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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8123591 | Abrasive pump for an abrasive jet cutting machine An abrasive supply system may, for example, be used to supply abrasive particles such as garnet to a cutting nozzle of an abrasive jet cutter. According to an embodiment, the abrasive is propelled by a substantially constant flow rate gas source. According to an emb... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8057279 | Abrasive blasting system with remote flow control and method A particulate blasting apparatus includes a blast vessel having an interior for storing abrasive particulate. The blast vessel has an inlet for introducing a pressurized gas into the interior of the blast vessel and an outlet for allowing the passage of the pressuri... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7980919 | Blasting device for premixed abrasive slurry jet The present invention relates to a blasting device for premixed abrasive slurry jet. The device comprise a cylinder, in which defines a hydraulic oil side and a slurry side separated from each other hermetically, and the hydraulic oil side and the slurry side have p... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7938713 | Device for water-jet cutting or abrasive water-jet cutting units Control device and method for controlling the impingement of the workpiece by a water jet or an abrasive water jet in a cutting unit. Control device includes a feeder composed of at least two flow-through areas positionable between a high-pressure water supply and a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7896726 | Method and apparatus for removing coatings from a substrate using multiple sequential steps A method and apparatus for removing a coating having an irregular surface configuration that includes mapping the irregular surface configuration, and using the mapping determination in controlling the operation of an abrasive water jet to provide increased material... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7662020 | Method for manufacturing surface-coated cutting insert This method for manufacturing a surface-coated cutting insert includes clamping and holding a surface-coated cutting insert with a pair of rotary shafts which are rotatable around an axis, and jetting an abrasive fluid to the surface of the surface-coated cutting in... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7635289 | Contour follower A collision detection sensor for a waterjet system provides a signal in the event the device approaches to within a selected distance of an obstruction in the plane of the working surface. An annular pressure switch lying in a first plane provides the signal when ra... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7585201 | Water jet processing method In a water jet processing method, when a nozzle adapted to emit water jet is moved relatively to a substrate to form a second cut line intersecting a first cut line, the relative travel speed of the nozzle is set to a second speed lower than a first normal speed by ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7556554 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing optical objects The invention relates to an apparatus for forming or working optical elements and/or optical forming elements (1) comprising a working apparatus (18) for forming surfaces of form parts by machining or an abrasive technique, wherein at least one measuri... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7544112 | Method and apparatus for removing coatings from a substrate using multiple sequential steps A method and apparatus for removing a coating having an irregular surface configuration that includes mapping the irregular surface configuration, and using the mapping determination in controlling the operation of an abrasive water jet to provide increased material... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7455568 | Water jet-processing machine A water jet-processing machine comprising a workpiece holding table having a holding surface for holding a workpiece, a nozzle for emitting a jet of processing water to the workpiece held on the holding surface of the workpiece holding table, a processing water supp... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7419418 | CNC abrasive fluid-jet milling A method and apparatus for milling a desired pocket in a solid workpiece uses an abrasive fluid-jet by moving and suitably orienting the abrasive fluid-jet relative to the workpiece. The method includes defining a path of the abrasive fluid-jet necessary to mill a d... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7416471 | Recovery device of blasting medium and method therefor The present invention provides a recovery device of a blasting medium for recovering a blasting medium after use, which has been injected to a work and has fallen therefrom, into a solid-gas separating tank by suctioning with a suction blower, wherein the solid-gas ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7371153 | Glass etching An apparatus for etching a workpiece in which a first abrasive particulate material, for example aluminium oxide, and a second particulate material, for example glass dust, are entrained together in a stream of gas. The apparatus recycles exhaust particulate materia... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7341927 | Wafer bonded epitaxial templates for silicon heterostructures A heterostructure device layer is epitaxially grown on a virtual substrate, such as an InP/InGaAs/InP double heterostructure. A device substrate and a handle substrate form the virtual substrate. The device substrate is bonded to the handle substrate and is composed... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7331842 | Contour follower for tool A contour follower includes a plurality of sensors spaced around a waterjet nozzle, each of the sensors being configured to measure a distance between a working surface and a first plane, perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle. The sensors may include ha... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7320561 | System and method for handling bulk materials A bulk material handling system generally consisting of means for holding the material; means for conveying the material including a first conduit formed of a permeable material having an inlet communicating with an outlet of the material holding means and an outlet... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7303463 | Semiconductor wafer polishing apparatus, and method of polishing semiconductor wafer Aimed at thoroughly preventing abrasive and dusts from adhering onto the circuit-forming region of a wafer, improving yield ratio of semiconductor devices, and thereby improving operation rates of the individual manufacturing apparatuses in the succeeding stage, a s... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301123 | Method for modifying or producing materials and joints with specific properties by generating and applying adaptive impulses a normalizing energy thereof and pauses therebetween A method of impulse treatment which modifies at least one specified property of a material or object (such as a welded joint), or produces a material or object with at least one specified physical, mechanical or structural property, by adaptively controlling an impu... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291058 | Method and apparatus for improving media flow The flow of media in shot peening, blast cleaning, and similar equipment is improved by applying a time varying magnetic field to the media to thereby degauss the media, allowing the media to flow through equipment without clogging and clumping due to magnetic attra... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7279051 | Method for treating a surface bounding a space within a cargo hold in a floating vessel A method for treating an exposed surface. A treating apparatus is provided having an elongate support and at least one flexible surface contacting element at a distal region of the support. The elongate support is manipulated from a proximal region of the support so... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270592 | Milling machine The improved milling machine makes use of individually controlled x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis carriages. These carriages provide positive and precise control of the position of the cutting tools and the blank to be cut. The tools are located in spindles that are move... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267020 | Apparatus for structural testing An inspection device for performing nondestructive testing on a test subject includes a manually controlled inspection cart. The inspection device also includes a nondestructive testing platform and a computer coupled to the inspection cart. The computer is operable... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262192 | Substituted pyrazolo[4,3-d]pyrimidines and their use as PDE-5 inhibitors The present invention comprises a class of 5,7-diaminopyrazolo[4,3-d]pyrimidine compounds. These compounds are useful as phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors. The present invention further comprises compositions containing the compounds use of the compounds and compo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7249994 | Abrasive cleaning plant with single-block plastic booth and integrated feeding and filtering device An abrasive cleaning apparatus comprising a single-block plastic blasting booth having a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and side walls, wherein at least a portion of one of the side walls defines an opening closeable by a door, thereby providing... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7232360 | Uninterrupted abrasive fluid supply A substantially uninterrupted flow of a pressurised abrasive slurry is maintained by successively charging each of a plurality of vessels V1, V2 with an abrasive material while discharging an abrasive slurry from another of the vessels at a common outl... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7207868 | Cutting apparatus A cutting apparatus jets, at a high pressure, water containing abrasive grains to cut a workpiece along cutting lines extending in intersecting directions. The cutting apparatus includes: a fixing table fixing the workpiece; groove portions provided in the fixing ta... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7182671 | Blasting apparatus and blasting method The present invention provides a lasting apparatus which is provided with an ejection device, which ejects blast media, and a recovery device, which sucks and recovers ejected and used blast media, on a traveling carriage, ejects the blast media to a surface to be t... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178212 | Device and method for the blasting treatment of channel inner walls Device for carrying out a blasting treatment of the inner wall of a channel with a stream of balls which, for treating curved channels, has a tube for introducing the stream of balls into a channel, a stream deflection and outlet device at the end of the tube on the... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7169012 | Hydrodynamic radial flux polishing and grinding tool for optical and semiconductor surfaces A polishing tool useful for grinding and high precision, fine polishing of flat or curved optical surfaces, as well as for the optical flattening of semiconductor and metallic surfaces. The tool does not make contact with the surface to be polished and lacks moving ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7134946 | Apparatus to treat and inspect a substrate An apparatus for treating a substrate with a cryogenic impingement fluid includes a protective enclosure defining an internal cavity, a cryogenic fluid applicator positioned within the internal cavity and a snow generation system connected to the cryogenic fluid app... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134938 | System, device and method for cutting steel plate A system for cutting steel plate, in particular for cutting the bottom and/or the wall of an oil storage tank, comprising a hydraulic or pneumatic pump and a movable cutting device comprising a hydraulic or pneumatic motor for moving the cutting device, wherein the ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7128074 | Scarifier for the interior surface of a pipeline An apparatus for scarifying an interior surface of a sewer pipe, which includes a vehicle moveable along an interior of the sewer pipe and a scarifying assembly connected to the vehicle having a fluid nozzle assembly. The fluid nozzle assembly has at least one branc... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7125317 | Multi-port sandblasting manifold and method A method and apparatus is provided to simplify sandblasting processes while increasing applied coverage areas in sandblasting operations. The method and apparatus provide a manifold assembly having a plurality of nozzles and that is rigidly attached to an air supply... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7121918 | Machine tool and method for processing workpieces using a water jet During the processing of workpieces using a water jet, standstill times or even operating interruptions arise on the machine tools when the processed workpieces are removed and the workpieces to be processed are positioned on the machine. This is made more difficult... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7108585 | Multi-stage abrasive-liquid jet cutting head A multistage abrasive-liquid jet cutting head comprising at least a first and a second mixing stage. Within the first mixing stage is a first mixing chamber arranged to accept a first flow of accelerated abrasive particles from a first abrasive feed tube and a press... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7108584 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing liquid drop ejecting head The method and apparatus manufacture a liquid drop ejecting head. The method and apparatus blast particles on a substrate having on an upper layer a patterned mask layer made of an organic material and on a lower layer a driver circuit for ejecting a liquid drop to ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7100622 | Pipe scarifier A scarifier for scarifying an interior surface of a sewer pipe, which includes an elongated frame having spaced apart upstanding frame elements at either end forming a plurality of guide surfaces on each side. A first track extends from one end of the frame to anoth... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7101120 | Apparatus and method for controlling fluid flows for pneumatic conveying A system and method providing automatic adjustment of flows used to empty dry material from a pressure pot or hopper. In some embodiments, based on pressure increases in the conveying line that receives the dry material, the flow of conveying-fluid to the conveying ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7066188 | Interior sewer pipeline scarifying apparatus This application discloses an apparatus for scarifying the interior surface of a sewer pipe, which can remain in the sewer under active flow conditions. The apparatus includes at least one scarifying head, which may transverse back and forth along a rail assembly, w... | 06/27/2006 |
