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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8122591 | Manufacturing method for a heating resistor element component In order to provide a manufacturing method for a heating resistor element component, with which an insulating film (undercoat) can be easily handled, damage caused in the insulating film can be reduced, and a high yield can be ensured, the manufacturing method compr... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8104167 | Method of manufacturing resistance film heating apparatus A method of manufacturing a resistance film heating apparatus comprising: acid washing and cleaning the surface of a base material; heating and activating the base material; spraying a liquid resistance material on the surface; testing by the four-point method the a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8079136 | Method for forming layered heating element for glow plug A monolithic, multi-layer heating element forms the high temperature tip of a glow plug assembly. The heating element includes a conductive core which is surrounded by an insulator layer, which in turn supports a resistive layer. An optional conductive jacket can su... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8065789 | Method of fabricating a heated substrate support A method of forming a substrate support comprises providing a body having a groove, inserting a heater element into the groove, disposing an insert into the groove, and inserting a cap into the groove. The heater element comprises a resistive element inside a sheath... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8037594 | Method of forming a flip-chip package Disclosed are thermally conductive plates. Each plate is configured such that a uniform adhesive-filled gap may be achieved between the plate and a heat generating structure when the plate is bonded to the heat generating structure and subjected to a temperature wit... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7963026 | Method of forming an electrical heating element A method for forming an electrical heating element by flame spraying a metal/metallic oxide matrix, wherein a flame sprayed metal/metallic oxide matrix is deposited onto an insulating or conductive substrate such as to have a higher resistance than is required for a... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7954229 | Method of forming a titanium heating element A method of making a titanium heating element for electric water heaters includes heating commercially pure titanium tubing to a specified temperature for a predetermined period of time. A resistance wire and magnesium dioxide powder may be positioned in the tubing ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946026 | Inkjet printhead production method A method of producing an ink jet printhead includes steps of forming a substrate having defined therein a nozzle chamber for receiving and storing a fluid, the chamber fed at one side by an inlet passage; forming a nozzle plate in-situ on the substrate to define a n... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7921548 | Method of manufacturing a heater retention spring A method of manufacturing a heater having a heating element, an insulator and a spring is disclosed. The method includes forming a spring from an annealed superalloy material, heat treating the spring after forming, positioning the heating element in contact with th... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7913377 | Method for producing a ceramic filter element A method of producing a ceramic filter element suitable for use in an exhaust filter for an internal combustion engine, during which a combustible, non-ceramic support web is impregnated with a ceramic slip and formed into a desired geometric shape in either order, ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7827675 | Method of manufacturing an activated carbon fiber soft electric heating product A method of manufacturing an activated carbon fiber soft electric heating product for overcoming existing problems including uneven temperature rise and heat dissipation at surfaces of the product, unbendable feature, short life and poor safety. An activated carbon ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7784173 | Producing layered structures using printing A layered structure is produced on a support structure's surface. The layered structure can include a component that responds electrically to thermal signals, such as a thermistor, and can also include a layer part that has a printed patterned artifact such as an un... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7784174 | Method of manufacturing ink jet print head A method of manufacturing an ink jet print head allows an adhesive bonding a printing element substrate to a support member to be temporarily hardened efficiently and stably in a short time so as to achieve bonding with no air path or the like created at a bonding i... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7774925 | Method for in-situ foaming of metal foam in hollow structure A method is provided for filling a hollow structure with metal foam. A mixture is made of a metal powder and a foaming agent. An electric resistance heating wire is provided and the mixture is consolidated into a solid preformed charge with the wire embedded in the ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7765679 | Method of manufacturing a flow rate sensor A mass flow sensor is manufactured by a process of carrying out a micro-machining process on an N or lightly doped P-type silicon substrate with orientation . This mass flow sensor comprises a central thin-film heater and a pair of thin-film heat sensing elemen... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7730605 | Method of fabricating heat dissipating apparatus The present invention relates to a method for fabricating a heat dissipating apparatus. The method provides two highly heat conductive members having structure patterns. A highly heat conductive material is coated on the structured patterns for forming a micro-struc... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7716815 | Process for fabricating a cloth-like heating element with two pairs of electrical conductors and parallel circuits The present invention is a process for fabricating a cloth-like heating element with two pairs of electrical conductors and parallel circuits which are formed via a severing process. A pair of electrical conductors, which looks as a twin belt aligned in parallel, is... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7669314 | Method of fabricating a fluid ejection device having a data storage structure Methods for fabricating a printhead are described. In one embodiment, a method includes forming on a substrate using a single fabrication technique multiple resistors, some of the resistors to be used as heater resistors configured to eject fluid and some of the res... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7617592 | Method for manufacturing thin film heaters According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for manufacturing thin film heaters includes an automated process for applying at least one layer of ink to a conductive substrate, and forming at least one electrically conductive electrode in electrica... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7480984 | Method of suppressing sublimation in advanced thermoelectric devices A method of applying a physical barrier to suppress thermal decomposition near a surface of a thermoelectric material including applying a continuous metal foil to a predetermined portion of the surface of the thermoelectric material, physically binding the continuo... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7420454 | Cement resistor A resistive element in the form of a bent metal plate is placed in a box-shaped case and has electrodes exposed out of the box-shaped case. A heat radiator in the form of a bent metal plate is also placed in the box-shaped case and has heat radiating electrodes expo... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7401399 | Method of manufacturing a substrate heating device A manufacturing method for a substrate heating device comprises forming a base plate having a substrate heating surface in which a resistance heating element is buried, forming a tubular member, joining the tubular member to the base plate, measuring temperature dis... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7380339 | Method of manufacturing a printhead wafer etched from opposing sides A method of fabricating an inkjet printhead with a wafer substrate that has an ink ejection side and an opposing ink inlet side. The printhead has an array of nozzles formed on the ink ejection side, and an array of ink inlets formed in the ink inlet side. Each nozz... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377625 | Method for producing ink-jet recording head having filter, ink-jet recording head, substrate for recording head, and ink-jet cartridge In a method for producing an ink-jet recording head, a plurality of through-holes is formed in a heat storage layer formed on one surface of a silicon substrate, subsequently, heating elements are formed, and a protective layer is formed on the substrate. A passage-... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370945 | Inkjet head An ink jet head in which a head chip on which a nozzle for jetting ink and an ink supply port that is communicated with the nozzle are formed and a manifold on which an ink channel connecting port and a groove communicating with the ink channel connecting port are f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371609 | Stacked module systems and methods The present invention stacks chip scale-packaged integrated circuits (CSPs) into modules that conserve PWB or other board surface area. In a preferred embodiment in accordance with the invention, a form standard associated with one or more CSPs provides a physical f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368921 | Printed capacitive sensor The invention relates to a flexible, resilient capacitive sensor suitable for large-scale manufacturing. The sensor includes a dielectric, an electrically conductive detector and trace layer on the first side of the dielectric layer comprising a detector and trace, ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363695 | Method of fabricating a temperature sensing tube A temperature sensor temperature sensing tube and its fabrication method comprised of a step that provides for a tubular blank of an appropriate length, a step in which a curvilinear semifinished product of the tube member bottom section aperture is formed, a step i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365369 | Nitride semiconductor device A nitride semiconductor device used chiefly as an LD and an LED element. In order to improve the output and to decrease Vf, the device is given either a three-layer structure in which a nitride semiconductor layer doped with n-type impurities serving as an n-type co... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363701 | Method of making a heat pipe An encapsulated heat pipe is made by placing a removable elongated solid partially within a mold, filling the mold with a solid dielectric material, and removing the elongated solid from the dielectric material defining an elongated cavity that extends within the so... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361869 | Method for the production of an electrically conductive resistive layer and heating and/or cooling device An electrically conductive resistive layer (26) is produced by thermally spraying an electrically conductive material (18) onto the surface of a non-conductive substrate (12). Initially, the material layer (14) arising therefrom has no de... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362491 | Heated glass panels and methods for making electrical contact with electro-conductive films A heated glass panel assembly according to one embodiment of the invention may include a substrate having an electro-conductive film provided thereon. A conductor is positioned in contact with the electro-conductive film. A resilient material is positioned in contac... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356912 | Method for ventilating a seat The present invention is directed towards a method of forming a ventilated seat. More specifically, in one aspect, the present invention is directed towards providing an insert in fluid communications with an air mover and a seating surface, wherein the system optio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357486 | Method of laser machining a fluid slot A method of laser machining a fluid slot includes directing a UV laser beam towards a substrate with microelectronics to form a slot through the substrate. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358465 | Method for restoring ceramic heater A ceramic heater for heating a semiconductor wafer under processing and has a layered structure wherein on one surface of a supporting substrate made of carbon or a carbon-based composite material, successively formed layers including an insulating layer, and electr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354794 | Printed conductive connectors Methods of connecting a circuit device to a semiconductor substrate and micro-fluid ejection devices made by the methods. One method includes printing an elongate strip of an electrically conductive fluid to electrically interconnect a first contact pad on a semicon... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354131 | Inkjet printhead nozzle plate Methods of forming a nozzle plate include forming a first reverse imageable positive photoresist layer on the substrate and protecting an area thereof adjacent an ink ejection element from ultraviolet energy while exposing other than the protected area to such energ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351935 | Method for producing a ceramic heater, ceramic heater produced by the production method, and glow plug comprising the ceramic heater A method for producing a ceramic heater. Firing is conducted such that an element green body in which at least a portion containing a conductive ceramic that is to become a heating element after firing is held on a powder or green body of an insulating ceramic that ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347041 | Rocket engine combustion chamber An improved engine construction, such as a rocket engine construction is provided. The engine construction comprises a combustion chamber, a smooth wall nozzle, and a transition zone between the chamber and the smooth wall nozzle. The transition zone has a coolant s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343671 | Process for manufacturing a composite polymeric circuit protection device A process for manufacturing a composite polymeric circuit protection device in which a polymeric assembly is provided and is then subdivided into individual devices. The assembly is made by providing first and second laminates, each of which includes a laminar polym... | 03/18/2008 |
