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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7211174 | Method and system to provide electrical contacts for electrotreating processes Systems and methods to provide electrical contacts to a workpiece to facilitate electrotreating processes, including electroplating and electroetching processes are presented. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7090750 | Plating An apparatus and method for treating a substrate to deposit, clean or etch material on a substrate using a first horizontal chuck to which a plurality of substrates is attached and electrically charged. Spaced closely to the first horizontal chuck is a coextensive h... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6945850 | Saw blade with abrasive surface The present invention relates to a saw blade for cutting and finishing the surface of a work piece. The saw blade having a set of teeth disposed about the outer edge for making a cut in a work piece and an abrasive secured to the lateral surface of the saw blade. Th... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6939457 | Contact-discharge truing/dressing method and device therefor A contact-discharge truing/dressing method and a device therefor, capable of very simply conducting truing/dressing of a superabrasive grindstone, especially a superabrasive grindstone having a metal binder. The contact-discharge truing/dressing method brings a rota... | 09/06/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6143156 | Electroplating method and apparatus The present invention provides an improved method for electroplating metallic ions onto a conductive substrate. In one embodiment, the method comprises at least partially covering a selected surface of the conductive substrate with an electrode wrap that ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5650053 | Electrorefining cell with parallel electrode/concentric cylinder cathode A cathode-anode arrangement for use in an electrolytic cell is adapted for electrochemically refining spent nuclear fuel from a nuclear reactor and recovering purified uranium for further treatment and possible recycling as a fresh blanket or core fuel in... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5441627 | Metal foil manufacturing method and an anodized film forming apparatus used therefor There is provided a metal foil manufacturing method, in which a metal foil is manufactured by forming a thin metal layer by electrodepositing a metal on the surface of a cathode through an electrolytic reaction, and then separating the thin metal layer fr... | 08/15/1995 |
| 4529486 | Anode for continuous electroforming of metal foil An electroforming apparatus for producing metal foil having a rotating drum cathode and an improved anode construction and a process for using the apparatus are described. The improved anode construction comprises an arcuate anode having a perforated zone... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4383909 | Plating apparatus An apparatus for plating workpieces by electrolytic treatment in several steps comprises means (2) to hold and rotate the workpiece (5), a plurality of electrodes, at least one of which being adapted, in each step, to be located at the workpiece by means ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4340450 | Method for plating rollers and apparatus for mounting rollers utilized in the method A method for plating only the outer circumferential surface of a hollow roller which includes the steps of mounting the roller in a cassette, conveying the cassette to and mounting the cassette on a plating tank such that at least a part of the roller is ... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4014765 | Method for the electrolytic polishing of the inside surface hollow niobium bodies A method for electrolytically polishing the inside surface of hollow niobium bodies in which the niobium body acting as an anode is partially immersed in electrolyte and a voltage applied at a current causing oscillations to take place to cause polishing ... | 03/29/1977 |
