Patents Examined by Katherine A. Bareford
  • Method for producing substrate having catalyst compositions on surfaces of opposite sides
    Patent number: 8304030
    Abstract: A bi-laterally surfaced substrate in which the first surface consists of one or more than one of cerium oxide, aluminum oxide, tin oxide manganese oxide, copper oxide, cobalt oxide, nickel oxide, praseodymium oxide, terbium oxide, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, iridium, platinum and gold and the second surface consists of one or more than one of ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, iridium, platinum and gold and micro channel micro component reactors including such substrates in a predetermined formed shape and methods for making the same utilizing a thermal spray on one side and a physical deposition process on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ting He, Eisuke Kimura, Tadashi Nomura
  • Yttria-coated ceramic components of semiconductor material processing apparatuses and methods of manufacturing the components
    Patent number: 8293335
    Abstract: Yttria-coated ceramic components of semiconductor material processing apparatuses include a substrate and at least one yttria-containing coating on the substrate. The components are made by applying a first yttria-containing coating on a ceramic substrate, which can be a green body of the ceramic material. The coated green body is sintered. The first yttria-containing coating can be treated to remove attached yttria particles resulting from the sintering. In another embodiment, a second yttria-containing coating can be thermally sprayed on the first yttria-containing coating to cover the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventor: Chris Chang
  • Method and apparatus for spraying on a track, in particular a conductor track, and electrical component with a conductor track
    Patent number: 8241710
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for spraying a track, in particular a conductor track, onto a substrate under mild conditions, includes generating a cold plasma having a plasma temperature of less than 3000 K in a spray lance, introducing a powder into the spray lance with the aid of a carrier gas and leading the powder to a frontal exit opening, where it exits and impinges on the substrate. An electrical component including an electrically conductive conductor track applied to a substrate, is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Leoni AG
    Inventors: Robert Süss-Wolf, Marco De Paolis, Dieter Geist, Gerhard Reichinger, Gerard Pieper
  • Coating methods and apparatus using pre-formed ceramic mask
    Patent number: 8211506
    Abstract: A method for coating a part includes applying a ceramic mask to a first surface portion of the part. A coating is applied to a second surface portion of the part and at least partially contacting the mask. The mask is destructively removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Donn R. Blankenship, Paul H. Zajchowski
  • Method for forming ceramic containing composite structure
    Patent number: 8206792
    Abstract: A method for forming a ceramic containing composite structure is proposed comprising the steps of (a) feeding a ceramic component that sublimes and a metallic or semi-conductor material that does not sublime into a thermal spray apparatus, (b) spraying the ceramic component and the metallic or semi-conductor material onto a substrate, whereby the ceramic component and the metallic or semi-conductor material deposit on the surface of the substrate, and (c) keeping the metallic or semi-conductor material on the substrate surface plastic during spraying at least in the region where the metallic or semi-conductor material actually strikes the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Sulzer Metco (US) Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Gollob, Thomas H. Piquette, James Derby, Omar Basil Al-Sabouni, Richard Karl Schmid, Jacobus Cornelis Doesburg
  • Cold sprayed porous metal seals
    Patent number: 8192792
    Abstract: Methods are described for applying abradable material onto a seal backing material to form an abradable seal between rotating and stationary components of turbines using cold spray deposition technology to control the density, porosity and thickness of the sealing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Haynes, Andrew DeBiccari, Gary Shubert
  • Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method
    Patent number: 8192796
    Abstract: In the present invention, a holding table incorporating a heater is provided, for example, in a treatment container of a planarization unit. A pressing plate having a lower surface formed flat is disposed above the holding table. The pressing plate is movable in the vertical direction and can lower to the holding table to press a resist film on the substrate from above. The pressing plate intermittently presses the upper surface of the resist film to planarize the upper surface while the heater is heating the substrate on the holding table at a predetermined temperature to dry the resist film. According to the present invention, a coating film applied on the substrate can be sufficiently planarized and dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shinya, Shouichi Terada, Tsuyoshi Mizuno, Yukihiro Wakamoto
  • Method for coating with coating liquid, coating apparatuses for use therein, and method for designing the same
    Patent number: 8187674
    Abstract: A method for coating with a coating liquid according to the present invention is a method for coating an object-to-be-coated with a coating liquid containing dispersed particles, using a die, wherein the flowage of the coating liquid within a manifold 5 provided within the die is such that the deviation of the average flow rate of the coating liquid in the direction of the width becomes equal to or less than 60% of an average flow rate over the entire area of the manifold 5, in at least 80% of the area from a liquid supplying portion 8 in the manifold to an end portion P of the manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Fujihara, Junya Tabuchi, Makoto Komatsubara
  • Method for electroless plating and metal-plated article
    Patent number: 8182873
    Abstract: A method for metal plating with good adhesion to materials that are difficult to plate wherein a material to be plated is surface-treated with a silane coupling agent having in a molecule thereof a functional group with a metal-capturing capability, is heat treated at a high temperature of at least 150° C. in air or an inert gas atmosphere, surface treatment is performed with a solution containing a noble metal compound, and electroless plating is performed. Alternatively, a metal plating method is provided wherein a material to be plated is surface-treated with a liquid in which a noble metal compound and a silane coupling agent having in a molecule thereof a functional group with a metal-capturing capability have already been mixed or reacted, is heat treated at a high temperature of at least 150° C. in air or an inert gas atmosphere, and electroless plating is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Imori, Junnosuke Sekiguchi, Atsushi Yabe, Yoshihisa Fujihira
  • System and method for protecting a print
    Patent number: 8182875
    Abstract: A system and a method to protect an image on a substrate. The method includes applying a coating to the surface of a substrate having an unspread ink image thereon, wherein the image is formed by droplets of solid ink, and wherein the coating interacts with the ink. Moreover, the method includes spreading the coated ink on the surface of the substrate, wherein the ink and the coating interact during the spreading process and wherein the spread ink on the surface of the substrate forms the continuous image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Christine D. Anderson, T. Brian McAneney, Christopher A. Wagner, Gordon Sisler
  • Method of spraying a turbine engine component
    Patent number: 8173218
    Abstract: A method of spraying a component involves disposing a component near a spray coating device. The component has a first mating feature that is formed as part of the component. A first mask is disposed over a portion of the component and has a second mating feature. The first mating feature is resiliently connected to the second mating feature. The component is then sprayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank W. Mase, Christopher W Strock
  • Process for applying a heat shielding coating system on a metallic substrate
    Patent number: 8168261
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for applying a heat shielding coating system on a metallic substrate. The coating system comprises at least three individual layers selected from the group of barrier layer, hot gas corrosion protection layer, protection layer, heat barrier layer, and smoothing layer. The coating system is applied to the metallic substrate by low pressure plasma spraying in a single operation cycle. This process enables the layers to be applied in an arbitrary sequence. The process is preferably used in applying a coating system to a turbine blade, particularly a stator or a rotor blade of a stationary gas turbine or of an aircraft engine, or to another component in a stationary or aircraft turbine that is subjected to hot gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Sulzer Metco A.G.
    Inventors: Ing Michael Loch, Gérard Barbezat
  • Fabrication of copper-based anodes via atmosphoric plasma spraying techniques
    Patent number: 8163353
    Abstract: A fuel electrode anode (18) for a solid oxide fuel cell is made by presenting a solid oxide fuel cell having an electrolyte surface (15), mixing copper powder with solid oxide electrolyte in a mixing step (24, 44) to provide a spray feedstock (30,50) which is fed into a plasma jet (32, 52) of a plasma torch to melt the spray feed stock and propel it onto an electrolyte surface (34, 54) where the spray feed stock flattens into lamellae layer upon solidification, where the layer (38, 59) is an anode coating with greater than 35 vol. % based on solids volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventor: Chun Lu
  • Apparatus and method for electroless deposition of materials on semiconductor substrates
    Patent number: 8128987
    Abstract: A method for electroless deposition from a deposition solution in a working chamber, where the process can include heating the deposition solution to its boiling point and subsequently reducing the temperature of the deposition solution to a working temperature range that is between approximately 1% and approximately 25% below the boiling point of said solution under a predetermined pressure; and the process also can include heating the deposition solution while filling an enclosed area of the chamber such that the deposition solution reaches its boiling point immediately after the enclosed area is filled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Lam Research Corp.
    Inventors: Igor C. Ivanov, Jonathan Weiguo Zhang, Artur Kolics
  • Electroless gold plating method and electronic parts
    Patent number: 8124174
    Abstract: Part or whole of an electroless gold plating film of a plated film laminate including an electroless nickel plating film, an electroless palladium plating film and an electroless gold plating film is formed by an electroless gold plating using an electroless gold plating bath including a water-soluble gold compound, a complexing agent, formaldehyde and/or a formaldehyde-bisulfite adduct, and an amine compound represented by the following general formula R1—NH—C2H4—NH—R2 or R3—(CH2—NH—C2H4—NH—CH2)n—R4. The method of the invention does not need two types of baths, a flash gold plating bath and a thick gold plating bath for thickening. Gold plating films of different thicknesses suited for solder bonding or wire bonding can be formed using only one type of gold plating bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seigo Kurosaka, Yukinori Oda, Akira Okada, Ayumi Okubo, Masayuki Kiso
  • Method for the manufacture of a coating
    Patent number: 8084100
    Abstract: Using this method, a coating (1) is manufactured on a substrate (2), which forms a surface of a base body. In this method a layer (3) with ceramic coating material is applied to the substrate in a process chamber (6) using a plasma beam (30) and using an LPPS or LPPS-TF process. The substrate contains at least one metal Me. At a set reaction temperature of the substrate and in the presence of oxygen, an oxide, which results reactively with metal M diffused on the surface, is generated as a ceramic intermediate layer (4). The ceramic layer (3) is deposited on this intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Sulzer Metco AG
    Inventors: Arno Refke, Wolfram Beele
  • Pretreatment method for electroless plating material and method for producing member having plated coating
    Patent number: 8052858
    Abstract: A resin material is brought into contact with a first solution containing ozone, and at the same time, ultraviolet rays are irradiated. The activation due to the treatment with ozone water and the activation due to the treatment with ultraviolet rays are synergistically operated to enable the formation of a plated coating having excellent adhesive strength by a short treatment. In addition, even by a long treatment, the adhesive strength can be restrained from lowering. Consequently, a plated coating having excellent adhesion can be formed without roughening the surface of the resin material by a short pretreatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motoki Hiraoka, Takeshi Bessho, Sigeru Sibata
  • Method of manufacturing a disk substrate for a magnetic recording medium
    Patent number: 8039045
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a plating method on a glass base plate. The method allows forming a plating film on a base plate composed of a glass material with excellent adhesivity and homogeneity by means of an electroless plating method even to a thickness of 1 ?m or more. Before forming a plating film by a step of electroless plating S6, a surface treatment process is conducted on a surface of the base plate composed of a glass material. The surface treatment process comprises at least a step of glass activation treatment S2 to increase quantity of silanol groups on the surface of the base plate at least by a factor of two using an aqueous solution of diluted acid, a step of silane coupling agent treatment S3, a step of palladium catalyst treatment S4, and a step of palladium bonding treatment S5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youichi Tei, Akira Iso, Kazuhito Higuchi, Hajime Kurihara, Hiroyuki Uwazumi
  • Composite coating with nanoparticles for improved wear and lubricity in down hole tools
    Patent number: 8021721
    Abstract: A method of modifying a bottomhole assembly that includes metal plating at least a portion of a bottomhole assembly, wherein the metal-plating comprises superabrasive nanoparticles is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Smith International, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Griffo
  • Process for extending the cyclic service life of thermal barrier coatings, in particular on gas turbine components
    Patent number: 8021720
    Abstract: A process for extending the cyclic service life of thermal barrier coatings made of yttrium-stabilized zirconium oxide (YSZ) or the like which have been applied to a substrate with an oxidizing bond coat in between includes increasing or long-term stabilizing the strain tolerance of the thermal barrier coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Frigyes Szuecs, Alexander Stankowski