Patents Represented by Attorney Paul E. Dietze
  • Patent number: 7261616
    Abstract: A method of polishing an object is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of creating a polishing zone within a magnetorheological fluid; determining the characteristics of the contact between the object and the polishing zone necessary to polish the object; controlling the consistency of the fluid in the polishing zone; bringing the object into contact with the polishing zone of the fluid; and moving at least one of said object and said fluid with respect to the other. Also disclosed is a polishing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: QED Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Ilich Kordonsky, Igor Victorovich Prokhorov, Sergei Rafailovich Gorodkin, Gennadii Rafailovich Gorodkin, Leonid Konstantinovich Gleb, Bronislav Eduardovich Kashevsky