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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360724 | Electrostatic spray nozzle with internal and external electrodes A nozzle is provided for use in a dynamic electrostatic air filter, in which the nozzle includes an internal electrode that charges a semiconductive liquid, and includes an external electrode that assists in breaking the liquid into droplets in a predetermined direc... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7172141 | Lubricant mist sprayer for pinch roll A lubricant mist sprayer is composed by spray headers, which have lubricant and gas supply pipes integrally fixed to each other by fixing members and which are spaced apart a required distance from and are arranged in parallel with surfaces of pinch rolls, and mist ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7104476 | Multi-sectored flat board type showerhead used in CVD apparatus Disclosed is a showerhead of a CVD apparatus comprising a plate having an empty inside and provided with a plurality of injection holes at one surface thereof; and gas supplying pipes installed at the plate so as to supply gas, wherein introduced gas thereto is inje... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7095775 | Dual-flow common combustor chemical laser The invention herein is directed to a dual-chamber combustion laser assembly having lighter weight (per unit flow area), a more compact, flexible configuration for packaging in spacecraft, aircraft, or ground mobile vehicles, higher mass efficiency from lower heat l... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7059547 | Fuel injection valve A fuel injection valve is comprised of a nozzle plate which has at least four nozzle-hole sets. Each of the nozzle-hole sets has at least two nozzle holes through which fuel injection flows are injected and are collided with each other. The nozzle-hole sets are arra... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7040017 | Methods for making and implementing fluid delivery ring A fluid delivery module for use in preparing a substrate is provided. The fluid delivery module includes a process bowl designed to contain a substrate to be prepared. The process bowl has a bottom wall and a sidewall. The fluid delivery module further includes a fl... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7022190 | Substrate coating unit and substrate coating method The present invention is a coating unit for coating a substrate with a coating solution, comprising a coating solution discharge member for discharging the coating solution to the substrate which is positioned in a downward part. A lower surface of the coating solut... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7004408 | Burner Burner (1) comprising a head (2) with two groups of holes (4′, 4″) for the passage of fuel and comburent arranged in circles concentric to the burner axis, in which the various groups (5) of holes are separated by circular sectors wit... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6983898 | Showerhead with optical lens feature A showerhead as described herein includes a translucent hollow body having a fluid chamber, and a fluid distribution element configured to release fluid contained in the fluid chamber. The fluid distribution element includes a plurality of raised concentric rings ha... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6981664 | Fluid dispense tips A fluid dispense tip includes a bevel at an opening to reduce the amount of surface tension, or “land”, at the opening. The bevel is formed by grinding in a longitudinal direction such that any tooling scars resulting from the grinding operation are likewise lon... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6796517 | Apparatus for the application of developing solution to a semiconductor wafer A wedge-shaped nozzle for dispensing fluids onto a round surface is disclosed. The nozzle dispenses the fluid with a generally uniform volume of fluid per unit area of the round surface to achieve rapidly a uniform thickness of applied fluid on the round surface. Th... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6669779 | Yield and line width performance for liquid polymers and other materials Systems and methods are described for improved yield and line width performance for liquid polymers and other materials. A method for minimizing precipitation of developing reactant by lowering a sudden change in pH includes: developing at least a portion... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6644566 | Water distribution conduit A distribution apparatus for a cooling tower has a source of liquid communicated to a plurality of branches extending from the source of liquid for transfer of a liquid to a cooling tower arrangement, where the branches are provided with a plurality of ge... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6550691 | Reagent dispenser head The reagent dispenser head has a piezoelectric actuator supported by a back plate, a front plate having a conical well and a fluid inlet connected by a shallow channel, and a thin, impermeable membrane disposed between the piezoelectric actuator and the w... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6439484 | Fluid injection nozzle At fuel downstream end of a valve body, there is arranged an injection port plate formed into a thin disc shape. In the injection port plate, there are formed four injection ports having fuel inlets in a common circumference on the center axis of the inje... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6248171 | Yield and line width performance for liquid polymers and other materials Systems and methods are described for improved yield and line width performance for liquid polymers and other materials. A method for minimizing precipitation of developing reactant by lowering a sudden change in pH includes: developing at least a portion... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6185756 | Hand sprinkling rose A hand-held sprinkling rose for washing hair includes a sprinkling head having outlet openings disposed substantially linearly in a number of rows ranging from one to five. The outlet openings have a diameter between 0.2 and 0.8 mm and the outlet openings... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6132204 | Wide flame burner A nozzle assembly, a burner and a method for producing a wide combustion flame are provided. The burner has a plurality of refractory nozzles, each having a minimum wall thickness of from about 0.25 to about 0.33 of the minimum nozzle dimension. Each nozz... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5775597 | Five-sided feed line for a misting system A misting system having a supply of a fluid, a feed line in fluid communication with the supply of the fluid, and at least one spray nozzle in fluid communication with fluid in the feed line for dispensing a fluid spray, wherein at least a portion of the ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5720814 | Photoresist coating apparatus A supporting plate is disposed above a rotating stage to drive rotatively a semiconductor wafer mounted thereon, and a nozzle fitting rotating disk is secured to the supporting plate rotatively. The rotating center of the nozzle fitting rotating disk is d... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5662467 | Nozzle mixing line burner A nozzle mixing line burner includes a line-burner combustion chamber and a nozzle body coupled to the chamber. The nozzle body includes a first channel having a first inlet receiving air, a second inlet receiving fuel, an air and fuel mixing chamber comm... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5651502 | Produce mister A produce mister for misting produce in a display case. The produce mister has a bar extending the width of the display case and has nozzles for dispensing water at selected intervals. The bar has a small diameter conduit that minimizes the water within t... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5649821 | Gas burner with an improved diffuser A gas burner of the type in which a inflammable mixture is caused to flow out of a diffuser, is formed of a plurality of parallel slots separated by grid elements, and distributed into a pair of grids separated by an elongate screen extending between the ... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5620144 | Stacked interspacial spray header for FGD wet scrubber An arrangement for uniformly distributing a liquid slurry across a flow path at a selected level of a housing. This invention incorporates a plurality of supply headers located adjacent the housing at that level of the housing for supplying the liquid slu... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5588596 | Falling film evaporator with refrigerant distribution system Compression refrigeration apparatus for removing heat from a heat load using a falling film evaporator, operated with an azeotropic refrigerant and utilizing a spray tree distribution system that distributes a refrigerant film on a heat exchange surface b... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5547129 | Low profile spray assembly The present invention provides a multiple nozzle liquid spray assembly having a longitudinally extending bar member, receivers to allow securing of nozzles along the bar, a coolant conduit extending along at least a portion of the bar, liquid and gas cond... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5531381 | Pulsating drip laterals This invention relates to pulsating drip laterals for use in irrigation and other applications. The combination of pulsators and drip laterals is used for decreasing the flow of the drippers and for decreasing their chance of getting plugged. More specifi... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5458777 | Distributor for liquid separator A distributor for dispersing an inlet stream into a volume within a separator vessel is provided, the volume having, in a horizontal plane, a first end and a second end, the distributor comprising: a first distribution lateral, the first distribution lateral d... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5429303 | Steam spray tube with linear acceleration channel A steam spray tube with an inlet line (16) for steam, a nozzle arrangement (33) and a valve (19) positioned between the inlet line and the nozzle arrangement is described. With such a steam spray tube, adequate moistening of a web to be moistened can be a... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5427473 | Tennis court irrigation An underground system for supplying water to and removing water from an athletic facility having a surface which is susceptible to excessive moisture and dryness. The system includes a plurality of substantially level watering grids positioned in a layer ... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5423483 | Sootblower A sootblower nozzle head of lance tube has nozzle members, each comprising a plurality of full expansion nozzles positioned closely adjacent and parallel to each other so that the jets from the individual nozzles commingle as they exit the nozzle member t... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5322224 | Uniform gas flow linear burner A linear burner has a tubular casing with an elongated opening having inwardly sloping sides. A threaded stainless steel rod is disposed across the opening such that the threads contact the opening sides to support the rod. A series of gas flow passages a... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5301880 | Filter cleaning nozzle apparatus During the normal operation of a liquid-cleaning filter cartridge, which is located in a pressurizable inverted bell housing, contaminates are filtered through a sheet of wire mesh arranged in a star configuration on a frame structure within the filter ca... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5222831 | Tennis court irrigation An underground system for supplying water to and removing water from an athletic facility having a surface which is susceptible to excessive moisture and dryness. The system includes a plurality of substantially level watering grids which provide an arran... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5191778 | Process for producing thin-webbed H-beam steel A thin-webbed H-beam steel having a web thinner that flanges is produced by forcibly water cooling the outer surface of the flanges during an intermediate hot rolling prior to a final hot rolling by cooling to less than 700° C., interrupting the cooling ... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5186158 | Gas burner A burner for a "sealed top" range which has a generally upwardly diverging conical body which radially disposed fuel ports and a generally flat removable cap disposed on the upper periphery of the body. Alternative cap designs and electric igniters are ar... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5152345 | Fire extinguishing tool A fire extinguishing tool is formed as a paddle plate, including top and bottom planar surfaces coextensive relative to one another, with a handle mounted medially and longitudinally aligned relative to the plate to provide a grasping surface for an indiv... | 10/06/1992 |
| 4974779 | Screen forming apparatus and method A screen forming apparatus and method comprises a long pipe of predetermined length floatable in the water, a pump for conveying the water through the pipe, a pipe connecting the pipe with the pump, an air-water device provided with the pipe for mixing th... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4968490 | Spheroidal alkali metal polyphosphates of low apparent density, and apparatus for making them Alkali metal polyphosphates consisting substantially of hollow spheroidal particles with an apparent density of less than 350 g/l are made. To this end, an alkali metal orthophosphate solution is forced under a pressure of 6-40 bars into a fluidization zo... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4859430 | Air distribution device An improved air distribution device for distributing fluidizing gas to a bed of fluidized solids. The distribution device is arranged to maintain a bed of fluidized particles above a planar region of air injection and allow withdrawal of solids from below... | 08/22/1989 |
