitride/boron carbide, and the fabrication thereof involves magnetron sputtering in a selected atmosphere. These hard coatings may be appl... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5663078 | Method for fabricating transistors using crystalline silicon devices on glass A method for fabricating transistors using single-crystal silicon devices on glass. This method overcomes the potential damage that may be caused to the device during high voltage bonding and employs a metal layer which may be incorporated as part of the ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5658832 | Method of forming a spacer for field emission flat panel displays Spacers for applications such as field emission flat panel displays and vacuum microelectronics, and which involves the application of aerogel/xerogel technology to the formation of the spacer. In a preferred approach the method uses a mold and mold relea... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5658515 | Polymer micromold and fabrication process A mold assembly with micro-sized features in which the hollow portion thereof is fabricated from a sacrificial mandrel which is surface treated and then coated to form an outer shell. The sacrificial mandrel is then selectively etched away leaving the out... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5653019 | Repairable chip bonding/interconnect process A repairable, chip-to-board interconnect process which addresses cost and testability issues in the multi-chip modules. This process can be carried out using a chip-on-sacrificial-substrate technique, involving laser processing. This process avoids the cu... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5648636 | Non-detonable and non-explosive explosive simulators A simulator which is chemically equivalent to an explosive, but is not detonable or explodable. The simulator is a combination of an explosive material with an inert material, either in a matrix or as a coating, where the explosive has a high surface rati... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5647933 | Fabrication method for cores of structural sandwich materials including star shaped core cells A method for fabricating structural sandwich materials having a core pattern which utilizes star and non-star shaped cells. The sheets of material are bonded together or a single folded sheet is used, and bonded or welded at specific locations, into a fla... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5642956 | Adjustable link for kinematic mounting systems An adjustable link for kinematic mounting systems. The adjustable link is a low-cost, passive device that provides backlash-free adjustment along its single constraint direction and flexural freedom in all other directions. The adjustable link comprises t... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5636437 | Fabricating solid carbon porous electrodes from powders Fabrication of conductive solid porous carbon electrodes for use in batteries, double layer capacitors, fuel cells, capacitive dionization, and waste treatment. Electrodes fabricated from low surface area ( | 06/10/1997 |
| 5626977 | Composite carbon foam electrode Carbon aerogels used as a binder for granularized materials, including other forms of carbon and metal additives, are cast onto carbon or metal fiber substrates to form composite carbon thin film sheets. The thin film sheets are utilized in electrochemica... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5616005 | Fluid driven recipricating apparatus An apparatus comprising a pair of fluid driven pump assemblies in a back-to-back configuration to yield a bi-directional pump. Each of the pump assemblies includes a piston or diaphragm which divides a chamber therein to define a power section and a pumpi... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5609608 | Miniature plastic gripper and fabrication method A miniature plastic gripper actuated by inflation of a miniature balloon and method of fabricating same. The gripper is constructed of either heat-shrinkable or heat-expandable plastic tubing and is formed around a mandrel, then cut to form gripper prongs... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5601938 | Carbon aerogel electrodes for direct energy conversion A direct energy conversion device, such as a fuel cell, using carbon aerogel electrodes, wherein the carbon aerogel is loaded with a noble catalyst, such as platinum or rhodium and soaked with phosphoric acid, for example. A separator is located between t... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5591068 | Precision non-contact polishing tool A non-contact polishing tool that combines two orthogonal slurry flow geometries to provide flexibility in altering the shape of the removal footprint. By varying the relative contributions of the two flow geometries, the footprint shape can be varied bet... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5556892 | Organic aerogels from the sol-gel polymerization of phenolic-furfural mixtures The sol-gel polymerization of a phenolic-furfural mixture in dilute solution leads to a highly cross-linked network that can be supercritically dried to form a high surface area foam. These porous materials have cell/pore sizes ࣘ1000Å, and although the... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5425860 | Pulsed energy synthesis and doping of silicon carbide A method for producing beta silicon carbide thin films by co-depositing thin films of amorphous silicon and carbon onto a substrate, whereafter the films are irradiated by exposure to a pulsed energy source (e.g. excimer laser) to cause formation of the b... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5420168 | Method of low pressure and/or evaporative drying of aerogel A process whereby Resorcinol/Formaldehyde (RF) aerogel having a density of about 0.4-1.2 g/cc can be manufactured using a simple air drying procedure. This process is inherently simpler, quicker, and less expensive than the more conventional supercritical... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5346850 | Crystallization and doping of amorphous silicon on low temperature plastic A method or process of crystallizing and doping amorphous silicon (a-Si) on a low-temperature plastic substrate using a short pulsed high energy source in a selected environment, without heat propagation and build-up in the substrate. The pulsed energy pr... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5203977 | Magnetron sputtered boron films and TI/B multilayer structures A method is described for the production of thin boron and titanium/boron films by magnetron sputter deposition. The amorphous boron films contain no morphological growth features, unlike those found when thin films are prepared by various physical vapor ... | 04/20/1993 |
