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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7887397 | Knife sharpening bar A knife sharpening bar includes a handle that carries a support bar. A flexible tube is tightly fit over the support bar. A hollow ceramic bar is then fit over the flexible tube with an inside surface of the ceramic bar tightly engaging the flexible tube so that the... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7637803 | Combination of knife block and knife sharpener with guard The combination of a knife storage block and a knife sharpener including a sharpening unit. The combination has a guard extending forwardly from either the knife storage block or the sharpener which in use protects a user's hand while drawing a knife through the sha... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7354336 | Abrading tool and method for refurbishing electrical connector pin contacts An abrading tool for refurbishing pin contacts in situ in an electrical connector is provided. The abrading tool includes a bore defined in a first end for receiving the pin contacts therein and a transverse slot which intersects the bore. A removable abrading eleme... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7255636 | Hybrid burnishing head design for improved burnishing of disk media A hybrid burnishing head for processing of surfaces of hard disk media comprises a solid body including a first major surface and a second, opposed major surface comprising a burnishing surface including first and second surface portions, wherein the first surface p... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7210233 | Cue stick tip-shaper assembly A cue tip shaper for shaping and reshaping a shapeable cue tip on a cue stick utilized for playing pool or billiards. The cue tip shaper comprises a planar base, and an arrangement of articulable guides for receiving and aligning a cue stick tip with a tip shaping s... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7172500 | Knife sharpener A knife sharpener has a housing, a base, a sharpening device and an adjustable device. The housing has a case, a cavity and a slot. The cavity is defined in the case and the slot is defined in the case and communicates with the cavity. The base is mounted on the hou... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7163444 | Pad constructions for chemical mechanical planarization applications The present invention is directed to an abrasive article comprising a fixed abrasive layer and a subpad. The fixed abrasive element is co-extensive with the subpad. The subpad comprises a resilient element. The resilient element has a Shore A hardness of no greater ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7156727 | Web-format polishing pads and methods for manufacturing and using web-format polishing pads in mechanical and chemical-mechanical planarization of microelectronic substrates A web-format polishing pad for mechanical and/or chemical-mechanical planarization of microelectronic substrate assemblies, and methods for making and using such a web-format pad. In one aspect of the invention, a web-format polishing pad for planarizing a microelec... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7140949 | Tool and process for chrome plating a vehicle wheel surface A cutting tool having a crystalline tip is pressed with a uniform pressure against the outboard surface of a vehicle wheel as the wheel is rotated. The smoothed wheel surface is then chrome plated to provide a cosmetic finish to the wheel face. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7104737 | Pipe beveling tool and method A hand-held pipe beveling tool makes the job of manually beveling the ends of plastic pipe very simple and easy to perform. The pipe beveling tool includes a frame that defines an opening for receiving the end of a pipe. One or more pipe forming members are coupled ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7101275 | Resilient polishing pad for chemical mechanical polishing A resilient, laminated polishing pad for chemical mechanical polishing is disclosed. The polishing pad includes a base layer and a polishing layer bonded by a hot-melt adhesive. The hot-melt adhesive of the present invention provides a Tpeel strength for the polishi... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7070480 | Method and apparatus for polishing substrates Method and apparatus for polishing substrates. A chemical mechanical polishing article comprises a body and a patterned surface. The patterned surface comprises a plurality of slurry distribution grooves and a plurality of islands on the body. Each of the plurality ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7066801 | Method of manufacturing a fixed abrasive material Provided is a method for manufacturing a fixed abrasive material suitable for use in CMP planarization pads from an aqueous polymer dispersion that also includes abrasive particles that involves frothing the polymer dispersion, applying the froth to a substrate, mol... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7066793 | Mechanical non-serrated knife grinder and honer A non-serrated knife sharpening device providing a multitude of blade angle choices during the tapering and honing processes. The adjustable angle choices can be regulated fractionally, grossly, and anywhere in between. The knife is ground utilizing a novel concept ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063597 | Polishing processes for shallow trench isolation substrates Methods and compositions are provided for planarizing a substrate surface with reduced or minimal topographical defect formation during a polishing process for dielectric materials. In one aspect a method is provided for polishing a substrate containing two or more ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7012025 | Tantalum removal during chemical mechanical polishing The invention relates generally to a composition and a method for selective removal of a barrier layer in chemical mechanical polishing. In one aspect, the composition for selective removal of a barrier layer includes at least one reducing agent, ions from at least ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7001253 | Boron-containing polishing system and method The invention provides a chemical-mechanical polishing system comprising an abrasive, a carrier, and either boric acid, or a conjugate base thereof, wherein the boric acid and conjugate base are not present together in the polishing system in a sufficient amount to ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997795 | Versatile manual scissor sharpener A manual sharpener for sharpening either right or left-handed blades of scissors or shears comprises a support structure with an attached hand holding arrangement. A magnetic device holds at least one adhesive pad on the supporting structure. One or more precision a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6971949 | Sharpening guide for dental tools A sharpening guide for a dental tool is provided, with the dental tool having a handle, a working portion, and a shank extending between the handle and the working portion. The sharpening guide includes a guide body and at least one opening formed in the guide body ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6913523 | Method for controlling pH during planarization and cleaning of microelectronic substrates A method and apparatus for processing a microelectronic substrate. In one embodiment, the method can include planarizing the microelectronic substrate with a planarizing liquid and rinsing the substrate with a rinsing liquid having a pH approximately the same as a p... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6910951 | Materials and methods for chemical-mechanical planarization Provided are materials and methods for the chemical mechanical planarization of material layers such as oxide or metal formed on semiconductor substrates during the manufacture of semiconductor devices using a fixed abrasive planarization pad having an open cell foa... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6893330 | Tool and process for chrome plating a vehicle wheel surface A cutting tool having a crystalline tip is pressed with a uniform pressure against the outboard surface of a vehicle wheel as the wheel is rotated. The smoothed wheel surface is then chrome plated to provide a cosmetic finish to the wheel face. ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6848983 | Drywall knife or blade refinisher tool Presented is a blade sharpener, resurfacer, and planer, for sharpening flat or beveled blades of a linear edged tool, such as a drywall finishing tool and other tools edges, such as concrete trowel blades. The device of the invention makes using a file for such task... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6838149 | Abrasive article for the deposition and polishing of a conductive material An abrasive article is described. The article is suitable for the deposition and mechanical polishing of a conductive material, and comprises: a polishing layer having a textured surface comprising a binder and a second surface opposite the textured surface, the pol... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6769975 | Super abrasive tool and process for producing the same A super abrasive tool comprises scattered super abrasive grains fixed on a working surface with a bond layer. The bond layer has a flat surface and protrusions. Each protrusion has one grain and the average height from the flat surface to the top of the grain is in ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6746311 | Polishing pad with release layer A multi-layered polishing pad for modifying a surface of a workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer, that reduces the effort, time and cost involved with pad replacement. The polishing pad includes a polishing layer, at least one sub-pad layer adjacent the polishing... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6726551 | Manual knife sharpener with angle control A manual knife sharpener is provided with angle control structure. The structure includes a guide member having a guide surface which forms an angle with the abrasive surface of the sharpening member. When the blade is inserted into the space between the abrasive su... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6719620 | Sanding tool A sanding tool having a plate with opposite sanding and supporting sides, a handle mounted onto the supporting side of the plate, and at least one fastening device operatively connected to the supporting side of the plate for fastening a sandpaper onto the sanding t... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6663096 | Cutting board for food products and method of fabricating same A cutting board for food products which is composed of a plurality of abrasive conical inserts arranged in parallel rows on a support so that a knife blade may be drawn along the channel formed between adjacent rows to sharpen the knife blade on both side... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6623345 | Wafer for cleaning semiconductor device probe A system and method for cleaning probe pins on a probe card used in testing a semiconductor device during fabrication thereof. A ceramic cleaning wafer is utilized to clean the probe pins without having to remove the probe card from a production line. The... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6612917 | Abrasive article suitable for modifying a semiconductor wafer An abrasive article includes a fixed abrasive element, a resilient element, a rigid element disposed between the resilient element and the fixed abrasive element, and a plurality of microstructures disposed between the rigid element and the fixed abrasive... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6602143 | Pool cue tip sharpening device A pool cue tip sharpening device includes a cue tip dimpler within a block. The tip dimpler includes a recess having a dimpling wheel rotatably mounted on a first axis. The dimpling wheel has protrusions. The device also includes a tip shaper, wherein the... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6599178 | Diamond cutting tool A cutting tool with a synthetic diamond layer 2 having a cutting edge 5 is described, wherein the cutting edge 5 has a profile structured by etching of decreasing layer thickness. Furthermore, a process is described for producing such a cutting tool.... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6554690 | Drive device for a grinding, lapping or buffing-tool body A drive arrangement for a grinding, lapping or polishing tool body (1, 2) comprising a drive rod (3) for the tool body (1, 2) wherein a substantially cylindrical groove (6, 10) is provided in the tool body (1, 2) for a substantially positive-fit, articula... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6454642 | Device for sharpening knives, scissors or other cutting tools The invention relates to a device for sharpening knives, scissors or other cutting tools with at least on abrasive grinding element which is arranged in a housing pushing against a resilient force. The aim of the invention is to provide a device that is s... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6371841 | Knife maintenance apparatus having two distinct maintenance surfaces An apparatus for maintaining culinary knifes, the apparatus having a handle assembly formed of a handle portion and a knife guide. An elongated tubular burnishing member is connected to the bottom end of the knife guide portion. A rubber friction tip is i... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6358123 | Apparatus and method for reducing disc surface asperities to sub-microinch height A honing head for microburnishing surface of a recording/reproducing disc to a smoothness at which asperities are limited to submicron heights including a hardened contact bearing surface having an array of depressions with abrupt trailing edges interconn... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6306051 | Device for maintaining projectile-type game dart A first dart tool 110 having a hollow first housing 112. The first dart tool 110 has a flight straightener 114 securely attached to the first housing 112. The flight straightener 114 has a flight straightener top 114T which has a flight straightener top f... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6296552 | Burnishing head with fly height control spacer A burnishing head configured to provide extremely close control of the burnishing height, to minimize stiction between the burnishing head and a disc being burnished, and to optimize the tribological relationship between the burnishing head and a disc bei... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6273793 | Apparatus and method for reducing disc surface asperities to sub-microinch height A honing head for microburnishing surface of a recording/reproducing disc to a smoothness at which asperities are limited to submicron heights including a hardened contact bearing surface having an array of depressions with abrupt trailing edges interconn... | 08/14/2001 |
