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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110277936 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING TOUCH PANEL Disclosed herein is an apparatus for manufacturing a touch panel, including: a base film supply unit supplying a base film; a first transparent electrode supply unit supplying a first transparent electrode to the base film; a first electrode printing unit printing a fir... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110263070 | TREATMENT OF THIN FILM LAYERS PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE MANUFACTURE Systems and processes for treatment of a cadmium telluride thin film photovoltaic device are generally provided. The systems can include a treatment system and a conveyor system. The treatment system includes a preheating section, a treatment chamber, and an anneal oven... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110229644 | GLASS COATING PROCESS AND APPARATUS A process and an apparatus for coating glass substrate by using at least one or more liquid raw materials which react essentially on or in the vicinity of at least a portion of the glass substrate surface. The process comprises steps: a) heating the glass substrate to a... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110226179 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR DRYING & CURING A CONTAINER COATING AND CONTAINERS PRODUCED THEREFROM The present invention generally relates to apparatus and methods of coating glass containers and the containers produced therefrom. In particular, embodiments of the invention provide a method of coating glass containers by at least partially drying and/or curing one or... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110175207 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING METAL OXIDE LAYERS The invention relates to a method for producing metal oxide layers from oxides of rare earth metals on silicon-containing surfaces, to the device used to carry out the coating method, and to the use of the starting materials used in the method according to the invention... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110076394 | OPTICAL SHEET MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SHEET MANUFACTURING METHOD An optical sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a first master including a first three-dimensional structure, a second master including a second three-dimensional structure, a first processing unit to heat a first surface of a resin sheet to a first temperature and tr... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110030614 | WET COATING SYSTEM HAVING ANNEALING CHAMBER An exemplary wet coating system includes a coating chamber, an annealing chamber, an unloading chamber, and a mechanical arm. The coating chamber is configured for allowing a substrate being wet coated therein. The unloading chamber is configured for allowing the substr... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110014385 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COATING AN ARTICLE USING A SPRAY-COATING METHOD The invention relates to a method and apparatus for coating an article using a spray-coating method. Coating can be produced by atomizing a fluid coating precursor material into droplets with an average diameter of 0.5 to 5 micrometres. The droplets are introduced onto ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100288981 | Method for making a flexible and clear low surface electric resistance plastics material article of manufacture and the plastics material article made thereby A method for making a flexible and clear plastics material article of manufacture having a low electric surface resistance, starting from a plastics material having a higher electric surface resistance, in which the electric surface conductivity of the starting article ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100215870 | Automated surface treatment system and method This disclosure relates to systems and associated methods for applying a surface treatment to a part and curing the surface treatment without reorienting the part in the process. The systems include a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a system for applying a surface tr... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100200126 | PRODUCTION FACILITY AND PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR HOT DIP GALVANNEALED STEEL PLATE The present invention provides a production facility of hot dip galvannealed steel plate able to produce hot dip galvannealed steel plate on production conditions optimal at all times despite rapid changes in the steel type, plating deposition, and other external factor... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100203231 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING INSULATED WIRE Disclosed is a method of producing an insulated electric wire, in which a primary coating layer including at least an enamel-baking layer is formed on a metallic conductor to form a primary coated electric wire, and a secondary coating layer is extrusion-formed on the p... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100199911 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS A substrate processing apparatus including: a heating part for heating a wafer; a transport part through which a wafer is transported; a first transfer arm that receives a wafer from the heating part and places the wafer on the transport part; and a second transfer arm ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100021722 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING A COATING TO AT LEAST ONE SIDE OF A LEATHER AND COATED LEATHER PRODUCED BY SUCH A PROCESS In order to provide an economical process for applying a coating to at least one side, optionally to both sides, of a leather, in which gentle processing of the leather is ensured and hardening thereof is avoided, an aqueous plastic dispersion having compact particles c... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090263677 | METAL CLADDING COMPOSITION, ADDITIVE, METHOD AND SYSTEM The invented method of cladding a metal component includes creating a frit mixture in a defined ratio; wetting the mixture by adding a wetting agent in a defined volume; agitating the wetted mixture; applying the agitated mixture to a metal component by one or more proc... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090104387 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR DRYING AND CURING A CONTAINER COATING AND CONTAINERS PRODUCED THEREFROM The present invention generally relates to apparatus and methods of coating glass containers and the containers produced therefrom. In particular, embodiments of the invention provide a method of coating glass containers by at least partially drying and/or curing one or... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090074974 | Method for Manufacturing Organic Functional Layer and Organic Functional Device, and Organic Functional Device Manufacturing Apparatus A method for manufacturing an organic functional layer includes the steps of: forming a coated film of an organic functional material by applying a coating liquid to a substrate by a printing method, the coating liquid including an organic functional material dissolved ... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20080153181 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM THEREON In the present invention, the position of a substrate on a thermal plate is detected when baking after exposure is performed in a first round of patterning. In a second round of patterning, the setting position of the substrate is adjusted based on a detection result of... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080008837 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD FOR HEAT-TREATING SUBSTRATE A substrate coated with a coating solution for an anti-reflective film is placed on a heat treatment plate and is heated. Nitrogen gas flows near the periphery of the heat treatment plate into a heat treatment space. An exhaust outlet is formed in an upper central porti... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070295269 | Multi-stage flow control apparatus with flexible membrane and method of use A method and apparatus for maintaining constant exhaust flow during processing of a semiconductor substrate is provided. For example, the apparatus may include an inlet and an outlet. Furthermore, the apparatus may include a throttle valve stage coupled to the inlet. Th... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070295268 | Multi-stage flow control apparatus An apparatus for maintaining constant exhaust flow during processing of a semiconductor substrate is provided. For example, the apparatus may include an inlet and an outlet. The apparatus may also include a throttle valve stage coupled to the inlet. The throttle valve s... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070292617 | Designer pine straw preparation process A method for creating colored pine straw comprising chopping a quantity of pine straw; spraying the pine straw with a coloring agent; drying the pine straw and; placing the dried pine straw into containers.... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070292603 | Processes and systems for engineering a barrier surface for copper deposition The embodiments fill the need to enhance electro-migration performance, provide lower metal resistivity, and improve metal-to-metal interfacial adhesion for copper interconnects by providing improved processes and systems that produce an improved metal-to-metal interfac... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070280680 | Photo apparatus and method A photo process apparatus including: a loading/unloading unit that loads and unloads a substrate; a coating line that coats photoresist on the substrate; an exposure line that exposes the photoresist coated on the substrate; a development line that develops the exposed ... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070240642 | Substrate processing apparatus A multi-stage substrate processing apparatus in which each processing stage is carried out on a substrate while conveying said substrate includes a processing liquid supply device and a drying device arranged successively along a conveying direction of the substrate. Th... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070199506 | Method and apparatus for automated coating of electrical insulators with a silicone composition The present invention provides an automated continuous coating apparatus for coating industrial components such as porcelain, glass, and polymeric insulators. The apparatus consists of a several stage continuous inline operation. The stages are a cleaning operation, fol... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070104889 | Apparatus and method for the surface treatment of workpieces An apparatus and a method for the surface treatment of workpieces, in particular for the wet chemical pretreatment of workpieces to be painted, are described. The apparatus comprises at least one pretreatment zone operating with a water-containing treatment liquid and a... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070089673 | Coating and developing apparatus, and coating and developing method A processing block S2 includes unit blocks, a BCT layer B3, COT layer B4 and TCT layer B5, for forming coating films, and further includes DEV layers B1, B2 layered with the unit blocks B3, B4, B5 and used a... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070068453 | Scatterometric method of monitoring hot plate temperature and facilitating critical dimension control A method of determining temperatures at localized regions of a substrate during processing of the substrate in a photolithography process includes the following steps: independently illuminating a photoresist layer including a photoresist pattern at a plurality of locat... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070051306 | Spatially-arranged chemical processing station The present invention discloses a station, e.g., for IC fabrication with a flexible configuration. It consists of an array of processing chambers, which are grouped into processing modules and arranged in a two-dimensional fashion, in vertical levels and horizontal rows... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070026156 | Coating method and apparatus The present invention provides a coating method for coating one or more layers on a surface of a continuously moving belt-like substrate. The method includes a cleaning step of maintaining a cleanliness level of class 1000 or less near the substrate before a coating ste... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20070009652 | Continuous OLED coating machine Aspects of the present invention concern a device and a process for continuous production of substrates provided with organic electroluminescent materials (OLED), especially OLED displays, screens, panels or other lighting elements, in which the device has a vacuum spac... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20060292298 | Method of coating film, coating unit, aging unit, solvent replacement unit, and apparatus for coating film Prior to transfer of an wafer W, a mixed gas is being generated and exhausted, thereby fluctuation of concentration and temperature of a solvent component at the beginning of gas introduction into a chamber 3 is suppressed. A step of gelling after the wafer W is ... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060280863 | Method and application equipment for the powder painting of a manufatured article The method used for powder painting a manufactured article comprises the application of a first layer of powder paint, the fixing of the first paint layer, the application of a second layer of powder paint in a colour, tone and/or properties that are different from thos... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060251817 | Coating method and coating apparatus A coating apparatus has a stage module, a temperature regulating module which adjusts a temperature of a substrate to a set temperature, a coating module which applies a coating liquid to the temperature-regulated substrate, and a heating module which heats the coating-... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060243205 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method The present invention relates to a substrate processing apparatus useful for plating a substrate or processing a substrate by dipping a substrate in a processing liquid. A substrate processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a loading/unloading area for car... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060243204 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method The present invention relates to a substrate processing apparatus useful for plating a substrate or processing a substrate by dipping a substrate in a processing liquid. A substrate processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a loading/unloading area for car... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060236929 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method The present invention relates to a substrate processing apparatus useful for plating a substrate or processing a substrate by dipping a substrate in a processing liquid. A substrate processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a loading/unloading area for car... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060201423 | COATING/DEVELOPING DEVICE AND METHOD A coating/developing device includes a processing block having a plurality of coating unit blocks stacked and a developing unit block stacked on the coating unit blocks. Each of the unit blocks is provided with a liquid processing unit for coating a liquid chemical on a... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060174829 | Apparatus for processing substrate In a substrate processing apparatus for forming thin layers on a substrate used for an organic light emitting diode, the apparatus includes a mask attaching chamber, a deposition chamber and a mask detaching chamber. The mask attaching chamber, the deposition chamber an... | 08/10/2006 |
