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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7946247 | Coating layer thickness measurement mechanism and coating layer forming apparatus using the same In a measurement mechanism for continuously measuring a thickness of a coating layer, provided in an apparatus for forming the coating layer on a conductive elongate base material in a coating treatment base station while the base material is fed, a sensing portion ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7934466 | Coating plant and associated coating process The invention concerns a coating plant for the coating of construction units with a coating medium, in particular a paint system for the lacquer finish of motor vehicle body parts, with a dosing pump, the coating medium supplied with a certain delivery (Fm | 05/03/2011 |
| 7921800 | System and method for coating a fire-resistant material on a substrate A method for coating a fire-resistant substance onto a carrier veil and products containing fire-resistant substances are provided. The method includes delivering a pliable carrier veil in a traveling web, drawing the carrier veil web through a reservoir defined by ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7823534 | Development device and development method A developer nozzle is moved from a periphery of a wafer toward the central portion while an exposed substrate held at a spin chuck is being rotated about a vertical axis and while a developing solution is being discharged from the developer nozzle, and this way the ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7789038 | Ejection inspection device, liquid droplet ejection apparatus, method of manufacturing electro-optic device, electro-optic device, and electronic apparatus An ejection inspection device includes: an inspection stage on which an inspection sheet is sucked and mounted; a sheet feeding mechanism which feeds the inspection sheet wound in a roll form onto the inspection stage; a sheet taking-up mechanism which takes up the ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7673582 | Apparatus and method for removing an edge bead of a spin-coated layer An edge bead removal device for a spin coater apparatus and methods of edge bead removal that overcome the deficiencies of conventional edge bead removal techniques. The edge bead removal device includes a coater cup and a head situated within the coater cup proxima... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7608150 | Coating apparatus and operating method thereof A coating apparatus and an operating method thereof that prevent damage to the nozzle of a spinless coater from impurities on a substrate during resin coating of the substrate, and impurities remaining on a stage at the bottom of the substrate. The coating apparatus... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7591905 | Method and apparatus for two dimensional assembly of particles A method and an apparatus (10) for making thin layers from particles, wherein the particles are deposited on a carrier fluid flowing by gravity along a ramp (12) leading to a dam (18). The particles are held back at the bottom of the ramp (12... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7588642 | Abluminal stent coating apparatus and method using a brush assembly The apparatus and method use an optical feedback system to align a brush assembly with a stent strut. Once alignment is achieved, a coating is dispensed onto the stent strut via the brush assembly and the brush assembly is moved along the stent strut to coat the ste... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7575639 | Apparatus and method for processing sheet materials An apparatus and method for processing elongated sheet material through a plurality of processing stations including a cooling station for lowering the temperature of the sheet material. The cooling station includes a plurality of individually controllable cooling z... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7563328 | Method and apparatus for gas injection system with minimum particulate contamination A gas injection system (10) is provided for a processing reactor and a method is provided for reducing transport of particulate material onto a substrate (12) during process gas start-up. The system (10) includes a two-way valve (40) havi... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7473321 | Laser treatment apparatus A drain port and an exhaust port arranged at the bottom of a cup surrounding a substrate holding unit. A drainage tray is arranged below the cup so as to cover the moving area of the drain port when the substrate holding unit and the cup move in X-directions and Y-d... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7465357 | Computer-readable medium that contains software for executing a method for cleaning a CVD chamber The present invention is a method and apparatus for cleaning a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) chamber using cleaning gas energized to a plasma in a gas mixing volume separated by an electrode from a reaction volume of the chamber. In one embodiment, a source of RF ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7422636 | Plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition system having reduced contamination A plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) system is described, wherein the system comprises a processing space and a high vacuum, ultra-clean transfer space. During processing, the substrate to which the thin conformal film is formed is exposed to the proces... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7364922 | Automated semiconductor wafer salvage during processing The present invention provides a recovery processing method to restore the substrate processing apparatus to an operating state after correcting an abnormality having occurred in the substrate processing apparatus in operation and having resulted in a stop in the op... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7350400 | Test method to measure lubricant mobility on a hard drive disk A method for measuring the mobility of a lubricant located on the top surface of a disk used in hard disk drives. The method includes forming one or more scribe lines in a lubricant layer of the disk. The disk is then spun by a spin stand where lubricant moves in re... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347649 | Powder purge tube To supply a powder lacquer sprayer, the coating powder is pressed by a pig through the supply line and, in the process, it is fluidized from the side of the pig which is turned toward the powder. The fluidization air can be led to the powder, for example, by a centr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333876 | Systems and methods for providing electronic quality control in a process for applying a polyurethane to a substrate The present invention comprises systems and methods for providing electronic quality control in a process for applying a polyurethane to a substrate. One aspect of the present invention includes a computer-implemented method for providing electronic quality control ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331482 | Dispense pump with heated pump housing and heated material reservoir A heated dispense pump overcomes the limitations of conventional systems providing for reliable and efficient heating of the dispensed material in a system that is compact, lightweight, and accurate. A pump housing and cartridge body are formed of a thermally conduc... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7323960 | Electromagnetostrictive actuator An actuator includes an electromagnetostrictive element that has one end located on a front side and the other end located on a rear side. An output shaft penetrates the electromagnetostrictive element and is pressurized toward the rear side of the electromagnetostr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7314526 | Reaction chamber for an epitaxial reactor Reaction chamer (10) for an epitaxial reactor comprising a belljar (14) made of insulating, transparent and chemically resistant material, a susceptor (24) provided with disk-shaped cavities (34a-n) for receiving wafers (... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7300684 | Method and system for coating internal surfaces of prefabricated process piping in the field The coating of internal surfaces of a workpiece is achieved by connecting a bias voltage such that the workpiece functions as a cathode and by connecting an anode at each opening of the workpiece. A source gas is introduced at an entrance opening, while a vacuum sou... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293943 | Tool holder In a tool holder, when oil supplied via an oil supply passage and an oil introducing passage reaches an atomizing space, the oil is atomized by an air flow of carrier gas consisting of compressed air, and then water supplied from a water supply passage and a water i... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289216 | Station for inspecting the painting of motor vehicle parts A station for inspecting the painting of motor vehicle bodywork parts, the station including an optical measuring apparatus and means for attenuating vibration of the moving parts. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7279438 | Coated insulation board or batt An insulation composite for attenuating energy or sound transmission has a body layer of insulating material with a roughly textured face and a uniform thickness solid cover layer permanently embedded in the body layer to a partial depth so that material of the body... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7237299 | Cleaning machine having a control system for cleaning a surface A cleaning apparatus for cleaning a surface in which cleaning solution is dispensed to the surface and substantially simultaneously extracted along with the dirt on the surface in a continuous operation is provided. The cleaning apparatus further includes a detectin... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7235795 | Semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus and a method of controlling a semiconductor device manufacturing process A particle monitor in the process chamber of a semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus provides a measure of a flux of contaminant particles in the chamber. The flux is measured whilst process conditions are produced in the process chamber and a process paramet... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7226510 | Film forming apparatus In a film forming apparatus according to the aerosol deposition method, the thickness of a structure being formed can be controlled accurately. The film forming apparatus includes an aerosol generating part in which raw material powder is to be provided, a compresse... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219692 | Apparatus for conditioning the atmosphere in a chamber In the invention, the atmosphere in a process chamber is conditioned using a primary pump, a secondary pump, speed control means for controlling the speed of the primary pump, and at least first gas analyzer means adapted for analyzing the extracted gases upstream f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216009 | Machine vision systems for use with programmable material consolidation system and associated methods and structures Programmable material consolidation systems employing a machine vision system in combination with a 3-D printing system for accurately locating a position over a support element and optionally on a substrate on the support element, and forming structural features th... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7208870 | Silver alloy used in an organic electroluminescent panel An organic electroluminescent panel having a silver alloy is disclosed, which has a substrate; a plurality of the first electrodes; a plurality of the second electrodes; a plurality of conducting lines containing a silver alloy; a plurality of isolating walls; and a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201802 | Apparatus for providing a substrate with viscous medium Solder paste application, inspection and correction. Following or during application of solder paste on a substrate, the result thereof is inspected and any detected errors are registered. Following an evaluation as to whether correction of these errors is required ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203562 | Process monitoring system for lithography lasers A system for a monitoring lithography lasers at integrated circuit fabrication plants. Each laser at each fabrication plant has associated with it a terminal server. With respect to each fabrication plant a central control server unit is in communication with each o... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201823 | High throughput plasma treatment system A method for the plasma treatment of parts. The method includes sending loading signals from an electronic control to a transfer mechanism and loading the parts from a position outside of the treatment chamber to a plurality of treatment positions within the treatme... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198447 | Semiconductor device producing apparatus and producing method of semiconductor device A semiconductor device producing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a carrier-holding stage for placing a carrier; first, second and third stages each for holding first and second boats one at a time, each boat holding one or more substrates; a boat tran... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195801 | Manufacturing process for storing and transferring evaporation material A manufacturing system capable of enhancing reliability and luminance of a light emitting element is provided which uses an EL material of very high purity in evaporation. The system is also capable of using an EL material efficiently. Instead of a glass jar, a cont... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7192486 | Clog-resistant gas delivery system Processing gases reactive with each other are provided in parallel to a processing chamber through separate delivery lines including mass flow controllers devoted to each line. The parallel delivery lines meet in a mixing manifold located proximate to the processing... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7186296 | Film formation apparatus A film formation apparatus by which a film thickness can be precisely measured and whether the film quality is good or bad can be confirmed in a process of performing film formation according to the aerosol deposition method. The film formation apparatus includes: a... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7179334 | System and method for performing semiconductor processing on substrate being processed A semiconductor process system (10) includes a measuring section (40), an information processing section (51), and a control section (52). The measuring section (40) measures a characteristic of a test target film formed on a targe... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7165307 | Method and machine for forming protective film on sprayed coating of large-sized product There are disclosed a method and apparatus for applying a strippable paint to a large-sized product finished with a sprayed coating, such as an automobile, to form a protective film on the surface of the coating. The product is conventionally kept in stock for a per... | 01/23/2007 |
