Quotables
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
Carl Sagan
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8051678 | Press molding method for manufacturing of glass substrate The present invention relates to a glass substrate of which the outer periphery portion is unprocessed. The present invention also relates to a manufacturing method for a glass substrate of which the outer periphery portion is unprocessed, characterized in that a fi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7364930 | Method for producing micromechanical and micro-optic components consisting of glass-type materials What is proposed here is a method of structuring surfaces of glass-type materials and variants of this method, comprising the following steps of operation: providing a semiconductor substrate, structuring, with the formation of recesses, of at least one surface of t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7305854 | Methods for producing substrate blank A method for producing a thin-plate-shaped substrate blank that is an intermediate for a glass substrate, in which the occurrence of undulation is prevented and the substrate blank is produced with high accuracy, the method comprising press-molding a glass in a soft... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302814 | Apparatus for preventing deflection of substrate tube An apparatus for producing an optical fiber preform to perform the deposition process by modified chemical vapor deposition. The Apparatus comprises a main heat source location sensor (800) for detecting the location of a main heat source for heating a substr... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7291059 | Process and apparatus for cutting sheet glass A process for cutting a sheet glass includes a first step of forming a groove conformed to a cutting shape in one surface of a sheet glass by a water jet, and a second step of forming a groove in the other surface of the sheet glass by a water jet to reach the groov... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288014 | Design, fabrication, testing, and conditioning of micro-components for use in a light-emitting panel A method of forming micro-components is disclosed. The method includes pretesting and conditioning of the micro-components. The micro-components that fail testing or conditioning are discarded, and those remaining are assembled into a panel. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7260959 | Glass handling system and method for using same A glass handling system and method are described herein where an enhanced robot is used to engage and hold a glass sheet in a manner that minimizes the motion of the glass sheet as it is moved from one point to another point in a glass manufacturing facility. The en... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7234620 | Automated flat glass separator Apparatus and methods are provided for separating a pane (11) of a brittle material from a moving ribbon (13) of the material without contact between the newly-formed leading edge of the ribbon and the newly-formed trailing edge of the pane. The appara... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7157038 | Ultraviolet laser ablative patterning of microstructures in semiconductors Patterns with feature sizes of less than 50 microns are rapidly formed directly in semiconductors, particularly silicon, GaAs, indium phosphide, or single crystalline sapphire, using ultraviolet laser ablation. These patterns include very high aspect ratio cylindric... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155938 | Method and device for loading a glass processing installation In the method for loading a glass processing installation (5) with loading portions (10a), glass plates (10, 10b) are extracted repeatedly from a storage unit (20) in a predetermined sequence and divided into a residual port... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7140941 | Liquid manufacturing processes for panel layer fabrication A method for manufacturing a light-emitting panel sandwiches a plurality of micro-components between two flexible substrates in a web configuration. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large voltage is supplie... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137857 | Method for manufacturing a light-emitting panel An improved light-emitting panel having a plurality of micro-components sandwiched between two subtrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large voltage is supplied across the micro-component v... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7125305 | Light-emitting panel and a method for making An improved light-emitting panel having a plurality of micro-components sandwiched between two substrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large voltage is supplied across the micro-component ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7059155 | Method of bending glass A method of bending glass, in which glass (5) is heated in a bending furnace (1). After the heating, the glass (5) is transferred onto a mold (7). The glass-bending mold (7) is at at least one point arranged to be bent substantiall... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7025648 | Liquid manufacturing processes for panel layer fabrication A method for manufacturing a light-emitting panel sandwiches a plurality of micro-components between two flexible substrates in a web configuration. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large voltage is supplie... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7013676 | Press molding apparatus In a press molding apparatus for press molding a plurality of glass materials into a plurality of glass optical elements by the use of a pressing mold including upper and lower molds each of which has a plurality of molding surfaces, at least one of the upper and th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7005793 | Socket for use with a micro-component in a light-emitting panel An improved light-emitting panel having a plurality of micro-components at least partially disposed in a socket and sandwiched between two substrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large vol... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6998344 | Method for fabricating semiconductor components by forming conductive members using solder An interconnect for semiconductor components such as dice, wafers and chip scale packages is provided. The interconnect includes a substrate, and patterns of contacts formed on a face side of the substrate adapted to electrically engage external contacts (e.g., bond... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6997016 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing glass tube Stress exerted on an inner or outer circumferential side of a glass tube 6 is controlled when a glass material 3 is heated and softened by a heating element 41 provided around the glass material 3 and a piercing plug 31 is relative... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6992026 | Laser processing method and laser processing apparatus A laser beam machining method and a laser beam machining device capable of cutting a work without producing a fusing and a cracking out of a predetermined cutting line on the surface of the work, wherein a pulse laser beam is radiated on the predetermined cut line o... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6978641 | Method for cutting glass rod and cutting device for use therein To provide a method and apparatus for parting a glass rod without causing a crack or rupture at a grasped root portion of the glass rod in parting the glass rod for producing a glass preform. The apparatus for parting the glass rod in a predetermined length b... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975068 | Light-emitting panel and a method for making An improved light-emitting panel having a plurality of micro-components sandwiched between two substrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large voltage is supplied across the micro-component ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6951119 | Method for producing micromechanical and micro-optic components consisting of glass-type materials What is proposed here is a method of structuring surfaces of glass-type materials and variants of this method, comprising the following steps of operation: providing a semiconductor substrate, structuring, with the formation of recesses, of at least one surface of t... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6935913 | Method for on-line testing of a light emitting panel A method of testing a light-emitting panel and the component parts therein including an assembled web containing light-emitting micro-components is disclosed. The method utilizes radiometric measuring devices disposed throughout a continuous fabrication process. Qua... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6902456 | Socket for use with a micro-component in a light-emitting panel An improved light-emitting panel having a plurality of micro-components at least partially disposed in a socket and sandwiched between two substrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large vol... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6845635 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIA, GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIA MANUFACTURED USING THE METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE GLASS SUBSTRATE There are provided a method of manufacturing a glass substrate for information recording media that allows the inner and outer peripheral edge surfaces of the glass substrate for information recording media to be smoothed easily and inexpensively, a glass substrate ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6796145 | Method for cutting mother rod lens A method that accurately cuts mother rod lenses and increases production yield. The method includes arranging the mother rod lenses such that the optical axes of the mother rod lenses are parallel to one another, forming a lens block having perpendicular first and s... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6766662 | Method of manufacturing glass parts for connecting optical fibers, and glass parts for connecting optical fibers manufactured using the methods There are provided a method of manufacturing a glass part for connecting optical fibers, which allows insertion of optical fibers into the internal hole of the glass part smoothly, and glass parts for connecting optical fibers manufactured using the method. Predeter... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6634186 | Process for cutting a glass sheet and a glass disk for a recording medium A U-shaped groove is formed in a glass sheet along a cutting line and the sheet is cut by breaking along the groove. The groove is formed by heating a sheet portion including the cutting line by a laser beam, cooling it to lower its density, and etching t... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6598426 | Method of making a vehicle window with opaque layer A method of making a vehicle windshield or other window. An opaque layer (e.g., enamel or water-based) is applied to a glass sheet and then "fired" or cured. The opaque layer is preferably black or dark in color. Thereafter, the sheet with the opaque laye... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6592703 | Method and apparatus for cutting a laminate made of a brittle material and a plastic A method and an apparatus for cutting a laminate made of a brittle material and a plastic with a cutting tool is described. The plastic is heated up, thereby lowering its viscosity, at least in the region of a predetermined cutting line. A cutting tool is... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6588477 | Method and apparatus for cutting a laminate made of a brittle material and a plastic The apparatus for cutting a laminate, which is made of a brittle material and a plastic, has a cutting tool for severing the plastic along a predetermined cutting line and simultaneously scoring the brittle material; a heating device for heating the plast... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6568217 | Method for manufacturing fluorescent lamp A method for manufacturing a fluorescent lamp that can achieve stable luminous characteristics and discharge characteristics and also does not suffer from cracks in the interconnected portion of the glass tubes while handling or lighting the fluorescent l... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6560995 | Method for manufacturing a fluorescent lamp A method for manufacturing a glass tube used for a fluorescent lamp having an arc tube constructed by joining a plurality of glass tubes is provided. According to this method, a straight glass tube held at both ends is rotated, and a predetermined cutting... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6546752 | Method of making optical coupling device A method of making an optical device comprises the steps of providing a body of vitreous material that is generally tubular along an axis. A portion of the body is molded with external mold structure for forming a bulbous portion when the interior of the ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6532770 | Methods of preparing glass substrates for magnetic media Described are substrates for magnetic media which have excellent surface properties as prepared directly from a slot drawdown glass sheet forming process. The substrate blanks cut directly from the glass sheet, as drawn, require little or no surface treat... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6530258 | Disk drive laser melt bump disk for accurate glide calibration and certification processing A bump disk for accurate glide calibration has a new type of glass laser melt bumps that give the same signal amplitudes as conventional AlMg laser melt bumps for the same bump height. The present invention provides a solution to switch the calibration bu... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6502423 | Method and apparatus for making individual glass panes A method and apparatus is described, with which individual rectangular glass panes of thickness between 0.03 mm and 2 mm can be cut from a glass band (2) drawn vertically from a hot forming device (1) in an in-line process with reduced rejects and reduced... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6463762 | Process and apparatus for breaking and transporting flat glass sheets A process for cutting glass sheets (10) includes the steps of: scoring each glass sheet on an automatic scoring table (12) having a scoring head (14) moveable on a bridge (16) and a track (18); transporting each scored glass sheet to a breaking table (22)... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6438996 | Method for cracking off glassware A method for cracking off glassware (1), whereby glass pieces (1) are subjected to a laser radiation treatment (F). In a first step, the part of the glassware to be cracked off (3) is subjected in a region thereof to the action of a continuous laser radia... | 08/27/2002 |
