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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7632451 | Ceramic screen printing apparatus The print head and screen assembly of a Semi-Automatic Screen Printer is raised above its normal printing height and selective attachment of several different fixtures on the nest plate for holding the substrate in a desired position during a screen printing operati... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7547407 | Manufacturing method for sintered body with buried metallic member A manufacturing method for a sintered body having a metallic member buried therein is provided, and includes forming an alumina sintered body, forming a metallic member by printing a printing paste including a refractory metal on the alumina sintered body, forming a... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7413699 | Method of making ceramic electronic element A ceramic electronic element having improved the continuity of inner electrode layers while suppressing the decrease in adhesion between its dielectric layers and inner electrode layers and the deterioration in functions of the inner electrode layers, and a method o... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7396785 | Composition for ceramic substrate, ceramic substrate, process for producing ceramic substrate and glass composition A ceramic substrate composition is provided which can be co-fired with a low-melting metal and exhibits excellent dielectric characteristics at high frequencies, particularly tens of gigahertz. The ceramic substrate composition mainly contains a glass represented by... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7314841 | Porcelain composition A ceramic composition includes a glass composition and a filler including at least one of Al2O3 and TiO2, wherein the composition of the ceramic composition includes 0.15 to 0.55 mol of a, 0.45 to 0.85 mol of b, 0.01 to 0.2 mol of an... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7061102 | High performance flipchip package that incorporates heat removal with minimal thermal mismatch A semiconductor flipchip package includes a central cavity area on the first major side for receiving a flipchip die therein. The package substrate is substantially made from a single material that serves as the support and stiffener and provides within the cavity f... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6986865 | Method for manufacturing an electrostatic chuck A method for manufacturing an electrostatic chuck is disclosed wherein a sintered ceramic body having a dielectric layer made from Alumina (Al2O2) and Titanium Nitride (TiN) having a specific range of particle size is heat treated in an oxygen-rich environment in or... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6974516 | Method of making laminate thin-wall ceramic tubes and said tubes with electrodes, particularly for solid oxide fuel cells A method of fabricating a ceramic tube with electrodes thereon suitable for use as a tubular reaction chamber for a fuel cell. In one embodiment, the method includes wrapping a first electrode material around a mandrel, then wrapping a green ceramic material over th... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6964718 | Method of preparing multilayered piezoelectric ceramic material Co-fired multilayer piezoelectric ceramic materials with base metal electrodes based on copper, copper alloy, are found as an effective approach to manufacture low cost multilayer piezoelectrics. The method of the invention is performed at low firing temperature and... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6927332 | Flexible test cable A flexible test cable has a center conductor (210), a conductive sleeve (240) with an effective electrical length equal to an odd quarter wavelength of a frequency of interest, a dielectric spacer (230) located inside the conductive sleeve (2... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6841343 | Black-and-white organic solvent-based photothermographic materials containing mercaptotriazole toners Organic solvent-based photothermographic materials comprise one or more mercaptotriazoles represented by the following Structure I as toner(s): wherein R1 and R2 independently represent hydrogen, ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6824907 | Tubular solid oxide fuel cell stack This invention relates to a fuel cell sub-stack comprising a plurality of tubular fuel cells, and a solid-state matrix in which the fuel cells are embedded. Each fuel cell comprises an inner electrode layer, an outer electrode layer, and an electrolyte layer sandwic... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6667256 | Glass-ceramic composition for ceramic electronic part, ceramic electronic part, and method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic electronic part When ceramic electronic parts such as multilayer ceramic substrates that have a substrate body and metal wiring conductors comprising silver are manufactured, a composition comprising not only a borosilicate glass powder and a ceramic powder, but also an ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6641775 | Reducing manufacturing and raw material costs for device manufacture with nanostructured powders Methods for lowering processing and raw material costs are disclosed. Specifically, the use of nanostructured powders is disclosed for faster and lower sintering temperatures whereby electrodes currently employing platinum can be substituted with lower me... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6613270 | Method of forming superconducting composite article A novel process of the production and processing of high quality, high Tc BSCCO or (Bi,Pb)SCCO superconductors starts with fabrication of a forming a bundle including a plurality of billets, each billet containing at least one filament comprisi... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6610621 | Glass-ceramic composition for ceramic electronic part, ceramic electronic part, and method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic electronic part When ceramic electronic parts such as multilayer ceramic substrates that have a substrate body and metal wiring conductors comprising silver are manufactured, a composition comprising not only a borosilicate glass powder and a ceramic powder, but also an ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6551427 | Method for manufacturing ceramic substrate and non-fired ceramic substrate The present invention provides a method for readily and efficiently manufacturing a ceramic substrate having an excellent dimensional accuracy and small degree of warp comprising the steps of: preparing a non-sintered multilayer ceramic body formed by lam... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6544090 | Method for forming barrier structures on a substrate and the resulting article A method for chemically etching of a foam glass layer to provide at least one cavity pattern in the foam glass layer. The method utilizes a substrate with at least one major surface suitable for receiving a glass layer. At least one layer of a glass paste... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6514453 | Thermal sensors prepared from nanostructureed powders This invention describes a method of rapidly monitoring the temperature of a medium and a method of preparing a quantum confined device that can enable such measurements. The monitoring principle uses changes in impedance of nanostructured devices, i.e. d... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6471805 | Method of forming metal contact pads on a metal support substrate A method of forming low resistance contact pads on a metal support substrate for a multilayer ceramic printed circuit board comprising forming a patterned layer of a conductive metal on the metal support substrate made of the same metal as that used to fo... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6444066 | Method for manufacturing ceramic electronic device A highly reliable ceramic electronic device is manufactured by suppressing diffusion of silver, the ceramic device having a silver-based conductive pattern on a sintered glass ceramic compact primarily composed of BaO--TiO2 --ReO3/2 ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6436332 | Low loss glass ceramic composition with modifiable dielectric constant The dielectric constant of low loss tangent glass-ceramic compositions, such as cordierite-based glass ceramics, is modified over a range by selective addition of high dielectric constant ceramics, such as titanates, tantalates and carbides and metals, su... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6395118 | Method for manufacturing ceramic substrate and non-fired ceramic substrate The present invention provides a method for readily and efficiently manufacturing a ceramic substrate having an excellent dimensional accuracy and small degree of warp comprising the steps of: preparing a non-sintered multilayer ceramic body formed by lam... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6319343 | Green sheets of controlled microporosity and method of producing same Ceramic green sheets of controlled microporosity and method of making same have been provided. Controlled microporosity is achieved by including certain ionic species in the ceramic composition, particularly boron, phosphorus and copper oxide.... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6270716 | Process for the production of low-temperature firing ceramic compositions A process for the production of dielectric porcelain composition includes: a first step of admixing Bi2 O3 and CuO with a BaO--TiO2 --ReO3/2 main material, wherein Re is a lanthanoid element, to give a material ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6254819 | Forming channel members for ink jet printheads A method of making an ink jet printer channel member for use in ink delivery includes molding piezoelectric ceramic powders into a slab in the green state having top and bottom surfaces, forming alternating grooves on the top and bottom surfaces of the gr... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6242075 | Planar multilayer ceramic structures with near surface channels A multilayer ceramic device has top and bottom green ceramic layers machined and fired. Intermediate green ceramic layers are machined, have conductors laid down in the machined areas, are laminated, and are fired to form an enclosure layer. The areas of ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6217821 | Method of forming distortion-free circuits A method of forming a distortion-free circuit whereby a conductive composition is applied to at least one layer of green ceramic tape. The conductive composition formulation is based on total composition, conductive powder selected from Ag, Pd, Pt and mix... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6174489 | Method for manufacturing a gas sensor unit A method for manufacturing an oxygen sensor unit of the type which includes at least a shaped body of a solid electrolyte, an inner electrode provided on an inside surface of the shaped body and exposed to a reference gas, an outer electrode provided on a... | 01/16/2001 |
| 5989484 | Multilayer glass ceramic substrate and process for producing the same A multilayer glass ceramic substrate having a plurality of conductor layers each laminated through a glass ceramic layer. The glass ceramic layer has a composition comprising of alumina, borosilicate magnesium glass and cordierite crystal produced by chem... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5985068 | Method of manufacturing a monolithic ceramic electronic device A method of manufacturing a monolithic ceramic electronic device includes the following steps: forming a first metal film on a PET film; forming a multilayered metal film by forming a second metal film on a part of the first metal film, the second metal f... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5948193 | Process for fabricating a multilayer ceramic substrate from thin greensheet Greensheets having enhanced flexibility and strength are prepared from a greensheet casting composition comprising alumina or other ceramic having a mean particle size of less than about 1 micron and being substantially unimodal, a binder resin, a solvent... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5932043 | Method for flat firing aluminum nitride/tungsten electronic modules A method and apparatus for flattening a ceramic body comprised primarily of an aluminum nitride system having a liquid phase additive necessary for low temperature sintering during a firing thereof is disclosed. The ceramic body is referred to as an alumi... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5919325 | Process for producing a ceramic multilayer substrate A process for producing a ceramic multilayer substrate, particularly an LTCC substrate, in which printed circuit traces and plated contactings are produced in a printing process on a plurality of green ceramic foils using a conductive paste which contains... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5909083 | Process for producing plasma display panel A process for producing a plasma display panel, involving the formation of a predetermined pattern for a plasma display panel, including an electrode pattern and a barrier for defining a discharge space, said process comprising the steps of: forming a pre... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5888445 | Method for making ceramic micro-electromechanical parts and tools A method for making electromechanical parts and tools having at least one micro-diameter electrically conductive thread incorporated therein is accomplished by molding the elements which form the base for the electromechanical part or tool from a ceramic ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5881449 | Method of making a microceramic electromagnetic light shutter A method of making a microceramic electromagnetic light shutter, includes forming a micromolded bottom ceramic portion in the green state with a sacrificial fiber having a first and second end portion and being shaped in the form of a coil, mounted on its... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5871684 | Method of making lightweight, low thermal expansion microwave structures A method of making a lightweight, microwave electronic structure includes the steps of forming a rigid, glass structure having a desired density by a sol-gel process and thereafter uniformly coating the formed glass structure with an adherent and uniform ... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5868884 | Method for producing ceramic dielectrics A method for producing ceramic dielectrics containing a water soluble metal acid or salt includes making a mixture by kneading a water soluble metal acid or salt, particulates, sintering auxiliaries and water, mixing the mixture with a binder and plastici... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5865930 | Formations of spacers suitable for use in flat panel displays The invention provides spacers for separating and supporting a faceplate structure and a backplate structure in a flat panel display, and methods for fabricating these spacers. Each spacer is typically made of ceramic, such as alumina, containing transiti... | 02/02/1999 |
