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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8146225 | Method of forming a clamping ring and a clamping ring For forming a clamping ring first the pipe is extruded. The extruded pipe is cut to form a pipe part. While extruding the pipe, its inner diameter is formed smaller than the outer diameter of a pipe onto which the clamping ring is positioned before making a pipe con... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8087140 | Optical member joining method and apparatus A processing speed of each mechanisms in a cutting section is controlled such that all polarizing films housed in a container in advance are used in a joining process and simultaneously a new container with polarizing films housed therein that are cut by a size of a... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8046891 | Method of making a plurality of pocket plugs A pocket plug is made by making a first angled cut and a second angled cut relative to proximate a first line and a first side of an elongate member having a length. A plurality of pocket plugs are made by repeating the first angled cut and the second angled cut a d... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7950124 | Method for producing metal strips The invention relates to a method for joining cathode metal sheets to form crude strips that can be coiled and rolled and for the production of metal strips of a constant thickness from crude strips that have been produced from cathode metal sheets of varying thickn... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7814632 | Method for break separation of pieces that can be re-assembled or their starting materials A method for break separation of pieces that can be re-assembled or their starting materials achieves a break separation at a selected break surface. The method includes subjecting a piece to be subjected to break separation to a break force F3, F3 | 10/19/2010 |
| 7673378 | Method of manufacturing decorative carpet tile A method of producing a decorative carpet tile may include providing a carpet tile in accordance with the prior art techniques and then treating the carpet tile in one of various manners to provide a separation internal to side edges of the carpet tile. The treatmen... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7571529 | Method for forming an electronic device in multi-layer structure A method for forming an organic or partly organic switching device, comprising: depositing layers of conducting, semiconducting and/or insulating layers by solution processing and direct printing; defining microgrooves in the multilayer structure by solid state embo... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7455332 | Method for controlling overcoat recession in a magnetic thin film head The overcoat of a slider (alumina) is recessed relative to the slider ABS by a non-abrasive CMP process sufficiently to prevent thermal protrusion of the overcoat during subsequent slider use in a hard disk drive. The CMP process involves the oscillatory and rotatio... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7434305 | Method of manufacturing a microphone A silicon condenser microphone package is disclosed. The silicon condenser microphone package comprises a transducer unit, substrate, and a cover. The substrate includes an upper surface having a recess formed therein. The transducer unit is attached to the upper su... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424771 | Method of producing a piezocomposite A method of preparing a composite sheet unit includes arranging a plurality of sintered piezoelectric thin wires in a uniform direction on a surface of a resin layer is prepared. A plurality of the same are laminated and integrated so that the sintered piezoelectric... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7409759 | Method for making a computer hard drive platen using a nano-plate Provided is a method and system for manufacturing a hard drive platen. The method includes depositing two or more types of film around a central core to form a plurality of film layers, each film layer being of a different type than its adjacent layers. Next, the de... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7404248 | Producing method of producing a solid pickup device A producing method of producing a solid state pickup device is provided. Imaging elements are formed on a wafer in a matrix form. Each of the imaging elements has a light receiving surface and plural contact points. Receiving surface border portions are formed on a ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7389575 | Method of manufacturing permanently magnetized elements There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a plurality of removable permanently magnetized elements from a substrate comprising ferrite material. The method prints symbol images on the substrate with an offset, automatic sheet-fed press, and die cuts the symbol im... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385144 | Method and apparatus for electrically connecting printed circuit boards or other panels A method and apparatus is provided for forming a printed circuit board or other panel in which an array of vias are arranged in a desired connection grid within one or more layers of the board and then the board and vias are cut to form an edge of the board where a ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380333 | Chip resistor fabrication method A method of making a chip resistor is provided. The method includes the following steps. First, a resistive element is provided on a substrate. Then, a resin layer is formed on the substrate to enclose the resistive element. Then, the substrate and the resin layer a... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7362849 | 2D collimator and detector system employing a 2D collimator A two dimensional (2D) collimator assembly and a detector system employing a 2D collimator assembly. More specifically, a collimator assembly is provided, having elements extending in the x and z-planes of a detector system. The 2D collimator assembly includes a num... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353585 | Method of poling ferroelectric materials A method of producing an actuator includes shaping a block of ferroelectric material to provide an active element of the actuator. The element includes a stack of ferroelectric layers with adjacent layers separated by electrodes arranged parallel to end faces of the... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353587 | Forming distributed gap magnetic cores A method of manufacturing a magnetic core includes providing a substrate with magnetically permeable material that has a first region and a second region near the first region, providing support to maintain a juxtaposition between the first region and the second reg... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346976 | Method for manufacturing a suspension for disc drive The method for manufacturing a suspension for disc drive includes a process for manufacturing a semi-finished suspension product integrally including a base plate, a rigid body portion of a load beam, and a pair of connecting portions connecting the base plate and t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340862 | Sealing gasket mounted on a motor vehicle door with at least one corner of the gasket having a small radius of curvature A sealing gasket-support combination includes a sealing gasket for mounting on a support on a motor vehicle door. The support includes at least one corner having a small radius of curvature. The gasket includes at least a flexible or semi-rigid fixing portion fixed ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7331948 | Catheter and catheter fabrication method A catheter is fabricated by joining a first catheter body segment, the first segment including a braided or coiled filament reinforcing layer contained within an outer layer, to a second catheter body segment by thermal fusion in a zone including an interface betwee... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322096 | Method for fabricating magnetic write heads A magnetic write head and method for bulk fabrication of the same are provided. A trench is formed in a nonmagnetic substrate. A first magnetically permeable layer is deposited in the trench of the substrate. An optional first insulating layer is deposited in the tr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322100 | Method for producing a micromachined layered device Methods for producing micromachined layered devices having a membrane layer and a first and second layer on both sides of the membrane layer are disclosed. The method includes applying a membrane layer to a substrate, opening a window in the substrate so as to enabl... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320166 | Speed sensor encoder wheel and method of making A method of making an encoder for use in a speed sensor includes providing a metal tube. A material containing ferrite is then extruded over the metal tube to produce an encoder tube. The encoder tube is cut to a given length to form an encoder. The encoder is then ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318833 | PFO closure device with flexible thrombogenic joint and improved dislodgement resistance The present invention provides devices for closing septal defects, such as a patent foramen ovale (PFO). The closure devices include a proximal anchor member, a distal anchor member, and at least one flexible center joint connecting the two anchor members. According... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316059 | Method of manufacturing an ultrasonic probe A method of manufacturing an ultrasonic probe including the steps of forming a plurality of first slits on a layered assembly having a first imner electrode member and a second inner electrode member through a top surface of the layered assembly and forming a plural... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316758 | Method of manufacturing screen assembly A frame for a window screen assembly is provided that uses corner locks to secure the rails and stiles. Interlocking features provided by the corner locks are used to secure the corner locks to the rails and stiles. A method of securing screens to different sized fr... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316055 | Manufacturing method of non-reciprocal circuit device A manufacturing method of producing a non-reciprocal circuit device, which is much smaller than a conventional counterpart, with excellent mass productivity. A support substrate having support portions arranged therein in a lattice-like form is produced, and a previ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7299532 | Method for the creation of clearance holes A method to join different materials through the creation of holes which allow entry of stay bolts is described. The method includes making slots on the plane of any material, the depth of these slots being equal to half the thickness of the plane, plus the length o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290337 | Manufacturing method for frame body and frame body In this manufacturing method for a frame body, after ring rolling a metal material to form a ring-shaped member, a rectangular member is formed by pressing and deforming this ring-shaped member in the radial direction. At this time, an angle of corner portions that ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285311 | Process for coating-decorating molded resin products A process is provided for coating/decorating molded resin products having excellent waterproofing properties, which is able to simply and effectively reuse waste FRP. The surface of the molded resin product obtained by mixing, melting, and making mixture 8 co... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281317 | Manufacturing method of flying magnetic head slider A manufacturing method of a flying magnetic head slider includes a step of providing a substrate with a plurality of inductive write head elements formed thereon, each head element having a pair of magnetic poles facing to each other via a magnetic gap, and with a p... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7276062 | Deflectable catheter with hinge A deflectable device, such as a catheter, is provided that includes a hinge that enhances the ability of the device to deflect or bend within a predetermined plane. The catheter comprises an elongated tubular catheter body having proximal and distal ends and at leas... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273026 | Roller follower body The present invention relates to a roller follower, comprising an outer surface, enclosing a first cavity, a second cavity, and a transition opening, wherein the first cavity includes a first inner surface configured to house a cylindrical insert the second cavity i... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266881 | Method of manufacturing a top portion and a bottom portion for later assembly of a hermitically sealed hard disk drive A hermetically sealed mobile hard disk drive that combines high storage capacity and performance with low power consumption and portable operation, including an integrated base substrate. One embodiment is a method for fabricating an integrated base substrate with a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266880 | Method of making a monolithic magnetic read-while-write head apparatus A method for fabricating a multi-track thin-film magnetoresistive tape head with precisely-aligned read/write track-pairs fabricated on a monolithic substrate wafer is provided. The wafer is fabricated using modified standard thin-film processes for fabricating dire... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266869 | Method for manufacturing a piezoelectric oscillator A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric oscillator. The method having the step of preparing a master substrate partitioned into plural substrate regions. Mounting on each of the substrate regions a piezoelectric vibrator and an IC for controlling an oscillation o... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7257874 | Process for manufacturing ring-type metal joints for high pressure ducts Improved process for manufacturing ring-type metal joints for high pressure ducts, characterized because it presents the following steps: a) oval bar manufacturing and b) ring-type metal joints manufacturing, wherein the oval bar manufacturing comprises the followin... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254890 | Method of making a microfluid ejection head structure A method of making a micro-fluid ejection head structure for a micro-fluid ejection device. The method includes applying a removable mandrel material to a semiconductor substrate wafer containing fluid ejection actuators on a device surface thereof. The mandrel mate... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254885 | Wafer-level fabrication method for top or side slider bond pads A method is used for fabricating sliders for use in a disc drive actuation system, the sliders having bonds pads formed on either a top surface or side faces of the slider. The method comprises providing a substrate having a top surface. Trenches are formed in the s... | 08/14/2007 |
