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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8163224 | Manufacturing method of three-dimensionally shaped object An equipment for metal-laser sintering process includes a powder layer forming unit, an irradiation unit which irradiates light beams, a correction target on which a correction mark serving as a fiducial in correction of the irradiation points of the light beams is ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7803309 | Infusion monitoring system and method The invention relates to systems and methods which may be used to determine when an uncured composite part is ready to be cured. In one embodiment, a system under the invention may comprise an infrared camera adapted to take infrared images of an uncured composite p... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7468155 | Spectroscopic monitoring of resin-loading during assembly of engineered wood product Calibrating visual (VIS) and near infra red (NIR) spectroscopic instrumentation for quantitative measurement of resin-loading of prepared wood materials, as moving in an assembly-forming line, for subsequent pressing under heat and pressure for manufacture of engine... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7315369 | Method and apparatus for monitoring polyolefin production The present technique provides for the use of spectroscopic probes, such as Raman probes, within the conduits of a polyolefin production system. The Raman probe or other spectroscopic probes may be used to obtain spectroscopic measurements of the contents of the con... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7245985 | Process and apparatus for improving and controlling the vulcanization of natural and synthetic rubber compounds A process for curing a natural or synthetic rubber compound under a plurality of curing conditions by: (1) obtaining time dependent data streams of dielectric or impedance values from a non-bridged impedance sensing circuit and a capacitor having the rubber compound... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7204942 | Method of making a fluoride crystalline optical lithography lens element blank The method of making a high quality fluoride crystalline optical microlithography lens element blank includes crystallizing a fluoride crystalline member with dimension ≧200 mm from a melt, annealing the fluoride crystalline member and qualifying the resulting mem... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7168935 | Solid freeform fabrication apparatus and methods An apparatus for formation of a three dimensional object comprising a sealed container; an electron beam subsystem capable of directing energy within said container; a positioning subsystem contained within said container; a wire feed subsystem contained within said... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7141193 | Spectroscopic monitoring of resin-application prior to assembly of composite wood veneer product Method for spectroscopically monitoring resin applied to a planar surface of veneer-wood sheets during travel in an assembly line. Spectroscopic instrumentation for monitoring applied resin is calibrated by measurements of predetermined resin applications to referen... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7138077 | Process and installation for the production of foam in a continuous slabstock foam process The invention relates to an installation and a process for the production of foam in a continuous block foam process in which the height of a foam-forming mixture along a conveyor is measured and a correcting variable as a function of deviation of the actual height ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135869 | Thickness measuring systems and methods using a cavity resonator Film thickness measurement systems and methods are provided that utilize a signal generator having a Gunnplexer design and a resonant frequency detector to correlate the shift in resonant frequency experienced by a resonant cavity having one face abutting a test obj... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7128867 | Methods for monitoring resin-loading of wood materials and engineered wood products Process for calibration of spectroscopic instrumentation for non-invasive monitoring of resin-loading of furnish-type wood materials, such as particles or fibers for particleboard or medium density fiberboard, respectively. Selection of ranges of wavelengths within ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7125236 | Replica molding Replicas are molded by curing a photo-curable liquid silicone rubber composition to form a transparent mother mold having a cavity corresponding to the outer contour of a master model, casting a photo-curable liquid resin into the mold cavity, and irradiating light ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7115513 | Domain reversal control method for ferroelectric materials A method for forming uniform, sharply defined periodic regions of reversed polarization within a unidirectionally polarized ferroelectric material proceeds as a two-step process. First, alignment keys are formed on upper and lower planar surfaces of a unidirectional... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7092419 | Wavelength agile laser An electric field that changes across space is synthesized, by applying voltage levels independent of one another at several locations. The independence in voltage levels allows the electric field that is synthesized to be made periodic or aperiodic. Such a synthesi... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7051290 | Graphical interface for receiving eyeglass prescription information A high volume lens curing system is described. The high volume lens curing system is configured to cure multiple eyeglass lenses in a continuous manner. The lens curing system includes a computer-implemented method configured to collect prescription information, sav... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6972844 | Microprocessing apparatus, semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus, and device manufacturing method An illustrative object of the present invention is to provide a microprocessing apparatus by which an original and a substrate to be processed can be aligned with each other with a higher precision. Disclosed in this connection is an apparatus for transferring a pat... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6960312 | Methods for the production of plastic lenses A lens forming apparatus for preparing a plastic eyeglass lens includes a first lens curing unit, a second lens curing unit and a conveyor system for moving mold assemblies between the two units. The apparatus may also include an anneal unit configured to apply heat... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6954077 | Apparatus and method for improving microwave coupling to a resonant cavity An equipment status monitoring system (10) and method of operating includes first (40) and second (50) microwave mirrors in a plasma processing chamber (20) each forming a multi-modal resonator. A power source (60) is coupled to th... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6942826 | Spectroscopic monitoring of resin-application prior to assembly of composite wood veneer product Method for spectroscopically monitoring resin applied to a planar surface of veneer-wood sheets during travel in an assembly line. Spectroscopic instrumentation for monitoring applied resin is calibrated by measurements of predetermined resin applications to referen... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6938441 | Method and apparatus for heat treatment of glass material and natural materials specifically of volcanic origin A method of heat treatment of glass materials and natural materials specifically of volcanic origin according to which the treated material is exposed to microwave radiation at a frequency range from 1 MHz to 10 GHz and temperature range from the ambient temperature... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6940295 | Apparatus and methods for non-destructive inspection using microwave sensing Apparatus and methods for materials inspection using microwave sensing are disclosed. In one aspect, a system for detecting corrosion of a workpiece includes a scanning assembly having a support assembly adapted to be coupled to the workpiece, and a first translatio... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6926770 | Method of fabricating two-dimensional ferroelectric nonlinear crystals with periodically inverted domains The present invention relates to a method to control the nucleation and transverse motion of 180° inverted domains in ferroelectric nonlinear crystals. It includes a process composing of a high temperature oxidation of the first metal layer and a pulsed field polin... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6926861 | Semiconductor package and method for producing heat-radiating substrate for it A package to be mounted with semiconductor chips has a heat-radiating substrate having a thickness of smaller than 0.4 mm of a Cu—Mo composite as prepared by impregnating from 30 to 40% by mass of copper (Cu) melt into a green compact of molybdenum. The heat-radia... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6909928 | Method for manufacturing coils A method for manufacturing coils which achieves an uniform and complete curing of the paper impregnated with epoxy thermo curable resin placed between conductors by applying an electric current uniformly to all portions of the coil thus completely heating the coil, ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6849222 | Method of manufacturing ceramic honeycomb structure and device for forming through holes A method of manufacturing a honeycomb structure and a through hole forming device used in the manufacture of the honeycomb structure are provided, in which the step of closing a part of the cell ends at an end surface of the honeycomb structure is rationalized. In c... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6846446 | NIR spectroscopic monitoring of resin-loading during assembly of engineered wood product Calibrating near infra red (NIR) spectroscopic instrumentation for quantitative measurement of resin-loading of prepared wood materials, as moving in an assembly-forming line, for subsequent pressing under heat and pressure for manufacture of engineered-composite wo... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6846447 | Methods for monitoring resin-loading of wood materials and engineered wood products Process for calibration of spectroscopic instrumentation for non-invasive monitoring of resin-loading of furnish-type wood materials, such as particles or fibers for particleboard or medium density fiberboard, respectively. Selection of ranges of wavelengths within ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6699408 | Method of making a fluoride crystalline optical lithography lens element blank Method of making a high quality identifiable fluoride crystalline optical microlithography lens element blank for formation into an lens element of a microlithography system. The highly qualified fluoride crystalline characteristics of the fluoride optica... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6685847 | Method for observing cross-sectional structure of sample A cross-section is obtained in which a sample shape is clearly delineated by forming a covering layer of a material different from that of the sample surface on the sample surface, forming a protective layer on the covering layer forming a hole in the pro... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6673300 | Method for plugging selected cells in a honeycomb A method for plugging selected cell channels in a honeycomb structure for the fabrication of a solid particulate filter. The method includes covering a first end face of the honeycomb structure with a mask having openings corresponding to open ends of a f... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6555293 | Method for fabricating efficient sources of electromagnetic radiation A method for fabricating periodically poled structures. The method produces an electric field within a ferroelectric substrate by applying a voltage waveform to an electrode structure disposed on a surface of the substrate. The waveform raises the electri... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6537481 | Hybrid method for firing of ceramics A ceramic article is fired using a combination of microwave energy and conventional heating energy according to a microwave power-time heating schedule comprising a series of separate firing segments at predetermined microwave power settings, the core and... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6532394 | Method and apparatus for data manipulation and system control in a selective deposition modeling system A method of manipulating data in a method for forming a three-dimensional object layer by layer from an ink jettable, solidifiable material by providing data corresponding to a plurality of polygons defining the outer surfaces of a plurality of three-demi... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6524641 | Method for producing substrates having defect free patterns thereon A method for producing a fired decoration with an essentially defect-free visual appearance on substrates made of glass, glass-ceramic, ceramic, or other substances with other decorative colors consisting of base enamel, pigments, and additives, whereby a... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6521138 | Method for measuring width of bottom under cut during etching process A method of measuring the width of bottom under cut includes forming spacers around an oxide line pattern and determining the width of the tail ends of the spacers that are removed along with the bottom under cut. An oxide line pattern is first formed on ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6511628 | Method for controlling the firing of ceramics A method of firing ceramic bodies and includes placing the ceramic material in a heating apparatus and subjecting the ceramic material to an amount of heat energy that results in the ceramic article exhibiting a ceramic body core temperature, Tc | 01/28/2003 |
| 6409862 | Process for producing biaxially oriented PET films and use of the same for SMD-technology film capacitors Process for producing biaxially oriented PET film for use in film capacitors with SMD capabilities and its use for SMD-technology film capacitors The invention describes a process for producing a biaxially oriented film of thickness | 06/25/2002 |
| 6403012 | Method of polarization-treating piezoelectric material In a method of polarization-treating a piezoelectric material, the maximum polarization degree Ɗf180max achieved by 180° rotation is determined. A residual polarization degree Ɗf as a target value and the maximum polarization degree Ɗf... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6375875 | Diagnostic monitor for carbon fiber processing A method for monitoring characteristics of materials includes placing a material in an application zone, measuring a change in at least one property value of the application zone caused by placing the material in the application zone and relating changes ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6358458 | Spinning and stability of solution-dyed nylon fibers Stabilized solution-dyed fiber is made by melting a polyamide which is amide monomers polymerized in the presence of at least one hindered piperidine compound, coloring the melted polyamide, and spinning the colored polyamide into fibers that have about 4... | 03/19/2002 |
