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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113139 | Gas wiping apparatus having adjustable gas guide A gas wiping apparatus is a type of equipment for coating a molten metal onto a steel strip, in which the molten metal solution deposited on the steel strip is wiped to adjust a coating thickness. The gas wiping apparatus includes a body containing a high pressure g... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8096260 | Coating apparatus for coating a building board A coating apparatus for coating an entire surface of a building board without forming uncoated area, while conveying the building board, having: an application device for applying a coating material to the surface of the building board; a removal device for removing... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8042484 | Appliance and method for surface treatment of a board shaped material and floorboard A device for coating surface portions of a board material with a liquid material. The device includes a wheel which transfers the coating material and compressed air which positions the coating material. A method for surface coating and a floorboard with a finished ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7823529 | Ceramic foam-filled sandwich panels and method To produce a ceramic foam-filled structural sandwich panel, a coating of a pre-ceramic slurry is applied on a preform. The preform includes a foam template sandwiched between a plurality of panels. In addition, the coating is cured to the preform, the preform is mod... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7819076 | Substrate treatment method and substrate treatment apparatus A substrate treatment apparatus which uniformly forms a fine resist pattern with a desired dimension within a plane of a substrate is disclosed. In a solvent vapor supply unit, a solvent vapor discharge nozzle is provided which can discharge a solvent vapor for swel... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7575632 | Reflowed drug-polymer coated stent and method thereof A system for forming a drug-polymer coated stent includes means for applying a polymeric coating onto at least a portion of a stent framework, means for drying the applied polymeric coating on the stent framework and means for directing a jet of heated gas towards e... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7563322 | Method and apparatus for online flow control over the span of a high aspect ratio slot jet A method and apparatus for controlling local flow along a slot jet with applications to airknives is disclosed. The airknife provides improved options for on-line control over coating thickness and edge build-up prevention. The gap of the slot nozzle of the airknife... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7438763 | Coating apparatus and method having a slide bead coater and liquid drop applicator A coating apparatus and coating method include a device for conveying an object to be coated; a coating device which is disposed in a vicinity of a conveyed surface of the object, and which discharges a coating liquid, and which forms a bridge of the liquid between ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7390365 | Developing method, substrate treating method, and substrate treating apparatus A developing method comprises determining in advance the relation of resist dissolution concentration in a developing solution and resist dissolution speed by the developing solution, estimating in advance the resist dissolution concentration where the resist dissol... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7384482 | Coating technique Disclosed herein is a coating system for pre-coating a vehicle chassis, comprising a coating station and a curing oven, the coating station being upstream from said curing oven along a travel path, the coating station to deliver a layer of coating material thereon, ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7364622 | Method and apparatus for fabricating a device, and the device and an electronic equipment The invention provides an apparatus for fabricating a device, in which a high operation efficiency is maintained in a drying treatment for a multilayer-interconnection device. The device can also be fabricated inexpensively. An apparatus for fabricating a device has... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7343217 | System for monitoring and controlling a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus using prediction model equation A semiconductor processing apparatus for processing a semiconductor wafer includes a plurality of sensors for monitoring a processing state, a processing result input unit, a model equation generation unit to generate a model equation for predicting a processing res... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7323056 | Coating apparatus A coating apparatus is provided in which entrained air flow of an applicator roll and a web is removed and occurrences of misting and coating irregularity are suppressed to thereby realize a uniform coating liquid film and a uniform coating state. A coating apparatu... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7279045 | Apparatus for wetting a running filament strand An apparatus for wetting an advancing filament bundle. A fluid is applied by means of a nozzle in the form of a fluid spray jet to the filament bundle advancing in spaced relationship with the nozzle. A portion of the spray jet is shielded before impacting upon the ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7279044 | Apparatus and method of fabricating liquid crystal display panel An apparatus for fabricating a liquid crystal display panel includes a slit nozzle for applying a photo-resist liquid on a substrate, a nozzle driver for driving the slit nozzle, an air intake for inhaling air and/or impurities on the substrate through the slit nozz... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276119 | Method and apparatus for producing cover layers in Blu-ray discs Techniques for a cover layer with uniform thickness are disclosed. The cover layer is formed with a type of material, such as glue, in hardened form. In one embodiment, a certain amount of the material in liquid form is dispensed onto a dispensing structure. After t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7249993 | Machining apparatus for skis having a binding The invention describes a machining apparatus for skis (5) having a binding (16), comprising a roller table (6) for the skis (5) resting with the running surface on the rollers (9) of the roller table, tools (2) provided bet... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7210185 | Floor cleaning device with motorized vibratory head A vibratory cleaning/polishing head secured to manually operated handle includes a detachable cleaning/polishing pad secured to the head, and a rechargeable battery and vibratory unit including a motor. In one embodiment, the vibratory unit and battery are substanti... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208201 | Coating apparatus and method having a slide bead coater and liquid drop applicator A coating apparatus and coating method include a device for conveying an object to be coated; a coating device which is disposed in a vicinity of a conveyed surface of the object, and which discharges a coating liquid, and which forms a bridge of the liquid between ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204911 | Process and apparatus for forming discrete microcavities in a filament wire using a polymer etching mask A microcavity-forming system for making microcavities in a wire (especially a tungsten filament wire). The system has a coating station receiving the wire and applying a polymer coating to the wire. A mask-forming station receives the polymer-coated wire and blows m... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7169230 | Coater apparatus A coater apparatus (10) is disclosed for applying coating material onto a moving web. The apparatus (10) includes an applicator having a first and a second end, the applicator (16) defining a feeding chamber (22) for the reception therein... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7139620 | Prediction method and apparatus of a processing result In a method and apparatus for predicting process results of objects being processed in a processing chamber of a processing apparatus, operation data and process result data obtained at the time of processing each of the objects are collected and a multivariate anal... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7137194 | Apparatus and method for maintaining a dry atmosphere in a surface mount device placement machine The apparatus and method of the present invention relates use a dry atmosphere in the component storage portion of the surface mount device placement machine. The dry atmosphere provides the benefit of eliminating the baking process and other moisture management iss... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7105058 | Apparatus for forming a microfiber coating An apparatus and method for forming a microfiber coating includes directing a liquid solution toward a deposition surface. The apparatus includes a tube defining a volume through which the liquid solution travels. An electric field is applied between the origin of t... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7072808 | Manufacturing design and process analysis system Methods, apparatuses and systems that facilitate the design, production and/or measurement tasks associated with manufacturing and other processes. In one embodiment, the present invention provides an understanding of how the multiple characteristics of a given proc... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054786 | Operation monitoring method for treatment apparatus In an operation monitoring method according to the present invention, operation data of a plasma processing system (1) are detected for every wafer (W) by means of a plurality of detectors, and a principal component analysis using the operation data is carrie... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7045015 | Apparatuses and method for maskless mesoscale material deposition Apparatuses and processes for maskless deposition of electronic and biological materials. The process is capable of direct deposition of features with linewidths varying from the micron range up to a fraction of a millimeter, and may be used to deposit features on s... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7022190 | Substrate coating unit and substrate coating method The present invention is a coating unit for coating a substrate with a coating solution, comprising a coating solution discharge member for discharging the coating solution to the substrate which is positioned in a downward part. A lower surface of the coating solut... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7022451 | Method of coating a cylindrical photoconductive element for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus and apparatus for the same A method of coating a photoconductive element for an electrophotographic image forming-apparatus and an apparatus therefore are disclosed. A plurality of cylindrical bodies are immersed in a bath, which stores a coating liquid, at the same time and then lifted out o... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7000286 | Water absorbing and drying cleaner A water absorbing and drying cleaner comprises a washing apparatus and a drying apparatus, wherein the washing apparatus and the drying apparatus are mounted in the casing of the water absorbing and drying cleaner, a drying inlet in the drying apparatus and a washin... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997991 | Device for cleaning a powder coating booth and powder coating booth with cleaning device Device for cleaning a powder coating booth and powder coating booth with cleaning device. The device for cleaning a powder coating booth is provided with a first air distribution batten arranged on the floor of the powder coating booth. Also provided is a second air... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993407 | Method and system for analyzing semiconductor fabrication A method and a system for analyzing a semiconductor manufacturing process includes a semiconductor manufacturing process that can generate sets of input and output data. Principal components are generated from the set of input data, and a set of principal component ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6945299 | Terminal electrode forming method in chip-style electronic component and apparatus therefor The invention provides an electrode forming method with steps of arraying chip-style electronic components on an arraying flat bed thereby positioning and aligning the components, lowering a film coated with an adhesive in relative manner together with an adhering t... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6923864 | Plant for the dip-coating of a metal strip The subject of the invention is a plant for the continuous dip-coating of a metal strip (1), of the type comprising a tank (11) containing a liquid metal bath (12), a duct (13) through which the metal strip (1) runs and the lower e... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6921436 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method An aging unit (DAC) for processing a wafer W having a coated film formed thereon includes a disposing plate, a temperature control circulating device for controlling the temperature of the disposing plate, a chamber, a gas supply mechanism for supplying an ammonia g... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6910487 | Method and apparatus for liquid-treating and drying a substrate The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for liquid treating and drying a substrate, such as a semiconductor wafer, the method comprising the step of immersing a substrate or a batch of substrates in a tank filled with a liquid, and removing the su... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6881264 | Configuration and a method for reducing contamination with particles on a substrate in a process tool A process tool, preferably a spin coater, includes a set of at least three arms and an adjustable rinse nozzle. The arms lift a substrate, e.g. a semiconductor wafer, from a chuck inside the process chamber after having performed the corresponding manufacturing step... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6866715 | Gravure method and apparatus for coating a liquid reactive to the atmosphere A method and apparatus is disclosed for gravure coating a liquid reactive with the atmosphere onto a web. The gravure apparatus comprises an engraved gravure cylinder, an impression roller backing the web and pressing it onto the gravure cylinder to form a nip, a cu... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6852166 | Method for coating a cylindrical photoconductive element for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus and apparatus for the same A method of coating a photoconductive element for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus and an apparatus therefore are disclosed. A plurality of cylindrical bodies are immersed in a bath, which stores a coating liquid, at the same time and then lifted out o... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6845928 | Gas wiping nozzle for a wire coating apparatus A gas wiping nozzle for a wire coating apparatus includes an inlet portion defining a converging inlet passage for a coated wire that is axially drawn through the gas wiping nozzle. A wiping portion is further included and defines a wiping passage for the coated wir... | 01/25/2005 |
