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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7575784 | Coating formation by reactive deposition Light reactive deposition uses an intense light beam to form particles that are directly coated onto a substrate surface. In preferred embodiments, a coating apparatus comprising a noncircular reactant inlet, optical elements forming a light path, a first substrate,... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7364807 | Thermal barrier coating/environmental barrier coating system for a ceramic-matrix composite (CMC) article to improve high temperature capability In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, an article is provided. The article comprises a substrate comprised of silicon containing material, an environmental barrier coating (EBC) overlying the substrate and a thermal barrier coating (TBC) on the environme... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7285312 | Atomic layer deposition for turbine components A method and superalloy component for depositing a layer of material onto gas turbine engine components by atomic layer deposition. A superalloy component may have a ceramic thermal barrier coating on at least a portion of its surface, comprising a superalloy substr... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7262897 | Method of forming inorganic alignment film, inorganic alignment film, substrate for electronic device, liquid crystal panel and electronic apparatus A method of forming an inorganic alignment film on a base substrate is provided comprising forming a film made substantially of an inorganic material on the base substrate, and irradiating ion beams onto the surface of the film from a direction inclined at a predete... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7229675 | Protective coating method for pieces made of heat resistant alloys The invention relates to metallurgy and mechanical engineering, in particular to the development of methods for providing metallic pieces with protective coatings with a view to improving the performance characteristics thereof. In accordance with the inventive meth... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7175888 | Mischmetal oxide TBC The present invention is a turbine engine component comprising a superalloy substrate, a bond coat overlying the substrate having a thickness in the range of about 0.0005 inch to about 0.005 inch, a thin alumina scale overlying the bond coat, and a thermal barrier c... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170663 | Method of forming inorganic alignment film, inorganic alignment film, substrate for electronic device, liquid crystal panel and electronic apparatus A method of forming an inorganic alignment film on a base substrate is provided comprising forming a film made substantially of an inorganic material on the base substrate, and irradiating ion beams onto the surface of the film from a direction inclined at a predete... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170389 | Apparatus for tantalum pentoxide moisture barrier in film resistors The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing a thin resistor with a moisture barrier by depositing a metal film layer on a substrate and depositing a layer of tantalum pentoxide film overlaying the metal film layer. The present invention also includes a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166488 | Metal MEMS devices and methods of making same Metal MEMS structures are fabricated from metal substrates, preferably titanium, utilizing micromachining processes with a new deep etching procedure to provide released microelectromechanical devices. The deep etch procedure includes metal anisotropic reactive ion ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7135369 | Atomic layer deposited ZrAlO dielectric layers including ZrAlO An atomic layer deposited ZrAlxOy dielectric layer and a method of fabricating such a dielectric layer produce a reliable dielectric layer having an equivalent oxide thickness thinner than attainable using SiO2. Pulsing a zirconium-c... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7128950 | Electron beam physical vapor deposition process An electron beam physical vapor deposition (EBPVD) process performed with a coating apparatus to produce a coating material (e.g., a ceramic thermal barrier coating) on an article. The EBPVD apparatus generally includes a coating chamber operated at an elevated temp... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7112453 | Retentate chromatography and protein chip arrays with applications in biology and medicine This invention provides methods of retentate chromatography for resolving analytes in a sample. The methods involve adsorbing the analytes to a substrate under a plurality of different selectivity conditions, and detecting the analytes retained on the substrate by d... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7087266 | Thermal barrier coating and process therefor A thermal barrier coating, or TBC, and method for forming the TBC. The TBC is formed of a thermal-insulating material that contains yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) alloyed with at least a third oxide. The TBC is formed to also contain elemental carbon, and may pote... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6991826 | Antisoiling coatings for antireflective substrates This invention relates to antisoiling compositions for antireflective substrates. More particularly, this invention relates to methods for depositing antisoiling compositions onto antireflective substrates. In particular, this invention relates to a method of deposi... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6982797 | Apparatus for devices for determining properties of applied layers The invention relates to an apparatus for devices for determining properties of thin layers applied on a substrate. This apparatus comprises two changing magazines wherein one magazine is provided for crystal resonators and the other magazine for test glasses. The c... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6902625 | Multiple pocket electron beam source An improved crucible cover for multiple pocket electron beam sources has been invented. The invention provides selection between one of the multiple pockets for evaporative heating and a noncontacting, line-of-sight blocking baffle between heated and unheated pocket... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6846742 | Si seasoning to reduce particles, extend clean frequency, block mobile ions and increase chamber throughput Embodiments of the present invention include a method of depositing an improved seasoning film. In one embodiment the method includes, prior to performing a substrate processing operation, forming a layer of silicon over an interior surface of the substrate processi... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6758915 | Grain oriented electromagnetic steel sheet exhibiting extremely small watt loss and method for producing the same The invention is a grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet having extremely low iron loss, suitable for use as an iron core material for transformers and power generators, and a method for producing the same. The method includes forming a coating layer on a surface of a... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6673386 | Method and apparatus for forming pattern onto panel substrate A method for forming a pattern on a surface of a panel substrate, includes electrically charging pattern-forming material particles, jetting out the electrically charged pattern-forming material particles through a nozzle by applying electrostatic force t... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6620465 | Physical properties of thermal barrier coatings using electron beam-physical vapor deposition An improved method for applying a ceramic material, such as a thermal barrier coating to an article. A method for applying a ceramic material as a coating to a substrate article in which the thermal conductivity of the ceramic material is reduced or lower... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6602553 | Process for producing a ceramic thermal barrier layer for gas turbine engine component An article that is particularly well suited for use as a gas turbine engine component has a metallic substrate and a ceramic thermal barrier layer including a mixed metal oxide system comprising a compound selected from the group consisting of (i) a lanth... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6598425 | Method for collecting soot A method and apparatus for manufacturing optical components. A burner generates soot, and a surface area collector collects the soot. The burner is disposed such that the soot collected within the surface area collector is substantially not reheated by su... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6578381 | Fine glass particle containing embedded oxide and process for producing the same The oxides-enclosed fine glass particles are arranged such that two or more pieces of at least two kinds of enclosing particles, which comprise oxides, double oxides, or salts of oxyacids, or double oxides or double salts thereof, are enclosed in each of ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6576294 | Method for forming barrier film Barrier film with a high colorless transparency comprising a flexible plastic substrate. A barrier layer is formed on the surface and has a thickness ranging from approximately 50 to less than 200 Angstroms and is formed of a material selected from the gr... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6387539 | Thermal barrier coating having high phase stability A device (10) comprising a substrate (22) having a deposited ceramic thermal barrier coating characterized by a microstructure having gaps (28) where the thermal barrier coating comprises a first thermal barrier layer (40), and a second thermal barrier la... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6365016 | Method and apparatus for arc plasma deposition with evaporation of reagents A method and apparatus for depositing a coating on a substrate. A method of coating a substrate comprises evaporating a first reactant; introducing the evaporated reactant into a plasma; and depositing the first reactant on a surface of the substrate. Thi... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6358572 | Method for manufacturing a nonlinear optical thin film A method for manufacturing a nonlinear optical thin film of a silica glass system with sufficient nonlinear optical characteristics, in which a glass substrate 12 is disposed within a vacuum deposition chamber 10 and an electron beam is applied to a SiO | 03/19/2002 |
| 6342278 | Method for forming a thermal barrier coating by electron beam physical vapor deposition A method of depositing a ceramic thermal barrier coating on an article that will be subjected to a hostile environment, such as turbine, combustor and augmentor components of a gas turbine engine. The thermal barrier coating is deposited by electron beam ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6332016 | Photoelectric conversion device, manufacturing method thereof, and x-ray imaging system including the device In order to provide a photoelectric conversion device of high S/N ratio or high resolution in which the outputs of sensor cells except any defective sensor cell can be made to have normal values, thereby to obtain data of higher precision, any switching e... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6296895 | Process for the application of a transparent metal oxide layer on a film A pure metal is vaporized in a receiver, and a quantity of oxygen slightly substoichiometric for the oxide is introduced. To determine the thickness of the layer deposited on the film and to control the vaporization rate, optical sensors are installed in ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6287644 | Continuously-graded bond coat and method of manufacture A continuously-graded bond coat comprises a gradient of at least one material characteristic value. The gradient extends from a first material characteristic value at a first surface region to a second material characteristic value at a second surface reg... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6265353 | Device and method for producing a multilayered material In a method for producing laminate, a buffer layer is applied to a substrate, with the buffer layer material being evaporated from the buffer layer material dispensing devices at an angle 댑.noteq.0 at the normal to the substrate surface ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6258467 | Thermal barrier coating having high phase stability A device (10) comprising a substrate (22) having a deposited ceramic thermal barrier coating layer (20) characterized by a microstructure having gaps (28) where the thermal barrier coating (20) consists essentially of a pyrochlore crystal structure having... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6235352 | Method of repairing a thermal barrier coating A method of repairing a damaged area of a thermal barrier coating on a component which is subjected to a hostile thermal environment, which comprises cleaning the damaged area, applying a partially stabilized zirconium sol-gel to the area, and pyrolizing ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6183884 | Metallic article having a thermal barrier coating and a method of application thereof A metallic article includes a bond coating and a ceramic thermal barrier coating on the bond coating. The ceramic thermal barrier coating includes a plurality of columnar grains, which extend perpendicularly to the surface of the metallic article. Each co... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6153271 | Electron beam evaporation of transparent indium tin oxide A process for depositing a transparent coating of indium tin oxide on a substrate comprising providing said substrate in a partial vacuum environment and conducting electron beam evaporation of tin oxide doped indium oxide granules while operating an ion ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6147033 | Apparatus and method for forming a film on a tape substrate This invention relates to an apparatus and method for forming a high temperature superconducting film on a tape substrate. In this invention, the superconducting film is deposited on the tape substrate wound around a cylindrical substrate holder inserted ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6110604 | Metallic article having a thermal barrier coating and a method of application thereof A metallic article includes a bond coating and a ceramic thermal barrier coating on the bond coating. The ceramic thermal barrier coating includes a plurality of columnar grains extending substantially perpendicularly to the surface of the metallic articl... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6103318 | Method for making an optical waveguide component using a low-stress silicon photomask A method of forming a layer of silicon on a surface comprises the steps of depositing silicon on the surface by a physical deposition process such as electron beam evaporation and, during said deposition process, subjecting the forming film to ionic bomba... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6096700 | Environmental wipe solvent compositions and processes A non-chrome process for the pretreatment of substrate surfaces to simultaneously clean them and improve their bonding strength for organic coatings such as adhesives, protective primers, sealants, paints, composites and similar materials conventionally b... | 08/01/2000 |
