Patents Examined by Bret B. Chen
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Patent number: 9200366Abstract: Methods of making polycrystalline monolithic magnesium aluminate spinels are disclosed. The polycrystalline monolithic magnesium aluminate spinels have small grain sizes and may be deposited on substrates as thick one-piece deposits. The polycrystalline monolithic magnesium aluminate spinels may be prepared and deposited by chemical vapor deposition using magnesium and aluminum gaseous precursors.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Inventors: Jitendra S. Goela, Heather A. G. Stern
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Patent number: 7939129Abstract: A method is defined for producing an iron oxide coating on a glass article. The article is preferably for use as an architectural glazing. The method includes providing a heated glass substrate having a surface on which the coating is to be deposited. Ferrocene and an oxidant are directed toward and along the surface to be coated, and the ferrocene and the oxidant are reacted at or near the surface of the glass substrate to form an iron oxide coating.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2004Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Pilington North America, Inc.Inventors: Srikanth Varanasi, Michael P. Remington, Jr.
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Patent number: 7897215Abstract: Ion-induced, UV-induced, and electron-induced sequential chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes are disclosed where an ion flux, a flux of ultra-violet radiation, or an electron flux, respectively, is used to induce the chemical reaction in the process. The process for depositing a thin film on a substrate includes introducing a flow of a first reactant gas in vapor phase into a process chamber where the gas forms an adsorbed saturated layer on the substrate and exposing the substrate to a flux of ions, a flux of ultra-violet radiation, or a flux of electrons for inducing a chemical reaction of the adsorbed layer of the first reactant gas to form the thin film. A second reactant gas can be used to form a compound thin film. The ion-induced, UV-induced, and electron-induced sequential CVD process of the present invention can be repeated to form a thin film of the desired thickness.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2003Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.Inventors: James A. Fair, Nerissa Taylor
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Patent number: 7361385Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a hot-dip plated metal strip comprising the steps of: introducing a metal strip into a molten metal bath of plating metal to adhere the molten metal onto the surface of the metal strip; taking out the metal strip, after turning the running direction of the metal strip, from the molten metal bath without applying external force from outside the surface of the metal strip; adjusting the plating weight of the molten metal adhered onto the metal strip; and controlling the shape of the metal strip using magnetic force in non-contact state directly before or after the step of adjusting the coating weight. The invention prevents adhesion of dross to the metal strip without degrading the productivity, and thus manufactures a high quality hot-dip plated metal strip.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2002Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: NKK CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Kabeya, Kyohei Ishida, Munehiro Ishioka, Hideyuki Takahashi, Toshio Ishii, Yoichi Miyakawa, Akira Gamou, Yoshikazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 6524643Abstract: The invention provides a method for preparing a layered structure comprising a lower thin film composed of an oxide superconductor and an upper thin film composed of a material different from the oxide superconductor on a substrate. The lower thin film is deposited by a molecular beam deposition process and the upper thin film is deposited by a process having a deposition rate faster than that of the molecular beam deposition process.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1997Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takao Nakamura, Michitomo Iiyama
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Patent number: 6361825Abstract: A pyroelectric detector system, the pyroelectric detector element therefor and the method of making the detector element which comprises an integrated circuit (1) and a pyroelectric detector element (7) coupled to the integrated circuit and thermally isolated from the integrated circuit. The element includes a lead-containing pyroelectric layer having a pair of opposing surfaces and having a thickness to provide a resonant cavity for radiations in a predetermined frequency range. A bottom electrode (5) opaque to radiations in the predetermined frequency range is secured to one of the pair of opposing surfaces and a top electrode (9, 11) is secured to the other of the pair of opposing surfaces which is semi-transparent to radiations in the predetermined frequency range. The top electrode is taken from the group consisting of platinum and nichrome. The lead-containing pyroelectric layer is preferably lead titanate.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1996Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Howard R. Beratan, Charles M. Hanson
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Patent number: 6245384Abstract: Particles such as tablets and gums which contain or are coated with sugar are provided with a wax coating, by spraying the particles with an aqueous-continuous emulsion having wax in the internal phase. The sprayed particles can be further coated with powdered wax and polished.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1995Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Schering-Plough HealthCare Products, Inc.Inventor: Dennis L. Lott
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Patent number: 6221436Abstract: There is disclosed a method for depositing layered material onto a substrate including a layer formed from a coating solution, wherein the method comprises: (a) cleaning the substrate by dipping the substrate into and raising the substrate from a cleaning solvent selected from the group consisting of (i) a mixture comprising an alcohol and an alkane; and (ii) a liquid compatible with the coating solution; and (b) dipping the substrate subsequent to (a) into and raising the substrate from the coating solution, thereby depositing the layer on the substrate, wherein when the cleaning solvent is the liquid compatible with the coating solution, any cleaning solvent present on the substrate upon the dipping of the substrate into the coating solution fails to detrimentally affect the layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1995Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Philip G. Perry, Gene W. O'Dell, William G. Herbert
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Patent number: 6221430Abstract: There is provided a process for applying a coating to a base particle comprising a hygroscopic material, particularly sodium silicate, comprising the steps of (i) spraying an aqueous mixture comprising organic binder and optionally a dyestuff onto the base particle; and (ii) drying the particle to obtain a finished particle wherein the weight ratio of hygroscopic material to organic binder in the finished particle is from 1000:1 to 10:1, expressed on a dry weight basis. Detergent compositions containing the resulting particles are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1996Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Michael Frederick Tompsett
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Patent number: 6203858Abstract: The invention is directed to a process and system for coating a traveling material web, especially paper or cardboard, with at least one liquid medium, in which the coating medium is conveyed to an applicator device with a spray nozzle fitted in a vacuum chamber to generate a spray mist. The spray mist is applied to the material web according to the invention in that it is applied to the outside of at least one roll and transferred to the material web from the roll.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1995Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbHInventor: Anton Plomer
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Patent number: 6197375Abstract: Many potential applications of CVD diamond film require the ability to remove a predetermined quantity of material from a surface of the film. We have discovered that such removal is advantageously accomplished by contacting the surface of the polycrystalline diamond film with a metal selected from Fe, Ni, Mn and Ti (preferably Fe and Mn, most preferably Mn), and maintaining the metal-contacted diamond film at a temperature in the range 600-1100° C. (preferably 800-1000° C.) without relative lateral motion between the film and the metal, for an effective time for removal of the quantity of material, exemplarily less than 100 hours. The metal can be in any appropriate form, e.g., a deposited layer, (including a patterned layer), a foil, or powder. We have also discovered that the local thermal conductivity of CVD diamond films typically increases with distance from the lower surface of an as-grown film.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1994Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: John Edwin Graebner, Sungho Jin, Thomas Henry Tiefel
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Patent number: 5981366Abstract: A method for forming a non-volatile memory having a floating gate electrode arranged therein. The floating gate electrode being formed by alternatingly laminating on a silicon substrate a polysilicon layer and a tungsten silicide layer with a tunnel oxide sandwiched between said substrate and said polysilicon layer. The tungsten silicide layer is formed with a CVD technique reducing WF.sub.6 gas with SiH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1992Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Koyama, Hiroshi Ishihara
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Patent number: 5932286Abstract: Thin, uniform films of silicon nitride can be deposited onto a single substrate in a low pressure chemical vapor deposition process at a practicable rate from a gas mixture including a silane precursor gas and ammonia by maintaining the pressure at between about 5 and about 100 Torr. Deposition rates of up to about 185 angstroms per minute are readily achieved.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1993Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Israel Beinglass, Mahalingam Venkatesan
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Patent number: 5916625Abstract: The detrimental effects of fluctuating humidity are neutralized by adjusting the viscosity of a waterborne coating as it is being conducted to the spraying device. A predetermined amount of water or other viscosity modifying additive is mixed continuously with the coating in the coating supply line immediately upstream from the spray device. The amount of water or other additive to be added may be determined by monitoring the humidity in the spray zone. Preferably, an automated feedback control system is employed to adjust the amount of water or other viscosity altering additive being mixed into the coating stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1993Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.Inventors: Mary Ellen Rosenberger, Donald B. Jones
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Patent number: 5869133Abstract: An improved method of producing a diamond tube by chemical vapor deposition and a hollow support mandrel used therein. The method comprises depositing a diamond film on an outer side of the hollow mandrel by the CVD process. The mandrel is then etched away by subjecting an inner side of the mandrel to the etching action. It was unexpectedly discovered that the etch time is drastically reduced by using the hollow mandrels.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1993Date of Patent: February 9, 1999Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Richard Anthony, Robert Helmut Ettinger, James Fulton Fleischer
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Patent number: 5665430Abstract: A method for the chemical vapor deposition of diamond includes the steps of:(a) applying a thermally conductive paint between a substrate seed crystal and an end surface of a vacuum line [having an inner surface and an outer surface], the vacuum line protruding through a mount;(b) holding within a chemical vapor deposition flame the substrate seed crystal upon the mount by applying a vacuum to the substrate seed crystal via the vacuum line protruding through the mount, wherein a portion of an outer surface of the vacuum line in contact with the mount is coated with a thermally conductive lubricant;(c) flowing a heat exchanging fluid through the mount to maintain the surface of the substrate seed crystal at a temperature suitable for chemical vapor deposition of diamond; and(d) directing a deposition species for chemical vapor deposition to deposit diamond onto a surface of the substrate seed crystal.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1992Date of Patent: September 9, 1997Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Kathleen Doverspike, James E. Butler