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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171798 | Acoustic liquid dispensing apparatus A liquid dispensing apparatus for dispensing droplets of a liquid, and methods for measuring various fluid parameters of the liquid are described. The liquid dispensing apparatus comprises a container having a chamber for holding a liquid. An orifice is positioned a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8075697 | Particle removal method and composition A method and cleaning solution for cleaning electronic substrates, such as a semiconductor wafers, hard disks, photomasks or imprint molds. The method comprises the steps of contacting a surface of the substrate with a cleaning solution comprised of a polyphosphate,... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7959739 | Particle removal cleaning method and composition A cleaning solution and method for removing submicron particles from the surface and/or the bevel of an electronic substrate such as a hard disk media substrate, or an imprint mold used in the manufacturing of the hard disk media or a read/write head assembly part. ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7683525 | Method for cavitation threshold characterization and control A method for characterizing cavitation that occurs in a fluid exposed to acoustic energy. The method comprises the steps of exposing a volume of process fluid to acoustic energy at a specified power level; measuring the photon output from the fluid over a period of ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7661289 | Method for calibrating an acoustic droplet dispensing apparatus The present invention comprises a method for calibrating a droplet dispensing apparatus using acoustic energy to dispense a plurality of droplet sets of a liquid from a source container into a plurality of target containers, with each droplet set being comprised of ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7443079 | Method and apparatus for cavitation threshold characterization and control An apparatus and method for characterizing cavitation that occurs in a fluid exposed to acoustic energy. The apparatus comprises a vessel for holding the fluid; an acoustic energy generating means for generating acoustic energy, the acoustic energy generating means ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7426866 | Acoustic liquid dispensing apparatus A liquid dispensing apparatus for dispensing droplets of a liquid, and methods for measuring various fluid parameters of the liquid are described. The liquid dispensing apparatus comprises a container having a chamber for holding a liquid. An orifice is positioned a... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7281413 | Acoustic method for determining the viscosity and/or surface tension of a liquid The present invention comprises a noncontact method for measuring viscosity and/or surface tension information of a liquid in a liquid containment structure. The steps of the method include exciting a surface of the liquid with an excitation burst of acoustic energy... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7232549 | Apparatus for controlling the free surface of a liquid in a well plate Devices useful in liquid transfer applications and in particular, devices for controlling the free surface of a source liquid in acoustic liquid ejection systems are disclosed. The devices advantageously maintain a source liquid to be transferred at a constant heigh... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7145286 | Wedge shaped uniform energy megasonic transducer A transducer comprising an acoustic energy generating means and a resonator. The acoustic energy generating means generates acoustic energy and is adapted for delivering an approximately uniform amount of acoustic energy to each unit of surface area on a substrate i... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7141917 | Indium or tin bonded acoustic transducer systems An acoustic transducer comprised of a resonator, an acoustic energy generating means, such as one or more piezoelectric crystals, and a bonding layer comprised of indium or tin for attaching the acoustic energy generating means to the resonator. The resonator compri... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7118048 | Apparatus and method for droplet steering An apparatus and method for droplet steering is disclosed herein. A throated structure having a nozzle defines a converging throat with an inlet and an outlet and a vectored fluid stream directed therethrough. The fluid stream is driven through the system via a vacu... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7105985 | Megasonic transducer with focused energy resonator A transducer comprised of a resonator and a piezoelectric crystal for cleaning single items such as semiconductor wafers and flat panel displays. The resonator is an elongated piece of material having a cross section that is trapezoidal in shape. The parallel sides ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6946774 | Segmented uniform energy megasonic transducer A transducer comprising an acoustic energy generating means and a resonator. The acoustic energy generating means generates acoustic energy and is adapted for delivering an approximately uniform amount of acoustic energy to each unit of surface area on a substrate i... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6904921 | Indium or tin bonded megasonic transducer systems A megasonic cleaning system comprised of a container, a resonator, one or more piezoelectric crystals and a bonding layer comprised of indium or tin for attaching the piezoelectric crystal to the resonator. The resonator comprises a material selected from the group ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6882087 | Uniform energy megasonic transducer using vessel as resonator A transducer comprising an acoustic energy generating means and a resonator. The acoustic energy generating means generates acoustic energy and is adapted for delivering an approximately uniform amount of acoustic energy to each unit of surface area on a substrate i... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6791242 | Radial power megasonic transducer A transducer comprising an acoustic energy generating means and a resonator. The acoustic energy generating means generates acoustic energy in the frequency range of 0.4 to 2.0 MHz, and is adapted for delivering an approximately uniform amount of acoustic energy to ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6722379 | One-piece cleaning tank with indium bonded megasonic transducer A megasonic cleaning system comprised of a one-piece cleaning tank, one or more piezoelectric crystals and an indium layer for attaching the piezoelectric crystals to the cleaning tank. The tank comprises a material selected from the group consisting of quartz, sapp... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6591334 | Method and apparatus for reducing space allocation failures in storage management systems A method and apparatus for reducing space allocation failures in a computer system that utilizes direct access storage devices to store data. The method comprises the steps of determining if authorization has been given to attempt to allocate an initial s... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6549860 | Method and apparatus for tuning a megasonic transducer A method and apparatus for selecting an optimum frequency for driving a transducer in a megasonic cleaning system. The method comprises the steps of selecting a plurality of frequency values that span a frequency range containing an optimum frequency for ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6539609 | Method of forming a head gimbal assembly A method for forming a head gimbal assembly in which the head gimbal assembly and a frame are formed from a continuous piece of laminated material comprised of a first layer, a second layer and a third layer. A plurality of electrical lines are formed in ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6431908 | Spring electrical connectors for a megasonic cleaning system A system for making electrical connections to a piezoelectric crystal in a megasonic transducer. The system comprises a printed circuit board, one or more first spring connectors and one or more second spring connectors. The printed circuit board has a fi... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6351348 | Minimal stiffness conductors for a head gimbal assembly A suspension system for supporting a magnetic read/write slider comprising a load beam, a slider support member and a flexure comprised of a first flexure arm and a second flexure arm. A plurality of electrical conductors extend along the edge of the load... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6318624 | Solder balltape and method for making electrical connection between a head transducer and an electrical lead A solder balltape comprised of an elongated tail with a ball of solder formed at one end. A plurality of the balltape structures are positioned on a carrier strip of solder. The balltape is positioned in contact with a transducer pad on a magnetic read/wr... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6282064 | Head gimbal assembly with integrated electrical conductors A single piece head gimbal assembly comprised of a load beam, a pair of flexure arms, a slider support member and a plurality of electrical lines. The head gimbal assembly is formed from a laminated material comprised of a support layer, a dielectric laye... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6267075 | Apparatus for cleaning items using gas plasma A plasma cleaning apparatus for cleaning lead frames or other items comprised of a chamber adapted for containing a plasma, a magazine positioned in the chamber for holding the lead frames, a first active electrode positioned in the chamber on one side of... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6222305 | Chemically inert megasonic transducer system A megasonic cleaning system comprised of a container, a resonator, a piezoelectric crystal and an indium layer for attaching the resonator to the piezoelectric crystal. The container includes a fluid chamber for holding a volume of cleaning solution. The ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6223189 | System and method using metalanguage keywords to generate charts A charting metalanguage for uniquely defining a chart to be generated by a computer. The charting metalanguage comprises a plurality of keywords and subkeywords that define the components of the chart. A keyword is preceded by an indicator such as a slash... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6198075 | Rapid heating and cooling vacuum oven An oven for processing semiconductor wafers comprised of a first cylindrical canister, a second cylindrical canister that surrounds the first canister, and a third cylindrical canister that surrounds the second canister. The first canister is comprised of... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6188162 | High power megasonic transducer A megasonic transducer comprised of a stainless steel plate attached to a piezoelectric crystal by an indium attachment layer. To facilitate the attachment, a chromium layer and a silver layer are positioned between the stainless steel plate and the indiu... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6182244 | System and method for automatically initiating a tracing facility and dynamically changing the levels of tracing currently active A method for collecting information about the operating condition of a computer system. The method comprises the steps of running a first trace program that collects information about the operating condition of the computer and, in response to the detecti... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6111707 | Tape duplexing with unique identity and error recovery A method for creating a duplicate copy of a tape in which a first tape having a first data set name and a second tape having a second data set name are allocated. Data is written to the first and second tapes so that block for block, the data is located a... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6088764 | Method and apparatus for reducing space allocation failures in storage management systems A method and apparatus for reducing space allocation failures in a computer system that utilizes direct access storage devices to store data. The method comprises the steps of determining if authorization has been given to attempt to allocate an initial s... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6046882 | Solder balltape and method for making electrical connection between a head transducer and an electrical lead A solder balltape comprised of an elongated tail with a ball of solder formed at one end. A plurality of the balltape structures are positioned on a carrier strip of solder. The balltape is positioned in contact with a transducer pad on a magnetic read/wr... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5800409 | Flexible inflow/outflow cannula A flexible plastic cannula for use in directing liquid to or from the suprapatellar pouch during arthroscopic knee surgery. The cannula is comprised of a flexible elongated stem, a valve housing and an attachment means, all molded in a single piece of hig... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5740654 | Packaging assembly for freeze-dried preparations Packaging assembly intended for the extemporaneous preparation of suspensions or solutions of a solid active product in a liquid product, the active product having been freeze-dried and being contained in a flask A, and the liquid product being contained ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5734524 | Head suspension assembly supported by an air bearing surface A suspension for use in a magnetic disk drive comprised of a flexible load beam and a slider. The flexible load beam is comprised of a two-layer laminate and air bearing structure is formed in one of the layers. Part of the flexible load beam rests on a d... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5639121 | Device for retaining a ski, especially in deep snow A device for retaining a ski which has become detached in powder or deep snow. The device comprises a strap that links a ski boot to a winding apparatus mounted on the ski. The winding apparatus comprises two units each of which includes a spring position... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5606477 | Viscoelastically damped slider suspension system A slider suspension system for use in a magnetic recording disk file comprised of a laminated suspension positioned between an actuator arm and a read/write slider. The laminate is comprised of a copper alloy conductor layer, a polyimide dielectric layer ... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5594607 | Viscoelastically damped slider suspension system A slider suspension system for use in a magnetic recording disk file comprised of a laminated suspension positioned between an actuator arm and a read/write slider. The laminate is comprised of a copper alloy conductor layer, a polyimide dielectric layer ... | 01/14/1997 |
