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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7206663 | Calibration cassette pod for robot teaching and method of using A calibration cassette pod for robot teaching and a method of using the calibration cassette pod are described. In the calibration cassette pod, a cassette pod body and a cassette pod door are first provided wherein the cassette pod body is constructed of a top pane... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7158857 | Method and apparatus for aligning a cassette An alignment tool, method and system are provided for aligning a cassette handler to a robot blade in a workpiece handling system, in which the tool comprises a frame or fixture adapted to be supported by the cassette handler support surface, in which the frame has ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7115891 | Wafer mapping device and load port provided with same A wafer mapping device that recognizes the existence of wafers along with the descending and opening of a front door (2a) of a closed type clean container (2) in a state where the front door of the closed type clean container for mounting and ho... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109509 | Device for the detection of substrates stacked with a specific spacing For a device for the detection of substrates stacked at an opening of a wall element, there existed the problem of constructing the detection device in such a way that the detection of the position of the substrates can be performed more flexibly with respect to the... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7011483 | Load port, semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, semiconductor manufacturing method, and method of detecting wafer adapter A load port includes an adapter-detecting sensor arranged at an upper portion of an opener. When the opener opens a lid of a FOUP, the adapter-detecting sensor detects whether a wafer adapter is mounted in the FOUP, and notifies a control unit of a semiconductor man... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6939203 | Fluid bearing slide assembly for workpiece polishing A fluid bearing polishing apparatus for carrying a polishing member for chemical mechanical polishing includes a fluid supply and a fluid dispensing structure to support the polishing member. A method of polishing a workpiece includes supporting a polishing member o... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6604902 | Cartridge loader and methods A device for transporting cartridges comprises a housing for holding a plurality of cartridges in a temperature controlled environment. A transport system is also provided and has a grasping mechanism for grasping one of the cartridges. The transport syst... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6511277 | Cartridge loader and methods A device for transporting cartridges comprises a housing for holding a plurality of cartridges in a temperature controlled environment. A transport system is also provided and has a grasping mechanism for grasping one of the cartridges. The transport syst... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6474925 | Linear personalization machine The present invention relates to a linear personalization machine comprising a transfer system (3) for portable objects (4), incorporating an integrated circuit, characterized in that it comprises a personalization elevator (20) translated vertically and ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6403945 | Device and method for detecting and distinguishing shelf-forming supports in cassettes and disk-shaped objects deposited thereon A device and a method for detecting and distinguishing between shelf-forming supports in cassettes and disk-shaped objects deposited thereon are provided for increasing accuracy in the determination of the position of shelves and objects as well as reliab... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6203262 | Cart loading system and method for library-like materials A cart loading system for placing library-like items onto a library cart is provided for a cart having a plurality of shelves between first and second cart end members. The loading system includes a cart tilting mechanism for receiving and tilting the car... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6142723 | Transfer apparatus A carrier transfer apparatus for automatically unloading and/or loading semiconductor device packages from and/or to printed circuit boards loaded into a carrier. The apparatus includes a housing, an input portion, an elevator portion and an output portio... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6074156 | Library cart loading system and method An automatic library cart loading system includes a tilter for elevating a library cart at selected angle relative to a material placer. The placer is positioned in between a pair of library carts, and includes a pair of linear slide actuators for positio... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6045318 | Lead frame supplying method and apparatus A lead frame supplying method and apparatus used with, for instance, a wire bonding machine, including a sensor which detects a presence or absence of a lead frame in a frame storing section of a lead frame magazine. The sensor is installed at the level o... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5967339 | Positional correction relative-flag structure of cartridge storage rack in library apparatus, and library apparatus The present invention is for realizing the improvement of the cartridge storage efficiency and size reduction of a library apparatus by installing relative flags using cells of a storage rack to suppress the increase in the installation area or volume of ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5903463 | Raising-and-lowering data setting method for magazine elevator device A data, which is used for raising-and-lowering a magazine holder on which a magazine for storing articles such as lead frames is placed in a magazine elevator device, being set by the steps of: placing a magazine on the magazine holder, storing in a memor... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5868545 | Automatic article feeding system A method for stocking a plurality of containers in a stocking device and feeding one container at a time to a robot includes the steps of separately supporting each container in a vertically moveable frame and moving the frame to align a selected containe... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5642978 | Device for handling disk-shaped objects in a handling plane of a local clean room A device for handling disk-shaped objects in a handling plane of a local clean room has the object of ensuring process steps preceding or following the processing and inspection of the disk-shaped objects under the conditions of a local clean room with th... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5605428 | Device for indexing magazine compartments and wafer-shaped objects in the compartments A device for indexing magazine compartments of a magazine and wafer-shaped objects contained therein to ensure precise access of the removing and charging device in any given predetermined plane of the magazine regardless of dimensional tolerances. An opt... | 02/25/1997 |
| 4895486 | Wafer monitoring device A monitoring device for determining the presence or absence of wafer-like objects in a carrier having a plurality of shelves, each shelf being constructed to support one such object in an orientation normal to a carrier axis. The monitoring device may adv... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4844680 | Automatic article feeding apparatus An automatic article feeding apparatus which includes a stocker for housing pallets for containing articles such as parts for assembly, interchangeable tools or the like, a first pallet operating device for transferring the pallets from the stocker to an ... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4712963 | Apparatus for soldering printed circuit boards Printed circuit boards to be soldered are placed in a magazine and automatically fed, one by one, to a printed circuit board-processing line. The processed boards are automatically collected in another, empty magazine. Lifting means is provided for vertic... | 12/15/1987 |
