Abstract: A pad printing device includes: a jig body having a jig recess in an upper surface thereof; a pad on the jig body; and a plurality of guide pins on side portions of the jig body. The jig recess is configured to accommodate a window, and the guide pins are configured to reciprocate toward the jig recess.

Abstract: A central tubular defines a central flow passage and spray nozzles along an outer circumference of the central tubular. A first brush pig supports a first end of the central tubular. A second brush pig supports a second end of the tubular. An inflatable balloon is at the second end of the tubular. The inflatable balloon is encircled by the second brush pig. The inflatable balloon is configured to cause a first pressure drop across the balloon when in an inflated state and cause a second pressure drop, less than the first pressure drop, across the balloon when in a deflated state. A flow control system is at the first end of the tubular and is configured to regulate fluid exchange with the tubular and fluid exchange with the inflatable balloon.

Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a deposition system, a method and use of such system for filling a groove provided into surface of a workpiece with a printable medium, in particular a highly viscous paste. The system includes a deposition head that includes a first deposition chamber that extends to a first orifice. The orifice is reversibly closed off between at least two shutter elements. In some embodiments the system is a dual chamber system, each chamber having a reversible closable orifice. The system is arranged to maintain a flush physical relationship between the workpiece and the terminal ends of the shutter elements, so as to, upon application of a working pressure, fill the groove.

Abstract: Examples include a device for coating a carrier substrate with a powdered material. The device includes an application unit having a first roller and a second roller which, at a nip thereof, form a first gap through which a powder mixture can be conveyed to form a dry film. A counter-pressure roller, together with the second roller or another roller arranged between the counter-pressure roller and the second roller, forms a second gap through which the carrier substrate to be coated can be guided for having the dry film applied to the carrier substrate. The first gap between the first and second rollers can be adjusted based on a position-based positioning drive by being set to a constant and/or defined gap width, and the second gap can be adjusted based on a force-based positioning drive, and can be set to a constant and/or defined contact force or linear force.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tobacco flavoring machine, comprising: a drum (1) capable of rotating about an axis thereof as a rotation center; a nozzle (6) disposed in the drum (1) to spray a liquid flavor to tobacco shreds in the drum (1); and a shoveling plate (5) arranged on an inner wall (11) of the drum (1) and extending from an inlet end of the drum (1) towards the interior of the drum (1), the shoveling plate (5) being disposed obliquely with respect to a generatrix (9) of the drum (1). The present disclosure improves the problem of the related art that tobacco shreds cannot flow smoothly from an inlet end toward an outlet end because a shoveling plate (5) is parallel to an axis of a drum (1).

Abstract: A portable, hand-held electrospinning or electrospraying apparatus and system, method, and portions thereof, comprised of a durable portion of the hand-held apparatus and a consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus. The consumable portion of the hand-held apparatus, which may contain the solution to be output in electrospin or electrospray fashion, may be replaced in whole or in part to provide additional or alternative solution. A base station may be provided, and can output high voltage and communication signals to the hand-held apparatus to enable the electrospin or electrospray operation by the hand-held apparatus.

Abstract: A fixture includes a frame, a leveling plate, a bracket, and a laser profiler. The frame is arranged for fixation above a reaction chamber arranged to deposit a film onto a substrate. The leveling plate is supported on the frame. The bracket is supported on the leveling plate. The laser profiler is suspended from the bracket, overlays the reaction chamber, and has a field of view that extends through the leveling plate and the frame to determine position of a target within the reaction chamber. Semiconductor processing systems and methods of determining position of targets within reaction chambers in semiconductor processing systems are also described.

Abstract: A masking shield for shielding a surface during a traffic surface treatment process during which a mechanical sprayer having a spray wand is used to spray a protective sealant on the traffic surface, the masking shield having a frame with a generally rectangular shape and having a first side and a second side. The masking shield further having a thin, flexible liner in the form of a sleeve, the sleeve configured to completely receive the frame, and a runner removably coupled to a bottom edge of the frame.

Abstract: Disclosed is an surface-coating robot operating system, a movable base (100) is provided to drive the whole operating system to implement autonomous navigation movement in the workspace; a vertical linear actuator (200) is used to drive a mechanical arm (300) to move up and down so as to meet the requirement for spraying at different heights; and the mechanical arm (300) is used to drive a spray gun (400) to implement multi-degree-of-freedom motion so as to meet the requirement for spraying at different positions; the whole spraying process is autonomously completed by the operating system, which is time-saving and labor-saving, high efficient, and ensures uniform spraying thickness, smooth spraying surface and consistent spraying quality; the robotic spraying may obviously reduce the coating dusts generated in a spraying process and the human risk caused by exposure to harmful coating chemicals. An operating method for surface-coating robot is disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to an electrostatic coating system for spraying a stream of particles onto a medium, and in particular to a system comprising one or more apparatuses equipped with a powder coating suspension device. What is also contemplated is the use of a powder management system configured to supply predetermined powdered and air mixtures to the apparatus and a controller configured to adjust parameters of operation of both the apparatus and the powder management system. The present disclosure relates to an in-line industrial device able to coat paint, starch, thermoplastic materials, or any other powder material onto a medium by successively controlling a plurality of parameters.

Abstract: A machine for decorating items with granular materials, including at least one transportation device, adapted to convey the items to be decorated along a feed direction (A) and a feed orientation (V), and at least one decoration assembly of the items (P), supported above the transportation device and adapted to deposit, on the surface of each item (P), a certain quantity of granular material (M) so as to achieve a determined aesthetic effect. The decoration assembly includes a first module for dispensing adhesive fluid, of the type provided with heads with dispensing nozzles, adapted to dispense at least a first layer of adhesive fluid on the surface of the item (P) to be decorated according to a specific decorative pattern or motif, and at least one supplying device of granular material.

Abstract: A mask includes an opening area and a shelter area adjacent to the opening area, the opening area includes an opening pattern, the shelter area includes a buffer pattern adapted to the opening pattern. This application achieves a purpose that a sudden change of stress at a boundary between the opening area and the shelter area is buffered, thereby ensuring that the pull of the mesh as it opens may be smoothly transmitted from the shelter area to the opening area. In addition, this application may also effectively improve meshing accuracy of the mask, thereby improving a yield of vapor deposition products.

Abstract: Methods for making thin-films on semiconductor substrates, which may be patterned using EUV, include: depositing the organometallic polymer-like material onto the surface of the semiconductor substrate, exposing the surface to EUV to form a pattern, and developing the pattern for later transfer to underlying layers. The depositing operations may be performed by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), atomic layer deposition (ALD), and ALD with a CVD component, such as a discontinuous, ALD-like process in which metal precursors and counter-reactants are separated in either time or space.

Abstract: Provided is a hand-held type electrostatic spray device (1) spraying an electrically charged liquid, the electrostatic spray device (1) comprising: a voltage source; a needle-shaped electrode (53: a base electrode) for electrically charging the liquid to which a voltage is applied from the voltage source and which includes a linear tip portion; a second bottom portion (32: an additional electrode) of a second electrode member (3) to which a voltage is applied from the voltage source; and a conductor (6) which is electrically isolated from the second bottom portion (32) and the needle-shaped electrode (53) and is disposed on a spray side of the liquid from the second bottom portion (32), at least a part of the conductor (6) overlapping with the second bottom portion (32) in a direction orthogonal to a spray direction of the liquid.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an electrode body includes a coater and an attraction magnet. The coater applies a mixture paste including an electrode active material to a substrate that is configured to be a current collector. The attraction magnet is opposed to an applied layer of the mixture paste formed on the substrate so that when the mixture paste contains a metal object, the attraction magnet attracts the metal object so as to change a shape of a surface of the applied layer.

Abstract: An adhesive coating device for coating an inner wall surface of a workpiece provided with holes with an adhesive. A control device automatically executes an operation of applying the adhesive, the operation including positioning of the workpiece, relative positioning of a nozzle that applies the adhesive in a non-contact manner with respect to the workpiece, and moving of the nozzle, in which the adhesive is ejected and applied in an oblique direction from the nozzle to the inner wall surface of the hole, and the angle of the oblique direction is such an angle that the adhesive linearly ejected from the nozzle located outside the hole can be applied to the inner wall surface of the hole with a desired depth without interfering with an opening part of the hole.

Abstract: Provided is a technique that ensures suppressed deterioration of plating quality of a substrate due to a process gas that remains on a lower surface of a membrane. A plating apparatus 1000 includes a plating tank 10 and a substrate holder 30. The plating tank includes an anode 11 arranged in an anode chamber 13. The substrate holder is arranged above the anode chamber and configured to hold a substrate Wf as a cathode. The anode has a cylindrical shape extending in a vertical direction. The plating apparatus further includes a gas accumulation portion 60 and a discharge mechanism 70. The gas accumulation portion is disposed in the anode chamber so as to have a space between the anode and the gas accumulation portion. The gas accumulation portion covers an upper end, an outer peripheral surface, and an inner peripheral surface of the anode to accumulate a process gas generated from the anode.

Abstract: A fixture unit for holding a prismatic battery cell during a coating step and during a curing step, including: at least one skirt element, which is movable between a coating position and a curing position and wherein the skirt element is configured to shield an area of the battery cell in the coating position and to un-shield the area of the battery cell in the curing position; and at least one grip element configured to hold the battery cell during the coating step and the curing step, wherein the grip element is configured to hold the battery cell in the area that is shielded by the skirt element in its coating position.

Abstract: Some devices and systems comprise one or more walls of a reaction chamber; an adjustable gap in the one or more walls, wherein the adjustable gap is formed between a first gap surface and a second gap surface facing the first gap surface, and wherein a distance between the first gap surface and the second gap surface is adjustable; a plurality of stops, wherein each stop of the plurality of stops is positioned on either the first gap surface or the second gap surface, wherein the plurality of stops ensure a minimum distance of the adjustable gap, wherein a total length of the plurality of stops is less than 1% of a length of the first gap surface; and one or more vacuum ports in the first gap surface or the second gap surface.

Abstract: An imprint apparatus capable of stably maintaining the concentration of gas supplied for imprint processing is provided even after the moving direction of a substrate is changed by comprising a gas supply port, and when the moving direction or the substrate is changed so that a next target shot region is to be imprinted, the substrate is moved to a position in the order of the next target shot region, the gas supply port, and the pattern region of a mold from the upstream in a predetermined direction, the substrate is then moved in the predetermined direction so that the next target shot region and the pattern region face each other while supplying the gas from the gas supply port, and then the next target shot region is imprinted by the pattern region.