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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7431584 | Heat processing apparatus and heat processing method A heat processing apparatus for heating a mask substrate is disclosed. A mask substrate on which a coating solution has been coated is placed on a heating plate that heats the substrate. A frame member is disposed on the heating plate so that the frame member faces ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7338629 | Integrated metal processing facility A system and method for forming and heat treating a metal casting are provided. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331374 | Method and apparatus for assisting removal of sand moldings from castings Disclosed is a method for dislodging a mold from a casting formed within the mold. The mold may be removed from the casting by scoring the mold and applying a force sufficient to cause the mold to fracture and break into pieces. Additionally, the mold may be fractur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329947 | Heat treatment jig for semiconductor substrate When a two-division structure heat treatment jig for semiconductor substrate that includes a silicon first jig that comes into direct contact with a semiconductor substrate that is heat treated and supports the semiconductor substrate, and a second jig (holder) that... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7281470 | Apparatus for continuously pasteurizing meat and food products Apparatus for continuously pasteurizing meat and food products, characterized in that said apparatus comprises: a supporting framework supporting a top basin and bottom basin, both substantially longitudinally horizontally extending, and arranged one above the other... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275582 | Methods and apparatus for heat treatment and sand removal for castings A system and method for heat treating castings and removing sand cores therefrom. The castings are initially located in indexed positions with their x, y, and z coordinates known. The castings are passed through a heat treatment station typically having a series of ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258755 | Integrated metal processing facility An integrated metal processing facility in which molten metal is poured into a series of molds at a pouring station to form metal castings, which are then transferred to a heat treatment line. Prior to introduction of the castings into a heat treatment station of th... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7241701 | Method and furnace for the vapor phase deposition of components onto semiconductor substrates with a variable main flow direction of the process gas A method and a furnace are provided for the vapor phase deposition of components onto semiconductor substrates. The main flow direction of the process gases can be varied or reversed by the furnace in the course of the method. This prevents temperature and concentra... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7223060 | Device for simultaneously conveying and regulating the temperature of shaped parts The invention relates to a device for simultaneously conveying and regulating the temperature of shaped parts, comprising a conveying device, which is suited for advancing objects, and at least one blower by means of which the objects can be subjected to the action ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7153087 | Centering mechanism, centering unit, semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and centering method A centering unit comprises a plate, centering mechanism, link mechanism, and cylinder mechanism. The plate vertically divides the interior of a frame. The support table is located substantially on the center of the plate. The centering mechanism can center each wafe... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150627 | Transported material heating with controlled atmosphere A tunnel oven for heating transported carbonaceous materials includes an enclosure having a passage and a transport device for moving solid carbonaceous materials through and along a length of the passage. A direct convection heater is operably connected to the encl... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7090488 | Heat treatment furnace A heating zone (4), a cooling zone (5), and a quenching zone (6) are provided inside a linear furnace body in this order, the heating zone (4), the cooling zone (5), and the quenching zone (6) being separated by partition do... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086856 | Carbon baking furnace A carbon baking furnace comprising a refractory lined kiln defining a baking path, further comprising a means for substantially continuously receiving green carbon articles, means for packing said green carbon articles in a sacrificial medium, a means for substantia... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7065902 | Blueberry dryer A blueberry drying apparatus is disclosed that includes a longitudinally extending produce conveyer and a drying chamber through which the conveyer passes. The conveyer belt is constructed of a wire mesh, which allows air flow through the conveyer. The drying chambe... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064304 | Method and installation for manufacturing a metallic component and component obtained by said method A heat exchanger is manufactured by assembling a bundle of pipes to a pair of header tanks by inserting the ends of the pipes into corresponding holes in the header tanks. The ends of the pipes include a brazing material. The assembled heater core is placed into an ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7048173 | Wave soldering method using lead-free solder, apparatus therefor, and wave-soldered assembly The present invention relates to a wave soldering method and a wave soldering apparatus using lead-free solder comprising a wave soldering step in which the lower side of a substrate with leads of component parts inserted in through-holes formed in the substrate fro... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7022627 | Method for the heat treatment of substrates A substrate undergoes a semiconductor fabrication process at different temperatures in a reactor without changing the temperature of the reactor. The substrate is held suspended by flowing gas between two heated surfaces of the reactor. Moving the two heated surface... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7018201 | Dual-zone dehydration tunnel A dehydration tunnel for fruits, vegetables, and other products reduces the vulnerability of the products to damage from carmelization and case hardening by dividing a row of product vessels into two segments, passing heated air simultaneously over both segments but... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7003215 | Vapor flow controller A vapor flow controller apparatus for delivery of chemical reagent vapors from a liquid phase source material is provided which includes a source container containing the liquid phase source material, a pump to transport the liquid phase source material to a vaporiz... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6980876 | Temperature-sensing wafer position detection system and method A temperature-sensing wafer position detection system and method which uses temperature to determine whether a wafer is properly positioned on a bake plate prior to commencement of a photolithography baking process, for example. The system includes a bake plate and ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6974516 | Method of making laminate thin-wall ceramic tubes and said tubes with electrodes, particularly for solid oxide fuel cells A method of fabricating a ceramic tube with electrodes thereon suitable for use as a tubular reaction chamber for a fuel cell. In one embodiment, the method includes wrapping a first electrode material around a mandrel, then wrapping a green ceramic material over th... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6969485 | High volume production of low permeation plastic fuel tanks using parallel offset twinsheet pressure forming Processes are disclosed for producing plastic containers from thermoplastic sheets where the thermoplastic sheets are processed in parallel to form a low permeation plastic container. A plurality of thermoplastic sheets are progressively heated to a first temperatur... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6935856 | Method of improving the temperature profile of a furnace A furnace apparatus and method for increasing the productivity and/or quality of reheated products by improving the temperature profile of a furnace for reheating products. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6901990 | Method and system for processing castings A method and system of processing castings is provided in which one or more castings are deposited into a mobile furnace and moved from one station to another of a multi-station casting processing system. The interior of the mobile furnace is heated so as to maintai... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6896513 | Large area substrate processing system A system and method for processing large area substrates is provided. In one embodiment, a processing system includes a transfer chamber having at least one processing chamber and a substrate staging system coupled thereto. The staging system includes a load lock ch... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6833105 | Method for making aluminate cement A process of manufacturing a sulfoaluminate or ferroaluminate cement, and an apparatus for the manufacture. The cement is manufactured from a mixture containing CaCO3, Al3 and/or Al(OH)3, CaSO4, SiO2 and/or a pr... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6811396 | Continuous casting unit with post-arranged furnace, roughing stand and finishing train The aim of the invention is to develop a hot rolling unit, comprising at least one continuous casting unit (1) with a post-arranged furnace (4), followed by a roughing stand (5) and, over a strip edge guide, a soaking furnace (15) and fin... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6682343 | Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holder for holding a substrate with a holding angle of 45 degrees to 90 degrees with respect to a horizontal plane, a conveying system to convey the substrate with the substrate holder, a process chamb... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6662867 | Controlled heating of a coating material In a process to control the heating of a coating material for a roof covering, the coating material is heated using a heat exchange medium in a continuous process. The heat exchange medium is cooled in response to a slowdown or stoppage of the continuous ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6658762 | Method and apparatus for transporting substrates in OLED process A method and an apparatus for transporting substrates in all organic light emitting diode (OLED) process is disclosed, which has a transferring chamber provided for transporting substrates between processing modules and the atmosphere condition therein is... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6514448 | Device for tempering preforms and tempering method The process is used for tempering preforms made of a thermoplastic material; the preforms are to be blow molded. The preforms are provided with a temperature profile along a circumference. The temperature profile is generated by differentially heating str... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6511315 | Substrate processing apparatus In a substrate processing apparatus, processing units are stacked in a multistage manner around a transport robot arranged at the center of a processing area for forming a processing part. In a second hierarchy, rotary coating units are arranged through a... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6473993 | Thermal treatment method and apparatus A semiconductor wafer is mounted on a susceptor disposed in a processing chamber, the wafer is heated at a temperature on the order of 1000° C. for annealing, and a gas is supplied from a gas supply device disposed opposite to the wafer. When raising the... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6283379 | Method for correlating processor and part temperatures using an air temperature sensor for a conveyorized thermal processor A method for aligning a boundary condition temperature in a thermal processor utilizes an air temperature measurement. During the thermal process, air temperature measured along an interval series forms an air profile and provides a reference to which the... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6276072 | Method and apparatus for heating and cooling substrates A method and apparatus for heating and cooling a substrate are provided. A chamber is provided that comprises a heating mechanism adapted to heat a substrate positioned proximate the heating mechanism, a cooling mechanism spaced from the heating mechanism... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6261091 | Process and apparatus for heat-treating substrate having film-forming composition thereon Firing process and apparatus for uniformly heat-treating a substrate having a film-forming composition thereon, wherein the substrate is subjected to a first soaking step in which the substrate is held for a predetermined time in a first heating chamber w... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6241515 | Device and method for treating combustibles obtained from a thermal processing apparatus and apparatus employed thereby A device adapted for attachment to a thermal processing furnace, the device includes a housing having first and second openings with a chamber located therebetween, the second opening is operatively connected to a thermal processing furnace and in communi... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6207931 | Method for the heat treatment of workpieces An apparatus for the heat treatment of workpieces comprising comprising a plurality of evacuable chambers connected through airlocks, a conveyor, preferably a circular chain conveyor for the transport of the workpieces along a path through the chambers, a... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6194688 | Baking oven for coated parts An apparatus for baking powder coated parts comprises a housing having a top end and a bottom end, a heating element in the housing at the top end, defining an oven, a carrying arrangement in the housing for carrying the parts and a control station for co... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6183246 | Method of heating a continuously charged furnace particularly for steel-making products, and continuously charged heating furnace The products (1) pass from a charging end (2) to a discharging end (3); at the discharging end side, the furnace exhibits a heating zone (4) equipped with air/fuel burners (41), possibly doped with oxygen, and, on the charging end side, exhibits a flue-ga... | 02/06/2001 |
