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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7241140 | Burning oven A burning oven is provided, and has a housing that surrounds a combustion chamber in which material that is to be burned can be introduced after the housing is opened and can be placed upon a combustion chamber base. A deposit element is disposed externally of the c... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7132077 | Method and apparatus for containing and ejecting a thixotropic metal slurry A container system including a vessel for holding a thixotropic semi-solid aluminum alloy slurry during its processing as a billet and an ejection system for cleanly discharging the processed thixotropic semi-solid aluminum billet. The crucible is preferably formed ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 6841210 | Multilayer structured quartz glass crucible and method for producing the same Disclosed is a multilayer structured quartz glass crucible, for pulling up silicon single crystal, whose structure has at least three layers comprising: a translucent outer layer made of naturally occurring quartz glass and having a large number of pores, a transluc... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6488886 | Casting ladle A casting ladle for improving the technique in the pour process of metallurgical molding. The casting ladle includes a bowl portion that has a bottom wall and a peripheral wall. The peripheral wall extends upwardly from a perimeter edge of the bottom wall... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6120286 | Vaporizer boat for metal vaporizing The invention concerns a resistance-heated vaporizer boat for vaporizing metal. According to the invention, a reduced temperature is generated in the edge region, i.e., along the longitudinal edge of the vaporizer boat, such that there is only a very slig... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5932294 | MBE deposition method employing effusion cell having a unibody crucible A unibody, monolithic, one-piece negative draft crucible for a MBE effusion cell. The crucible maximizes capacity, uniformity and long term flux stability, and minimizes oval defects, depletion effects, and short term shutter-related flux transients. The ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5885071 | Quartz glass crucible for pulling single crystal In order to reduce concentrations of impurities in an inner layer of a quartz crucible for pulling a silicon single crystal which comprises an outer layer made of quartz glass and an inner layer formed on the inner surface of the outer layer, a migration-... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5820681 | Unibody crucible and effusion cell employing such a crucible A unibody, monolithic, one-piece negative draft crucible for a MBE effusion cell. The crucible maximizes capacity, uniformity and long term flux stability, and minimizes oval defects, depletion effects, and short term shutter-related flux transients. The ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5596673 | Evaporation crucible assembly There is disclosed a crucible assembly comprising: (a) an electrically conductive tube having a first end portion and a second end portion and defining an opening in the surface of the tube, wherein the tube defines an imaginary horizontal line which bise... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5452881 | Crucible for an analyzer An inexpensive crucible capable of obtaining a high analytical accuracy is provided. A circular projection is formed in a portion above a portion having an intermediate height on an inner circumferential surface of the graphite crucible to prevent contami... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5098287 | Lid for improved dendritic web growth A lid for a susceptor in which a crystalline material is melted by induction heating to form a pool or melt of molten material from which a dendritic web of essentially a single crystal of the material is pulled through an elongated slot in the lid and th... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5085582 | Silicon nitride containers for the sintering of silicon nitride ceramics An enclosable vessel for containing a silicon nitride article during sintering in a furnace to protect the silicon nitride article from thermal decomposition and contamination reactions with furnace materials comprises a closeable walled container formed ... | 02/04/1992 |
| 4933287 | Novel lipolytic enzymes and their use in detergent compositions Novel lipolytic enzymes having an optimum pH in the range of 8 and 10.5 which exhibits effective lipase activity in an aqueous solution containing a detergent at a concentration of up to about 10 g/l under washing conditions at a temperature of 60° C. or... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4913652 | Pyrolytic boron nitride crucible and method for producing the same A pyrolytic boron nitride crucible is provided. The crucible contains at least five wall layers consisting of first and second wall layers. The thickness of each of the first wall layers is 5 to 100 microns and the thickness of each of the second wall lay... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4773852 | Pyrolytic boron nitride crucible and method for producing the same A pyrolytic boron nitride crucible is provided. The crucible contains at least five wall layers consisting of first and second wall layers. The thickness of each of the first wall layers is 5 to 100 microns and the thickness of each of the second wall lay... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4543467 | Effusion type evaporator cell for vacuum evaporators Vapor sources for vacuum evaporators in which the evaporation rate has hitherto been adjusted by varying the temperature of the vessel containing the evaporative substances, have a very large time constant, and an approximately exponential control charact... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4495155 | Modified crucible for the pendant drop method of crystallization A crucible useful for continuous preparation of single crystals with selected crystal orientation or for depositing thin films of crystalline materials such as silica on substrates such as graphite by the pendant drop growth (PDG) method, the crucible bas... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4492572 | Melting crucible A melting crucible for small amounts of material has a plurality of pouring openings for the discharge of material selectively from the crucible, or comprises a ring member which is connected to a lower crucible portion containing the material, and which ... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4354831 | Crucible for precision casting device A crucible used with a precision casting device, especially used for dental purposes, which is vertically or axially divided into a plurality of segments, these segments being held together to form a complete crucible during heating and melting steps and ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4247735 | Electric heating crucible A Joule effect electric furnace for goldsmith, dental and the like melting processes comprises a graphite crucible which constitutes by itself an electric resistance element suitable for the Joule effect heating and is connected to an electric power suppl... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4043748 | Evaporation boats for use in vapor deposition The evaporation boat comprises superposed upper and lower sheets. The upper sheet includes a upwardly convexed central section and a pair of side sections bent back toward the central section and the lower sheet includes a downwardly convexed central sect... | 08/23/1977 |