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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7544058 | Method for high-temperature annealing a multilayer wafer A method for annealing a multilayer wafer by subjecting the wafer to a high temperature treatment that includes at least a temperature ramp-up between a boat-in temperature and a process of at least 800° C.; at least a processing phase in the range conduct at or ab... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7104789 | Wall structure for carbon baking furnace A carbon baking furnace having spaced-apart, hollow flue walls defining a soaking pit therebetween. Each of the flue walls is formed of refractory bricks and has a pit face facing the pit and a flue face facing an inner flue gas passage. A coating is provided on the... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7022192 | Semiconductor wafer susceptor A semiconductor wafer susceptor for batch substrate processing. The susceptor includes a central region in a primary plane and a plurality of flat annular extensions extending below the central region in a secondary plane. The primary and secondary planes are parall... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6939189 | Method of forming a patterned phosphor structure for an electroluminescent laminate The invention provides a method of forming a patterned phosphor structure having red, green and blue sub-pixel elements for an AC electroluminescent display. The method involves selecting first and second phosphors, each emitting light in different ranges of the vis... | 09/06/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6663792 | Equipment for UV wafer heating and photochemistry The apparatus of the present invention provides for the dual use of a UV source to heat a substrate and to facilitate photochemistry necessary for the treatment of the substrate. The present invention also provides a method for processing a substrate by h... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6652270 | Constant volume process for managed heat cure of impregnation sealants An improved method is disclosed for heat curing a polymerizable impregnant composition within an impregnated porous article. The amount of the article's porosity that is filled with the impregnant composition is maximized by applying successively discrete... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6582535 | Tungsten target for sputtering and method for preparing thereof A tungsten powder having a powder specific surface of 0.4 m2 /g or more is hot-pressed at a temperature of 1,600° C. or more and then subjected to HIP at a temperature of 1,700° C. or more without capsuling, whereby a tungsten target for sput... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6572368 | Method and apparatus for cooling a furnace A method and apparatus for accelerated cooling of a furnace such as a furnace containing a susceptor. Cooling gases are split whereby a first percentage are provided to cool the furnace while a second percentage are provided to assist in cooling the heate... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6447288 | Heat treating apparatus Apparatus for heat treating a heat treatable material including a housing having an upper opening for receiving a heat treatable material at a first temperature, a lower opening, and a chamber therebetween for heating the heat treatable material to a seco... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6283747 | Method for heating a furnace The invention relates to a method for heating a furnace comprising at least one burner capable of operating on an oxidant the oxygen content of which can vary; in a first period (P1) the burner is supplied with practically pure oxygen so as to provide a l... | 09/04/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6174362 | Processing equipment and method for a pulverulent calcium sulphate material and novel hydraulic binder A method for processing a pulverulent calcium sulphate material in order to obtain a hydraulic binder is described, including combining the following two successive processing steps: (a) heating the pulverulent material in a curing tunnel (1) at a tempera... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6171104 | Oxidation treatment method and apparatus In a method wherein semiconductor wafers are accommodated within a treatment furnace that has been heated beforehand to a predetermined temperature, the temperature within the treatment furnace is increased to a predetermined treatment temperature, and th... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6164962 | Rapid cooling down method for regenerative thermal oxidizer A method of cooling a regenerative thermal oxidizer down rapidly includes the steps of increasing the cycle time of the heat exchangers once a decision has been made to shut the regenerative thermal oxidizer down. By increasing the cycle time, the regener... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6146572 | Method for forming a socket on a pipe of biaxially oriented polyvinyl chloride A method for forming a socket on a pipe of biaxially oriented polyvinyl chloride including: placing a support in an end section of the pipe, heating the pipe in the region of the end section; deforming the pipe to produce a socket in the region of the hea... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5782947 | Method for heating a glass sheet A method for heating a glass sheet includes the steps of heating a glass sheet to a first predetermined temperature and applying microwave energy to the glass sheet to heat the glass sheet to at least a second predetermined temperature to allow the glass ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5775889 | Heat treatment process for preventing slips in semiconductor wafers A heat treatment apparatus comprising a reaction vessel located in a vertical furnace, and a ladder boat for mounting a plurality of semiconductor wafers one above another in parallel with each other. A vertical mounting pitch of mounting the wafers on th... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5711234 | Process for continuous fluidized bed agglomeration A process for the continuous fluidized bed agglomeration of a solid in powder form, wherein the powder, a granulating liquid and propelling air are fed through a three-substance nozzle into the center of a fluidized bed to form a three-phase mixture in th... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5689894 | Cooling system for annealing material continuously moving on a transport means A cooling system for annealing material (4) in the form of plates, strips or bulk material moving on a transport means (5) consists of a plurality of zones (1, 2, 3), in which the annealing material (4) is treated on its lower and/or upper surface with an... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5639233 | Kiln construction and method of firing the same A kiln and method of firing kilns or the like in which high firing rate gas streams are introduced into the ware treating chamber in the form of pulsed jets and a continuous low firing rate gas stream is also introduced into the ware treating chamber for ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5630714 | Process for controlling combustion of burners in furnace and an apparatus therefor A process for controlling combustion of burners arranged in a plurality of respective control zones divided in a furnace, includes the step of repeating a cycle of successively subjecting the burners to combustion for a short time. At least one temperatur... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5599182 | Adjustable thermal profile heated crucible method and apparatus A heated crucible apparatus allows the adjustment of a thermal profile within a combustion chamber surrounding the crucible by introducing a sub-stoichiometric or a super-stoichiometric mixture of fuel and oxidant into the combustion chamber and varying t... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5595480 | Process for sintering industrial waste A method for sintering industrial waste into environment conserving stones. The process mixes waste industrial earth and industrial waste in a predetermined ratio, and forms sterile environment protecting stones with high strength by the following process... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5512320 | Vacuum processing apparatus having improved throughput A method for depositing sequential thin films on glass substrates by single substrate deposition comprising loading a batch of substrates into a load lock chamber and evacuating the chamber, transferring the substrates to a batch heating chamber for heati... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5473628 | Device for ring section furnace A ring section furnace device for the calcination of carbon bodies includes a number of serially connected chambers with or without lids on top. Each chamber contains a number of cassettes the walls of which have therein vertical and/or horizontal flue ga... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5413164 | Heating furnace in combination with electronic circuit modules For use in the fabrication of electronic circuit modules, there is provided a heating furnace which can be arbitrarily set in a desired temperature profile. The furnace includes a plural number of independently controllable heaters located in spaced posit... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5188982 | Method of bonding a semiconductor die to a package using a gold/silicon preform and cooling the die and package through a monotonically decreasing temperature sequence An Au/si die attach method for attaching a die to a package including preheating the package, melting an Au/Si preform in the package cavity, scratching the die onto the package cavity to form a die attach bond, and gradually cooling an Au/Si die bond by ... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5110287 | Infra-red burner system for furnaces A gas burner assembly for a baking furnace is described. It includes a burner tube having an open outer end and an open inner end, with the inner end being arranged to extend through an opening in a furnace wall. A connector is provided for connecting the... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5046946 | Process for firing ceramic shaped bodies and a tunnel kiln used therefor A process for firing ceramic shaped bodies is disclosed, which comprises the step of making a heating temperature in a temperature range up to a decomposing temperature of a shaping aid contained in the ceramic shaped body smaller than that in a temperatu... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5044938 | Method of controlling temperature of a joining area between two different strip materials in a continuous strip processing line Disclosed is a method of controlling the temperature of a joining area between two different strip materials in a continuous strip processing line. In the case where a strip material after the joining area requires a nozzle pressure greater than that of a... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4966547 | Heat treatment method using a zoned tunnel furnace The invention relates to the control of a tunnel furnace partitioned into a plurality of zones for heat treatment of, e.g., ceramic or glass workpieces. As usual the temperatures of the respective zones are controllable individually. Furthermore, in each ... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4846674 | Method and apparatus for heating removably attachable heading tool dies An apparatus for precisely heating a continuous stream of heading tool dies to a desired temperature for immediate use thereafter in a rivet heading operation comprises a closed-loop transport system having a variable-speed drive and receptacle means for ... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4834644 | Premix oven pulsing control system A plurality of burners are provided for burning a combustible gas mixture. A conduit extends to each of the burners for supplying a combustible gas mixture thereto. A mixing device is coupled between the conduit and a source of air and a source of combust... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4687553 | Unitized electrode-intercell connector module A unitized electrode-intercell connector module is prepared for use in a bipolar electrode, especially for use in such electrode of the M-alkaline electrolyte-AgO types. In such special electrode, an imperforate foil, contacted with a conductive foam, is ... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4657507 | Heating control method of heat furnace In heating control method of a heat furnace, three non-linear models, model to calculate furnace temperature based on the fuel flow rate by unsteady heat balance system, model to estimate furnace wall temperature distribution based on the furnace temperat... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4624634 | Method and arrangement for improving the heat economy in rotary kilns A rotary kiln, in particular, a kiln for reburning of lime mud, wherein the drying and intermediate zones of the kiln chamber are furnished in part with turbulence-forming baffle arrangements to produce a turbulent motion in the hot combustion gases and t... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4606006 | Method of controlling the rolling efficiency in hot rolling A method of controlling the rolling efficiency in a continuous hot rolling process. A rolling schedule and a conveying schedule are determined on a mill line for the slabs arranged in succession based on an aimed extraction temperature of the slabs from a... | 08/12/1986 |
