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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7997089 | Method and apparatus for regeneration water Ice condensed in a portion in a case in which a cryogenic refrigerator is installed, which is cooled by the cryogenic refrigerator, is melted by increasing a temperature of the ice to a melting point of the ice or higher. Then, while the temperature of the melted ic... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992394 | Cold trap and cold trap regeneration method A cold trap is provided with a cold panel provided in a pumping path such that the panel is exposed, a refrigerator thermally coupled to the cold panel and operative to cool the cold panel; and a controller configured, in a regeneration process for evaporating a gas... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7854128 | Vacuum pump damping adapter The invention concerns a damping adapter (3) insertable in a suction duct between a service chamber (2) and a vacuum pump (1). The adapter (3) consists of a tubular duct wall (6) in the form of a flexible bellows surrounded by a da... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7797950 | Active thermal insulation system utilizing phase change material and a cool air source An active thermal insulation system is disclosed. The system utilizes a cool air source in conjunction with a phase change material and/or conventional insulation. In a controlled manner, the cool air source facilitates the transition of the phase change material fr... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7523618 | Cryo pump In a cryo pump 20 that is used in a process chamber 10 into which a process gas is introduced and that includes a first-stage panel, a heat shield plate 24, and a second-stage panel 28, a notch for allowing for entrance of gas molecules a... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7481066 | Vacuum device A vacuum device comprises a plurality of cryopumps (10) connected with one or a plurality of vacuum chambers. The cryopumps (10) are connected via media supply conduits (12) and media return conduits (14) with a compressor (16). An... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7425224 | High pressure chemical vapor trapping method A high pressure trapping system is provided to collect chemical vapor by-products in successive stages through chemical reasons conducted at progressively colder temperatures. A hot trap receives chemical vapor exhaust and collects a first waste, typically a solid, ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7415831 | Integration of automated cryopump safety purge A system and method is provided to control a purge valve during an unsafe condition associated with a cryopump. An electronic controller may be used to control the opening and closing of one or more purge valves during the unsafe condition. The purge valve can be a ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413411 | Electronically controlled vacuum pump A vacuum system comprises, as an integral assembly, a vacuum pump with drive motor, a purge valve, a roughing valve and an electronic control module. A cryogenic vacuum pump and a turbomolecular vacuum pump are disclosed. The control module has a programmed processo... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7389645 | Radiation shield for cryogenic pump for high temperature physical vapor deposition A method and apparatus to shield a cryogenic pump in a physical vapor deposition chamber comprising a physical vapor deposition chamber, a gasket in thermal contact with the physical vapor deposition chamber, at least one post in contact with the gasket, a radiation... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7370482 | Rapidly regenerating cryogenic trap The cryogenic trap of the invention comprises, in a hollow body (3) having an access valve (2) and an outlet valve (6), a cold core (11) associated with a plate (13) having low thermal inertia and movable between a trapping positio... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7358284 | Particulate acellular tissue matrix A method of processing an acellular tissue matrix to give a particulate acellular tissue matrix includes: cutting sheets of dry acellular tissue matrix into strips; cryofracturing the dry acellular tissue matrix strips at cryogenic temperatures; separating the resul... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357917 | Diagnostic procedures using Xe spectroscopy characterstic chemical shift to detect pathology in vivo An in vivo non-invasive method for detecting and/or diagnosing a pathological condition using hyperpolarized 129Xe spectroscopy is disclosed. Generally stated, the method includes determining the magnitude of spectral peaks which represent particular chem... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7337616 | System for sampling cryogenic liquids, and air separation unit provided with at least one such system A system for sampling cryogenic liquids, and an air separation unit provided with at least one such system. The cryogenic liquid is introduced into a vaporizer, through heat exchange with the compressed air. The liquid passes through the vaporizer generally downward... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7329292 | Process byproduct trap and system including same A trap device including at least one substance delivery element for introducing a substance therein is disclosed. The delivered substance may influence the nature of deposits that have formed within the trap device, may influence the formation of deposits within the... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320224 | Method and apparatus for detecting and measuring state of fullness in cryopumps The present system and method provides a mechanism for monitoring the level of fullness of a cryopump by measuring the cryopump adsorption capacity. An ion gauge or other total pressure gauge is in contact with the condensing or adsorbing panels of the pump. The gau... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313922 | High conductance cryopump for type III gas pumping A cryopump provides for high pumping speed of Type III gases. An open configuration of a frontal array provides high conductance of gases into a radiation shield which is shaped to focus gases toward a second stage array. The second stage array has an open configura... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310965 | Compressor head, internal discriminator, external discriminator, manifold design for refrigeration recovery apparatus The compressor head, internal and/or external discriminator, and manifold design in general utilize ball valves on the suction and discharge of a cylinder head in the recovery of refrigerant liquid and/or vapor. The device facilitates the flashing of liquid refriger... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7300261 | Vibration damper with nested turbo molecular pump A gas turbo pump assembly for connection to a port of a vacuum chamber and having high throughput with low vibration. The assembly comprises a turbo pump and a vibration damper. The pump has a pump body with an external surface and a center axis defining a first axi... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287390 | Optical pumping modules, polarized gas blending and dispensing systems, and automated polarized gas distribution systems and related devices and methods Hyperpolarizers for producing polarized noble gases can include: (a) a control module configured to direct the operation of a hyperpolarizer to produce polarized noble gas via spin-exchange interactions between a noble gas and an alkali metal; (b) at least one optic... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287391 | Automated modular hyperpolarizers and related devices and methods Modular expandable hyperpolarizers include a central control module and at least one optical pumping module that can be expandable to a plurality of optical pumping modules that can be separately operated depending on the capacity demands at the production site (hos... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284409 | Thermal modulation for gas chromatography A thermal modulator device for gas chromatography and associated methods. The thermal modulator device includes a cooling member, an electrically conductive capillary in direct thermal contact with the cooling member, and a power supply electrically coupled to the c... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281393 | Method and apparatus for accumulating hyperpolarized xenon A method and apparatus for the accumulation of hyperpolarized 129Xe is described. A gas mixture comprising 129Xe is flowed through a heat exchanger tube from the first end to the second end. Concurrently, the outer surface of the heat exchanger... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266953 | Stacked condensing assembly A condensing assembly for urging condensation of a vapour into a liquid has a vertically stacked modular array of horizontal condensation units exposed to a heat transfer medium. Each condensation unit has a cooling chamber, a plurality of hollow legs and necks acce... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7253514 | Self-supporting connecting element for a semiconductor chip A connecting element for electrically connecting a semiconductor chip and a superordinate circuit board includes an elastic metal strip that is bent forming two metal limbs with flattened limb ends, thus forming a base between the metal limbs which is suitable for c... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7244288 | Pulsed vapor desorber Vapor concentrators are used to provide a higher concentration of trace target vapor than would normally be available in the environment. This is accomplished by allowing the trace target vapor to adsorb onto a concentrating surface and subsequently releasing the tr... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7228687 | Valve device A valve device, according to the invention, for connecting to a cryopump, wherein the valve device comprises a body with a through-channel and a connection flange at one end of the through-channel for connecting to a backing pump connection flange of the cryopump; a... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7223080 | Double-acting, high pressure cryogenic pump A double-acting, reciprocating piston, high discharge pressure, cryogenic fluid pump having a unique blow-by venting system. In two different embodiments, a double-acting piston has two pair of piston heads and two sets of seals. In a first embodiment, a blow-by ven... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7217306 | Trap apparatus A continuous processing trap apparatus is capable of increasing the trapping efficiency while maintaining conductance required by a vacuum chamber. The trap apparatus includes an exhaust passage for evacuating a hermetically sealed chamber by a vacuum pump, a hermet... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7206605 | Radio receiver A radio receiver disclosed is composed of a signal processing part, which includes a receive band pass filter 2 and a receive low noise amplifier 3, to process receive signal and discharge gas with time, the signal processing part being cooled by the c... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201004 | Panels for pulse tube cryopump The pulse tubes (165, 175) and regenerators (160, 170) contained within a cryopump housing (210) are arranged in a way that facilitates the fabrication and installation of the cryopanels (265). The pulse tubes and regenerators are located... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7194867 | Integrated rough/purge/vent (RPV) valve A single ducted valve assembly provides an integrated cryopump valve having a purge valve port connecting the assembly to a cryopump with a coaxial connection having an inner duct and an outer duct. A pressurized gas interface connects a pressurized gas source to th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191600 | Fast warm up pulse tube This invention provides an improved means of quickly warming a pulse tube (165) by shifting the phase relation of flow to the warm end of the pulse tube relative to flow to the warm end (117) of the pulse tube relative to flow to the warm end of the re... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7174737 | Refrigeration plant for parts of installation, which are to be chilled A refrigeration plant includes at least two cold heads thermally coupled to parts of a particularly superconducting installation. The parts are to be chilled via a conduit system in which a cooling agent circulates according to a thermosyphon effect. The cold heads ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7165406 | Integral pulse tube refrigerator and cryopump An integrated cryopump and 2 stage pulse tube refrigeration system (100) comprising a cryopump, a compressor for a pulse tube refrigerator, a pulse tube refrigerator located within the vacuum chamber of the cryopump where the hot ends of the pulse tubes (1... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165408 | Method of operating a cryogenic liquid gas storage tank The present invention teaches methods of operating a pressurized cryogenic liquid gas storage tank that has a vent cooling shield around which fuel vented from a storage tank flows to cool the storage tank by reducing the influence of heat influx into the storage ta... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7159412 | Compressor head, internal discriminator, external discriminator, manifold design for refrigeration recovery apparatus The compressor head, internal and/or external discriminator, and manifold design in general utilize ball valves on the suction and discharge of a cylinder head in the recovery of refrigerant liquid and/or vapor. The device facilitates the flashing of liquid refriger... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7155919 | Cryopump temperature control of arrays An electronic controller maintains the operating temperature of a cryopump by controlling a heater coupled to the cryopump. The heater is coupled to a cryopumping surface of the cryopump. The controller can control the operation of the heater in response to feedback... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7150100 | Method of forming a jacketed steam distribution tube A method of forming a jacketed steam distribution tube assembly includes simultaneously extruding an inner tube, an outer tube, and a plurality of connecting members for connecting the inner tube to the outer tube, thereby forming a jacketed steam distribution tube ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7140833 | Integrated turbo/drag/regenerative pump with counter-rotating turbo blades The present invention relates to vacuum pumps and a method for creating and maintaining a high vacuum. A vacuum pump includes a regenerative section and a turbo-molecular section. A common first rotor carries forward-rotating elements of both the regenerative sectio... | 11/28/2006 |
