Patents by Inventor Paul E. Fogel
Paul E. Fogel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11881786Abstract: A polarity-selectable high voltage direct current power supply including a first drive assembly that transforms a first low voltage DC input into a first medium voltage alternating current output; a first HV output assembly that transforms the first LV AC output into a first HV DC output, wherein the first HV output assembly defines a first input stage; a polarity selector coupled between the second output junction of the first drive assembly and the first and second input stages of the first HV output assembly, the polarity selector operable between a first configuration and a second configuration; wherein in the first configuration the first HV DC output has a positive polarity; and wherein in the second configuration the first HV DC output has a negative polarity.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Accion Systems, Inc.Inventors: Paul E. Fogel, Mikhail Filippov
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Publication number: 20230417228Abstract: A polarity-selectable high voltage direct current power supply including a first drive assembly that transforms a first low voltage DC input into a first medium voltage alternating current output; a first HV output assembly that transforms the first LV AC output into a first HV DC output, wherein the first HV output assembly defines a first input stage; a polarity selector coupled between the second output junction of the first drive assembly and the first and second input stages of the first HV output assembly, the polarity selector operable between a first configuration and a second configuration; wherein in the first configuration the first HV DC output has a positive polarity; and wherein in the second configuration the first HV DC output has a negative polarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Paul E. Fogel, Mikhail Filippov
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Publication number: 20220271673Abstract: A polarity-selectable high voltage direct current power supply including a first drive assembly that transforms a first low voltage DC input into a first medium voltage alternating current output; a first HV output assembly that transforms the first LV AC output into a first HV DC output, wherein the first HV output assembly defines a first input stage; a polarity selector coupled between the second output junction of the first drive assembly and the first and second input stages of the first HV output assembly, the polarity selector operable between a first configuration and a second configuration; wherein in the first configuration the first HV DC output has a positive polarity; and wherein in the second configuration the first HV DC output has a negative polarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Paul E. Fogel, Mikhail Filippov
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Patent number: 10312820Abstract: A polarity-selectable high voltage direct current power supply including a first drive assembly that transforms a first low voltage DC input into a first medium voltage alternating current output; a first HV output assembly that transforms the first LV AC output into a first HV DC output, wherein the first HV output assembly defines a first input stage; a polarity selector coupled between the second output junction of the first drive assembly and the first and second input stages of the first HV output assembly, the polarity selector operable between a first configuration and a second configuration; wherein in the first configuration the first HV DC output has a positive polarity; and wherein in the second configuration the first HV DC output has a negative polarity.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Accion Systems, Inc.Inventor: Paul E. Fogel
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Publication number: 20190068066Abstract: A polarity-selectable high voltage direct current power supply including a first drive assembly that transforms a first low voltage DC input into a first medium voltage alternating current output; a first HV output assembly that transforms the first LV AC output into a first HV DC output, wherein the first HV output assembly defines a first input stage; a polarity selector coupled between the second output junction of the first drive assembly and the first and second input stages of the first HV output assembly, the polarity selector operable between a first configuration and a second configuration; wherein in the first configuration the first HV DC output has a positive polarity; and wherein in the second configuration the first HV DC output has a negative polarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventor: Paul E. Fogel
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Patent number: 10141855Abstract: A polarity-selectable high voltage direct current power supply including a first drive assembly that transforms a first low voltage DC input into a first medium voltage alternating current output; a first HV output assembly that transforms the first LV AC output into a first HV DC output, wherein the first HV output assembly defines a first input stage; a polarity selector coupled between the second output junction of the first drive assembly and the first and second input stages of the first HV output assembly, the polarity selector operable between a first configuration and a second configuration; wherein in the first configuration the first HV DC output has a positive polarity; and wherein in the second configuration the first HV DC output has a negative polarity.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Accion Systems, Inc.Inventor: Paul E. Fogel
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Publication number: 20180301998Abstract: A polarity-selectable high voltage direct current power supply including a first drive assembly that transforms a first low voltage DC input into a first medium voltage alternating current output; a first HV output assembly that transforms the first LV AC output into a first HV DC output, wherein the first HV output assembly defines a first input stage; a polarity selector coupled between the second output junction of the first drive assembly and the first and second input stages of the first HV output assembly, the polarity selector operable between a first configuration and a second configuration; wherein in the first configuration the first HV DC output has a positive polarity; and wherein in the second configuration the first HV DC output has a negative polarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventor: Paul E. Fogel
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Patent number: 8934706Abstract: A device is provided having a robotic arm for handling a wafer, the robotic arm including one or more encoders that provide encoder data identifying a position of one or more components of the robotic arm. The device also having a processor adapted to apply an extended Kalman Filter to the encoder data to estimate a position of the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2014Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.Inventors: Christopher C. Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T. Buzan, Paul E. Fogel
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Publication number: 20140207284Abstract: A device is provided having a robotic arm for handling a wafer, the robotic arm including one or more encoders that provide encoder data identifying a position of one or more components of the robotic arm. The device also having a processor adapted to apply an extended Kalman Filter to the encoder data to estimate a position of the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Inventors: Christopher C. Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T. Buzan, Paul E. Fogel
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Patent number: 8634633Abstract: A device is provided having a robotic arm for handling a wafer, the robotic arm including one or more encoders that provide encoder data identifying a position of one or more components of the robotic arm. The device also having a processor adapted to apply an extended Kalman Filter to the encoder data to estimate a position of the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.Inventors: Christopher C Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T Buzan, Paul E. Fogel
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Publication number: 20130085595Abstract: A device is provided having a robotic arm for handling a wafer, the robotic arm including one or more encoders that provide encoder data identifying a position of one or more components of the robotic arm. The device also having a processor adapted to apply an extended Kalman Filter to the encoder data to estimate a position of the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Inventors: Christopher C. Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T. Buzan, Paul E. Fogel
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Patent number: 8270702Abstract: A device is provided having a robotic arm for handling a wafer, the robotic arm including one or more encoders that provide encoder data identifying a position of one or more components of the robotic arm. The device also having a processor adapted to apply an extended Kalman Filter to the encoder data to estimate a position of the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.Inventors: Christopher C Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T Buzan, Paul E. Fogel
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Patent number: 8253948Abstract: A device for handling a substantially circular wafer is provided. The device includes an interior accessible through a plurality of entrances, and a plurality of sensors consisting of two sensors for each one of the plurality of entrances, each sensor capable of detecting a presence of the substantially circular wafer, at a predetermined location within the interior, wherein the plurality of sensors are arranged so that at least two of the plurality of sensors detect the wafer for any position of the wafer entirely within the interior, wherein a first one of the two sensors is positioned to detect the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances, and a second one of the two sensors is positioned immediately outside a diameter of the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.Inventors: Christopher C. Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T. Buzan, Paul E. Fogel
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Publication number: 20120154822Abstract: A device for handling a substantially circular wafer is provided. The device includes an interior accessible through a plurality of entrances, and a plurality of sensors consisting of two sensors for each one of the plurality of entrances, each sensor capable of detecting a presence of the substantially circular wafer, at a predetermined location within the interior, wherein the plurality of sensors are arranged so that at least two of the plurality of sensors detect the wafer for any position of the wafer entirely within the interior, wherein a first one of the two sensors is positioned to detect the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances, and a second one of the two sensors is positioned immediately outside a diameter of the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: BROOKS AUTOMATION, INC.Inventors: Christopher C. Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T. Buzan, Paul E. Fogel
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Patent number: 8178829Abstract: The presence of a workpiece on an end effector of a vacuum robotic handler is detecting using any of a number of non-contact techniques in which some or all of the detection hardware is positioned outside a vacuum chamber that encloses the vacuum robotic handler. Various deployments include laser beam breaking, analysis of radar reflection signals, or analysis of radio frequency identification tag signatures. By providing non-physical couplings between hardware inside and outside of a vacuum environment, integrity of the vacuum is improved. These non-contact techniques are further adapted as described herein to multi-wafer and multi-end effector environments so that independent detection of multiple wafers (e.g., for each end effector) can be performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.Inventors: Peter van der Meulen, Paul E. Fogel
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Patent number: 8125652Abstract: A device for handling a substantially circular wafer is provided. The device includes an interior accessible through a plurality of entrances, and a plurality of sensors consisting of two sensors for each one of the plurality of entrances, each sensor capable of detecting a presence of the substantially circular wafer, at a predetermined location within the interior, wherein the plurality of sensors are arranged so that at least two of the plurality of sensors detect the wafer for any position of the wafer entirely within the interior, wherein a first one of the two sensors is positioned to detect the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances, and a second one of the two sensors is positioned immediately outside a diameter of the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.Inventors: Paul E. Fogel, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T. Buzan, Christopher C. Kiley
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Publication number: 20110093237Abstract: A device for handling a substantially circular wafer is provided. The device includes an interior accessible through a plurality of entrances, and a plurality of sensors consisting of two sensors for each one of the plurality of entrances, each sensor capable of detecting a presence of the substantially circular wafer, at a predetermined location within the interior, wherein the plurality of sensors are arranged so that at least two of the plurality of sensors detect the wafer for any position of the wafer entirely within the interior, wherein a first one of the two sensors is positioned to detect the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances, and a second one of the two sensors is positioned immediately outside a diameter of the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: BROOKS AUTOMATION, INC.Inventors: Christopher C. Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T. Buzan, Paul E. Fogel
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Patent number: 7859685Abstract: A device having a robotic arm within a robot chamber. The robotic arm includes an end effector adapted to handle a wafer. A linear array of charge-coupled devices are provided within the interior of the robot chamber, the linear array positioned to acquire image data from a measurement volume in one or more predetermined locations within the robot chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2008Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Inventor: Paul E. Fogel
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Publication number: 20100324732Abstract: A device is provided having a robotic arm for handling a wafer, the robotic arm including one or more encoders that provide encoder data identifying a position of one or more components of the robotic arm. The device also having a processor adapted to apply an extended Kalman Filter to the encoder data to estimate a position of the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: BROOKS AUTOMATION, INC.Inventors: Christopher C. Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forrest T. Buzan, Paul E. Fogel
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Patent number: 7792350Abstract: A number of wafer center finding methods and systems are disclosed herein that improve upon existing techniques used in semiconductor manufacturing.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.Inventors: Chris Kiley, Peter van der Meulen, Forest Buzan, Paul E. Fogel