Abstract: The present invention includes a lithography system comprising a lithography patterning chamber, a wafer exchange chamber separated from the lithography patterning chamber by a first gate valve, and at least one alignment load-lock separated from the wafer exchange chamber by a second gate valve. The alignment load-lock includes an alignment stage that aligns a wafer during pump-down. An alignment load-lock according to the present invention can be uni-directional or bi-directional. Likewise, a lithography system according to the present invention can include one or multiple alignment load-locks. Also disclosed is a method of patterning a wafer within a lithography system. The method can include a first step of placing the wafer on supports within an alignment load-lock. In a next step, the wafer is aligned with respect to a chuck while the wafer is supported within the alignment load-lock on the supports. In another step, the wafer is secured to the chuck.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 19, 2001
Publication date:
May 1, 2003
Applicant:
ASML, Lithography Division
Inventors:
Santiago E. del Puerto, Stephen Roux, Justin L. Kreuzer
Abstract: A programmable graphical user interface (GUI) for use in a communication test set which conducts line tests at different communication levels for both a primary signal and a secondary signal. The GUI includes four screens. The first screen displays test results for a first communication level. The second screen for displays test results for a second communication level. The third screen displays test results for a third communication level. And, the fourth screen displays test results for a fourth communication level. The GUI simultaneously displays the first screen, second screen, third screen and fourth screen to provide the user with a comprehensive view of the testing.
Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions contain a sulphate or sulphonate anionic surfactant and a defined cationic surfactant in a weight ratio of 1:1 to 99:1. The cationic surfactant is a quaternary ammonium salt containing an ethoxylated alkyl chain. The compositions exhibit enhanced removal of oily soil.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 7, 2001
Date of Patent:
April 29, 2003
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco
Inc.
Abstract: A polymer for use in a composition or method of laundry treatment is a copolymer of:
(a) one or more anionic monomer units;
(b) one or more cationic monomer units; and
(c) optionally, one or more uncharged monomer units;
wherein, the number ratio of the total of all negative charges on the anionic monomer unit(s) to the total of all positive charges on the cationic monomer unit(s) is from 10:1 to 3:1, especially from 17:3 to 3:1.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 2, 2001
Date of Patent:
April 29, 2003
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Eric Aubay, Wilfried Blokzijl, Cedric Geffroy, Khalid Mahmood, Laurence Griffith Thompson, John Michael Walsh, Kenneth Wong, Dominic Yeung
Abstract: A multi-phase solid toilet article whose phases are separated by a membrane, and processes for making the article are described. Each phase is reproducibly fabricated to form an article allowing the user to sequentially or simultaneously derive benefits from the different materials contained in the article's layers. The membrane is either at least partially water soluble or dispersible in the case of a product used with water, or shearable in the case of a cosmetic product which is applied directly to or rubbed on the skin. The membrane material is selected to dissolve or disintegrate with product use, so as to accomplish its intended function of separating the different cosmetic materials until they are consumed. The flowable toilet or cosmetic formulations are simultaneously or separately transferred into the mold, simultaneously or separately allowed to harden, where the membrane divider is not removed and becomes a part of the finished product.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 2001
Date of Patent:
April 29, 2003
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Syed Husain Abbas, Ray Hui, Laurie Ann Coyle
Abstract: Product adapted for use in a fabric laundering process which is in the form of a self-supporting aqueous gel and which comprises one or more fabric treatment agents, a gelling agent and one or more surfactants comprising a polypeptide or polysaccharide.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 27, 2000
Date of Patent:
April 29, 2003
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of
Conopco,
Inventors:
Dawn Brook, Robert John Crawford, Paul Ferguson, Philip John Sams
Abstract: A mould for casting shaped, solid detergent articles is provided. The mold is made of two rigid complimentary dies which upon engagement define a cavity corresponding to a desired shape of the cast article, wherein the engaged dies form a reservoir which on one side is open to receive cast melt and on another side is open to the cavity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 7, 1998
Date of Patent:
April 29, 2003
Assignee:
Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.
Abstract: A method of making a light controlling window covering having a plurality of cells includes providing first and second continuous webs of substantially opaque material, providing first and second continuous webs of sheer material adapted to permit light to pass therethrough and forming an individual cell by connecting a first end of the first sheer web to a first end of the first substantially opaque web, connecting the second end of the first substantially opaque web to a first end of the second sheer web, connecting the second end of the second sheer web to a first end of the second substantially opaque web and connecting the second end of the second substantially opaque web to the second end of the first sheer web so as to form a continuous loop of material having alternating sheer and substantially opaque portions.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 6, 2002
Publication date:
April 24, 2003
Applicant:
Springs Window Fashions Division, Inc.
Inventors:
John D. Rupel, John R. Thomson, Larry P. Belongia
Abstract: A method for permanently dyeing hair which comprises subjecting said hair to a number of treatments, having a set time interval between each two consecutive such treatments, wherein each treatment comprises steps a.) and b.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 17, 2002
Publication date:
April 24, 2003
Applicant:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning composition comprising an immiscible liquid system having at least one liquid-liquid interface with an interfacial tension greater than 5 mN/m. The less polar solvent in the system has a carbon chain length of at least 4, preferably greater than 6, or is a silicone with more than 3 SiO units. Typical examples of suitable less polar solvents are hydrocarbons, fluoroethers, polydimethylsiloxanes and fatty acid methyl esters. The more polar liquid in the system is preferably water. The composition is particularly suitable for cleaning soiled fabric, especially to remove particulate soil therefrom.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 10, 2002
Publication date:
April 24, 2003
Applicant:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Vijaya Milind Bargaje, Vidur Behal, Kavitha Dhandapani, Glyn Roberts
Abstract: Black leaf tea that has the appearance of orthodox processed black tea but has the infusion characteristics of CTC processed black leaf tea. Various methods are given to define orthodox appearance and CTC infusion character.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 2, 2002
Publication date:
April 24, 2003
Applicant:
Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Ruth Louisa Blair, Andrew David Parry, Peter Joseph Stabler
Abstract: A built particulate laundry detergent composition containing anionic sulphonate or sulphate surfactant and conventional ethoxylated alcohol nonionic surfactant also contains a low level of a highly ethoxylated alcohol nonionic surfactant having an average degree of ethoxylation of from 15 to 40. The composition exhibits increased mildness to the skin without loss of detergency performance.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 10, 2002
Publication date:
April 24, 2003
Applicant:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
Abstract: The invention relates to catalytically bleaching substrates, especially laundry fabrics, with a bleaching catalyst in the presence of an unsaturated organic compound and an activity moderator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 13, 2002
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2003
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Ronald Hage, Roelant Mathijs Hermant, Simon Marinus Veerman
Abstract: A cosmetic sea salt scrub is provided which includes sodium sesquicarbonate and an oil. Sodium sesquicarbonate ordinarily is the major salt present and amounts of this salt relative to the oil may range from about 20:1 to about 5:1 by weight. Mineral oil is particularly preferred as the oil phase. Salt scrubs according to this invention are relatively uniform in composition, easily dispensed from a jar and spread uniformly on the skin.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 15, 2000
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2003
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Paul Vinski, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff, Joanna Hong Zhang, Brian Andrew Crotty
Abstract: A method for reducing color loss from hair treated with an oxidative composition, such as an oxidative hair dye, the method comprising the step of contacting the hair, either prior to or after treatment of the hair with the oxidative composition, with a color protective composition comprising an organic amino compound selected from:
(i) basic amino acids;
(ii) urea;
(iii) guanidine;
(iv) salts and/or derivatives of any of (i) to (iii);
(v) mixtures of any of (i) to (iv).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 20, 2000
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2003
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco,
Inc.
Inventors:
Paul Alfred Cornwell, Nathalie Noel, Richard Skinner
Abstract: A hemostasis cannula unit including a valve housing, a cap, and a hemostasis valve, wherein the hemostasis valve includes a valve gasket and a valve membrane compressed against the valve gasket by the valve housing, wherein the valve gasket is thicker than the valve membrane.
Abstract: A new and distinct Antirrhinum plant named ‘Balumbreo’, characterized by its bronze and yellow bicolor flowers, mounded and trailing habit, and dark green leaves.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 27, 2002
Date of Patent:
April 29, 2003
Assignee:
Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural
Company