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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7964289 | Formation method of metal layer on resin layer, printed wiring board, and production method thereof A printed wiring board having a conductor circuit comprising a copper layer adjacent to an insulating layer and an electroless gold plating, wherein the insulating layer has ten-point mean surface roughness (Rz) of 2.0 μm or less is provided. According to the prese... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7749611 | Peel strength enhancement of copper laminates In one aspect, a copper foil for lamination to a dielectric substrate includes a layer deposited on a surface of the copper foil. The layer is formed from chromium and zinc ions or oxides and is treated with an aqueous solution containing at least 0.5% silane. In an... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7749612 | Resin coated metal foil, metal clad laminate, printed wiring board using them, and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a metal clad laminate or a resin coated metal foil having a metal foil whose both surfaces are not substantially roughening-treated and an insulating resin composition layer using generally used insulating resin, and a printed wiring b... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7431779 | Ultrasonic impact machining of body surfaces to correct defects and strengthen work surfaces Metallic workpieces of diverse shapes having work surfaces which are deformed at the surface and adjacent sub-surface layers by surface impact from ultrasonic transducers employing freely axially moving impacting elements propelled and energized by a transducer osci... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7384698 | Metal article intended for at least partially coating with a substance and a method for producing the same A metal article intended for at least partially coating with a substance, which includes a metal solder, a plastic, a glass, or a ceramic. The metal article itself may include, in particular, connecting, supporting, or conducting components for an electronic compone... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7354658 | Oil seal The present invention provides a metal part in which a rubber is adhered to a portion or the whole of a surface thereof, and a surface treating method of the metal part, in order to improve adhesive property between the metal and the rubber, to easily form a surface... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354659 | Method for fabricating large dimension bonds using reactive multilayer joining A method for joining component bodies of material over bonding regions of large dimensions by disposing a plurality of substantially contiguous sheets of reactive composite materials between the bodies and adjacent sheets of fusible material. The contiguous sheets o... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7303820 | Heat spreader for display device A heat spreader for a display device, such as a plasma display panel, a light emitting diode or a liquid crystal display, which includes at least one sheet of compressed particles of exfoliated graphite having two major surfaces, both of which have a layer of an adh... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293690 | Method of manufacturing metallic composite material Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a metallic composite material for use as building material, the metallic composite material including an aluminium core sheet and a titanium clad layer on at least one side of the core sheet. The aluminium core sheet and titani... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294413 | Substrate protected by superalloy bond coat system and microcracked thermal barrier coating A protected article includes a substrate having a surface, and a protective system overlying and contacting a first portion of the surface of the substrate. The protective system has a nickel-base superalloy bond coat, an aluminide layer overlying and contacting the... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7276273 | Heat spreader for display device A heat spreader (10) for a display device, such as a plasma display panel, a light emitting diode or a liquid crystal display, comprising at least one sheet of compressed particles of exfoliated graphite having a surface area greater than the surface area of ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7264887 | MCrAlY bond coating and method of depositing said MCrAlY bond coating A method of depositing a bond coating to a surface of an article includes the steps of depositing an inner layer of the bond coating consisting of β-NiAl comprising Fe, Ga, Mo, B, Hf or Zr or γ/β-MCrAlY comprising Fe, Ga, Mo, B, Hf or Zr or γ/γ′- or γ-MCrAlY... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258209 | Brake drum and method for producing the same A brake drum includes a ring-shaped drum body, and a friction member secured to the inner circumferential surface of the drum body. Because the drum body is formed of a lightweight Al alloy and the friction member is formed of an Al-base composite material, the brak... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7250222 | Layer system A system for bonding layers (1) of different chemical compositions, such as bonding a thermal barrier layer to a metal substrate on a surface of a gas turbine component. A substrate (4) made either of a ceramic material or particularly of a metal super... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7232614 | Tungsten disulfide surface treatment A tungsten disulfide metal surface treatment in which the substrate material is prepared through impingement of small blast media particle sizes to create formed pockets in the substrate material approximately matched to the size of the tungsten disulfide particles.... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229699 | Bearing having embedded hard particle layer and overlay and method of manufacture A multilayer sliding bearing includes a rigid metal backing having a metal bearing liner attached thereto. The metal bearing liner includes a metal bearing liner layer which is attached to the bearing surface of the metal backing layer and at least one metal overpla... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226672 | Turbine components with thermal barrier coatings A turbine component has a substrate formed from a ceramic material selected from the group consisting of a monolithic ceramic material and a composite ceramic material and a thermal barrier coating bonded to the substrate. In one embodiment, the ceramic material for... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226664 | Laminated polyester film, flame-retardant polyester film thereof, copper-clad laminated plate and circuit substrate The present invention is to provide a laminated polyester film with excellent adhesive properties for use in a laminating material, and the laminated polyester film is a film in which a resin layer including a polyester resin and a oxazoline-based cross-linking agen... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226667 | Cast-iron insert and method of manufacturing same A cylinder liner has an outer circumferential surface around which another metal is to be cast. The cylinder liner also has a plurality of protrusions disposed on the outer circumferential surface and having respective substantially conical undercuts or necks which ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223481 | Method of producing ultra-thin copper foil with carrier, ultra-thin copper foil with carrier produced by the same, printed circuit board, multilayer printed circuit board and chip on film circuit board An object of the present invention is to produce an ultra-thin copper foil with a carrier which has few pinholes and small surface roughness and which has an the thickness of less than 5 μm, and to produce the method of producing the foil, and further to produce a ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7215456 | Method for patterning self-assembled colloidal photonic crystals and method for fabricating 3-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides of an inverted-opal structure using the patterning method A method for patterning self-assembled colloidal photonic crystals and a method for fabricating three-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides having an inverted-opal structure using the patterning method. The patterning method includes depositing first and second co... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7204019 | Method for repairing an apertured gas turbine component A method for repairing defects in a gas turbine component that comprises a substrate and an existing coating on the substrate. The article includes cooling holes having a predetermined air flow requirement and an outer shaped portion and an inner metering portion. T... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205180 | Process of fabricating semiconductor packages using leadframes roughened with chemical etchant A semiconductor package contains a metal leadframe that has been specially treated by roughening it with a chemical etchant. The roughening process enhances the adhesion between the leadframe and the molten plastic during the encapsulation of the leadframe and there... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200927 | Method for producing a wiring transfer sheet A wiring transfer sheet including a carrier base and a wiring layer formed thereon is produced so that an exposed area of a surface of the carrier base on which the wiring layer is formed has a plurality of concavities. By transferring the wiring layer to an electri... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7185620 | Cam follower of a valve drive of an internal combustion engine A cam follower of a valve drive of an internal combustion engine, having a run-on surface for following at least one cam. The run-on surface has a microstructure comprising depressions for accumulating lubricant, wherein the depressions form an at least largely symm... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176043 | Microelectronic packages and methods therefor A microelectronic package includes a microelectronic element having faces and contacts and a flexible substrate spaced from and overlying a first face of the microelectronic element. The package also includes a plurality of conductive posts extending from the flexib... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7160619 | Heat spreader for emissive display device A heat spreader for an emissive display device, such as a plasma display panel or a light emitting diode, comprising at least one sheet of compressed particles of exfoliated graphite having a surface area greater than the surface area of that part of a discharge cel... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7144302 | Method for smoothing the surface of a gas turbine blade A surface of the gas turbine blade is smoothed by way of a drag finish process. A first ring-shaped container is filled with a liquid abrasive medium. A second container which is arranged next to the first container is filled with a second liquid abrasive medium. A ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7135237 | Hot-dipped Sn—Zn plating provided steel plate or sheet excelling in corrosion resistance and workability A Pb-free hot-dip Sn—Zn coated steel sheet comprising a hot-dip coating layer comprised of 1 to 8.8 wt % of Zn and the balance of Sn in an amount of 91.2 to 99.0 wt % and unavoidable impurities and/or ancillary ingredients on the surface of steel sheet, the coatin... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7106519 | Tunable micro-lens arrays An apparatus includes a planar substrate and an array of substantially transparent spherical micro-lenses forming a pattern. The pattern has an internal two-dimensional lattice symmetry on the planar substrate. Each micro-lens includes a convex bulge or a concave de... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7094446 | Method for applying a coating system including a heat rejection layer to a substrate surface of a component A method for applying a coating system that is applied to a surface of a component for preventing or at least substantially preventing interdiffusion between the component surface and a protective thermal layer applied to the component surface when the thermal layer... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7083827 | Nickel-base superalloy having an optimized platinum-aluminide coating A nickel-base superalloy substrate includes a surface region having an integrated aluminum content of from about 18 to about 24 percent by weight and an integrated platinum content of from about 18 to about 45 percent by weight, with the balance components of the su... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7078809 | Chemical leadframe roughening process and resulting leadframe and integrated circuit package A chemical leadframe roughening process includes cleaning and chemically micro-etching a raw copper leadframe to remove organic material and oxide material from the surface. The surface of the leadframe is then roughened using an organic and peroxide solution, resul... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7063453 | Enhanced thermal conduction in apparatus for plasticating resinous material An apparatus for plasticating rubber, thermoset or thermoplastic materials according to this invention includes a barrel having a wall extending axially and laterally and having an outer surface and an inner surface. The wall has a thickness formed with mutually spa... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062142 | Organosilicate materials with mesoscopic structures A solid includes crosslinked amphiphilic organosilicate precursors. The amphiphilic organosilicate precursors form a matrix with an array of micro-structures dispersed in the matrix. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7041590 | Formation method for conductive bump A method for forming conductive bumps is applied to a wafer. An under-bump-metallurgy structure and a first photo resist layer are subsequently formed on the wafer. The first photo resist layer, such as a dry film, is patterned to have some openings and then a secon... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041384 | High bond strength interlayer for rhenium hot gas erosion protective coatings A method for producing a coated carbon composite material is provided. The resulting coated composite is useful for applications such as rocket nozzles and valve bodies that encounter the high temperature and high flow rates in rocket propulsion and control. A carbo... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041382 | Coated steel sheet provided with electrodeposition painting having superior appearance A coated steel sheet composed of a steel sheet and at least two types of coating layers formed thereon is provided with an electrodeposition painting having a superior appearance. The coated steel sheet has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra, which is defined by JIS B ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7029721 | Method for applying a high-temperature bond coat on a metal substrate, and related compositions and articles A method for applying a bond coat on a metal-based substrate is described. A slurry which contains braze material and a volatile component is deposited on the substrate. The slurry can also include bond coat material. Alternatively, the bond coat material can be app... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7008757 | Patterned structures of high refractive index materials A process for forming a polymer template includes exposing a photoresist having polymer molecules to a light pattern and baking the photoresist to chemically react polymer molecules in portions of the photoresist that were exposed to light of the light pattern. The ... | 03/07/2006 |
