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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181593 | Apparatus for applying a layer to a hydrophobic surface An apparatus for applying a layer to a hydrophobic surface. The apparatus including: a chuck having a top surface and rotatable about a axis perpendicular to the top surface and passing through a center point of the top surface; and hollow first and second dispense ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8132526 | Coating apparatus, coating method and coating-film forming appratus A coating apparatus comprises a tray, a nozzle for supplying a coating liquid, and a squeegee which serves as an applicator for spreading a coating liquid. The tray has a recessed portion into which a substrate is placed, and a spinner chuck is provided in the reces... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8117981 | Liquid material supplying apparatus and liquid material supplying method In order to apply a liquid material including a small number of bubbles, in particular almost no bubbles larger than a predetermined size, a liquid material supplying apparatus includes: a pressure tank applying a positive pressure higher than the atmospheric pressu... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8011315 | Thin film forming apparatus A thin film forming apparatus such that a substrate can be easily fixed/removed to/from the outer circumferential surface of a drum type substrate holder through a simple arrangement. The drum type substrate holder (5) is supported in a horizontal post... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7856939 | Recirculation spin coater with optical controls A recirculation spin coater system includes a spin coating bowl with a having a recirculation drain and a wetting fluid chamber associated with the upper end of the inner side walls wherein the wetting fluid chamber is configured to dispense a side wall wetting flui... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7793610 | Liquid processing apparatus A liquid processing apparatus includes: a substrate holding member configured to rotate along with a substrate held thereon in a horizontal state; a rotary cup configured to surround the substrate held on the substrate holding member and to rotate along with the sub... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793609 | Coating and developing apparatus Provided is a coating and developing apparatus composed of an assembly of plural unit blocks. A first unit-block stack and a second unit-block stack are arranged at different positions with respect to front-and-rear direction. Unit blocks for development, each of wh... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7757625 | Method for forming thin film and film-forming device It is an object to provide a method for forming a thin film which can be uniformly and precisely planarized without a high-loaded process as in a chemical mechanical polishing method and to provide a device used for the method. In a method for forming a thin film on... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7748341 | Lens coating apparatus An apparatus for coating the surface of a lens includes a carousel having a central hub and a plurality of arms. A drive shaft is mounted to each arm, with a magnetic clutch and a lens holder being operatively attached to the drive shaft. The carousel is configured ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7694643 | Sandwiched structure for optical discs Sandwiched structures for an optical disc, especially for Blu-ray discs, are disclosed. According to one exemplary structure, a substrate is sandwiched by two cover layers on both sides of a disc As a result, similar characteristics in material on both sides of the ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7690324 | Small-volume electroless plating cell During fluid treatment of a substrate surface, a carrier/wafer assembly containing a substrate wafer closes the top of a microcell container. The carrier/wafer assembly and the container walls define a thin enclosed treatment volume that is filled with treating flui... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7681519 | Apparatus for coating a photoresist layer Embodiments relate to an apparatus for coating a photoresist layer and a photolithography method using the apparatus. In embodiments, the apparatus may include a rotatable wafer support for supporting a wafer to be coated with a photoresist layer, a beam nozzle for ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7661385 | Device for spin-coating substrates A device for spin-coating substrates with liquid media is provided, including a rotatable substrate plate for horizontally supporting a substrate, and a covering unit for covering the substrate during a distribution operation of the liquid medium by means of rotatio... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7654221 | Apparatus for electroless deposition of metals onto semiconductor substrates An electroless deposition system and electroless deposition stations are provided. The system includes a processing mainframe, at least one substrate cleaning station positioned on the mainframe, and an electroless deposition station positioned on the mainframe. The... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7632352 | Spin-coating apparatus and coated substrates prepared using the same Provided is a spin coating apparatus having a ring-shaped or polygonal auxiliary member for use in manufacture of a coated substrate via spin coating, wherein the auxiliary member is positioned adjacent to the side of a substrate for coating, within a range of a spa... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7615117 | Coating and processing apparatus and method There is provided a coating and processing apparatus including a spin chuck horizontally holding a quadrangular substrate and rotating the substrate in a horizontal plane, a coating solution nozzle for supplying a coating solution to a front surface of the substrate... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7611581 | Coating apparatus, coating method and coating-film forming apparatus A coating apparatus is provided in which a coating liquid supplied onto a surface of a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer and a glass substrate can be easily leveled so as to have a uniform thickness without any edge bead. The coating apparatus comprises a tray... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7582163 | Apparatus for processing surface of substrate A substrate surface processing apparatus is provided. In the substrate surface processing apparatus, a spin chuck holds a substrate thereon by suction, spins the substrate, and moves up and down the substrate. An upper bowl and a lower bowl surround the spin chuck f... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7566365 | Liquid processing apparatus and liquid processing method In a liquid processing apparatus for forming a coating film on a polygonal substrate by spin coating in an ambient with a descending clean air flow, a spin chuck includes a support plate for substantially horizontally supporting the substrate thereon. Air flow contr... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7550043 | Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus A processing chamber actually performs a heating process for a substrate. The processing chamber has an upper plate, a lower plate, and an exhaust opening. The upper plate heats a resist from a front surface of the substrate. The lower plate heats the resist from a ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7531039 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing system Of a substrate-facing surface 24 of an atmosphere blocking member 2, a central area 241 which is faced with an approximately central portion of a substrate S is a flat surface while a periphery edge area 242 which is faced with a peripher... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531040 | Resist recovery method A method is disclosed for one embodiment. An amount of photoresist is deposited upon a substrate, the amount of photoresist more than necessary to coat the substrate. The substrate is spun within a bowl such that an excess amount of photoresist is propelled off of t... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7497908 | Film coating unit and film coating method Film coating unit has a substrate holder for holding a wafer, a coating solution discharge nozzle, and anti-drying boards opposed to a surface of the wafer. The coating solution is applied to the surface of the wafer in a direction from a front end toward a rear end... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7435152 | Apparatus and method for centrifugal material deposition and products thereof A centrifugal dispensing apparatus with a centrifugal dispensing drum that can be divided into compartments and that has at least one open inner volume for retaining a volume of flowable material, an exit aperture for each open inner volume for allowing flowable mat... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7431584 | Heat processing apparatus and heat processing method A heat processing apparatus for heating a mask substrate is disclosed. A mask substrate on which a coating solution has been coated is placed on a heating plate that heats the substrate. A frame member is disposed on the heating plate so that the frame member faces ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7404979 | Spin coating apparatus and a method for coating implantable devices A device for spin coating an implantable medical device, such as a stent, is disclosed. A method is also disclosed for spin coating a stent. ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7404681 | Coating methods and apparatus for coating Described are process control methods for spin-coating, and apparatuses and devices incorporating the same, wherein the method is useful for application of developer solution to a substrate, and wherein the process control method includes one or more features of: in... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7396562 | Optical information-recording medium manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus A method of manufacturing an optical information recording medium that has a substrate having a signal recording layer formed on one principal surface thereof; and an optically transparent layer formed on the signal recording layer and made from a radiation cure typ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7396412 | Coat/develop module with shared dispense An apparatus for dispensing fluid during semiconductor substrate processing operations. The apparatus includes a central fluid dispense bank comprising a plurality of dispense nozzles coupled to a plurality of fluid sources and a first processing chamber positioned ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7393414 | Methods and systems for processing a microelectronic topography Methods and systems are provided which are adapted to process a microelectronic topography, particularly in association with an electroless deposition process. In general, the methods may include loading the topography into a chamber, closing the chamber to form an ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7381269 | System and method to supply chemical during semiconductor device fabrication Disclosed are a system and method for supplying chemical during a semiconductor device fabrication process. The system includes a tank to store the chemical, a dispensing unit to hold the chemical, a refill line connected between the tank and the dispensing unit to ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7368016 | Substrate processing unit and substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing unit includes: a vertically-movable substrate holder for holding a substrate; a pan surrounding a periphery of the substrate holder; a cell, located below the substrate holder and within the pan, having in its interior a chemical processing se... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364771 | Method and apparatus for production of fluorine-containing polyimide film A method for producing a fluorine-containing polyimide film excelling in heat resistance, resistance to chemicals, water repellency, dielectric properties, electrical properties, and optical properties and a spin coater suitable for the method are to be provided. A ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357840 | Solvent bath and drain According to one aspect of the invention, a wafer processing apparatus is provided. The wafer processing apparatus may include a wafer support, a dispense head, and a solvent bath. The dispense head may be moveable between a position over the wafer support and a pos... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353623 | Solvent removal apparatus and method A solvent removal apparatus and method is provided that can dry a coat on a workpiece in a uniform thickness. The solvent removal apparatus includes a support base for supporting a substrate provided with a liquid phase film-forming coat containing a film material a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354860 | Manufacturing method of mask blank and manufacturing method of transfer mask A manufacturing method of a mask blank from which an unnecessary resist film formed on the peripheral edge of a substrate main surface is removed in a mask blank, which is an original substrate of a transfer mask having a transfer pattern for transferring to a body ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351288 | Shock absorbing fluidic actuator According to one aspect of the invention, a fluidic actuator and a control system for the fluidic actuator may be provided. A first component of the actuator may have two openings interconnected by a passageway. A second component may be moveably housed within the p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351293 | Method and device for rotating a wafer Method and device for rotating a wafer which is arranged floating in a reactor. The wafer is treated in a reactor of this nature, and it is important for this treatment to be carried out as uniformly as possible. For this purpose, it is proposed to rotate the wafer ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7344600 | Substrate treatment apparatus Dislocation of processing liquid pouring nozzles is prevented, smooth carrying of the processing liquid pouring nozzles is achieved, and the positional accuracy of the processing liquid pouring nozzles, processing accuracy and yield are improved. A substrate process... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7335391 | Method for coating implantable devices A method of forming a coating for an implantable medical device, such as a stent, is provided which includes applying a composition to the device in an environment having a selected pressure. ... | 02/26/2008 |
