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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6117708 | Use of residual organic compounds to facilitate gate break on a carrier substrate for a semiconductor device An encapsulant molding technique used in chip-on-board encapsulation wherein a residual organic compound layer on the surface of a substrate is used to facilitate removal of unwanted encapsulant material. An organic compound layer which inherently forms o... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6115862 | Cold water ozone disinfection The invention includes a method of reducing the microbial population on a textile in a washing machine. The washing machine has an outer shell for containing fluids and an internal assembly for containing textiles. The method includes introducing a wash l... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6112743 | Connector for syringe and atomizer and the like A coupling to connect a commercially available syringe to a commercially available atomizer. In one embodiment the coupling is generally cylindrical, has a through-bore, and has a length dimension to generally minimize spacing between the syringe and atom... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6111966 | Capacitor microphone The invention relates to a capacitor microphone having a housing, a first membrane, a backplate electrode associated with this membrane, and an opening through which sound can reach the membrane. It is therefore the task of the invention to provide an eff... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6111282 | Charge-pumping to increase electron collection efficiency A tub structure underlying a first well in a semiconductor integrated circuit is charge pumped to increase electron collection efficiency in the tub structure. A charge pumping circuit applies the biasing voltage via a second well. The current in the tub ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6108962 | Fishing lure A device which functions to influence, either by attracting or repelling, fish includes a first housing containing a pulse train generator and a second housing containing a transducer. The transducer produces fish-influencing action in response to pulses ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6108463 | Lens and associatable flow cell Improvements in a biosensor of the type having reservoirs or wells for analyzing a biological liquid are disclosed. A biosensor (190) includes a waveguide (164) placed between a plurality of members such as plates (100, 186), at least one of the members (... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6108026 | Laser marking techniques A laser marking apparatus and method for marking the surface of a semiconductor chip are described herein. A laser beam is directed to a location on the surface of the chip where a laser reactive material, such as a pigment containing epoxy is present. Th... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6104661 | Semiconductor memory with local phase generation from global phase signals and local isolation signals A Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) eliminates the need to route section signals to local phase drivers to generate local phase signals by gating local isolation signals and global phase signals together in the local phase drivers to generate the local ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6103636 | Method and apparatus for selective removal of material from wafer alignment marks A process and apparatus for locally removing any material, such as a refractory metal, in particular tungsten, from any desired area of a wafer, such as an alignment mark area of a silicon wafer in process during the formation of integrated circuits there... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6103198 | Micropipette tip strip and method A pipette tip device. The device includes a plurality of interconnected pipette tips disposed in substantially parallel orientation and in side-by-side alignment. The tips are hollow and each tip includes a tip body and a flattened distal extremity. The f... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6096163 | Method and apparatus for application of spray adhesive to a leadframe for chip bonding An apparatus and method for evenly applying an atomized adhesive for bonding a die to a leadframe is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a hood in communication with an air supply and a vacuum plenum. The hood and vacuum plenum encompass ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6089151 | Method and stencil for extruding material on a substrate A stencil for use in fabricating semiconductor devices is disclosed that has an aperture having a first portion extending from a first side thereof and a second portion extending from a second side thereof to minimize the shear stress between the material... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6087254 | Technique for elimination of pitting on silicon substrate during gate stack etch A method for forming a gate stack which minimizes or eliminates damage to the gate dielectric layer and/or silicon substrate during the gate stack formation by the reduction of the temperature during formation. The temperature reduction prevents the forma... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6082223 | Predominantly diamond cutting structures for earth boring A diamond cutting element for use on an earth boring drill bit, such as a rotary drag bit. The cutting element is predominately comprised of a diamond cutting structure attached to either a reduced-volume substrate or directly to a bit body, optionally us... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6081429 | Test interposer for use with ball grid array packages assemblies and ball grid array packages including same and methods An interposer for evaluating an electrical characteristic of a ball grid array package or of a semiconductor die thereof. The interposer includes electrically conductive vias positioned correspondingly to bond pads of the semiconductor die and to the elec... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6079787 | Armrest mechanism for dental chairs An armrest mechanism for dental chairs (10) which causes the armrest to track the movement of the chair back (12), has provisions to slide the armrest (14) out of the way for patient entry and exit, and works in conjunction with the chair back cushion (70... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6071204 | Sprocket with replaceable wear-absorbing inserts A sprocket having a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth with an insert seat formed between each pair of teeth. A wear-absorbing insert is removably mounted in each of the insert seats, for example, by press fitting the insert into the insert seat.... | 06/06/2000 |
