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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7935266 | Wet etching method using ultraviolet-light and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A substrate supporting film to be etched is held on a rotating stage. Ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 200 nm or shorter radiated from first lamps irradiates the film in air, thereby removing an organic coatings from the film and making the surface of the fi... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7927499 | Substrate having blind hole and method for forming blind hole A substrate having a blind hole and a method for forming the blind hole. The method includes: (a) providing a substrate having a lower dielectric layer, a copper layer, and an upper dielectric layer; and (b) forming an upper dielectric layer through hole and a coppe... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7763179 | Color laser engraving and digital watermarking A color laser engraving method engraves a document including a surface layer and one or more sub-layers. The sub-layer includes different colors and orientations of ink. A laser provides openings in the surface layer—to expose color ink in the sub-layer—to creat... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7691281 | Method of producing a reflective design A method of producing a reflective design includes the steps of lasering a pattern on an adhesive side of a reflective laminated material. The lasering ablates the adhesive and causes these areas to not adhere. The reflective laminate material is applied to a substr... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7534365 | Ultra-violet assisted anisotropic etching of PET A method for etching a substrate is described wherein a substrate is positioned in a solution of solvent and the substrate is exposed to excitation energy. The method may be applied to the production of thermocouple devices wherein the substrate is poly-ethylene-ter... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7452478 | Method for converting and purifying materials for modifying surfaces of semiconductor nanoparticles This invention provides a method for converting materials for stabilizing surfaces of semiconductor nanoparticles. In this method, surfaces of semiconductor nanoparticles are first modified and then dissolved by photoetching in the presence of materials for stabiliz... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7419612 | Method of creating pores in a thin sheet of polyimide The invention concerns a method which consists in first subjecting the polyimide sheet to ionic bombardment, followed by an irradiation in the visible domain and finally a relatively brief chemical etching. Said method enables a thin polyimide sheet comprising pores... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7385183 | Substrate processing apparatus using neutralized beam and method thereof In a substrate processing apparatus using a neutralized beam and a method thereof, the substrate processing apparatus includes: an ion source for emitting an ion beam at an emitting angle; reflectors at which the ion beam emitted by the ion source is incident and su... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7374791 | Method for making and measuring a coating on the surface of a medical device using an ultraviolet laser This invention relates to a method for manufacturing an implantable medical device, having a surface covered with a coating that can include a desired amount of a biologically active material, using an ultraviolet (UV) laser. The invention also pertains to a method ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7355259 | Photodiode array and optical receiver device including the same Disclosed is a photodiode array which includes a plurality of p-i-n photodiodes arrayed on a semi-insulative semiconductor substrate, each photodiode including an n-type semiconductor layer grown on the substrate, an i-type semiconductor layer grown on the n-type se... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7338637 | Microfluidic device with thin-film electronic devices A microfluidic device for analysis of a sample. The microfluidic device includes a substrate portion that at least partially defines a chamber for receiving the sample. The substrate portion includes a substrate having a surface. The substrate portion also includes ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334625 | Manufacture of casting cores A method for forming an investment casting core comprises cutting a patterned core precursor from refractory metal-based sheet. The cutting forms recast along the cuts. An oxide is grown on non-recast areas. The recast is substantially chemically removed but substan... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7323699 | Apparatus and method for modifying an object A method and apparatus includes positioning a reactant on a surface in specific location and then directing an energy source from a device at the reactant such that it modifies the surface to either remove material or add material. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316786 | Method of polishing film to be polished A method is provided that includes a main laminate making step of forming a plurality of main magnetic poles onto a substrate, covering each magnetic pole with a first protective film, and forming onto the first protective film a stopper film provided with openings ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312135 | Laser processing apparatus The present invention provides a laser processing apparatus having a laser oscillator for outputting a pulsed laser beam; deflection unit for deflecting the pulsed laser beam to irradiate a object to be processed with the deflected pulsed laser beam; a mounting base... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7306744 | Method of manufacturing a nozzle plate A method of manufacturing a nozzle plate 2 is disclosed. The nozzle plate 2 has a plurality of nozzle openings 22 through each of which a droplet is adapted to be ejected. The method includes the steps of: preparing a processing substrate (silic... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7293345 | Method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic recording head A invention provides a method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head is provided, capable of forming a magnetic pole layer as easily as possible. By etching a lower insulating layer and the upper insulating layer by RIE using a fluorine-based gas (CF4 | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287318 | Biosensor A biosensor is provided that comprises a plate element with a pre-determined reaction zone and a recess positioned adjacent to the reaction zone. The biosensor also comprises a reagent that is positioned on the reaction zone. In preferred embodiments, the recess cir... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7279111 | Monolithic printhead with built-in equipotential network and associated manufacturing method An actuating assembly (50) for ink jet printheads consists of a silicon die (61), which comprises a groove (45) and a lamina (64), and of a structure (75) produced monolithically in the same production process. The actuating assemb... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7195989 | Electrochemical fabrication methods using transfer plating of masks Three-dimensional structures are electrochemically fabricated by depositing a first material onto previously deposited material through voids in a patterned mask where the patterned mask is at least temporarily adhered to a substrate or previously formed layer of ma... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188001 | System and method for temperature control A system for controlling the temperature of a reaction mixture comprises at least one heating device for heating the mixture and a power regulator for regulating the amount of power supplied to the heating device. A controller in communication with the power regulat... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7166186 | Laser decapsulation apparatus and method A decapsulation apparatus 100 has a laser 8 that removes plastic encapsulant from a device 24. Chamber 20 is sealed. Exhaust port 9 removes debris and fumes. The device 24 is positioned and scanned using an X,Y table 2. A hi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7150811 | Ion beam for target recovery A charged particle beam apparatus and method for locally removing material from a predetermined location on a workpiece, such as the removal of a metallization layer covering an alignment mark on a wafer. The invention is particularly suited for high-volume mass pro... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7144520 | Etching method and apparatus An etching apparatus comprises a workpiece holder (21) for holding a workpiece (X), a plasma generator (10, 20) for generating a plasma (30) in a vacuum chamber (3), an orifice electrode (4) disposed between the workpiece holder ( | 12/05/2006 |
| 7141176 | Methods and apparatuses for assembling elements onto a substrate Methods and apparatuses for assembling elements onto a substrate. The surfaces of the elements and/or the substrate are treated and the elements are dispensed over the substrate in a slurry. In one example of the invention, the substrate is exposed to a surface trea... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7138066 | Gear surface treatment procedure A method of surface treating heat treated members to remove oxide scale. The heat treated members are subjected to a staged series of discrete chemical and physical cleaning steps yielding a substantially scale-free surface readily adaptable for subsequent applicati... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7132673 | Device and method for milling of material using ions A milling device is disclosed for the preparation of microscopy specimens or other surface science applications through the use of ion bombardment. The device provides the ability to utilize both gross and fine modification of the specimen surface through the use of... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7122126 | Wet processing using a fluid meniscus, apparatus and method A wet processing apparatus and method that takes advantage of a fluid meniscus to process at least a portion of a surface of an object. After one surface of the object has been processed another side or surface of the object can be similarly processed. This processi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7109118 | Electrochemical fabrication methods including use of surface treatments to reduce overplating and/or planarization during formation of multi-layer three-dimensional structures A method of fabricating three-dimensional structures from a plurality of adhered layers of at least a first and a second material wherein the first material is a conductive material and wherein each of a plurality of layers includes treating a surface of a first mat... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7081600 | Method and apparatus for cover assembly for thermal cycling of samples A flexible heating cover assembly for an apparatus for heating samples of biological material with substantial temperature uniformity includes a housing having a plurality of engageable enclosure components; a resistive heater having a plurality of heater element ar... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081282 | Optically variable marking The invention relates to an optically variable marking comprising a semiopaque substrate with a first surface that is covered with an optically variable layer that is for example a liquid crystal polymer layer or a layer comprising pearlescent pigments, and a second... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081208 | Method to build a microfilter Methods are provided for making microfilters by subtractive techniques which remove a component or part of a filter material to form pores in the filter material and additive techniques which deposit a filter material onto a porous underlying substrate. All the meth... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7056446 | Method of manufacturing nano-gap electrode A method of easily manufacturing a nano-gap electrode by using a focused ion beam lithography includes a layer depositing step of depositing an electrode layer and a metal mask layer in this order on an insulating substrate, a mask pattern forming step of etching th... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044376 | Authentication method and apparatus for use with compressed fluid printed swatches Authentication systems, apparatus, and methods authenticate an identification marking including a nanocrystalline material. One or more properties of the marking are ascertained to provide a measured profile. The measured profile is compared to at least one member o... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7026255 | Method and device for photo-electrochemically etching a semiconductor sample, especially gallium nitride In a method for photo-electrochemical etching of a semiconductor sample, the semiconductor sample is brought in contact with an electrolyte liquid. The contact area formed thereby is illuminated through the electrolyte liquid with UV light. The photo-current created... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7022193 | Apparatus and method for treating surfaces of semiconductor wafers using ozone An apparatus and method for treating surfaces of semiconductor wafers with a reactive gas, such as ozone, utilizes streams of gaseous material ejected from a gas nozzle structure to create depressions on or holes through a boundary layer of processing fluid formed o... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7007383 | Methods for forming dovetails for turbine buckets A dovetail preform having linearly extending hooks and slots is finished to provide arcuate slots and hooks for securement of the finished bucket dovetail to a correspondingly-shaped dovetail of a turbine wheel. An electrode having the general configuration of the d... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7007855 | Wafer identification mark A semiconductor wafer including a plurality of pits in the semiconductor wafer. The pits are arranged in an information-providing pattern and are readable after completion of processing on the wafer. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7005617 | Apparatus and method for thermally cycling samples of biological material with substantial temperature uniformity An apparatus for thermally cycling samples of a biological material including a thermal block assembly including a plurality of sample holders for receiving samples of biological material; a heat sink thermally coupled to the thermal block assembly, the heat sink tr... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003372 | Appearance processing method and aspheric lens fabricating method using the same Disclosed is an appearance processing method comprising: designing a reference appearance for designing a set shape as a theoretical value; producing a specimen; comparing the reference appearance with the specimen and thus setting a deviation region; performing ion... | 02/21/2006 |
