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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8168031 | Method for metal-resin joining and a metal-resin composite, a method for glass-resin joining and a glass-resin composite, and a method for ceramic-resin joining and a ceramic-resin composite The present invention provides a method for joining a metallic material, a glass material or a ceramic material, and a resin material, that have no limitation in their field of application and that can form a strong joint by an easy method. The method for joining a ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168030 | Manufacturing method of laser processed parts and adhesive sheet for laser processing Providing a method of manufacturing a laser processed part capable of processing at high speed and high precision when processing a workpiece by optical absorption ablation of laser beam, effectively suppressing contamination of a workpiece surface by decomposition ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8163123 | Bifurcation catheter dual balloon bond and methods A catheter assembly includes a main catheter branch having a catheter shaft and a distal end portion. A main balloon and a side balloon are positioned at the distal end portion of the catheter shaft. The main balloon includes a distal waist portion at a distal end t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8114239 | Polycarbonate panel assembly for a vehicle A vehicle glazing panel assembly has a polycarbonate panel supported by a vehicle body, and has a plurality of peripheral regions. A reinforcement member is mounted to the polycarbonate panel proximate at least one of the plurality of peripheral regions to stiffen t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8110062 | Welding method and welding apparatus for resin member A welding method and welding apparatus for resin members is provided in which dimensional accuracy of two resin members after welding can be secured and reduction in joining strength due to excessive laser irradiation can be prevented. In a method of superimposing a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8075725 | Method and device for welding thermoplastic material shaped parts, particularly for contour-welding three-dimensional shaped parts The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for welding thermoplastic molded articles wherein additional simultaneous irradiation, in the welding area (18), of one of the join partners (1) will lead to a temperature increase of this join partner... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075726 | Method for producing hermetically sealed container for beverage or food An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a hermetically sealed container, which method comprises conducting hermetic sealing of a container for beverage or food using a laser welding method, whereby the process speed of the sealing pro... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8070907 | Jointing method for obtaining a joint structure formed of a plurality of parts A jointing apparatus includes a first laser head which emits a laser beam for adhesive heating and a second laser head which emits a laser beam for welding. In jointing components of a work with a thermosetting adhesive agent, the defocused laser beam is applied to ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8052830 | Resin composition for laser welding and molded article A laser weldable PBT-series resin composition and a molded product thereof are provided, in which the composition is weldable uniformly and has high welding strength even when the composition comprises a polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) as a base. The laser w... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8038828 | Process for laser welding resinous members, apparatus for the same and laser-welded resinous product A process is for laser-welding resinous members, and includes the steps of overlapping a transparent resinous member on an absorptive resinous material, and irradiating the transparent resinous member with a laser beam, thereby welding an interface between the trans... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8029637 | System, method and apparatus for ultraviolet curing of adhesives with light beam shaping in disk drive manufacturing UV curing of adhesives with light beam shaping utilizes a spot curing process that focuses a limited amount of UV light onto a target area, such as glue dots. A focusing lens may be used to direct the UV light beam to the target area. The target areas have different... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8016973 | Film bonding method, film bonding apparatus, and semiconductor device manufacturing method A film bonding method of bonding a die bond film without causing any breakage. The die bond film is pressed against a wafer having a surface protective tape bonded thereto using a film-setting roller and a film-bonding roller, and a laser beam having a predetermined... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8012298 | Manufacturing method for organic light emitting display A manufacturing method for an organic light emitting display includes forming a first electrode on a target substrate and forming a bank layer including an aperture region that exposes the first electrode; bonding the target substrate and a medium substrate opposite... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7972461 | Hermetically sealed container and manufacturing method of image forming apparatus using the same A manufacturing method of a hermetically sealed container, comprises steps of placing, on a first member, a first bonding material and a second bonding material having a larger compressibility in relation to a pressing force than a compressibility of the first bondi... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7967936 | Methods of transferring a lamina to a receiver element Methods for bonding a donor wafer to a receiver element and transferring a lamina from the donor wafer to the receiver element are disclosed herein. The donor wafer may be, for example, a monocrystalline silicon wafer with a thickness of from about 300 microns to ab... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7942999 | Fabrication method of rigid-flex circuit board A fabrication method of a rigid-flex circuit board is described as follows. Firstly, a flexible circuit board and at least a cover layer are provided. The cover layer covers a surface of the flexible circuit board. A protection layer is then formed on the cover laye... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942998 | Method and apparatus for laser welding thermoplastic resin members A method and apparatus for welding members formed of thermoplastic resin material, with high welding strength and small strength variations. A laser welding apparatus 1 brings a first member 2 formed of a transmissive thermoplastic resin that transmits... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7922859 | Laser-weldable polymers The present invention relates to laser-weldable polymers which consist of a laser-transparent part and a laser-absorbent part and can be welded to one another by means of laser light and are distinguished by the fact that the laser-absorbent part comprises, as absor... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918962 | Method of manufacturing rotation detector having encapsulated biasing magnet and magnetic sensor A rotation detector includes a semiconductor chip, a nonmagnetic case body, a biasing permanent magnet and a nonmagnetic cap fixed to the case body, wherein the case body has a joint surface, and the cap has an inside surface in contact with the joint surface. A met... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7875147 | Method for welding together plastic parts with the aid of laser radiation Provided is a process for fusion-bonding plastic parts with the aid of laser radiation of a wavelength outside the visible region, wherein a bonding region of a plastic part to be bonded comprises at least one material which is transparent in the visible region of t... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7837822 | Laser induced thermal imaging apparatus and method of fabricating organic light emitting display using the same A donor substrate for a laser induced thermal imaging method and an organic light emitting display manufactured using the same are provided. A laser induced thermal imaging apparatus includes a stage grounded by a grounding means, and a method of fabricating an orga... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7744718 | Microsystem component and method for gluing microcomponents to a substrate A method for gluing microcomponents to a substrate (1) during the production of microsystem components includes the steps of applying a reactive or non-reactive hot melt type adhesive (5) to the microcomponent (18) and/or the substrate (1... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7678223 | Catheter having a multi-section tubular member and method of making the same A multi-section tubular member including a sleeve surrounding and bridging a joint between a first section and a second section of the tubular member, and a method of forming a multi-section tubular member are disclosed. A polymeric sleeve may extend over a portion ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7628883 | Laser welded plastic intercooler An intercooler assembly includes a housing that defines an internal space containing a plurality of tubes. A joint between a tube and a tube plate is created by a laser welding process. A form presses the walls of the tube outwardly to form the flange. The downward ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7588658 | Laser-transmissible resin composition and method for laser welding using it Disclosed is a laser-transmissible resin composition for laser welding having 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin, and 0.01 to 3 parts by weight of titanium oxide that has a density of at least 4 g/cm3 and an average particle size of 100 to 400 n... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7572350 | Method of cutting laminate, apparatus for manufacturing laminate, method of manufacturing laminate, and laminate A device such as an MEMS device is fabricated by cutting a laminate of a semiconductor substrate and a glass substrate. Grooves are formed in the glass substrate, and the semiconductor substrate and the glass substrate are laminated together such that the groove fac... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7540934 | Method and apparatus for irradiation welding of two thermoplastic components In a method and an apparatus for irradiation welding of two thermoplastic components, a local temperature maximum, which circulates together with the laser beam and increases from cycle to cycle, and a correspondingly circulating, locally increased clamping pressure... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7517423 | Method of cutting laminate, apparatus for manufacturing laminate, method of manufacturing laminate, and laminate A device such as an MEMS device is fabricated by cutting a laminate of a semiconductor substrate and a glass substrate. Grooves are formed in the glass substrate, and the semiconductor substrate and the glass substrate are laminated together such that the groove fac... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7510620 | Process for laser welding resinous members, apparatus for the same and laser-welded resinous product A process is for laser-welding resinous members, and includes the steps of overlapping a transparent resinous member on an absorptive resinous material, and irradiating the transparent resinous member with a laser beam, thereby welding an interface between the trans... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7491288 | Method of cutting laminate with laser and laminate A device such as an MEMS device is fabricated by cutting a laminate of a semiconductor substrate and a glass substrate. Grooves are formed in the glass substrate, and the semiconductor substrate and the glass substrate are laminated together such that the groove fac... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7462255 | Method for producing by laser gastight and high-temperature resistant connections of shaped parts made of a non-oxidic ceramic Method for producing by laser gastight and high-temperature resistant connections of shaped parts made of non-oxidic ceramic. The invention relates to the fields of ceramics and laser technology and relates to a method with which, e.g., low-melting-point or radioact... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459054 | Apparatus and method for connecting and disconnecting flexible tubing A laser strikes and aseptically heats or sterilizes the end of two flexible tube ends for connection. Tube holders are pushed toward each other to bring the tube ends into contact. A weld detector checks the characteristics of the weld. A laser optics assembly may b... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7455745 | Laser welding of a plastic manifold An example plastic intake manifold is assembled with an inner shell received within an outer shell. The method of assembling the outer shell to the inner shell comprises a localized thickness that defines a desired laser weld joint along which laser energy is utiliz... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7438963 | Method for producing a laser-printable film Method for producing a laser-printable film which comprises printing an engraving layer comprising a UV-curable coating onto a support film, applying an electron-beam curable coating on top of the engraving layer, and then curing the film by electron irradiation. | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438846 | Apparatus and method for the non-destructive separation of hardened material layers from a flat construction plane An apparatus and a method for the separation of a material layer (4) hardened on a flat plane (2) serving as a reference by means of a flexible, elastic separating layer (1) arranged between plane and material layer and designed in the form of a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7431790 | Manipulation-protected foil structure for labels and method for its manufacture The laser beam (204) violates the foil layer (203) in an upper part region (203b) whereas this remains intact in a lower part region (203a). During the production of lines of weakening by laser action the degree of foil weak... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433737 | Implantable medical device with polymer-polymer interfaces and methods of manufacture and use An implantable stimulator that includes a housing, a first plastic component, and a second plastic component, where the first and second plastic components form a polymer-polymer interface. A light absorbing metal layer is disposed over at least a portion of the int... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7427331 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing composite product In a manufacturing method of a composite product, a first resin part and a second resin part are prepared. The first resin part has an opening of which inner diameter decreases in an axial direction thereof. The second resin part is inserted into the opening of the ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425166 | Method of sealing glass substrates A method of sealing a plurality of frame-like frit walls disposed between two substrates. The frit walls are arranged in rows and columns and divided into groups, each group being sealed by a separate laser beam. Several strategies are disclosed for the order in whi... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7422649 | Method for recording information in luminescent compositions and uses thereof in articles of manufacture Described herein are a method for recording luminescent compositions, comprising a) providing a luminescent composition which comprises at least a first and second luminescent compound, wherein the first luminescent compound is a donor compound having a peak lumines... | 09/09/2008 |
