Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7491273 | Apparatus for forming alignment layer of liquid crystal display device An apparatus for forming an alignment layer of a liquid crystal display device includes: an alignment material dropping unit with a head having a plurality of holes for dropping an alignment material on the substrate; an alignment material supply unit to supply the ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7488388 | Apparatus and method of fabricating flat panel display device An apparatus for fabricating a flat panel display device includes a substrate on which a picture display section is formed and a stage on which the substrate is loaded. A dispenser applies a sealant along an outer line of the picture display section in the substrate... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7481885 | Semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus, semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor device A semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus is provided with a drawing pattern printing part having a print head which ejects a conductive solvent, an insulative solvent and an interface treatment solution. The print head is formed in such a way that desired circ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7404860 | Thermal spraying instrument The invention relates to a device and method for controlling the operation of a thermal spray torch (12). The inventive device and method are characterized in that an on-board camera (54) and pyrometer (70) are used to measure the properties of ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7370681 | Substrate bonding apparatus for liquid crystal display device A substrate bonding apparatus for fabricating an LCD device aligns upper and lower stages to accurately bond first and second substrates. The distance to which the upper and lower substrates are spaced apart from each other during bonding is adjustable depending on ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7332036 | Thermal projection device The invention relates to a device and a method for control of the operation of a thermal projection torch (12), characterized in that the characteristics of the jet (16) and the temperature of the deposit (24) on the piece (22) are measur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7323061 | Thermal spraying instrument The invention relates to a device and method for controlling the operation of a thermal spray torch (12). The inventive device and method are characterised in that an on-board camera (54) and pyrometer (70) are used to measure the properties of ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323062 | Thermal projection device The invention relates to a device and a method for control of the operation of a thermal projection torch (12), characterized in that the characteristics of the jet (16) and the temperature of the deposit (24) on the piece (22) are measur... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316750 | Method for manufacturing liquid crystal display The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display utilizing the dispense-injection method, and it is an object of the invention to provide a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display which allows an optimum quantity of liqu... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7309269 | Method of fabricating light-emitting device and apparatus for manufacturing light-emitting device In this embodiment, an interval distance between a desposition source holder 17 and an object on which deposition is performed (substrate 13) is reduced to 30 cm or less, preferably 20 cm or less, more preferably 5 to 15 cm, and a deposition source hol... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7271904 | Seal dispenser for fabricating liquid crystal display panel and method for detecting discontinuous portion of seal pattern using the same A seal dispenser for fabricating a liquid crystal display panel and a method for detecting a discontinuous portion of a seal pattern using the same are disclosed in the present invention. The seal dispenser for fabricating a liquid crystal display panel includes a t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7258894 | Apparatus and method for dispensing liquid crystal material A liquid crystal material dispensing apparatus includes a spacer height measuring unit for measuring a height of a spacer on a substrate, and a liquid crystal material dispensing system for determining an amount of the liquid crystal material to be dispensed on the ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7238238 | Gasification monitor, method for detecting mist, film forming method and film forming apparatus A deposition apparatus supplies a reactive gas obtained by vaporizing a liquid material at a vaporizer 30 into a chamber 10 via a processing-gas pipe 40 and forms a thin film on a semiconductor wafer W due to a thermal decomposition of the react... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7214554 | Monitoring the deposition properties of an OLED A method for making an OLED device includes providing a substrate having one or more test regions and one or more device regions, moving the substrate into a least one deposition chamber for deposition of at least one organic layer, and depositing the at least one o... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7192487 | Semiconductor substrate processing chamber and accessory attachment interfacial structure A semiconductor substrate processor includes a substrate transfer chamber and a plurality of substrate processing chambers connected therewith. An interfacial structure is received between at least one of the processing chambers and the transfer chamber. The interfa... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7182976 | Process for forming a thin film and apparatus therefor A process for forming a thin film is described that enables automatic formation of thin films having constant optical properties reliably and in large quantities with excellent reproducibility suitable for mass production. An apparatus for performing the process is ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7156961 | Sputtering apparatus and film forming method The present invention is to provide a sputtering apparatus and a thin film formation method which make it possible to form respective layers of a multilayer film having a clean interface at a optimum temperature, or which make it possible to continuously carry out t... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7138343 | Method of producing a substrate with a surface treated by a vacuum treatment process, use of said method for the production of coated workpieces and plasma treatment chamber In order to produce substrate surfaces with a given two-dimensional surface distribution arising from a treatment using a vacuum treatment process, an inhomogeneous plasma (5) with a density distribution is generated and moved relative to the substrate (9 | 11/21/2006 |
| 7101440 | Ejecting method and ejecting apparatus In an ink jet apparatus for manufacturing a color filter 1, ink jet heads 22 having a plurality of nozzle 27 are disposed in a linear manner. Filter element member is ejected to a motherboard 12 from a plurality of nozzles 27 four ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7078687 | Thin film analyzing method The present invention provides is a thin film analyzing method which can be applied to various fields, and which makes it possible to detect and analyze in a simple manner, with high precision, a distribution of a specific component in a thin film formed on a suppor... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7056806 | Microfeature workpiece processing apparatus and methods for controlling deposition of materials on microfeature workpieces The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus useful in depositing materials on batches of microfeature workpieces. One implementation provides a method in which a quantity of a first precursor gas is introduced to an enclosure at a first enclosure pressure.... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7040525 | Stage structure in bonding machine and method for controlling the same Stage structure in a bonding machine including a plate movably fitted in a bonding chamber, a plurality of blocks of electro-static chucks fitted to the plate for providing an electro-static force to hold a substrate, a plurality of vacuum holes in the plate around ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7020954 | Apparatus for placing a semiconductor chip as a flipchip on a substrate An apparatus for placing a semiconductor chip as a flipchip on a substrate has a flip device for flipping the semiconductor chip. The flip device is formed as a parallelogram construction which consists of a support bracket, a first and a second swivel arm and a con... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6997992 | Apparatus for simultaneously coating and measuring parts An apparatus and method for simultaneously coating and measuring a part. The apparatus includes a part support, a sprayer and a part measurer positioned adjacent to the part support and a display device positioned adjacent to the part support. The sprayer applies a ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6969621 | Contamination distribution apparatus and method Embodiments of the invention include an apparatus for uniformly contaminating samples. The apparatus includes a housing that contains a rotatable carousel for the holding samples. A drive element is used for rotating the carousel. The apparatus includes a contaminan... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6955074 | Lithographic apparatus, method of calibration, calibration plate, device manufacturing method, and device manufactured thereby A method according to one embodiment of the invention may be performed using a calibration plate having at least one alignment marker and at least one height profile. First, the calibration plate is positioned using an alignment sensor. Then the height profile is me... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6945089 | Mass-sensitive sensor In a mass-sensitive sensor consisting of an acoustic surface wave component on the basis of shear waves, the sensor includes a substrate with an active surface carrying two different layers, one which is a parylene layer of a thickness of between 0.2 and | 09/20/2005 |
| 6945306 | Control of deposition and other processes A system for incrementally depositing material includes a delivery system for directing a material toward a deposition zone (5), a monitoring system for monitoring a parameter of the deposited (a) material and a processing system (11) arranged to obtai... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6926775 | Reactors with isolated gas connectors and methods for depositing materials onto micro-device workpieces Reactors having gas distributors for depositing materials onto micro-device workpieces, systems that include such reactors, and methods for depositing materials onto micro-device workpieces are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a reactor for depositing materials ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6902625 | Multiple pocket electron beam source An improved crucible cover for multiple pocket electron beam sources has been invented. The invention provides selection between one of the multiple pockets for evaporative heating and a noncontacting, line-of-sight blocking baffle between heated and unheated pocket... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6902761 | Selective coating of the interior of glass tubes with a metallic mirror surface The invention relates to a method for the interior metal-coating of glass tubes, with the metal-coated surface being a cylindrical shell. In accordance with the invention such a method comprises the following process steps: ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6805747 | Apparatus for coating meat A method and apparatus for coating hams is provided. Sugar is uniformly dispensed on an inclined plate that is heated to melt the sugar. The sugar flows into a reservoir from which it is poured onto hams passing below the reservoir on a conveyor. Spices are poured o... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6682600 | Reusable mass-sensor in manufacture of organic light-emitting devices A method for controlling the deposition of an organic layer in making an organic light-emitting device includes depositing at a deposition zone organic material forming a layer of the organic light-emitting device and providing a movable sensor which, whe... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6660091 | Apparatus for forming liquid film A liquid output portion is arranged above and moves relative to a semiconductor substrate with determined film formation and non-film-formation regions. The liquid output portion continuously outputs a liquid in a constant amount to the substrate. Below t... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6620244 | Resist film forming method and resist coating apparatus When a resist film is formed by discharging a resist solution onto the front face of a wafer housed in a cup, a relation between the film thickness of a resist film and the line width of a circuit pattern when the resist film is exposed into a predetermin... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6558735 | Reusable mass-sensor in manufacture of organic light-emitting devices A method for controlling the deposition of an organic layer in making an organic light-emitting device includes depositing at a deposition zone organic material forming a layer of the organic light-emitting device and providing a movable sensor which, whe... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6537606 | System and method for improving thin films by gas cluster ion beam processing The present invention provides apparatus and methods to carry out the task of both reducing the surface roughness (smoothing) and improving the thickness uniformity of, preferably, but not limited thereto, the top silicon film of a silicon-on-insulator (S... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6524449 | Method and system for producing sputtered thin films with sub-angstrom thickness uniformity or custom thickness gradients A method and system for producing a thin film with highly uniform (or highly accurate custom graded) thickness on a flat or graded substrate (such as concave or convex optics), by sweeping the substrate across a vapor deposition source with controlled (an... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6485571 | Paper manufacturing and processing machine with closed loop control system A machine for one of manufacturing and processing a fiber web includes an input end which receives a fiber suspension or a fiber web. The input end includes a plurality of control modules, with each control module controlling at least one of a plurality o... | 11/26/2002 |
