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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8042248 | Low cost window production for hermetically sealed optical packages Disclosed embodiments demonstrate batch processing methods for producing optical windows for micro-devices. The windows protect the active elements of the micro-device from contaminants, while allowing light to pass into and out of the hermetically sealed micro-devi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7305744 | Apparatus for forming a power transmission belt An apparatus for forming a power transmission belt/belt sleeve with first and second shafts around which a belt/belt sleeve preform is trained. The belt/belt sleeve preform is guided and driven in an endless path around the shaft. A cutter bears against the belt/bel... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304243 | Cable connector A cable clamp includes a housing having a cavity therein with two opposed walls and an open end in communication with the cavity. A pair of wedge shaped jaws are located within the housing and are slideably movable toward and away from the opening. Each of the jaws ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7281324 | Method of simultaneously fabricating circuit blocks A method of simultaneously fabricating a plurality of circuit blocks is presented. Each circuit block is configured for aligned positioning onto a housing of an individual electrical connector. The method includes simultaneously fabricating a plurality of circuits o... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7159697 | Wheel hub pilot protector A wheel hub having pilots to guide the installation of a braking device on the wheel hub, wherein the pilots are provided with guide surfaces that are made of a different material than the wheel hub. ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7093353 | Automatic unit for inserting hangers from a strip of attached staples A hanger taken from a strip of hangers is positioned on a fastening and cutting anvil (6) displaceable between a bottom position, in which it retracts below the level of the support plate (1) and a top position, in which it projects above the plate. A ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7073238 | Single slitting process for recycling rail A method for recycling rail is provided wherein the rail is heated, and then slit into two pieces. The two pieces are passed through a single mill pass line such that each piece of the rail is deformed to have a generally uniform shape. ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6947568 | Condenser microphone A back plate having a stationary back electrode is secured to a substrate. A diaphragm electrode is mounted on the back plate interposing a spacer. A frame having a sound collecting hole is mounted on the diaphragm electrode. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6915821 | Metal tube and its production method A small diameter metal tube whose inner surface is smooth and its production method are provided. The metal tube has an inner diameter of up to 1.0 mm and its inner surface has a maximum height difference (Rf) in the surface roughness of up to 3 μm. ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6898834 | Barrel stave reclaim A method of reclaiming non-wine affected oak wood from a stave removed from a wine barrel or cask. The wine affected wood is removed as by sawing, the remaining non-wine affected wood is sawn into battens, dressed, straightened and toasted. The reclaimed oak battens... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6848160 | Method of forming a product in a moving web A manufacturing process (100) for forming a product, such as a thermal shield (20), in a web (102) of material. The thermal shield includes a first plate (22) and a second plate (24) joined to one another at a seam (28). The... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6807722 | Thin-film magnetic head material and method of manufacturing same and method of manufacturing thin-film magnetic head A manufacturing method is provided for manufacturing a head material including: a plurality of rows of head-to-be sections to be thin-film magnetic heads; an inter-row cutting section provided to be a position at which adjacent ones of the rows are to be separated; ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6792681 | Forged in-line tubular process A method of forming a stabilizer bar is provided that includes the steps of roll forming sheet metal coil into a continuous tube. Next, a first portion of the continuous tube is flattened. The first portion of the continuous tube is sheared to define a first end. Ne... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6772496 | Method for making simultaneously at least two drip irrigation pipes The invention concerns a drip irrigation conduits (1) comprising a tube (2) designed to be connected to a pressurised water source. The tube is provided with two lateral lips (3a, 3b) superposed on each other and are formed ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6708387 | Method for manufacturing condenser microphones A back plate having a stationary back electrode is secured to a substrate. A diaphragm electrode is mounted on the back plate interposing a spacer. A frame having a sound collecting hole is mounted on the diaphragm electrode. ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6684474 | Method of fabricating muntin bars for simulated divided lite windows A method for fabricating muntin grid pieces includes steps that attach a pair of material strips to opposed edges of the muntin bar element. The material strips may be provided in side-by-side strips that may be separated an simultaneously applied to the ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6678938 | System for fabricating muntin bars from sheet material A system for fabricating muntin bars from sheet material. Sheet material in the form of thin ribbon stock is fed to a first forming station including a punching mechanism that punches the ribbon stock at a precisely predetermined location. The ribbon stoc... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6643931 | Method of manufacturing a one-piece tubular doorbeam A method of rollforming one-piece tubular doorbeams. The method includes the steps of drawing a continuous metal strip, creating cut-outs in the edges of the strip at spaced locations, rollforming the strip into a tube so that the unindented edges engage ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6618926 | System for fabricating muntin bars from sheet material A system for fabricating muntin bars from sheet material. Sheet material in the form of thin ribbon stock is fed to a first forming station including a punching mechanism that punches the ribbon stock at a precisely predetermined location. The ribbon stoc... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6568062 | Methods of removing self-piercing rivets set into a workpiece and devices for implementing the methods A through-hole self-piercing rivet 30 is assembled with two metal plates 50 and 52 to retain the plates together as a workpiece 54. When the rivet 30 is to be removed, a pin, such as a contact pin 56, is attached to the rivet by fusion, or a pin, such as ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6538547 | Chip inductor and manufacturing method therefor A chip inductor has electrode layers, insulating layers disposed on the electrode layers, and an uppermost insulating layer all disposed on a ceramic board. An inorganic pigment such as a Co oxide or an Al oxide is added to the insulating layer at a conce... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6438819 | System for fabricating contour muntin bars from sheet material Apparatus for making a contoured muntin bar. A supply of sheet material having a finished surface on at least one side in the form of a coiled ribbon is unwound and fed along a strip path of travel to a punch station. At the punch station a ribbon punchin... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6425171 | Shrouded tube termination method A method of making a wire braid shrouded annularly corrugated metal tube. An annularly corrugated metal tube is formed. A braided wire shroud is placed around the annularly corrugated metal tube. The braided wire shroud is deformed into a corrugation vall... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6401320 | Method of simultaneously making a plurality of metallic pipes In a pipe made from a plurality of pipe sections, at least one of those sections has a curved configuration and each pipe section has opposite side flanges which are sealed with one another to hold the pipe sections together in forming the pipe.... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6397453 | System for fabricating muntin bars from sheet material A system for fabricating muntin bars from sheet material. Sheet material in the form of thin ribbon stock is fed to a first forming station including a punching mechanism that punches the ribbon stock at a precisely predetermined location. The ribbon stoc... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6374479 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing slider An object of the invention is to manufacture sliders having excellent properties with accuracy and to improve the production efficiency and the cleaning property. In a method of the invention to manufacture a bar in which a row of slider sections are alig... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6322286 | Vibrating screed and method of making same A vibrating screed for processing a floor layer, more particularly a so-called vibrating beam, of the type including a vibrating board (2), a vibrating mechanism (3) cooperating with the vibrating board, and a handle (4) whereby the vibrating mechanism co... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6264535 | Wafer sawing/grinding process A wafer sawing/grinding process capable of removing cracks and chipping resulted from a wafer sawing operation. A silicon wafer having an active surface and a back surface is provided. A first tape is attached to the back surface of the wafer and then the... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6263565 | Method of manufacturing a substrate having electrode arcs for connecting to surface-mounted electronic parts and substrate manufactured by same A through hole 5 formed in a substrate and having an electrode film on an inner surface thereof is cut and divided into two through holes or blind holes each of substantially semicircular arc shape through dicing processing using a rotating blade, and one... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6240635 | Printed circuit board scrap removal and printed circuit board fabrication process Circuit boards are formed within the boundaries of an insulative sheet or panel such that the panel may be automatably processed. The periphery of each printed circuit board is defined by at least a plurality of score lines which do not extend to the edge... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6195881 | Multiple coated substrates The present invention provides a method of fabricating coated multiple metal substrates comprising the steps of fabricating from a section of metal a gang matrix comprising a frame, at least one piece of base metal which later forms a substrate, and a con... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6151775 | Multilayer circuit board and method of producing the same A multilayer circuit board 10 has a laminate 11 formed by stacking together a plurality of insulating sheets with intervening inner circuit elements (not shown). In a first main surface of the laminate 11, there is formed a cavity 12 in which electronic p... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6145574 | Manufacturing for a cast engine part having a bearing arrangement shaped in several parts via fracture separating A core is formed and a prefabricated bearing bore is provided. Two separate projections are provided on the core wherein free projection edges of the two separate projections have a respective shaping radius between R=0mm and Rࣘ0.45mm. | 11/14/2000 |
| 6125520 | Shake and break process for sheet metal In a process and apparatus for forming parts from a sheet of metal stock material so that they can be separated by a shake-and-break operation, elongated holes are punched in the sheet to separate the first part from the second part except at at least one... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6108890 | Method of removing punch rivets set into a workpiece The invention relates to a method of removing punch rivets, which are set into a workpiece and have a male die end for driving the punch rivet and an opposite female die end which penetrates the workpiece. A pin is placed with its front end onto the male ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6028489 | Modular high-frequency oscillator structure A modular high-frequency oscillator structure utilizes a master circuit board to form a plurality of oscillator units. The master circuit board has an upper, middle and lower copper foil layer. The upper copper foil layer has a plurality of component circ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5832600 | Method of mounting electronic parts A method for manufacturing a leadless package type electronic part, the cost and the size of which can be reduced and which exhibits excellent reliability. The electronic part of a leadless package type includes a rectangular substrate having a plurality ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5755024 | Printhead element butting A large array or pagewidth printhead fabricated from printhead elements or subunits. The printhead subunits are butted together at either adjacent channel elements or adjacent heater elements to form a pagewidth printhead. The butting element, either heat... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5692280 | Manufacturing method of laminated ceramic electronic components A method of manufacturing laminated ceramic electronic components includes a step of forming a block by laminating ceramic green-sheets each having a main surface on which interior electrodes are formed with intervals in a direction orthogonally intersect... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5661889 | Process for producing a container and closure assembly A process for producing a container and closure assembly includes molding a preliminary container including a closed bottom portion, a body portion and a shoulder and neck portion. The shoulder and neck portion is separated from the body portion. An open ... | 09/02/1997 |
