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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7404261 | Dry-wet thermal management system A dry-wet thermal management system for providing simultaneous spray cooling and dry cooling for a plurality of cards. The dry-wet thermal management system includes a chassis having a dry chamber and a spray chamber, a first opening within a rear portion of the cha... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7172674 | Device for liquid treatment of wafer-shaped articles A device for liquid treatment of a defined area of a wafer-shaped article, especially of a wafer, in which a mask is kept at a defined short distance to the wafer-shaped article such that liquid can be retained between the mask and the defined area of the wafer-shap... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162811 | Method for drying nails A method for completely drying polished nails without any smudging or nicking. The method utilizes first warm air and then very cold air followed by a brief return to warm air. The warm air of the inital step uses air at a temperature of approximately eighty-five de... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164466 | Detachable heat sink Methods and apparatus for collecting heat within a precision stage system substantially without introducing significant disturbance forces to the system are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for substantially removing heat from a ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7150109 | Dry-wet thermal management system A dry-wet thermal management system for providing simultaneous spray cooling and dry cooling for a plurality of cards. The dry-wet thermal management system includes a chassis having a dry chamber and a spray chamber, a first opening within a rear portion of the cha... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7150111 | Method and equipment for producing driving power in a paper or board mill A paper or board mill includes a drying section, which includes at least one drying cylinder group and at least one impingement drying unit (PK). The method uses a turbine engine (10), the combustion gases (1) of which are conducted at least into the impingement dry... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7024799 | Method for treating products with air, a product treatment device and the products thus treated The invention relates to a method for treating products with air in order to enable the conservation, storage and use thereof. Said invention also relates to a device for treating such products and the products obtained using said treatment method. The products (P) ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7011863 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate which has been subjected to heat processing in any of hot plate units is transferred to a normal cooling unit by a transfer device and subjected to cooling processing to some extent, and then transferred to a high accuracy cooling unit and subjected to c... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6857200 | Supercritical point drying apparatus for semiconductor device manufacturing and bio-medical sample processing A critical point drying apparatus for sample preparation in electron microscopy and semiconductor wafer production includes a computer system to automate the operational modes in drying the specimen. These operational modes controlled by the computer system are: coo... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6826848 | Apparatus for drying nails A method and apparatus for completely drying polished nails without any smudging or nicking. The method utilizes first warm air and then very cold air preferably followed by a brief return to warm air. The apparatus for performing the method includes a temperature c... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6739069 | Cool down temperature control system for clothes dryer An automatic clothes dryer has a drying cycle followed by a cool down cycle where the cool down cycle is terminated when the sensed output temperature of the dryer drum falls below a default temperature value preselected or altered by user. This permits the user to ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6732446 | Cooling device for wafer machine A device for rapidly cooling a semiconductor wafer test/transfer machine and which includes a body which is provided with an interior gas passage one end of which is connected to a source of clean, dry air or other gas by a tubing. In typical application, the body i... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6584700 | Drying and cooling unit A dryer-cooler unit comprising a single vessel wherein drying and cooling occur. The unit comprises a rotary dryer and a stationary discharge hood. Cooling air is distributed through the discharge hood.... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6481118 | Dryer with integrated cooling unit and method of operation A dryer for a material web having a surface to which ink is applied, including a housing subdivided into sections, through which a web travel plane extends wherein the material web is transportable, and a cooling and conditioning unit integrated in the ho... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6425192 | Clothes drying and dewrinkling cabinet A cabinet for clothes drying and dewrinkling which comprises a main enclosure that defines an inner area for housing clothes, a fan for supplying air to the inner area, a steam generator for supplying steam to the inner area, a controller for regulating t... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6370796 | Heater block cooling system for wafer processing apparatus A cooling system and method are provided for cooling a heater block located in a cylindrical processing chamber of a wafer processing apparatus. The cooling system includes first and second frame assemblies having respective ends adapted to rest on an upp... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6295825 | Combined drying and refrigerating storehouse A combined drying and refrigerating storehouse is disclosed. The storehouse comprises a housing, circulation passages, a heat pump unit, a second evaporator, flow passage control means and a control unit. The housing has a heat pump unit chamber and two c... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6209220 | Apparatus for cooling substrates Methods and apparatuses are provided for cooling semiconductor substrates prior to handling. In one embodiment, a substrate and support structure combination is lifted after high temperature processing to a cold wall of a thermal processing chamber, which... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6199214 | Headgear ventilation device A plastics molding includes an elongate flexible strip 3 and a plurality of substantially flat wall sections 5 disposed in an end-to-end, mutually spaced relationship, lying substantially on a smooth curve which meets the strip at opposite ends. The wall ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6170169 | Device for drying substrates A device for drying substrate disks by irradiation with ultraviolet light, wherein during the irradiation process a glass plate is resting on the substrate disk, has a lower part on which the substrate disk rests during drying and a liftable and lowerable... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6161309 | Heat shrink tool holder cooler A cooling unit reduces the temperature of heat shrink tool holders and extensions to ambient temperature. The cooling unit includes a housing with a removable cooling tray. The cooling tray is formed with a plurality of receptacles configured to accommoda... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6161307 | Fluid bed system for cooling hot spent anode butts The invention relates to a system for cooling and reducing fluoride emissions from a hot, spent anode butt removed from an electrolysis cell. The system comprises an elongated fluidised bed cooling chamber comprising particles of alumina and conveyor mean... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6112427 | Cooling shaft for a roller conveyor A cooling shaft for the rollers of a roller conveyor includes a flow duct for the cooling medium and an outlet opening. The cooling shaft includes the flow duct for the cooling medium and at least one length portion extending upwardly from the flow duct, ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6041516 | Article, apparatus and method for cooling a thermally processed material An article for cooling an imaging material which has been heated to a first temperature by a thermal processor. The article includes a first cooling section on which the imaging material rides after the imaging material exits the thermal processor. The fi... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5974682 | Cooling process system The process system of the present invention has a cooling process portion, a siding portion, and transfer means. The cooling process portion is responsible for applying cooling process to a heated substrate. The siding portion is positioned in an upper si... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5862611 | Apparatus and method for cooling a granular material using ambient air An apparatus and method for cooling a granular material, such as a phosphate fertilizer, using ambient air is disclosed. The apparatus includes a cooling device and a conveyor assembly for feeding the material. The cooling device includes a rotatable asse... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5784805 | Wood treating apparatus A wood treating apparatus for efficiently treating wood with a chlorine-based organic solvent includes: a solvent tank storing a mixture of chlorine-based solvent and water, which solvent tank is provided with a heater for heating the mixture to generate ... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5778558 | Pellet cooling method and apparatus using alternate hot and cool air streams A pellet conditioning device (10) for the cooling and/or drying of preformed discrete pellets (148) is provided which includes an upright pellet-receiving bin (12) with a dual grate assembly (18) therein. The assembly (18) includes a stationary first grat... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5685089 | Process and apparatus for production of ceramic powders by spray drying A process for spray drying of ceramic suspensions for the production of a powder which is dust free, sufficiently stable for storage and with good flow characteristics. The ceramic suspension is spray dried in a chamber (1) to a powder with a water conten... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5659977 | Integrated microalgae production and electricity cogeneration An integrated plant including a microalgae production plant for growing, harvesting and drying algae and a fossil fuel-motor-generator plant producing electrical energy. A fossil fuel engine produces hot exhaust gas from which sensible heat dries the alga... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5642671 | Method and apparatus for printing a material web A method of printing a material web includes the steps of applying ink to the material web, subsequently drying the material web with the use of heat and subsequently drying the material web, and, after cooling and prior to further processing, moistening ... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5594996 | Apparatus for drying a fibre web A drying apparatus for drying a fibre web (5) between two air-tight bands (1, 2) moving in the same direction. One band (1) is heated by hot steam and the other band (2) is cooled by water, and the fibre web (5) is passed through a drying zone formed by t... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5425182 | Apparatus for drying wood and other solid material Apparatus for drying wood or other solid material has an elongate cylindrical vessel in which there is an elongate platform on which is placed the material to be dried. The platform divides the interior of the vessel into an upper drying chamber and a low... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5325606 | Process and apparatus for drying and calcining sodium bicarbonate Damp sodium bicarbonate filter cake is pre-dried and calcined to produce light soda as in a process comprising a carbon dioxide ebullated fluid bed pre-dryer working in connected series relationship with a plurality of carbon dioxide ebullated fluid bed/b... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5322005 | High capacity coffee maker with improved filtration A coffee making apparatus comprises a roaster for roasting dried coffee beans, a tank having a meshed case for temporarily storing roasted coffee beans, a blower which sends air to the roasted coffee beans in the meshed case to cool the roasted coffee bea... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5311671 | Apparatus for recovering dry cleaning fluid Apparatus for recovering from a filter element a dry cleaning fluid, the vapor of which is more dense than air, is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a chamber, a support for a filter cartridge, a heating element, and a cooling element located below the h... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5280679 | Apparatus and method for drying nail polish An improved fingernail or toenail dryer that uses air cooled almost to freezing directed at nails that have been recently polished. The palm of the hand or sole of the foot thus being treated rests on a plate heated to a temperature sufficient to maintain... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5222307 | Drying method and apparatus therefor A drying method for removing free water resided on electronic parts such as semiconductors, liquid-crystal display devices and printed wiring boards, optical parts such as lenses and prisms, and precision instrument parts such as gears and lead frames hav... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5221200 | Receiver member cooling device In a reproduction machine wherein thermoplastic marking particles are permanently fixed to a receiver member by application of heat in a fusing assembly as the receiver member is transported along a travel path, an improved device for cooling the receiver... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5216821 | System and method for removing a volatile component from a matrix A system and method is disclosed for removing a volatile component from volatile component-containing matrix. A volatile component-containing matrix, such as a sludge contaminated with volatile organic material or volatile inorganic material, is directed ... | 06/08/1993 |
