Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7665415 | Substrate processing apparatus LEDs in an LED display part are arranged so as to have approximately the same placing form as containers. When a chemical solution in a container is exhausted, a corresponding LED of the LED display part lights up. Prior to an operation of replacing the container, a... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7404861 | Imaging and inspection system for a dispenser and method for same Aspects of the invention are directed to systems and methods for dispensing materials onto a substrate. In one aspect, a dispensing system includes a dispenser having a dispensing outlet positionable over a top surface of the substrate, the dispenser having a substa... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7387682 | Liquid drop discharge device, printer, printing method, and electro-optical device A liquid drop discharge device such as an ink jet device is provided that discharges a liquid drop with high precision. The liquid drop is discharged from a discharge head to a target position of a substrate and a cylindrical laser beam surrounds a trajectory that t... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7367515 | Device for applying marks to a playing field An auxiliary device for marking marks on a surface of a field playing surface. The device includes a frame attachable to a field line marking machine that includes a paint supply. A guide system having a length dimension is carried by the frame member. The guide sys... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7350476 | Method and apparatus to determine consumable part condition A system for monitoring a condition of a consumable component in a substrate processing system that includes a tapered plug having a first axis, a second axis that intersects the first axis, a top portion with first width, a bottom portion with a second width, and s... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7338560 | Apparatus for forming alignment layer and auto-calibration method thereof An apparatus for forming alignment layer includes a printing stage for supporting a substrate thereon, at least one inkjet head having at least one spray hole above the printing stage, the spray hole spraying an alignment material onto the substrate, a head support ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330346 | Etching apparatus, method for measuring self-bias voltage, and method for monitoring etching apparatus The invention provides a means for estimating a self-bias voltage under arbitrary etching conditions via a simple procedure. The present invention provides a method for measuring self-bias voltage of an etching apparatus comprising an electrostatic chuck mechanism | 02/12/2008 |
| 7294206 | Apparatus and method for simultaneously coating and measuring parts An apparatus and method for simultaneously coating and measuring a part including a part support, a sprayer, a part measurer including a digital camera and a display device, all of which are positioned adjacent to the part support. The sprayer applies a coating to a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7255748 | Apparatus for integrated monitoring of wafers and for process control in semiconductor manufacturing and a method for use thereof The present invention relates to an integrated apparatus for monitoring wafers and for process control in the semiconductor manufacturing process, by means of at least two different measurements that can be installed inside any part of the semiconductor production l... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256833 | Method and apparatus for automatically optimizing optical contrast in automated equipment Techniques for automatically adjusting and/or optimizing the color and/or intensity of the illuminating light used in a vision system is presented. The intensity of each of a plurality of illuminating light colors is allowed to be independently adjusted to adapt the... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7241397 | Honeycomb optical window deposition shield and method for a plasma processing system An optical window deposition shield including a backing plate having a through hole, and a honeycomb structure having a plurality of adjacent cells configured to allow optical viewing through the honeycomb structure. Each cell of the honeycomb structure has an aspec... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238234 | Device and method for fabricating display panel having ink-jet printing applied thereto Device and method for fabricating a display panel having ink-jet printing applied thereto, the device including a stage for supporting a substrate, a base having one or more than one rail for transporting the stage, and one or more than one ink-jet head rotatable by... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7235136 | Device for reading the rotational speed of a paint sprayer provided with a rotating bowl The invention device measures the instantaneous rotation speed of a turbine (6) which is housed inside the body (3) of the paint sprayer (2) and which rotationally drives the rotating bowl (5) when the paint sprayer is mounted on the end ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7226510 | Film forming apparatus In a film forming apparatus according to the aerosol deposition method, the thickness of a structure being formed can be controlled accurately. The film forming apparatus includes an aerosol generating part in which raw material powder is to be provided, a compresse... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7201802 | Apparatus for providing a substrate with viscous medium Solder paste application, inspection and correction. Following or during application of solder paste on a substrate, the result thereof is inspected and any detected errors are registered. Following an evaluation as to whether correction of these errors is required ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7192505 | Wafer probe for measuring plasma and surface characteristics in plasma processing environments There is provided by this invention a wafer probe for measuring plasma and surface characteristics in plasma processing environment that utilizes integrated sensors on a wafer substrate. A microprocessor mounted on the substrate receives input signals from the integ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7169254 | Plasma processing system and apparatus and a sample processing method A plasma processing apparatus having a sample stage disposed inside a vacuum chamber and a plate member disposed opposing to a sample which is placed on the sample stage and supplied with electric power. The sample is processed using a plasma generated between the s... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7143464 | Device for sucking off specified surface areas on powder-coated vehicle wheels When vehicle wheels are powder-coated with powder coating, those surfaces on which no coating is wanted are always also coated. To suck off the powder coating from these surface areas before it is baked in, a device which includes a conveyor system, an electronic ca... | 12/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7108752 | Liquid processing apparatus and liquid processing method A liquid processing apparatus comprises a liquid processing section for applying a liquid processing to wafers W, a carrier delivery section for delivering the carrier housing the wafers W, a carrier stock section capable of storing a plurality of carriers, an inter... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105059 | Reaction apparatus for atomic layer deposition A reaction apparatus for atomic layer deposition includes a vacuum chamber having a gas inlet, a gas outlet, and a gas flow path for connecting the gas inlet and the gas outlet; a reactor located in the vacuum chamber, including a reaction chamber where a first gas,... | 09/12/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7092153 | Temperature-controlled gas microscope The invention enables construction of a microscope that has one or more advantageous characteristics as compared to previous microscopes. The microscope can be small and lightweight and, in particular, sufficiently small and light weight to be portable (e.g., smalle... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7087119 | Atomic layer deposition with point of use generated reactive gas species An apparatus for atomic layer deposition preventing mixing of a precursor gas and an input gas. From the apparatus a flow of the input gas is provided over a surface of the workpiece wherein a beam of the electromagnetic radiation is directed into the input gas in c... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7070655 | Pre-treatment tunnel and method of preparing extrusions or section bars for being powder or liquid coated Pre-treatment tunnel and method of preparing extrusions or section bars for being coated, wherein each workpiece is caused to move along a pre-treatment path and each treatment liquid is poured from above onto each workpiece so as to spread liquid onto the entire ex... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072103 | Microscope with objective lens position control apparatus The invention enables construction of a microscope that has one or more advantageous characteristics as compared to previous microscopes. The microscope can be small and lightweight and, in particular, sufficiently small and light weight to be portable (e.g., smalle... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7063744 | Coating device There is provided a coating device which can quickly cope with a change in size of a container. A pair of coating belts (annular belts) (11, 15) are arranged on two sides of a conveyor (10). The coating belt (15) is rotated at a high speed while... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7063747 | Coating control system for use on a spherical object A coating control system and method for monitoring and potentially adjusting system at least one spray property at various stages of the painting process, thereby also providing an efficient set-up and monitoring process involving less manual labor, less waste, and ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7059705 | Workpiece processing and liquid droplet ejection inspection apparatus An apparatus for inspecting drawing accuracy in a liquid droplet ejection apparatus performs drawing by ejecting a function liquid droplet while moving a function liquid droplet ejection head relative to a workpiece by using a moving mechanism. In response to the re... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7037556 | Process and apparatus for preparation of a no-jam vending machine plastic card A process and apparatus is disclosed for preparation of a no-jam vending machine card wherein the card is treated with a suitably adhering powder to have a residual powder layer on the card to reduce generation of an electrical static charge upon each card as the ca... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7018476 | Device for applying a coating agent A device for applying a coating medium onto a substrate, includes at least one spray valve that has a nozzle opening that can be adjusted with regard to its effective outlet area using a closing mechanism, whereby the substrate can be moved past the spray valve, whi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6997990 | Device and method for fabricating display panel having ink-jet printing applied thereto Device and method for fabricating a display panel having ink-jet printing applied thereto, the device including a stage for supporting a substrate, a base having one or more than one rail for transporting the stage, and one or more than one ink-jet head rotatable by... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994750 | Film evaluating method, temperature measuring method, and semiconductor device manufacturing method Reference infrared-absorption spectrum patterns are prepared in advance as a database. The infrared-absorption spectrum pattern of a film targeted for measurement is measured using FT-IR spectroscopy. Subsequently, multivariate analysis is performed using PLS regres... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6977013 | Powder coating system central controller A central controller for a powder coating system has a single processor connected to a memory, a gun controller input/output device and gun control logic for controlling a characteristic of a spray gun. An air flow controller input/output device and air flow control... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6966950 | Method and apparatus for treating underground pipeline A system for internally filling a joint or other discontinuity in a pipeline. The system includes a flexible conduit, a fill device removably connected to said flexible conduit, wherein the fill device is constructed and arranged to apply a fill material to an inter... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6939392 | System and method for thermal management A system for the management of thermal transfer in a gas turbine engine includes a heat generating sub-system in operable communication with the engine, a fuel source to supply a fuel, a fuel stabilization unit to receive the fuel from the fuel source and to provide... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6939586 | Method and installation for hot process and continuous dip coating of a metal strip A process for the continuous dip-coating of a metal strip (1) in a tank (11) containing a liquid metal bath (12), in which process the metal strip (1) is made to run continuously through a duct (13), the lower part (13a | 09/06/2005 |
| 6936107 | Coating film forming apparatus and coating unit A coating film forming apparatus for forming a film by applying a coating solution to a substrate, which is provided with a cassette section, coating unit, developing unit, pre-treatment/post-treatment units and a main arm for transferring the substrate between the ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6923885 | Plasma processing system and apparatus and a sample processing method A plasma processing apparatus having a sample bench located in a vacuum chamber, a structure disposed at a position opposed to a sample placed on the sample bench and facing a plasma generated in the vacuum chamber, and at least one through-hole disposed in the stru... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6916375 | Portable manufacturing facility for manufacturing anti-slip flooring and method of manufacturing The present invention provides a truck trailer manufacturing facility for coating workpieces such as metal plates or grating sections with a thermal spray anti-slip coating that provides a durable, high coefficient of friction surface on the workpieces. The manufact... | 07/12/2005 |
