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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7097747 | Continuous process electrorefiner A new device is provided for the electrorefining of uranium in spent metallic nuclear fuels by the separation of unreacted zirconium, noble metal fission products, transuranic elements, and uranium from spent fuel rods. The process comprises an electrorefiner cell. ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6942765 | Submicron and nano size particle encapsulation by electrochemical process and apparatus An apparatus and method for coating or treating powdered material, particularly ultra-fine powders in the nanometer or submicron range of mean diameters, by electrolytic processes. A platen is mounted for rotation upon a fixed shaft, and a rotary flow-through electr... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6926812 | Electric feeding method and apparatus for a continuous plating apparatus To avoid the formation of undesirable plating on electric supply rollers, there is provided a continuous plating apparatus in which a planar article to be plated is vertically clamped on both sides by electric supply rollers and the article to be plated is moved hor... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6562217 | Method and device for manufacturing conductive particles A method for making conductive particles that efficiently permit a plated layer of uniform thickness to be formed over each of the particles without aggregating the particles in a plating liquid. The apparatus comprises: a disk-shaped bottom plate secured... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6240386 | Speech codec employing noise classification for noise compensation A multi-rate speech codec supports a plurality of encoding bit rate modes by adaptively selecting encoding bit rate modes to match communication channel restrictions. In higher bit rate encoding modes, an accurate representation of speech through CELP (co... | 05/29/2001 |
| 5994782 | Surface treatment equipment for treating circuit boards A circuit board surface treatment equipment, which includes an upper solution chamber and a bottom solution chamber defined within a machine base at different elevations, a set of conveying rollers and upper and lower bumper rollers arranged in the upper ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5914016 | Apparatus for the treatment of articles In order in a continuous electroplating plant to avoid the problem of undesired metal application or metallization on contact faces (25), which e.g. occur in the case of rolling contacting of the article (13) to be plated, e.g. a printed circuit board, on... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5755948 | Electroplating system and process This invention relates to a system and process for electroplating that has plating drums whereby the plating drums are filled, and emptied of parts at each individual plating cell and the parts are cleansed by spraying, wiping and/or drying and whereby on... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5496456 | Vibrating conveyor device dipping into a liquid with damping of vibration transmission Known large vibrating conveyors are not readily suitable as such for conveying bulk materials or small articles into or out of a liquid bath, because the liquid transmits the vibrations to other structural parts, for example a vessel for the liquid, as a ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5487824 | Electroplating apparatus and electroplating method of small articles An electroplating apparatus of small articles comprising: a horizontal circular bottom disk fixed on a top of a vertical drive shaft concentrically, a cover having a bottom fixing flange extending outwardly, upper opening and forming between the bottom di... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5419823 | Electroplating device and process This invention relates to a process and apparatus for electroplating that has an electrolyte continually circulating through a rotating plating barrel along with its parts to be plated by having a elongated perforated tube that is positioned above the cen... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5244564 | Apparatus for electrolytic surface coating of pourable material and method for operating the apparatus The bulk material is transportable in an electrolyte in the conveying trough of a vibrator conveyor. The perforated conveying trough constitutes one of the two electrodes. According to the invention, the polarity of the conveying trough (21) and of the ot... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5215641 | Device for transporting bulk material comprising a vibrator conveyor which dips into a liquid The conveying trough of the vibrator conveyor is disposed spirally around a central pipe and is surrounded by a gasproof vessel. This vessel contains a treatment medium, preferably an electrolyte free of oxygen and water, into which the vibrator conveyor ... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5188718 | Apparatus for electrolytic surface coating of pourable material The bulk material is transportable in an electrolyte in the conveying trough of a vibrator conveyor. The conveying trough forms a cathodic track for the bulk material. According to the invention, a granulate anode (40) is provided which consists of a gran... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5186803 | Device for electrolytic surface treatment of bulk material For electrodeposition of metal from an electrolyte with a vibrator conveyor the bulk material is transported in a conveying trough which is connected as cathode. According to the invention, the conveying trough (18) is provided with supporting stringpiece... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5167779 | Process and apparatus for electrolyte exchange A process and apparatus for obtaining an intensive and continuous exchange of electrolyte on the surfaces of workpieces (11, 21) subjected to chemical or electrolytical treatments wherein the exchange is achieved by subjecting the workpieces (11, 21) to s... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5092975 | Metal plating apparatus In arrangement of high speed plating system, a number of sequential treatment bath units are arranged side by side along an arcuate path at equal intervals, a rotatable transfer unit of workpieces is arranged at the center of the arcuate path to concurren... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4969985 | Device for transporting agitatable material having a vibrator which is submerged in a liquid An apparatus for transporting agitatable material through a liquid treatment bath, comprising a spiral conveyor trough mounted around a central tube in a gas-tight tank which contains a liquid into which a portion of the trough is submerged. The conveyor ... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4775454 | Work carrier unit for bulk processing An apparatus for immersing a plurality of workpieces adapted to be raised and lowered in response to control commands. The apparatus includes a support structure having a plurality of work carrier units rotationally supported thereon. The apparatus furthe... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4701248 | Apparatus for electrolytic surface treatment of bulk goods An apparatus for electrolytic surface treatment of bulk goods includes a tank for the acceptance of the treatment bath, an arrangement for connecting the goods to be treated to at least one pole of an electrical source, an electrode disposed in the bath c... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4670120 | Apparatus for electrolytic surface treatment of bulk goods An apparatus for electrolytic surface treatment of goods comprises a tank for the acceptance of a treatment bath, an arrangement for contacting the goods with one pole of an electrical source, at least one electrode arranged in the treatment bath having a... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4572773 | Electroplating apparatus A container basin adapted to contain the workpieces to be electroplated is carried at the lower end of a tubular element, to the opposite upper end of which is screwed a power take-off stem of a vibrator. A body of the vibrator is provided with a hook ena... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4559122 | Continuous-cycle electroplating plant A continuous-cycle electroplating plant for a plating loose metal items, the plant including a multiplicity of sequentially arranged processing units which comprise at least one pre-treating unit, one or more electroplating units and at least one passivat... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4537669 | Apparatus for cleaning, plating and/or coating articles Apparatus for cleaning, plating and/or coating articles comprising a container adapted to contain a liquid cleaning, plating or coating material. A barrel is at least partially submerged in the container and supported for rotation about its longitudinal a... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4427518 | Electroplating device A device for continuously processing an article such as by electroplating including a tank equipped with a horizontally disposed rotating electroplating drum, an entry station disposed for introducing an article to one end of the drum and an exit station ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4409082 | Method and apparatus for the galvanic deposition of metal onto objects, cleaning off and recovery of adherent surface treatment agents Apparatus for the electrolytic deposition of metal onto metallic or appropriately pre-treated non-metallic objects and cleaning these objects of adhering surface treatment agents after further treatment as well as recovery of these treatment agents, with ... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4390399 | Method and apparatus for plating articles A cleaning and plating method and apparatus comprising a plurality of tank assemblies arranged in series through which a batch of articles to be cleaned and plated is moved successively. Each tank assembly comprises a tank containing liquid treating or pl... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4257853 | Metal plating process A metal plating process and apparatus is disclosed and includes a plurality of pre-plating stations comprising tanks or reservoirs containing various cleaning and rinsing solutions. A pulse plating or gold flash station including a plating tank is provide... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4182669 | Automatic electroplating apparatus An automatic electroplating apparatus which comprises a power-driven larger rotary drum containing plating solution therein, a plurality of power-driven smaller rotary drums disposed within the larger drum and immersed in the plating solution, and a plura... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4144148 | Method and apparatus for treating metal containing waste waters Method for treating metal containing waste water employing a vessel containing the waste water in which there is provided at least one anode and a cathode comprised of a plurality of electrically conductive elements and in which the waste water is subject... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4123340 | Method and apparatus for treating metal containing waste water Method for treating metal containing waste water employing a vessel containing the waste water in which there is provided at least one anode and a cathode consisting essentially of electrically conductive particles and in which the waste water is subjecte... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4090927 | Process for electro-depositing a metal on conducting granules Metal is electrodeposited on conductive granules in apparatus comprising a helical channel with a cathode at its radially outer side and an anode at its radially inner side. A suspension of the granules in an electrolysis solution is fed tangentially into... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4062752 | Plating mechanism There is provided a plating system comprising a series of plating and/or processing tanks with spiral grooved plating and processing barrels. The spiral groove is located interally of the barrels which are substantially hollow. The spiral groove or channe... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4056450 | Continuous detinning system This invention relates to the recovery of tin as tin metal from tin plate scrap on a continuous basis comprising continuously advancing shredded scrap through an electrically anodic rotating perforated drum partially but not completely immersed in a caust... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4032422 | Apparatus for plating semiconductor chip headers A method and apparatus for selectively plating the die-attach area of a semiconductor chip header are described. The apparatus comprises a rotary disc assembly. In the assembly there is provided a plurality of cavities for removably receiving individual h... | 06/28/1977 |
