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A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178819 | Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam The thermal processing device includes a stage, a continuous wave electromagnetic radiation source, a series of lenses, a translation mechanism, a detection module, a three-dimensional auto-focus, and a computer system. The stage is configured to receive a substrate... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7875829 | Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam The thermal processing device includes a stage, a continuous wave electromagnetic radiation source, a series of lenses, a translation mechanism, a detection module, a three-dimensional auto-focus, and a computer system. The stage is configured to receive a substrate... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7872209 | Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam The thermal processing device includes a stage, a continuous wave electromagnetic radiation source, a series of lenses, a translation mechanism, a detection module, a three-dimensional auto-focus, and a computer system. The stage is configured to receive a substrate... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7772523 | Laser irradiation apparatus and laser irradiation method It is an object of the present invention to provide a laser irradiation apparatus and a laser irradiation method for conducting a laser process homogeneously to the whole surface of a semiconductor film. A first laser beam emitted from a first laser oscillator passe... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7635825 | Arrangement and method for producing a three-dimensional product An arrangement and method for production of three-dimensional bodies by successive fusing together of selected areas of a powder bed, which parts correspond to successive cross sections of the three-dimensional body, which method comprises the following method steps... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7485828 | Residual stress improving apparatus for piping technical field A residual stress improving apparatus for piping, which can heat an outer peripheral surface of piping to reduce (including eliminate) the residual stress of the piping is provided. The apparatus has a laser head portion, and circumferential direction moving mechani... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7402774 | Flexible scan field An energy beam machining system includes an emitter for emitting an energy beam and beam adjusting optics, such as a zoom telescope, for adjusting the pupil size of the system to multiple values. The adjusting of the pupil size can be carried out automatically, semi... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7399945 | Method of thermal processing a substrate with direct and redirected reflected radiation Apparatus and methods for thermally processing a substrate with scanned laser radiation are disclosed. The apparatus includes a continuous radiation source and an optical system that forms an image on a substrate. The image is scanned relative to the substrate surfa... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7355614 | Filling an area of an image marked on a material with a laser A system converts graphic images, such as those created by graphics applications, to a format that can be efficiently printed on a material by a laser printing system. An image can be converted to a set of locations by defining progressively smaller contours of the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7326876 | Sequential lateral solidification device A sequential lateral solidification device, for enhancing optical characteristics of the device and for preventing damage caused by an ablation of a crystallization thin film, is disclosed. The device includes a laser light source generating a laser beam, a projecti... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326877 | Laser thermal processing chuck with a thermal compensating heater module Chuck methods and apparatus for supporting a semiconductor substrate and maintaining it at a substantially constant background temperature even when subject to a spatially and temporally varying thermal load. Chuck includes a thermal compensating heater module havin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7316934 | Personalized hardware A system for personalizing one or more electrical circuits having plurality of layers with electrical characteristics. The layers being produced by an electrical characteristic determination process (ECDP). The system for personalizing includes a wafer stage for rec... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312418 | Semiconductor thin film forming system In a semiconductor thin film forming system for modifying a predetermined region of a semiconductor thin film by exposing the semiconductor thin film to a projected light patterned through a pattern formed on a photo mask, the system includes a mechanism (opt20 | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313501 | Method and system for determining the location of a potential defect in a device based on a temperature profile According to one embodiment of the invention a method for determining the location of a potential defect in a device includes scanning a surface of the device with a temperature sensor while operating the device. The method also includes measuring a temperature of t... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304005 | Laser irradiation apparatus, laser irradiation method, and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device A second laser light of a continuous wave oscillation is irradiated to a region melted by a first laser light of a pulsed oscillation having a harmonic. Specifically, the first laser light has a wavelength not longer than that of visible light (830 nm, preferably no... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292320 | Laser crystallization apparatus and laser crystallization method A laser crystallization apparatus, which enables an observation of a high spatial resolution with several μm and a high temporal resolution with several nanoseconds, comprising a crystallization optical system to irradiate a laser light to a thin film provided on a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292616 | COlaser stabilization systems and methods Systems and methods for stabilizing a CO2 laser are disclosed. The system includes a detector unit for measuring the power in a select portion of the output beam. The detector unit generates an electrical signal corresponding to the measured power. The mo... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7279657 | Scanned rapid thermal processing with feed forward control A thermal processing system and method including scanning a line beam of intense radiation in a direction transverse to the line direction for thermally processing a wafer with a localized effectively pulsed beam of radiant energy. The thickness of the wafer is two-... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7279721 | Dual wavelength thermal flux laser anneal A thermal processing apparatus and method in which a first laser source, for example, a CO2 emitting at 10.6 μm is focused onto a silicon wafer as a line beam and a second laser source, for example, a GaAs laser bar emitting at 808 nm is focused onto the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7271012 | Failure analysis methods and systems A method and system for exposing the delicate structures of a device encapsulated in a mold compound such as an integrated circuit (IC). A laser is used to ablate the mold compound and thus remove it, exposing the underlying structure. The laser beam can be steered ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7253376 | Methods and apparatus for truncating an image formed with coherent radiation Methods and apparatus for truncating an image formed with coherent radiation. The optical relay system is adapted to form a line image at the image plane. The image is truncated by a variable aperture at or near the aperture plane conjugate to the image plane, to bl... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245412 | On-the-fly laser beam path error correction for specimen target location processing A laser-based workpiece processing system includes sensors connected to a sensor controller that converts sensor signals into focused spot motion commands for actuating a beam steering device, such as a two-axis steering mirror. The sensors may include a beam positi... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241667 | Method of separating layers of material A lift off process is used to separate a layer of material from a substrate by irradiating an interface between the layer of material and the substrate. According to one exemplary process, the layer is separated into a plurality of sections corresponding to dies on ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238915 | Methods and apparatus for irradiating a substrate to avoid substrate edge damage Methods and apparatus (100) for scanning a surface (12) of a substrate (10) with an obliquely incident radiation beam (20) over a select scan path (210) to avoid damage (30) to the curved edge (14) of the substrate. T... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238913 | Flexible scan field An energy beam machining system includes an emitter for emitting an energy beam and beam adjusting optics, such as a zoom telescope, for adjusting the pupil size of the system to multiple values. The adjusting of the pupil size can be carried out automatically, semi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238543 | Methods for marking a bare semiconductor die including applying a tape having energy-markable properties A method used for marking a semiconductor wafer or device. The method and apparatus have particular application to wafers or devices which have been subjected to a thinning process, including backgrinding in particular. The present method comprises reducing the cros... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233424 | Steering assembly with electromagnetic actuators A laser cutting system, including a steering mirror assembly for directing a laser beam through a predetermined cutting path along a workpiece or substrate material. The steering mirror assembly includes a base, and a mirror pivotally supported on the base by a flex... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233643 | Measurement apparatus and method for determining the material composition of a sample by combined X-ray fluorescence analysis and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy A measurement apparatus and method are provided for determining the material composition of a sample. An X-ray fluorescence detector (412) detects fluorescent X-rays coming from said sample under irradiation with incident X-rays. A laser source (301) i... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227098 | Method and system for decreasing the effective pulse repetition frequency of a laser Methods and systems operate a machine having a laser characterized by a PRF (pulse repetition frequency) parameter that specifies a PRF at which pulses produced by the laser have desirable pulse properties for irradiating structures on or within a workpiece. The str... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223938 | Method for manufacturing a display device including irradiating overlapping regions A display device is manufactured by forming a semiconductor film over a substrate and irradiating the film with laser light. The laser light is generated from an oscillator, passes through an attenuator that includes a filter, and passes through an optical system af... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220627 | Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device where the scanning direction changes between regions during crystallization and process The speed of the laser scanned by the scanning means such as a galvanometer mirror or a polygon mirror is not constant in the center portion and in the end portion of the scanning width. As a result, the object, for example an amorphous semiconductor film, is irradi... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7214573 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device that includes patterning sub-islands A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided which uses a laser crystallization method capable of increasing substrate processing efficiency. An island-like semiconductor film including one or more islands is formed by patterning (sub-island). The su... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7205502 | Reflector-mirror drive shaft controller for laser beam machine A reflector-mirror drive shaft controller is provided for a laser beam machine which optimizes a beam for workpiece thickness by correcting a control axis of a laser reflector-mirror of a laser beam machine. A laser beam outputted from a laser oscillator device of a... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7187507 | Optical component and laser irradiation apparatus The present invention provides an optical component for fixing a lens comprising a base, a holder, and a fastener. The base has a concave side surface and at least one first hole. The holder has a cylindrical shape and has a second hole penetrating through a center ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176405 | Heat shield for thermal processing A heat shield (10) that facilitates thermally processing a substrate (22) with a radiation beam (150) is disclosed. The heat shield is in the form of a cooled plate adapted to allow the radiation beam to communicate with the substrate upper surf... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167194 | Printing a code on a product A method for printing is described. The method includes providing a printing system for printing a code on a product moving in a direction. The code is constructed from a plurality of pixels in a first data set indicating the positions of the pixels and generates a ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164152 | Laser-irradiated thin films having variable thickness A crystalline film includes a first crystalline region having a first film thickness and a first crystalline grain structure; and a second crystalline region having a second film thickness and a second crystalline grain structure. The first film thickness is greater... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7154066 | Laser scanning apparatus and methods for thermal processing Apparatus and methods for thermally processing a substrate with scanned laser radiation are disclosed. The apparatus includes a continuous radiation source and an optical system that forms an image on a substrate. The image is scanned relative to the substrate surfa... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151046 | Semiconductor thin film decomposing method, decomposed semiconductor thin film, decomposed semiconductor thin film evaluation method, thin film transistor made of decomposed semiconductor thin film, and image display device having circuit constituted of thin film transistors A surface roughness of a polycrystalline semiconductor film to be formed by a laser annealing method is reduced. A transmittance distribution filter is disposed at the optical system of a laser annealing apparatus. The transmittance distribution filter controls an i... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148159 | Laser thermal annealing of lightly doped silicon substrates Apparatus and method for performing laser thermal annealing (LTA) of a substrate using an annealing radiation beam that is not substantially absorbed in the substrate at room temperature. The method takes advantage of the fact that the absorption of long wavelength ... | 12/12/2006 |
