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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113912 | Eyeglass lens processing apparatus An eyeglass lens processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber for processing the lens; a grinding water supply unit which includes a first switch unit for turning on/off a supply of grinding water to a first nozzle for ejecting grinding water toward a process... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8100738 | Grinding machine and method for grinding work pieces between centers and for centerless grinding in which the work piece can be supported between a grinding wheel, and a regulating wheel either between centers on a work piece axis or on a rest for centerless grinding A grinding machine for grinding work pieces between centers, as well as for centerless grinding, features a drive for a grinding wheel and a drive for a regulating wheel. The work piece can be supported between the grinding wheel and the regulating wheel either betw... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100739 | Substrate holding apparatus, polishing apparatus, and polishing method A substrate holding apparatus prevents a substrate from slipping out and allows the substrate to be polished stably. The substrate holding apparatus has a top ring body for holding and pressing a substrate against a polishing surface, and a retainer ring for pressin... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100740 | Corner saw A cutting apparatus for cutting corner pieces formed of stone or other materials for use as building faces or for cutting flat pieces is disclosed herein. The cutting apparatus includes a frame with a first and a second conveyor operatively attached to the frame. Th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096852 | In-situ performance prediction of pad conditioning disk by closed loop torque monitoring Polishing pads used in CMP machines are consumable components that are typically replaced after a specific number of wafers have been processed. The life of a polishing pad is optimized by controlling the rate of material removal from the polishing pad by the condit... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8070554 | Distributed shunt structure for lapping of current perpendicular plane (CPP) heads An apparatus and method for lapping and fabricating a read/write head is described. The lapping method includes performing a first lapping process on a structure having the read/write head fabricated therein. The first lapping process is for reducing a first resisti... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070555 | Visual feedback for airfoil polishing A visual feedback system and method for airfoil polishing is disclosed. In one aspect there is a system for providing visual feedback during a polishing operation of a workpiece. In this system there is a model having a representation of a desired shape of the workp... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8066547 | Bridge row tool A lapping row tool comprising a plurality of bending nodes having a space between adjacent ones of said nodes and each of which has an end surface to manipulate a row of magnetic heads during lapping. A bridge extends along the end surfaces of the bending nodes and ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8052504 | Method, apparatus and system for use in processing wafers The present embodiment provides for methods and systems for use in processing objects such as wafers, including polishing and/or grinding wafers. Some embodiments provide systems that include a front-end module and a processing module. The front end module couples w... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047894 | Apparatus for evaluating the quality of a lapping plate Embodiments of the present invention pertain to a evaluating the quality of a lapping plate. In one embodiment, an information receiver receives information while the lapping plate is being used to lap a slider. The information indicates the quality of a lapping pla... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8038507 | Eyeglass lens processing apparatus An eyeglass lens processing apparatus includes: an edge position detector which detects front and rear edge positions of an eyeglass lens based on target lens shape data; a bevel locus setting unit which includes: a) a provisional bevel locus calculator which obtain... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8033893 | Grinding method of a disk-shaped substrate and grinding apparatus The grinding method of a disk-shaped substrate that grinds a disk-shaped substrate including a portion having a hole at the center thereof while rotating the disk-shaped substrate is provided with: grinding an inner circumference of the disk-shaped substrate while a... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8025553 | Back grinding method for wafer A back grinding method for a wafer includes covering a face-side surface of the wafer with a resin film, and cutting the surface of the resin film to form a flat surface parallel to the face-side surface of the wafer. The wafer is held with the surface of the resin ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8007344 | Eyeglass lens processing apparatus An eyeglass lens processing apparatus comprising: an edge position measuring unit for measuring an edge position of the lens; a moving unit that moves a feeler with respect to the lens chuck shaft; and ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8002607 | Polishing apparatus and polishing method A polishing apparatus is provided for polishing wafers at a high yield rate even if roll-off exists. The polishing apparatus polishes a wafer by applying a pressure between a polishing member (polishing pad) 201 and the wafer held by a holding member (top rin... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7997953 | Precision machining method A precision machining method enabling grinding with high accuracy is provided. The method includes a first step of producing an intermediate ground workpiece by roughly grinding a workpiece (a) with a diamond grinding wheel (b), and a second step of producing a fina... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7988528 | Apparatus and method for grinding threaded portion of workpiece An apparatus for grinding a threaded portion of a workpiece, is provided. The threaded portion has a spiral groove formed therein. The apparatus includes a motor, a grinding cord, a detector and a controller. The motor has a rotary portion for rotating the threaded ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7985120 | Apparatus and method for grinding workpiece An apparatus and method for grinding a workpiece by rotating the workpiece about a rotational axis, rotating a cylindrical grinding wheel about a rotational axis being parallel to the rotational axis of the workpiece, moving the grinding wheel relative to the workpi... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7985119 | Blank for the production of a dental shaped body and method of producing said shaped body A blank and method for the production of dental shaped bodies in machining equipment having at least two tools located in the machining chamber of the machining equipment, including a corpus of tooth restoration material, from which the shaped body can be carved by ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7980921 | Tile cutting tool and methods A tool and method for marking dimensions for cutting a tile include a platform with a front wall defining an x axis, a side wall defining a y axis, with the y axis being perpendicular to the x axis, and a front guideline defining an x′ axis parallel to the x axis.... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7980922 | Method and system for controlling chemical mechanical polishing by controllably moving a slurry outlet A system and a method of operating a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) system comprises a slurry delivering unit configured for locally varying the supply of slurry while polishing the substrate. To this end, the slurry delivering unit may comprise at least one sl... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7980920 | Spectacle lens manufacturing method A manufacturing method of a spectacle lens improving a manufacturing yield and a production efficiency is provided. The manufacturing method of the spectacle lens in which necessary information for a frame machining of a spectacle lens (progressive-power lens... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7976358 | Polishing apparatus and polishing method A polishing apparatus polishes wafers at a high yield rate even if roll-off exists. The polishing apparatus polishes a wafer by applying a pressure between a polishing member (polishing pad) and the wafer held by a holding member (top ring) and moving the polishing ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7972194 | Weld gun tip dressing A method for dressing a pair of weld gun tips on a weld gun controlled by a robot is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: placing an alignment tool in a mounting head of a tip dresser tool, with the alignment tool including a central alignment bore having a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7967660 | Polishing apparatus and polishing method A polishing apparatus is provided for polishing wafers at a high yield rate even if roll-off exists. The polishing apparatus polishes a wafer by applying a pressure between a polishing member (polishing pad) 201 and the wafer held by a holding member (top rin... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967659 | Method of machining integral bladed rotors for a gas turbine engine A method of manufacturing an integral bladed rotor is disclosed. The method includes calculating a cutting path in an area of a blank between adjacent blade locations to approximate contours of adjacent blades. A cutter is plunged into the area at an initial angle a... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7959490 | Orthopaedic component manufacturing method and equipment A system for use in preparing an articulating surface of a component of an orthopaedic implant is provided. The system includes a magnetorheological polishing fluid including a carrier fluid and a plurality of particles suspendable in said carrier fluid. The system ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7955159 | Machining of ceramic materials Milling strategies for machining dental ceramic materials are provided that reduce milling time while maintaining strength, accuracy and marginal integrity. ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7950981 | Precision machining apparatus and precision machining method A precision machining apparatus is structured such that a feed-screw mechanism and an actuator are mounted on a second mount which supports a rotating device that rotates a wheel, and grinding is performed while appropriately adjusting the amount of movement of the ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7934975 | Water jet stripping and recontouring of gas turbine buckets and blades A method for water jet stripping and recontouring of a coated article of manufacture is provided. The method includes dimensionally scanning the coated article and establishing a three-dimensional model for the coated article. The method further includes establishin... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7927182 | Polishing system with in-line and in-situ metrology A computer-implemented method for process control in chemical mechanical polishing in which an initial pre-polishing thickness of a substrate is measured at a metrology station, a parameter of an endpoint algorithm is determined from the initial thickness of the sub... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927181 | Apparatus for removing material from microfeature workpieces Machines and systems for removing materials from microfeature workpieces using fixed-abrasive mediums. One embodiment of a method for removing material from a microfeature workpiece comprises rubbing the workpiece against a surface of a fixed-abrasive medium having ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922561 | System for providing quantitative process control of finesse polishing A system for providing quantitative process control of a finesse polishing based upon feedback to the operator as to whether he/she is meeting the one or more predetermined key control characteristics (KCCs). One or more sensors provide data to a controller, wherein... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7914362 | Method of evaluating the quality of a lapping plate Embodiments of the present invention pertain to a evaluating the quality of a lapping plate. In one embodiment, information that indicates the quality of a lapping plate is received while the lapping plate is being used to lap a slider, and the information is used t... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7901267 | Method for controlling the forces applied to a vacuum-assisted pad conditioning system A method and apparatus for conditioning polishing pads that utilizes an apertured conditioning disk for introducing operation-specific slurries, without the need for additional tooling, platens, and materials handling. The method and apparatus utilizes a vacuum capa... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7896727 | Robotic machining tool employing an endless machining belt A robotic machining tool employing an endless machining belt is disclosed. The tool includes a front pulley and a rear pulley which guide the machining belt, a drive unit which turns the rear pulley, a spindle about which the front pulley is free to rotate, and two ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7887391 | Apparatus for polishing media discs Disclosed is an apparatus for polishing media discs by removing or reducing scratches or substances from the surface of damaged discs, including computer data CDs, DVDs, gaming discs and other media discs. The apparatus enables removal or reduction of scratches and ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7878882 | Advanced workpiece finishing An apparatus for planarizing is disclosed. A methods of planarizing are disclosed. The methods and apparatus, can help improve yield and lower the cost of manufacture for planarizing of workpieces having extremely close tolerances such as semiconductor wafers. Cost ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7874893 | Honing method and honing control device A honing method and honing control device suitable for the honing having a large processing area is provided. The honing control device includes a grinder and an expansion member for disposition in a processing hole of a workpiece. The amount of an expanding movemen... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7871306 | Minimal force air bearing for lapping tool A lapping tool for lapping a wafer section in a well controlled manner, has a head with an actuator for bending the row tool, and a force multiplier coupled between the actuator and row tool to multiply the force generated by the actuator for application of greater ... | 01/18/2011 |
