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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7384483 | Stator core, and method and apparatus for producing the same In a stator core having a plurality of teeth, which elongate in an inner radial direction and slots, which are configured among the teeth, powder is caused to adhere to the stator core, the powder adhering to an inner peripheral face of the stator core is removed, a... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7371023 | Apparatus for processing substrates and method therefor An apparatus (100) for processing substrates includes: a substrate cleaning device (20), which cleans the substrates with treating liquid; a developing device (40); and a treating liquid recovery system (30), which is connected with the c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7341629 | Method, system and apparatus for scraping a roll surface in a molten metal coating process An apparatus for scraping the surface of a sink roll in a molten metal coating process comprises a support member having a pair of linearly movable arms supported thereon. The support member depends from a bridge structure spanning a continuous metal coating line, a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7293720 | Fluid balanced paint system Disclosed herein is a paint circulation system for a painting line, comprising a supply channel, a return channel and a plurality of drop lines downstream of the supply channel and upstream of the return channel, a paint pump means for circulating paint through the ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286990 | Universal interface for voice activated access to multiple information providers An interface for accessing data from one or more information systems using a wireless telephone or other user device. The interface is presented to a user as an abstraction of a unified mailbox and permits access by the user to messaging and other services from the ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270136 | Apparatus for cleaning the edges of wafers The invention concerns an apparatus for cleaning the edge of a wafer that may be relatively simply constructed with low cost, and prevent the wafer from being re-contaminated by the edge cleaning, thus resulting in increase of the yield rate of wafers. The apparatus... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267723 | Treating solution supply nozzle, a substrate treating apparatus having this nozzle, and a method of manufacturing a treating solution supply nozzle A resin block has a treating solution channel extending between and opening at front and back surfaces thereof. Heat conductive members are face-bonded to the front and back surfaces of the resin block, respectively, for closing the channel. Consequently, no air is ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7257346 | Fusing roller regenerating apparatus in image forming apparatus and method thereof A fusing roller regenerating apparatus of a fusing device in an image forming apparatus includes a coating unit coating a fusing roller using a dip coating method to form a regenerated coating layer to a predetermined thickness, and a heating unit including a heatin... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7216656 | Semiconductor substrate cleansing apparatus A cleansing apparatus comprising: a table 3 for supporting a semiconductor substrate 30 horizontally; a high frequency solution injector 20 capable of injecting a solution to the upper surface 30a and the side surface 30c... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7198674 | Device for surface coating of small parts The invention concerns a coating drum (60) for a single drum or, as the case may be, a multi-drum circulating coating device. The inside of the drum is subdivided into two rotation-symmetrical drum chambers (61 and 62) via a separating wall (... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7153385 | Method and device for producing a multi-ply printed web of flexible material, such as paper and nonwoven, and multi-ply material produced by the method Method for producing a multi-ply web of flexible material, such as paper and nonwoven material, comprising at least one first and one second ply which are interconnected by gluing in a plurality of discrete glue sites. The web is printed with at least one printing p... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7141512 | Method of cleaning semiconductor device fabrication apparatus A semiconductor device fabrication apparatus is cleaned after a conductive layer is formed on a metal oxide layer of a substrate. The substrate is disposed on a heater in a process chamber of the apparatus, and the conductive layer is formed by introducing source ga... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7101437 | Elements for embossing and adhesive application A patterned element for use in an embossing and adhesive application process. The patterened element comprises a material having an pattern disposed thereon, wherein the material comprises a polymer and has a Shore A hardness of greater than about 70, and has a crit... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7044153 | Varnishing installation A varnishing installation includes a varnish line with an inlet end, an outlet end and an auxiliary device. The auxiliary device is connected through a valve arrangement to the varnishing line and the valve arrangement is scrapeable. ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045018 | Substrate brush scrubbing and proximity cleaning-drying sequence using compatible chemistries, and method, apparatus, and system for implementing the same A method for cleaning and drying a front and a back surface of a substrate is provided. The method includes brush scrubbing the back surface of the substrate using a brush scrubbing fluid chemistry. The method further includes applying a front meniscus onto the fron... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7005009 | Film forming apparatus, film forming method and tray for substrate The object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus suitable for forming a thick film having a thickness on a surface of a substrate such as a glass substrate, a semiconductor wafer or the like. In the apparatus according to the present invention, a stock... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6971504 | Conveyor belt with advertising, method and apparatus for making same A conveyor belt with advertising is fabricated by coating at least one flexible belting member with a vinyl size coating. A white base coat is applied over the vinyl size coating. Special white PVC coated belting material is also used. A variety of printing processe... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969428 | Self-cleaning system for dry recovery of processing mists in automatic machines for spraying paints Suitable corrugated filter grids (7, 7′) are mounted on the suction intakes (6, 6′) and are positioned with a downward inclination towards the conveyor (4) of the machine, their lower ends allowing drops to fall on to this conveyor. The suct... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6962867 | Methods of fabrication of semiconductor dice having back side redistribution layer accessed using through-silicon vias and assemblies thereof An apparatus and method of rerouting redistribution lines from an active surface of a semiconductor substrate to a back surface thereof and assembling and packaging individual and multiple semiconductor dice with such rerouted redistribution lines formed thereon. Th... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6932003 | Mobile furnace and method of facilitating removal of material from workpieces A method for removing foreign material such as paints and coatings from workpieces using a mobile furnace. The workpieces are flash heated so that only the surface is heated to remove the coatings without heating the core of the workpieces. Deformation of the workpi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6916376 | Painting booth, preferably of the electrostatic painting type A painting booth, which includes: a frame which supports a plurality of movable walls (3) made of deformable material, whose internal surfaces bound a volume which can contain objects to be painted; at least one distributor arranged inside the volume and suit... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6872254 | Method and apparatus for controlling air over a spinning microelectronic substrate A method and apparatus for forming a generally uniform liquid layer on a surface of an upper surface microelectronic substrate. The apparatus can include a support that engages less than the entire lower surface of the microelectronic substrate and rotates the micro... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6837933 | Apparatus for surface coating of small parts The device for surface coating of small parts is comprised essentially of a device (10) with sequentially arranged processing stations, namely a dip station (11), a drip station (12), a centrifuge station (13) and an emptying station (... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6832576 | Honeycomb catalyst substrate coating chamber seal cleaning system The current invention reveals equipment and the method to utilize it to reduce or eliminate seal deposition in equipment that uses inflatable seals where a solution can come into contact with the seal and leave a deposit. Typical of this process is the coating chamb... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6698379 | Installation for treating food products by immersion An installation for coating food products with a layer of coating substance, such as for coating a meat product or a vegetable product with a batter, comprises a container in which the coating substance can be accommodated, two endless conveyor belts loca... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6675816 | Plasma CVD apparatus and dry cleaning method of the same In a parallel flat plate type plasma CVD apparatus, plasma damage of constituent parts in a reaction chamber due to irregularity of dry cleaning in the reaction chamber is reduced and the cost is lowered. In the parallel flat plate type plasma CVD apparat... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6656525 | Bulk material liquid addition apparatus and method Apparatus and method for applying liquid coating to pellets in a flowing feed stream are provided. An incoming bulk material feed is conditioned to produce a ribbon-like agglomerated flow pattern, and the bulk material is passed through a first spray sect... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6634370 | Liquid treatment system and liquid treatment method Liquid treatment units are disposed in multi-tiers surrounding a main-arm 35. Among liquid treatment units, plating units M1 through M4 are disposed on a lower tier side, and a unit for post-treatment process such as a cleaning unit 70 where a cleaner atm... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6605153 | Coating film forming apparatus An apparatus includes a holding portion for holding a substrate, a nozzle, provided to face the substrate held by the holding portion, for discharging a solution to the substrate, a driver for moving the nozzle along a surface of the substrate relatively ... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6576055 | Method and apparatus for controlling air over a spinning microelectronic substrate A method and apparatus for forming a generally uniform liquid layer on a surface of an upper surface microelectronic substrate. The apparatus can include a support that engages less than the entire lower surface of the microelectronic substrate and rotate... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6576298 | Lubricant qualified for contact with a composition suitable for human consumption including a food, a conveyor lubrication method and an apparatus using droplets or a spray of liquid lubricant The interface between a moving conveyor belt and a work piece can be lubricated using an air driven stream of finely divided droplets of a lubricant composition. Droplets of a preferred size are directed by the air stream onto the conveyor with little was... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6562139 | Computer controlled apparatus for fairing and painting of marine vessel surfaces An apparatus for finishing marine vessel surfaces including track-mounted robots, movable relative to the vessel being finished. The robots are controlled by a computer, with each robot having a plurality of tools attachable to the robots both for mapping... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6544590 | Liquid coating method, apparatus and film-forming method for producing the same employing excess coating removing unit having absorbent fabric on porous structure In a coating method for forming a film of a coating material on a substrate by supplying the coating material from a coating unit to the substrate held by a stage while the coating unit is moved relative to the stage, the stage includes a substrate-holdin... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6521043 | Device for cleaning a gumming applicator A gumming applicator (1) rotatable about a central axis (A) is cleaned by a device (4) comprising a nozzle (13) connected to a source (11) of pressurized fluid (50) and calibrated so as to deliver an atomized jet (14) which is directed at the gumming appl... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6504233 | Semiconductor processing component A semiconductor processing component includes a quartz body characterized by silicon oxide filled micro cracks. The component is utilized as a processing component in a semiconductor furnace system. The quartz body is prepared by cleaning the component to... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6447609 | Paint spraying apparatus A paint spraying apparatus for coating an article with paint, enamel, lacquer or the like, includes a conveyor unit having an endless conveyor belt, trained over at least two drums, for transporting an article to be coated past a sprayer unit. Operatively... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6401650 | Apparatus for coating articles with a liquid coating material An apparatus (1) for coating articles (5) includes an endless conveyer belt (4) for transporting the articles (5) to be coated through the apparatus (1). The liquid coating material circulates in a circulation direction in surplus through the apparatus (1... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6399160 | Method and apparatus for film coating a moving paper or board web supported by a belt to form a coating application zone with adjustable length A method and apparatus for coating a paper or board web, wherein the web to be coated is brought to a film transfer coater and taken to a nip between the film transfer roll of the coater and its backing roll, and coating mix is applied onto the surface of... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6391110 | Method and apparatus for cleaning treatment An apparatus for a treatment is provided, the apparatus comprising a vessel for recovering a treatment liquid flowing out or flying out when the object is treated, cleaning means for cleaning an inner wall surface of the vessel by supplying a cleaning liq... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6361601 | Method of applying adhesive to a patterned web and application unit for selectively applying such adhesive Adhesive is applied to a web by way of a printing plate and reverse enclosed doctor blade so as to apply the adhesive in selected locations thereby minimizing the amount of adhesive applied in order to decrease the stiffness of the resultant multi-ply web... | 03/26/2002 |
