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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8118074 | Apparatus and method of material bonding using captive plungers An apparatus and method of material bonding using captive plungers is disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a base plate to have multiple holes in an array, multiple captive plungers each surrounded by a compressible spring to couple to the multiple ho... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109314 | Air clamp A portable air clamp for use during lamination of substrates is provided. The clamp includes a top clamp plate, a bottom clamp plate and at least one flexible, expandable tube within a housing of the clamp. The top clamp plate is adjacent to a top housing and the bo... | 02/07/2012 |
| H2266 | Glue jig to position adhesive-applied specimens A jig is provided for setting and gluing pairs of specimens along their joining faces to cure into a lap joint. The jig includes a platform with a setting surface flanked by first and second upright walls, first and second plates and fasteners. The platform position... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8002011 | Top seal driver assembly The invention relates to top seal driver assembly for sealing the top opening of a pouch comprising Motor means for driving a rocker bar mounted on a central drive shaft, the rocker bar being connected on opposite ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7866363 | Hold-down structure for corrugated board making machine A hold-down structure used in a machine for compacting a workpiece being transferred by the machine is disclosed to include two conveyers for transferring the workpiece through a transfer path defined between circulating endless transfer belts of the two conveyers, ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7854246 | Method and device for forming a weld joint The invention refers to a method and a device for forming a weld joint at the connecting surfaces between two parts. At the connecting surfaces a heatable element is provided, during warm-up the two parts approach each other, and the heatable element is also moved o... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7836934 | Structure for loading substrate in substrate bonding apparatus for fabricating liquid crystal display device A substrate bonding apparatus for use in fabricating LCD devices substantially prevents substrates held to upper stages from sagging. The substrate bonding apparatus may, for example, include upper and lower stages having a plurality of passages for holding respecti... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7740042 | Apparatus for vibration welding of sheet materials The invention provides large surface area geogrids with a high tensile strength, a method and apparatus for producing them, and their use as drain and reinforcement grids and as fences. The method for the continuous production of geogrids which have a large surface ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7637300 | Vibration welding apparatus and welding method A vibration welding apparatus and a method for executing vibration welding of three or more work pieces made of a thermoplastic material to make them integral in a sandwich shape, comprises an upper tool means supporting a first work piece so as to apply a lateral m... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7575034 | Locking assembly for a manufactured wood products press A lock assembly (100) is provided. Such a lock assembly includes a housing (120) and a pin assembly (129) disposed within the housing. The pin assembly is selectively actuatable between a locked position, where a pin (140) is displaced in... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7513287 | Method and device for coating structural parts A method for coating flat structural parts (2), in particular furniture fronts, with a film (3), wherein the parts lie in a pallet (1) which is turned by about 180° in a rotator after the coating process, so that the coated parts (2) joi... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7478662 | Apparatus for sealing foils to each other A sealer for bonding a cover foil to a support foil has upper and lower tools having confronting faces between which the foils move in a transport direction, a drive for pressing one of the tools vertically toward the other tool and thereby compressing the foils tog... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7435311 | Panel-to-panel lamination method for improved uniformity A method of adhering a first panel, such as an OLED assembly, to a second panel, such as a protective cover plate, is disclosed. An adhesive is applied to a face of at least one of the first and second panels. The first panel is positioned to be responsive to moveme... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426951 | LCD bonding machine and method for fabricating LCD by using the same A bonding machine for fabrication of a large size LCD having an upper stage and a lower stage provided in a bonding chamber to face each other, for adsorbing the first and second substrates carried in the bonding chamber, and bonding the substrates together. The bon... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426952 | Bonding flexible film circuit and electronic circuit board Two circuit bearing substrates, such as a rigid electronic circuit board and a flexible circuit film, each having large arrays or multiple arrays of surface contact pads or traces, are mechanically and electrically joined without relocating the substrates during the... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7416011 | Electronic assembly having a substrate laminated within a backplate cavity An electronic assembly includes a backplate, a substrate and a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA). The backplate includes a cavity and the substrate includes a plurality of interconnected electrical components. The substrate is positioned within the cavity and a wall... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416010 | Bonding apparatus and system for fabricating liquid crystal display device A bonding apparatus for fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes a vacuum chamber for bonding first and second substrates together, an upper stage and a lower stage oppositely arranged in an upper space and a lower space of the vacuum chamber, and a pres... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409979 | Attaching apparatus for optical films An attaching apparatus (10) includes a guiding bracket (30), a pivot bracket (40), and a sliding bracket (50). The guiding bracket includes a supporting plate (312), and a first table (32) defining a first space (322)... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7395847 | Jig for a semiconductor substrate The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate including the back grind step, the dicing step, the pick up step, and the die bonding step of the wafer; and to a semiconductor substrate jig used in such method. The object of the ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7378616 | Heating apparatus and method for semiconductor devices A heating apparatus and method for heating a semiconductor device during bonding of electrical contacts onto the device is provided, which includes a heating plate that is provided for heating the semiconductor device and a layer of compliant material extending over... | 05/27/2008 |
| RE40287 | Angular orientation control system for friction welding A method of friction welding first and second parts together at an angular orientation relative to each other includes the steps of mounting the first part in a spindle for axial rotation and the second part in a non-rotatable holder. The spindle is then rotated and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357168 | Conveyance device in an embossing device Described is an embossing apparatus for transferring a transfer layer of an embossing film on to a substrate body which is stable in respect of shape. The embossing station has two mutually spaced support rollers and a deflection roller around which runs an embossin... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354494 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing laminated substrate An apparatus for manufacturing a laminated substrate with a simple structure and with satisfactory yield. First and second holding plates each attract substrates without contacting a laminating surface of the two substrates. A substrate conveying device conveys the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354497 | Method for manufacturing corrugated board using magnets to bond Method for manufacturing corrugated board or the like, whereby different material strips (3-6) are fastened together by means of a bonding agent, whereby one or several material strips (3-6) are guided along at least one press-on device (... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347912 | Process for the manufacture of a veneer A process for the manufacture of veneer comprises gluing board-like, plane pieces of wood together with an adhesive to form a beam-like block of wood. The humidity content of the beam-like block of wood is increased. Veneer is cut from the beam-like block of wood an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343950 | Method and apparatus for vibration welding of thermoplastic components Vibratory welded connections are formed between first and second members of thermoplastic material by interposing a junction piece of similar material and vibrating the junction piece at high speed while pressing the first and second members in a controlled manner a... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340997 | Press comprising a correction of a press band course A press for pressing a material to form a structural component comprises at least one revolving press band and a control for controlling the course of the press band. The control is preferably carried out via rotating rods that engage the press band and that can be ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337819 | Alignment device for fabricating optical disk In an optical disc fabricating apparatus, when the disc substrate is lowered from the tip of a disc inserting portion at a center pin down to a disc supporting portion, a disc urging portion of an alignment lever is pressed by a disc substrate, to be thus pushed in ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331281 | Press with vertically reciprocated frame A press has an upper traverse, a lower traverse below the upper traverse, and vertical frame elements extending between the traverse, fixing same together against relative movement, and forming a rigid frame with the upper traverse and lower traverse. A central trav... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325580 | Safety system for constraining crossbeams in a belt splicer In a belt splicer, having crossbeams straddling over and under the splice area, and having tie-bolts holding the ends of the crossbeams together, the safety system comprises link-spacers which link the crossbeams together. The link-spacers are profiled complementari... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322509 | Friction stir spot joining device There is provided a friction stir spot joining device to eliminate the generation of tipping torque caused by a pressing force by allowing the axis of a ball screw for generating the pressing force and the center of a shaft of a stirring motor to be coincident with ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318878 | Method and device for producing continuous belts from plastic films A method and apparatus for producing continuous belts is disclosed. The belts are formed from plastic films and are used as transfer belts in electrographic printers and copiers. The ends of the film are welded together by abutting their front faces and the ends are... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7311795 | Method for the bonding of disk-shaped substrates and apparatus for carrying out the method A first substrate (11a) is positioned on a support surface (7) in a vacuum chamber with an upward-facing first bonding surface (12a) spin-coated with adhesive while a second substrate (11b) is held with downward-facin... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308925 | Apparatus for assembling substrates of planar fluorescent lamp Apparatus for assembling substrates of a planar fluorescent lamp including a base mounted movable along a process line, the base having an upper surface for placing a first substrate of the fluorescent lamp, at least one movable board over the base, the movable boar... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7306690 | Method for applying labels A facestock releasably adhered to a liner sheet is die cut to form one or two compact disc labels, and two diametrically opposed tabs on each compact disc label and located so that one edge of the tab is in contact with one of the compact disc labels and is perforat... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302982 | Label applicator and system A label applicator including a support surface having a central area and curving downwardly from the central area. A post assembly extends up from the central area such that a label having a label through-hole can be positioned in a support position generally on the... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7290802 | Second surface micromotion display A second surface micromotion display includes a see-through base having a first surface, defined in the art as a front surface facing a viewer, and a second surface, defined in the art as a rear surface opposite to the front surface and facing away from the viewer, ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7279358 | Mounting method and mounting device A mounting method includes the steps of, after positioning objects being bonded relative to each other, moving a movable wall positioned there around until coming into contact with one object holding means to form a local chamber having a local enclosed space, enclo... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7279055 | Method for the rotational friction welding of plastic parts and device for carrying out the method Method and device for the rotational friction welding of plastic parts. A method for the rotational friction welding of plastics wherein a rotationally symmetrical plastic body is set in rotation and, as it rotates, is pressed against a welding location of a ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7258761 | Multi-step preheating processes for manufacturing wood based composites A method for the production of a wood composite board is provided that comprises the steps of: providing a quantity of wood in the form of strands; coating the wood strands with a binder composition to from coated strands; forming a mat from the coated strands; expo... | 08/21/2007 |
