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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8042589 | Cleaning unit and printer An apparatus for efficiently cleaning a platen roller of a printer. A cleaning unit is attached to a main unit in place of a removal unit for an intermediate transfer sheet. A cam is turned by means of turning an arm UP/DOWN lever, and the arm is turned from an UP p... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7354494 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing laminated substrate An apparatus for manufacturing a laminated substrate with a simple structure and with satisfactory yield. First and second holding plates each attract substrates without contacting a laminating surface of the two substrates. A substrate conveying device conveys the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7338434 | Method and system for organ positioning and stabilization This invention provides a heart positioning device, method and system for positioning, manipulating, holding, grasping, immobilizing and/or stabilizing a heart. The heart positioning device may include a suction head and a shaft with a means for remotely changing th... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7328734 | Portable thermo-plastic welding machine and method A machine and method for welding thermo-plastic rain gutters or other work pieces together. The machine includes a frame assembly and a protective shroud. Handles or a wheeled carriage are provided for transporting the machine to a work site. A stationary plate and ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7201716 | Method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of tissue The invention is a method and apparatus for performing beating heart surgery, in which a single articulating arm supports multiple suction pods. Once the suction pods are applied to the heart surface, tightening a cable fixes the arm in place. Then, the suction pods... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7189201 | Method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of tissue A method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of tissue. In particular, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of tissue within a patient's body cavity. In one embodiment, the tissue immobil... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7147422 | Method and device for making the covers of a book or equivalent A method and a device for making book covers using surface material and cover pieces to be glued onto it. Cover pieces are positioned in the desired location in clamp, that can be rotated around axis, and the pieces are supported by means of stoppers into the desire... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7094305 | Method for particle production A method of producing batches of micro particles includes affixing a substrate sheet to a support and cutting the substrate sheet with a laser device to define a plurality of micro particles. Before, after or during the cutting of the substrate sheet, the region of ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7048683 | Method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of tissue A method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of tissue. In particular, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of heart tissue to thereby permit surgery on a coronary vessel in that area wit... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6979367 | Method of improving surface planarity A method of improving surface planarity of a wafer. The method includes forming a first thin-film layer on the wafer using CVD in a first thin film deposition apparatus having at least one gas injector, relative to which the wafer has a first orientation, and formin... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6557607 | Apparatus for manufacturing micro-structure A substrate on which a plurality of thin films having a plurality of cross-sections corresponding to the cross-section of a micro-structure are formed is placed on a substrate holder. The substrate holder is elevated to bond a thin film formed on the subs... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6539997 | Adhesive transfer device The present invention provides an adhesive transfer device comprising a frame and first and second cooperating structures each having a substrate engaging surface, the first cooperating structure being a nip roller rotatably mounted to the frame. The sele... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6527027 | Single-point bonding apparatus In a single-point bonding apparatus that connects the end portions of leads or the cut end portions of leads to pads respectively by pressing such end portions of leads or cut end portions of leads with a tool, a cleaning stage that is used to clean the t... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6449521 | Decontamination of a plasma reactor using a plasma after a chamber clean A method and apparatus for reducing fluorine and other sorbable contaminants in plasma reactor used in chemical vapor deposition process such as the deposition of silicon oxide layer by the reaction of TEOS and oxygen. According to the method of the prese... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6296034 | Image-forming material removing apparatus An image-forming material removing apparatus capable of continuously peeling image-forming material such as toner from the recording medium while, with simple structure, maintaining high quality will be provided. The image-forming material removing appara... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6253818 | Device for changing reels at paper machines The invention refers to a process for changing reels at paper machines, particularly tissue machines. It is mainly characterized by adhesive being applied to an empty reel over almost the entire web width, the core shaft being placed thus prepared on the ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6238484 | Reactive hot-melt adhesive coating machine A reactive hot-melt adhesive coating machine capable of preventing a nozzle clogging by a simple construction is disclosed. A reactive hot-melt adhesive in a molten state supplied from an adhesive storage tank is fed to a spray means through an adhesive f... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6080255 | Method of and an apparatus for removing image forming substance from an image supporting body In a toner removing apparatus in which, after toner attached to transferring paper is heated and adheres to a peeling-off belt, transferring paper is separated from the belt and thereby toner is peeled off from transferring paper, the peeling-off belt is ... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5970272 | Apparatus for reusing image recording materials The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reusing an image recording material wherein a releasing property is imparted to at least a substrate surface of an image recording material on which an image has been formed of an image forming m... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5897726 | Method of and an apparatus for removing image forming substance from an image supporting body In a toner removing apparatus in which, after toner attached to transferring paper is heated and adheres to a peeling-off belt, transferring paper is separated from the belt and thereby toner is peeled off from transferring paper, the peeling-off belt is ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5788811 | Method and apparatus for peeling coating from coated plastics and method for recycling plastics There is provided a method for peeling a coating from coated plastics, comprising applying a shear stress to a plastic product having a coating thereon, optionally after preforming the plastic product into a flat plate form, thereby to peel the coating fr... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5783018 | Apparatus for cleaning labels and method therefor Labels (12) are disposed on a carrier strip (10), which is routed from a feed reel (22), over a guide (24), idlers (26 & 28), through a printer (30), over a peeler plate (32), and to a pick-up reel (34). The labels are cleaned of dust prior to printing by... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5753747 | Filling voids with filled hotmelt adhesive A reactive hot melt adhesive and/or sealing composition having a heat of crystallization in joules/gram of -2 or lower, comprising a curable heat-flowable adhesive material and a particulate filler, wherein said composition has a thermal conductivity of l... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5720850 | Process and device for the application of an adhesive The invention pertains to a process for the operation of a mouthpiece for the intermittent supply of an adhesive through at least one discharge opening to a surface moving with respect to this mouthpiece, where at least in the pauses between discharges, t... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5667624 | Polarization plate gluing apparatus The present invention relates to a polarization plate to a surface of a liquid crystal cell in a manufacturing process of a liquid crystal panel, where a rotary table is disposed with loading domains for the liquid crystal cell, with each domain sequentia... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5643380 | Method of recycling image-deposited recording material and apparatus for recycling the same A method of recycling an image-deposited recording material having a surface portion which swells in contact with water and bears thereon deposited images containing an image-constituting material, include the steps of: (a) applying a water-containing ima... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5584960 | Apparatus for joining plastic materials together A method and apparatus for joining plastic profile members together, particularly to form picture frames. The profile members are held in place by fixture members against a locator member. The locator member is withdrawn and a heated blade positioned betw... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5518574 | Form folding and gluing machine A self-mailer machine for producing self-adhered mailers from single sheets has improved vacuum feed for high operating speed and larger batch loading than has been previously available. The machine also has an improved glue reservoir system wherein glue ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5476567 | Method and apparatus for fabricating resin mats A method and apparatus for fabricating resin mats having a plurality of mat layers is provided. Multiple mat sheets are conveyed between two spaced rollers while being impregnated with resin contained in at least one reservoir formed between the rollers a... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5439548 | Apparatus for and method of restoring a damaged coating of a drum Apparatus for and method of restoring a damaged area of a coating on a drum body includes a treatment station with a coating-removal unit which initially mechanically frees the damaged area from remaining coating. After cleaning the freed damaged area, a ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5353108 | Apparatus for cleaning printed paper A cleaning apparatus is designed to press a heat-soluble resin which is heated and in a tacky state to a heat-soluble ink on an erasable paper having a surface treated with releasing agent, and to peel off the heat-soluble ink.... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5273615 | Apparatus and method for handling fragile semiconductor wafers An apparatus (60) which handles fragile semiconductor wafers (21) adhesively mounted to a submount (22) using a high temperature wax is provided. The apparatus (60) includes a vacuum chuck (24) for holding a first surface of the wafer (21) and a solvent c... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5234532 | Apparatus for connecting paper web with a paper web threading member This invention has for its object to provide an apparatus for connecting a paper web with a paper web threading member wherein during the stand-by period of a retaining device the adhesive surface of an adhesive material in the retaining device is covered... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5022771 | Thermal printing apparatus and tape supply cartridge therefor A thermal printing device and tape supply cartridge therefor which includes a printing mechanism having a print head incorporated within the machine and a separate printing platen embodied within the cartridge. An alignment mechanism is also provided for ... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5006189 | Coating method and cleaning method for heat-soluble material Coating of heat-soluble material on a substrate or cleaning is performed by supplying a heat-soluble material in heated and melted condition onto a substrate, laying a sheet member on the heat-soluble material, cooling the heat-soluble material to solidif... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4978415 | Apparatus for applying labels to articles The invention provides a method for applying labels to articles moved one by one past an application station. The labels are cut from a web which is fed through the machine, the web having adhesive applied to one side thereof which is pressure sensitive i... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4755252 | Double-band press for continuous production of copper-lined laminates with auxiliary cleaning equipment In a double-band press for the continuous production of copper-lined laminates, copper foil webs and layered material webs are drawn off rollers and fed to the double-band press, the copper foil webs being placed against press belts of the press in an are... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4726871 | Continuously operable press for the manufacture of laminates A continuously operable press for the manufacture of laminates and similar products has a heated press roll, two guide rolls, and at least one tensioning roll. One end of the rolls is journaled in bearings at a fixed support wall and the other end of each... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4655871 | Device for feeding revenue stamps on a cigarette packing machine A device for feeding revenue stamps on a cigarette packing machine, whereby each packet coming off a wrapping unit is fed along an unloading route extending through a fork grip; between two arms of which grip there is stretched a revenue stamp withdrawn b... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4579612 | Method of and apparatus for the continuous production of a copper-faced electrolaminate In the formation of an electrolaminate made up of a core of insulating material webs with a high purity electrolytic copper foil on at least one side of the core, for use as a circuit board in electronic equipment, the web of insulating material and the c... | 04/01/1986 |
