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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7270790 | Sterilizer monitoring and controlling system and method A system and method are provided for monitoring and/or controlling a sterilization system. Briefly described, in architecture, the system can be implemented as follows. A current transformer is operatively associated with a source of power for a radiation source. A ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 6740207 | Electric supply unit and method for reducing arcing during sputtering Sparking is suppressed during high-frequency sputtering by a high-frequency generator (5) which has a controlled switching unit (13) that is connected upstream in relation to the output of the generator. A high-frequency supply signal that is generated... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6547978 | Method of heating a semiconductor substrate Copper can be pattern etched in a manner which provides the desired feature dimension and integrity, at acceptable rates, and with selectivity over adjacent materials. To provide for feature integrity, the portion of the copper feature surface which has b... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6363300 | Process and system for the automatic determination of an optimal movement program of a robot Process for the automatic determination of an optimal movement program of a robot comprising at least one moving member, a motor associated with the moving member and a control unit capable of activating the motor according to a movement program to move t... | 03/26/2002 |
| 5859404 | Method and apparatus for plasma processing a workpiece in an enveloping plasma A plasma heating apparatus for heating a workpiece includes a chamber of sufficient size to receive a workpiece therein and a source of a reduced gas pressure within the chamber of from about 0.01 to about 100 millitorr. The plasma heating apparatus furth... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5780803 | Process for the stabilization of plasma generation by means of electron beam vaporizer The invention relates to a process for stabilizing plasma generation in the coating of large substrate surfaces by means of an electron beam vaporizer. To obtain a stable operation of the apparatus at a high vaporization rate and stable plasma excitation ... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5393953 | Electron-beam heating apparatus and heating method thereof An electron-beam heating apparatus in which an electron-beam of a stable intensity can be obtained. The apparatus is provided with a heating unit having two electrodes comprising a cathode and an anode. A heating of a material is performed by using an ele... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5310987 | Electron beam gun connector In a high power hot cathode electron beam gun with a cathode and cathode heater which are caused to float at high potential, a high voltage cable termination is provided with built-in transformer. The transformer is characterized as having an input impeda... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5294771 | Electron beam welding An electron beam welding apparatus in which the beam deflection coils controlling the weld may be modified by the superimposition of a variable input voltage so as to control the fade-out slope of the welding region.... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5103766 | Vacuum arc vapor deposition device having electrode switching means A vacuum arc deposition device having electrode switching means comprising two or more electrodes consisting of vacuum arc vapor evaporation source materials and a substrate to which films are formed by means of vacuum arc vapor deposition, each of the el... | 04/14/1992 |
| 4999760 | High voltage rectifier and associated control electronics A high voltage rectifier with provisions for rapidly limiting or discontinuing the current flow in response to the occurrence of overcurrents and rapidly restoring such current when the overcurrents cease. The rectifier comprises one or more stages, each ... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4998004 | Electron beam gun An improvement in high power electron beam guns including a non-inductive high-voltage cable for supplying power to the gun having barriers for preventing air leakage from inside the cable into the vacuum chamber. The gun includes a support for its cathod... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4958059 | Electronic bombardment evaporator equipped with means to recover backscattered electrons Electronic bombardment evaporator equipped with means to recuperate backscattered electrons by a target (14) submitted to a bombardment by an electronic beam (12) comprising means to collect the backscattered electrons, said means (26) being brought to a ... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4906814 | Method of starting arc sensing A method of starting arc sensing applicable to automatic welding apparatuses carrying out an arc sensing operation, which is a control operation comprising: detecting deviations of a welding electrode from a predetermined path in an up or down direction a... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4778975 | Electrical supply circuit for electron beam evaporators A circuit for the electrical supply of a plurality of electron beam evaporators has application in heat and thermochemical treatment processes such as welding, fusing, zonal cleaning of materials, dimensional treatment, application of coatings, etc. A mul... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4748311 | Inverter with power supply to chopper through parallel resonant circuit tuned to twice the chopper frequency The invention relates to an inverter with a direct-voltage source and a chopper section, the chopper section having push-pull switching at a frequency f0. A parallel tuned circuit, the resonant frequency of which is 2f0 is provided b... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4731537 | Electron beam gun An electron beam gun generates an electron beam directed at a target. The gun comprises electrodes for creating an electric field along the direction of beam travel and focusing coils for creating a magnetic field along the direction of beam travel. The e... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4687902 | Electron-beam welding apparatus Electron beam welding apparatus, suitable as a mobile welding apparatus, having a solid dielectric insulator for the high voltage electrical conductors and also having liquid coolants for cooling the conductors and the insulator which are heated by the ca... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4684782 | Control system for a charged particle beam apparatus A feedback signal of a beam accelerating voltage, which is input into a feedback control system is fixed at a predetermined value corresponding to a signal under the condition before generation of arcing, when the arcing is generated, and thereafter, the ... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4574178 | Electron gun An electron gun with a beam generator 4, a high-voltage connection 25 and a high-voltage insulator 23 is equipped with at least one insulating transformer 26, 27 and circuit elements 43 for producing auxiliary voltages at high-voltage potential. The beam ... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4555612 | Plasma jet cleaning apparatus and method Voltage in a transfer arc power supply of a plasma jet cleaning apparatus employed to induce a cathode workpiece current for cleaning a surface of the workpiece includes apparatus for cyclically varying the applied voltage between at least two negative le... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4551606 | Beamed energy radiation control method and apparatus A method of and apparatus for controlling beamed energy radiation, e.g. of electron beams, onto a workpiece making use of a beam gun for producing a series of successive, time-spaced groups of pulsed energy beams. A power supply for the beam gun is constr... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4393295 | Apparatus and method for engraving with an electron beam Apparatus and method for engraving with an electron beam such that depressions of different sizes can be generated in the surface of a workpiece and the different sizes of depressions are produced by an electron beam and wherein during periods when depres... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4371774 | High power linear pulsed beam annealer A high power pulsed electron beam is produced in a system comprised of an electron gun having a heated cathode, control grid, focus ring, and a curved drift tube. The drift tube is maintained at a high positive voltage with respect to the cathode to accel... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4357517 | Electron beam welding with beam focus controlled responsive to absorbed beam power In a process for electron beam welding, the electron beam welding gun is controlled to maintain the power absorbed by the pieces being welded substantially constant. In a preferred embodiment the intensity of the electron beam transmitted by the pieces be... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4338508 | Inscribing apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods for inscribing workpieces for the fabrication of masks and direct fabrication of microcircuits are described. The invention is primarily concerned with correcting for positional errors and to this end two coaxial beams (20,32) are di... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4324973 | Energy beam drilling apparatus having optical fiber link position sensor Disclosed is an electron beam drilling system wherein an optical fiber link is used to prevent deviant drilling. The position of fixtures within a vacuum chamber is monitored by alignable fiber segments. The junctions of the segments form couples which tr... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4317983 | Setting the electron gun cathode heating current of an electron beam machine In an electron beam machine for e.g. beam welding, the beam current Iem is stabilized by negative feedback applied to the grid of the electron gun. The optimum cathode heating current is ascertained by causing the cathode heating current I... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4317981 | Method and apparatus for controlling a movable energy source when it is operated to heat the surface of an object A method of controlling a movable energy source includes controlling the velocity and the power of the energy source moved along the predetermined path in accordance with a difference between the predetermined and the measured temperature at different are... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4309589 | Method and apparatus for electron beam welding A method and an apparatus for electron beam welding, in which the oscillation of the focus of an electron beam which is due to the pulsation of a direct-current high voltage for accelerating electrons is detected, and the electron beam is controlled accor... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4236058 | Regulation of electron-beam welding generators A method of and apparatus for regulating an electron-beam welding generator of the kind having three electrodes viz: a cathode, a Wehnelt electrode and an anode. The method is characterized by a suitable combination of two methods of regulating an electro... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4150278 | Methods of tuning inductive device by beam-machine altering a central air gap thereof Beam machining methods are disclosed for adjusting the inductance of an inductive device having a core that substantially encloses coil means, and establishes a centrally located air gap. The inductance is adjusted by utilizing a high energy beam for mach... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4131782 | Method of and apparatus for machining large numbers of holes of precisely controlled size by coherent radiation A method of and apparatus for machining an object wherein a source of coherent radiation is pulse modulated in accordance with the desired machining and the radiation is directed to a deflecting device and deflected to the object which is moving at a cont... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4127762 | Method for controlling and stabilizing fusion depth in electron-beam welding and device for effecting same In the course of welding measurements are taken of the concentration of metallic vapor in the cloud of vapor over the welding zone, the diameter of the hot spot on the article being welded being kept constant. Said concentration serves as an indication of... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4087672 | Laser removal of material from workpieces To ascertain the beam intensity threshold at which the intensity of a laser beam will just be sufficient to engrave a workpiece, the value of a beam-intensity control signal is progressively increased or decreased until engraving starts or stops, this bei... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4085022 | Method and apparatus for controlling the removal, by means of ion etching, of a thin layer from a substrate A method for controlling the removal, by means of ion etching, of a thin layer or regions of the layer as determined by masks, from a substrate of a sample which has a chemical composition different than that of the layer to be removed. During the ion etc... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4082958 | Apparatus involving pulsed electron beam processing of semiconductor devices A pulsed electron beam generator produces a short duration pulse of electrons in the form of a directed beam for thermal processing of a semiconductor device, which is positioned in a pulsed electron beam chamber so that the propagating electron beam impa... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4074104 | Opto-electronic position sensing method An opto-electronic apparatus for sensing the position or inspecting the condition of a target, which is capable of at least partially reflecting light in a scattered manner, includes an incident light source and means to direct light from the source in a ... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4066864 | Method and apparatus for producing feeders for supply of heat softenable materials The disclosure embraces method and apparatus for producing stream feeders for supply of streams of heat-softenable fiber forming material such as glass for attenuation into fibers. The invention sets forth an improved method for securing preformed, flange... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4045707 | System for the power control of high voltage electron beam generators System for the power control of high voltage electron beam generators having a cathode and a control electrode associated with the cathode. The system is provided with a high voltage isolation transformer with primary and secondary winding for supplying t... | 08/30/1977 |
