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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8135490 | Systems and techniques for reducing group delay ripple in a dispersion compensating grating A technique is described for reducing group delay ripple in a fiber dispersion compensation grating. The grating is mounted into a trimming setup that includes a trimming device and a scanning assembly for causing a region of the grating to be scanned along its leng... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8000831 | Multi model registration (MMR) for a galvanometer and laser system A multi model registration (MMR) process performed using a computer, for registering a plurality of workpiece vision models representing features on a workpiece that define a marking location thereon, to corresponding part vision models stored on the computer repres... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7933675 | Machining apparatus for drilling printed circuit board A machining apparatus in which the machining efficiency can be improved even if characters are machined in a printed circuit board. A coordinate transformation unit is provided for transforming central coordinates of each dot d of each character of a character strin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7725210 | Method of processing turbine components A method of removing unwanted coating material from cooling passages of a turbine component includes determining coordinates of the position and orientation of cooling passages at the surface of the turbine component and determining reference points in the region of... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7623941 | Method for adjusting the relative position of device of laser engraver A method for adjusting the relative position of devices of a laser engraver. The method includes an outputting device of the laser engraver to forms a marked point on a non-working piece. Let the outputting device position the center of the marked point and record i... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7526357 | Pulse modulation laser writing system A pulse modulation laser writing system generates a motion control file for controlled motion of a sample under modulated laser beam exposure and generates a laser script file for generating a sequence of laser writing processes, such as, ablation, welding, texturin... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7412300 | Thermal forming Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, one or more thermal forming treatments may be predicted to achieve a desired shape and/or microstructure in a workpiece. ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7383098 | Machine tool acceleration A method of controlling the movement of a processing head of a machine tool includes monitoring the position of the processing head along a first coordinate direction, monitoring the movement of the processing head along a second coordinate direction different from ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7343218 | Automatic part feedback compensation for laser plastics welding A feedback control system for controlling a laser source. The feedback control system includes a laser source outputting laser energy and an optical sensor detecting the laser energy. The optical sensor outputs a measured signal in response to a measured amount of t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7329831 | Laser trimming of resistors Improved systems and methods for laser trimming resistors printed on a substrate layer are provided. An exemplary embodiment measures a resistance value for each annular resistor and sorts the annular resistors into one or more bins based on the measured resistance ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328140 | Method for designing passenger air bag door for invisible airbag A method for designing a PAB door for an invisible airbag provided to a passenger-side seat of a vehicle includes defining levels of a noise factor depending on a process condition of laser scoring for forming a tearseam on an inner surface of an instrument panel. C... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324868 | Die for a press brake and method for producing the same There are provided a method for producing a die for press brake easily and a die. Three-dimensional models of an upper die 10 and a lower die 20 are prepared based on the data of a work W10. The lower die 20 is divided into plate-shap... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324867 | Controller for a laser using predictive models of materials processing Predictive models of physical parts of the laser processing system part determined. These predictive models are used to determine how the physical system will actually react. The predicted reaction from the models is used as feedback in order to produce the control ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319909 | Position control device, measuring device and machining device In a quadruple loop position control device (1) including: a drive controller (5) having a current control loop that controls motor current (I) and a motor speed control loop that controls a motor speed (Vm); a speed control loop (3) that contro... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313462 | Integrated tool with automated calibration system and interchangeable wet processing components for processing microfeature workpieces An integrated tool and automatic calibration systems that enable wet chemical processing chambers, lift-rotate units and other hardware to be quickly interchanged without having to recalibrate the transport system or other components to the replacement items. These ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301726 | Banded LZT CSS zone A magnetic recording disk having a non laser zone texturing (LZT) band in the contact-start-stop (CSS) zone. The width of the non-LZT band in the CSS zone may be greater than the width of a read and/or write element of a head and less than the width of a center pad ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302309 | Laser micromachining methods and systems A method of laser machining a fluid path is provided. The method comprises directing a first laser toward a first surface, directing a second laser toward a second surface of the substrate, and directing a third laser toward the second surface along at least a porti... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297896 | Laser trimming of resistors Improved systems and methods for laser trimming resistors are provided. An exemplary embodiment measures a resistance value for each resistor and sorts the resistors into one or more bins based on the measured resistance values and target resistance values associate... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295885 | Multi-exposure drawing method and apparatus thereof for dividing an exposing area into exposed zones and un-exposed zones based on odd-numbered and even-numbered vector-graphic data In a drawing method, all information on a pattern to be drawn on a drawing surface, represented by first vector-graphic data of a drawing-coordinate-system, is transmitted to an exposure drawing apparatus having a plurality of optical modulation elements. The first ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291806 | Robot laser processing system A robot laser processing system (10) comprises at least one robot controller (14) for controlling at least one robot, a host controller (12) connected to the robot controller through a first network (11) for overall control of the robot c... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288736 | Connection between two components A method of connecting two components includes providing an assembly including a first component and a second component, optically sensing a connection region between the first component and the second component to produce an image, defining a substantially elliptic... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286893 | Tailoring residual stress and hardness during direct metal deposition In a direct-metal deposition (DMD) process used to deposit successive layers in accordance with instructions from a CAD/CAM program, the laser beam, or an additional beam, is deployed as a localized heat treatment tool instead of a deposition tool. The use of laser ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283660 | Multi-layer printed circuit board fabrication system and method A method for aligning an image to be recorded by a direct image scanner on an upper layer of a printed circuit board with an image recorded on a lower layer thereof, the method comprising: visually imaging a portion of the image on... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7270270 | Optical scanner control method, optical scanner and laser machining apparatus A optical scanner control method and a optical scanner capable of positioning a mirror at a high speed independently of a rocking angle, and a laser machining apparatus for irradiating a printed circuit board with a laser beam by use of the optical scanner to thereb... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7253010 | Method of deciding focal plane and method of crystallization using thereof A crystallization method is provided which improves a crystallization process by deciding a best-fit focal plane for a laser beam using a test mask and then applying the decided best-fit focal plane to the crystallization process. The crystallization method includes... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248940 | Method and device for the robot-controlled cutting of workpieces to be assembled by means of laser radiation In a method for robot-controlled cutting of workpieces to be joined by laser radiation, a first workpiece is arranged in vicinity of a second workpiece in a first position. A laser is focused onto the first workpiece. A contour of the first workpiece is cut with the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244906 | Energy monitoring or control of individual vias formed during laser micromachining A method and system increase the quality of results achieved by laser micromachining systems. Data relating to parameters controlling laser micromachining process are recorded during the micromachining process, identified by the feature associated with the parameter... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244907 | Method of optimizing optical power use in a parallel processing laser system The present invention relates to optimizing optical power from a laser processing system, and more specifically to a method of optimizing the optical power by employing parallel laser processing techniques to maximize fabrication quality and yield. The method in the... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242775 | Optical pulse calibration for quantum key distribution Methods and systems for generating calibrated optical pulses in a QKD system. The method includes calibrating a variable optical attenuator (VOA) by first passing radiation pulses of a given intensity and pulse width through the VOA for a variety of VOA settings. Th... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238913 | Flexible scan field An energy beam machining system includes an emitter for emitting an energy beam and beam adjusting optics, such as a zoom telescope, for adjusting the pupil size of the system to multiple values. The adjusting of the pupil size can be carried out automatically, semi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7211763 | Photon energy material processing using liquid core waveguide and a computer program for controlling the same A liquid core waveguide photon energy material processing system is provided. The system includes a photon energy source configured to generate a high intensity photon beam for material processing. The system also includes a liquid core waveguide configured to trans... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7176407 | Method and system for precisely positioning a waist of a material-processing laser beam to process microstructures within a laser-processing site A high-speed method and system for precisely positioning a waist of a material-processing laser beam to dynamically compensate for local variations in height of microstructures located on a plurality of objects spaced apart within a laser-processing site are provide... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176408 | Method for laser-cutting structural components to be joined In a method for cutting structural components to be joined by laser radiation that is guided by a computer-controlled manipulation system provided with a nominal path for each structural component corresponding to a joining line that is curved as a result of at leas... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167194 | Printing a code on a product A method for printing is described. The method includes providing a printing system for printing a code on a product moving in a direction. The code is constructed from a plurality of pixels in a first data set indicating the positions of the pixels and generates a ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7156730 | Method and system for achieving acceptable process time A method and system for automatically portioning workpieces, such as meat products, into pieces having acceptable process time (e.g., acceptable cook time) are provided. The method includes generally five steps. First, measurement data of a workpiece carried on a co... | 01/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7149962 | System and method for providing a gauge table The present invention is directed to a method and a system for providing a gauge table with a requested format capable of being accessed via the Internet for a railcar tank based on a request and an error report generated from data identifying the railcar and the ga... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7138600 | Automatic pulse plasma welding method and apparatus for forming lap joint between membrane sheets Disclosed herein is an automatic pulse plasma welding method and apparatus for forming a lap joint between membrane sheets, which applies plasma welding to a lap joint between membrane sheets to improve working efficiency and productivity, and which provides optimal... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139633 | Method of fabricating composite tooling using closed-loop direct-metal deposition Manufacturing tools having a base and a working surface, such as trim steels, flange steels and die inserts, are formed by fabricating or casting a substrate out of a relatively ductile, low wear-resistant metal and forming the working surfaces such as cutting edges... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133737 | Program for controlling laser apparatus and recording medium for recording program for controlling laser apparatus and capable of being read out by computer The object of the present invention is to solve problems treatment time when using an SLS method or continuous-oscillation laser. An indispensable portion is scanned with a laser beam in order to crystallize a semiconductor film by driving a laser and so on in accor... | 11/07/2006 |
