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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7922877 | Method and apparatus for plating a semiconductor package A method of plating a plurality of semiconductor devices includes: applying an electrical power source to an anode terminal and a cathode terminal; placing the plurality of semiconductor devices on a non-conductive platform in a plating solution; moving conductive p... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7850830 | Method and apparatus for racking articles for surface treatment A process employing a rack having an article carrier that is movably supported on a frame and mechanically coupled for translating movement from a motor to the article carrier to effect movement of an article during processing to provide more uniform surface treatme... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7837840 | Surface treatment apparatus for small object A plating process apparatus (1) for small objects, including a treatment cell (2) formed by combining a base plate (23), a bottom plate (24), an electrode ring (21) and a cover (25) using bolts (26), energizes a plati... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7399390 | Barrel plating device A barrel plating device is disclosed, wherein hollow support shafts placed to be approximately level with each other are mounted in a piercing form to support members combined together to face each other at a prescribed interval, the opposite ends of a barrel having... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7341649 | Apparatus for electroprocessing a workpiece surface The present invention deposits a conductive material from an electrolyte solution to a predetermined area of a wafer. The steps that are used when making this application include applying the conductive material to the predetermined area of the wafer using an electr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7318278 | Method of manufacture of a heart valve support frame Methods for forming a support frame for flexible leaflet heart valves from a starting blank include converting a two-dimensional starting blank into the three-dimensional support frame. The material may be superelastic, such as NITINOL, and the method may include be... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7125477 | Contacts for electrochemical processing Systems and methods for electrochemically processing. A contact element defines a substrate contact surface positionable in contact a substrate during processing. In one embodiment, the contact element comprises a wire element. In another embodiment the contact elem... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7108776 | Plating apparatus and plating method In the invention, there is provided a plating treatment technique which permits uniform plating treatment and easy replacement of articles to be plated without the effect of bubbles in a plating solution by improving wet plating apparatuses of the contact type to th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7052880 | Reaction chamber roll pump A method and system for circulating sample solution within a reaction chamber containing a microarray. The reaction chamber contains, on each side, a shallow vertical and a deep vertical well at the corners of the microarray. The vertical wells having a gap between ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052586 | Apparatus for making particulates of controlled dimension We make particulates, especially magnetic Fe—Co alloys having high magnetic permeability, of controlled dimensions, especially those having a narrow thickness size distribution centered around a median or target thickness in the range of about 0.1–1.0 μm, using... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7045050 | Method for producing electroconductive particles The purpose of the invention is to provide a method for producing conductive fine particles having a plating layer of extremely uniform thickness and free from scratches without being accompanied with agglomeration of fine particles to be plated during the plating p... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7029558 | Titanium-made cathode electrode for producing electrolytic copper foil, rotary cathode drum using the titanium-made cathode electrode, method of producing titanium material using titanium-made cathode electrode and method of correcting/working titanium material for titanium-made cathode electrode The purpose is to provide a cathode electrode for manufacturing an electrodeposited copper foil which is possible to be continuously and stably usable for a long duration of 3000 hours or longer to subsequently lessen the frequency of maintenance work execution as l... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7025862 | Plating uniformity control by contact ring shaping An apparatus for providing an electrical bias to a substrate in a processing system is described. The apparatus generally includes a conductive annular body defining a central opening. The conductive annular body may have a substrate seating surface adapted to recei... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7007594 | Tumbler for marinating food product A vacuum tumbler for marinating food products within a liquid. The vacuum tumbler comprises a container having an interior wall, the interior wall defining a chamber for containing the liquid. A rib extends inwardly from the interior wall at least one-quarter of the... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6929740 | Water purification system A water purification apparatus used to prevent the formation of scale around electrodes which form part of the apparatus. The apparatus comprises at least one electrode containing a proportion of an ion-emitting electrode such as copper, silver or a copper and silve... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6895718 | Construction unit mounting system A system for mounting a prefabricated construction unit in an aperture in a building structure comprises a plurality of clips. The clips have exterior ends adapted to be affixed to a frame of the construction unit and interior ends adapted to be affixed to the build... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6887363 | Grounding system for rotating fixtures in electrically conductive mediums An e-coating line for small parts includes a series of load carriers, each having a rotatable shaft supporting an apertured metal barrel with parts to be treated. Electrically conductive drive chains and sprockets connect the rotatable shaft to barrel shafts to susp... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6855235 | Anode impedance control through electrolyte flow control Embodiments of the invention generally provide an electrochemical plating cell having an electrolyte container assembly configured to hold a plating solution therein, a head assembly positioned above the electrolyte container, the head assembly being configured to s... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6843897 | Anode slime reduction method while maintaining low current Embodiments of the invention generally provide an electrochemical plating cell having an electrolyte container assembly configured to hold a plating solution therein, a head assembly positioned above the electrolyte container, the head assembly being configured to s... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6702895 | Ribbed electroplating barrel An electroplating barrel holds items to be electroplated while permitting the passage of electroplating solution into and out of the barrel. The solution enters the barrel through small perforations in the sidewalls of the barrel and then is circulated by... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6702932 | Electroplating barrel The invention relates to an electroplating barrel whose barrel shell consists of a plurality of plastic shell elements (11) which are firmly interlinked across the circumference of the shell by gluing or welding without preheating. The shell elements (11)... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6675984 | Metal finishing barrel cover locking system A metal finishing barrel side opening has a cover secured by a series of cover and barrel tabs, the cover slid into a secured position with the cover tabs partially overlain by the barrel tabs. A locking handle assembly includes a graspable portion suppor... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6630060 | Device for carrying out an electro-chemical treatment A method of carrying out an electro-chemical treatment, especially for electro-chemically coating conducting parts or parts made to be conducting, in a container which is filled with an electrolyte and in which there are arranged two electrodes which are ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6562202 | Drum for electropolishing bulk metal parts Proposed is a drum 1 for electropolishing bulk metal parts, in particular stainless steel parts, comprising a drum jacket 12 made of metal and equipped with a filling opening 13 located on the side of the jacket, and a concentrically arranged cathode 3, w... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6558524 | Barrel plating method and apparatus A plating barrel includes a rotatable barrel of which the exterior shape is approximately a hexagonal column, cathode-lead connections which penetrate through end surfaces of the barrel generally along a rotational axis of the barrel, cathodes placed insi... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6537430 | System for galvanic treatment or finishing of pieces, and corresponding method In at least one bath of the system, tumbling barrels containing pieces to be treated are arranged with their respective longitudinal axes set parallel to or coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the bath and are free to move longitudinally along the ba... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6478937 | Substrate holder system with substrate extension apparatus and associated method An apparatus and associated method that removes electrolyte solution from a substrate, the apparatus comprises a thrust plate and a substrate extension unit. The thrust plate at least partially defines a spin recess. The substrate extension unit can be di... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6478936 | Anode assembly for plating and planarizing a conductive layer A particular anode assembly can be used to supply a solution for any of a plating operation, a planarization operation, and a plating and planarization operation to be performed on a semiconductor wafer. The anode assembly includes a rotatable shaft dispo... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6409039 | Metal finishing barrel cover locking system A metal finishing barrel side opening has a cover secured by a series of cover and barrel tabs, the cover slid into a secured position with the cover tabs partially overlain by the barrel tabs. A locking handle assembly includes a graspable portion suppor... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6402366 | Drum unit for receiving bulk material for surface treatment The drum of the drum unit has a plurality of jacket walls. One jacket wall is designed as a freely pivotable lid. A cam disk is located in the drum. In certain positions the lid rests at its free end on the cam disk such that it is controlled by same. Whe... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6348138 | Electroplating device for electroplating a work by rotation The present invention provides an electroplating device including an anode inserted through and disposed in a hole provided in a work and communicating with the outside, and a member for rotating the work about its center axis and supplying a plating elec... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6183607 | Anode structure for manufacture of metallic foil An electrodeposition cell for electrodepositing metal onto a surface of a rotating drum that is partially immersed in an electrolytic solution. The cell includes an anode comprised of a main anode body portion and an anode extension portion. The main anod... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6051118 | Compound electrode for electrolysis An electrolytic composite electrode provided with a cathode formed from a drum to be rotated and an anode having a circular-arc inner surface facing the cathode at a certain interval and capable of keeping an electrolytic solution between the anode and th... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6036826 | Titanium electrodeposition drum A titanium electrodeposition drum "a" n which a titanium plate 2 is positioned over an outer circumferetial surface 1a of an outer circumferential plate 1 of an inner drum b, with a circumferential copper system plate 3a such as a copper plate or a copper... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5888358 | Electrically depositing drum An electric depositing drum is provided for a copper foil producing machine for producing copper foil. In the electrically depositing drum 3 provided with a top skin 2 on an outer circumferential surface of an outer circumferential plate 1a of an inner dr... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5851368 | Small parts plating apparatus A small parts plating apparatus which includes a frame on which is mounted a rotatable barrel, a motor and a battery. Operation of the motor is to cause rotation of the barrel. The motor can be operated optionally either by the battery or by being connect... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5817220 | Electroplating apparatus An electroplating apparatus comprises a rotating cage with a shaft therethrough and connecting seats, each of the connecting seats being tangent to the shaft, and a plurality of containers which are respectively received in each of the connecting seats. E... | 10/06/1998 |
