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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8084706 | System and method for laser processing at non-constant velocities A method is disclosed for on-the-fly processing at least one structure of a group of structures with a pulsed laser output. The method includes the steps of relatively positioning the group of structures and the pulsed laser output axis with non-constant velocity, a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084707 | Laser irradiation apparatus, laser irradiation method, fabrication method for thin film semiconductor device and fabrication method for display apparatus Disclosed herein is a laser irradiation apparatus, including: an optical system configured to form laser light of a linear cross section to be irradiated on an irradiation object; and a cutting member having a light blocking portion configured to block the laser lig... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8026457 | Laser protection arrangement with safety cutoff Laser protection arrangement with a safety cutoff comprising a passive laser protection wall which stores the radiation energy of impinging radiation of a laser of a laser material processing installation, a laser protection foil which causes a detectable change whe... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8017885 | Laser machining nozzle identification A system for identifying a laser machining nozzle on insertion of the laser machining nozzle into a laser machining head is provided. On its region insertable into the laser machining head, the laser machining nozzle has a shaping. Means for detecting or sensing the... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013270 | Laser processing apparatus, laser processing method, manufacturing method of wiring substrate, manufacturing method of display apparatus and wiring substrate A laser processing apparatus includes a support table, a local exhaust device, and a laser light source unit. The support table supports a processing object. The local exhaust device directs laser light into a local exhaust unit in which pressure is locally adjusted... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7910854 | Method of decorating a ceramic part The invention proposes a method of locally colouring a part made of ceramic material of the metallic oxide type mainly including the following steps of taking a support for the part and a laser, able to move relative to each other in an XY plane, performing a plasma... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7888620 | Reducing coherent crosstalk in dual-beam laser processing system A method of and system for forming two laser processing beams with controlled stability at a target specimen work surface includes first and second mutually coherent laser beams propagating along separate first and second beam paths that are combined to perform an o... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7880114 | Method and apparatus for material processing An apparatus processes a surface of an inhabitable structure. The apparatus includes a base unit adapted to provide energy waves to an interaction region, the energy waves removing material from the structure. The base unit includes an energy wave generator and a he... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7868267 | Laser irradiating device, laser irradiating method and manufacturing method of semiconductor device An object of the present invention is to provide a method and a device for constantly setting the energy distribution of a laser beam on an irradiating face, and uniformly irradiating the laser beam to the entire irradiating face. Further, another object of the pres... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7868268 | Laser peening process and apparatus using a liquid erosion-resistant opaque overlay coating The invention relates to a method and apparatus for improving properties of a solid material by providing shockwaves there through. Laser shock processing is used to provide the shockwaves. The method includes applying a liquid energy-absorbing overlay, which is res... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7847211 | Light radiating conditions selecting method, light radiating conditions selecting device, and soldering device A method and device capable of properly selecting light radiating conditions in soldering work where components are soldered onto a board with light radiation applied to a solder joint. The device for selecting the light radiation conditions may contain a) an input ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7829817 | Device for removing solder material from a soldered joint In a basic variant of a soldering device whereby a laser device is used for melting solder material (3), a protective device is provided which protects the laser lens system (22) from suctioned liquid solder material. Protection of the laser lens syste... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7816622 | System and method for controlling laser shock peening A laser shock peening system including a workpiece is provided. The laser shock peening system includes a workholding fixture configured to hold the workpiece. The laser shock peening system also includes a laser source configured to emit multiple laser beam pulses ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7816621 | Interface for a laser processing head A material processing machine configured to process a workpiece with a processing head movable with respect to the workpiece, including a workpiece support, a processing head carrier movable with respect to the workpiece support, the carrier including a first half o... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7804041 | Laser device for drilling holes in components of a fluid injection device The laser machining device is provided for drilling holes in components of a fluid injection device, particularly for injecting fuel into a combustion engine. The laser resonator is formed by an optically pumped diode laser solid state active medium. The resonator i... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7750266 | Active beam delivery system for laser peening and laser peening method A laser peening method and system allows the work piece to be fixed, while moving and directing the laser beam. A laser energy delivery system includes a relay imaging system. Input optics arranged to receive the laser energy, a transmitting mirror having adjustable... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7750267 | Apparatus and method for laser engraveable printing plates An apparatus and method for calibration of laser ablating energy versus ablating depth for a laser ablateable printing plate in relation to materials forming the printing plate, includes a memory for storing data, for each of a plurality of materials, corresponding ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7745756 | Laser processing machine A laser processing machine is provided in which a machining tool is automatically exchanged with a laser processing tool to be mounted to a processing head thereof to perform machining operations such as tapping to works. A machining tool 70 which is exchange... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7723638 | Laser conversion systems and methods for converting laser systems for operation in different laser safety classifications Laser conversion systems and methods for converting laser systems for operation in different laser safety classification modes are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a laser system includes a laser configured to emit radiation greater than about 5 mW and an exteri... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7679028 | Methods for producing uniform large-grained and grain boundary location manipulated polycrystalline thin film semiconductors using sequential lateral solidification Methods for processing an amorphous silicon thin film sample into a polycrystalline silicon thin film are disclosed. In one preferred arrangement, a method includes the steps of generating a sequence of excimer laser pulses, controllably modulating each excimer lase... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7671295 | Processing a memory link with a set of at least two laser pulses A set (50) of laser pulses (52) is employed to sever a conductive link (22) in a memory or other IC chip. The duration of the set (50) is preferably shorter than 1,000 ns; and the pulse width of each laser pulse (52) within the set... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7482551 | Processing a memory link with a set of at least two laser pulses A set (50) of laser pulses (52) is employed to sever a conductive link (22) in a memory or other IC chip. The duration of the set (50) is preferably shorter than 1,000 ns; and the pulse width of each laser pulse (52) within the set... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7439477 | Laser condensing optical system A laser condensing optical system of the present invention includes a laser beam source which emits a laser beam, a condensing optical system arranged between the laser beam source and a medium, the condensing optical system condensing the laser beam in the medium a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7435352 | Method of forming solder resist pattern A method for forming a solder resist pattern includes laminating a semi-cured thermosetting film on both sides of a substrate and laser ablating the laminated thermosetting film according to a solder resist mask pattern. The method is applicable to multilayer printe... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432471 | Laser beam hardening tool A laser beam hardening tool is comprised of an engagement portion for freely engaging with a tool holding portion of a machine tool, a beam guide path which is a passage of supplied laser beam, and a torch portion for radiating laser beam which passed through the be... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428862 | Cladded axial motor/pump piston and method of producing same A method of producing a piston that involves providing a piston body formed of a first material, the piston body having a cylindrical portion having a diameter, a rounded end, and a neck connecting the rounded end to the cylindrical portion and having a diameter les... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7411152 | Plasma detector and laser beam machine with plasma detector Voltage fluctuating time integrating means integrates voltage fluctuating time when voltage of a sensor electrode fluctuates as a voltage fluctuation integrated time, and voltage fluctuation occurrence rate computing means computes a rate of occurrence of voltage fl... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412300 | Thermal forming Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, one or more thermal forming treatments may be predicted to achieve a desired shape and/or microstructure in a workpiece. ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7397014 | Portable laser apparatus for marking an object The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for marking an object, particularly a vehicle, by disrupting the material of the interior or surface of the object. The system comprises a laser emitter (102), a laser beam delivery means (104)... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394476 | Methods and systems for thermal-based laser processing a multi-material device A method and system for locally processing a predetermined microstructure formed on a substrate without causing undesirable changes in electrical or physical characteristics of the substrate or other structures formed on the substrate are provided. The method includ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7368681 | Apparatus for simultaneous laser welding A device for the simultaneous welding of work pieces and containing a plurality of laser light sources. The laser light sources are positioned on at least one circle in such a manner that the partial beams emitted by the laser light sources produce at least one regi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367930 | Automatic tool changer of laser beam machine The invention provides a rotation-type changer of torches and nozzles for a laser beam machine having a movable table. The automatic tool changer 100 of a laser beam machine is equipped with a plurality of torch holders 160 and a nozzle changer 170 | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365743 | Assignments for parallel rasterization Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to rasterize an image by generating assignments and allocating the assignments among multiple processor threads such that no two processor threads are rasterizing concurrently into overlapping regions of a ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363796 | Cold form nozzle for laser processing A method for cold-forming a nozzle for a laser includes placing a slug or tube of oxygen-free copper into a die. A mandrel is forced into the copper slug or tube. The resultant compressive force causes the copper to cold flow around the mandrel and the die to define... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364952 | Systems and methods for processing thin films The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for processing a thin film samples. In an exemplary method, semiconductor thin films are loaded onto two different loading fixtures, laser beam pulses generated by a laser source system are split into first l... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363180 | Method for correcting systematic errors in a laser processing system A method for calibrating a laser micro-machining system in three dimensions includes scanning a sample workpiece to determine the 3D surface, calculating the best fit surfaces to the scanned data in a series of steps, and storing the results so that subsequent workp... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357486 | Method of laser machining a fluid slot A method of laser machining a fluid slot includes directing a UV laser beam towards a substrate with microelectronics to form a slot through the substrate. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354158 | Transmission-type screen and projection-type display device Exemplary embodiments provide a transmission-type screen and a projection-type display device, which are superior in contrast. Exemplary embodiments provide a transmission-type screen characterized by including a display plane; a front side layer; and a backside lay... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352384 | Method for printing a near field photoinduced stable structure, and optical fibre tip for implementing same The invention generally concerns a method involving emitting polarization light waves through an aperture with a dimension of maximum size lower than or equal to 100 nm, wherein the aperture is circumferentially bound by an opaque area that prevents the light waves ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348515 | Solder dispenser A solder dispenser provides a cylindrical dispensing container which has a solder inlet for introducing a solder member, and an opening portion for discharging the above-mentioned solder member to the external, and forms an internal space where the solder member can... | 03/25/2008 |
