Patents Examined by John W Hatch
  • Patent number: 12366800
    Abstract: A method for correcting a final imprint force FIF in an imprint process is provided. Position traces of an imprint head exercising along a predetermined trajectory are obtained. A force disturbance model is established based on prior position and force traces of the imprint head. A disturbance force Fmod,FIF,i is using a predetermined motion sequence based on the force disturbance model for wafer i, where i=1 to n. A residual force offset (RFO) measurement is performed to determine an actual force Fact,RFO,i applied to wafer i. A disturbance force Fmod,FIF,i,j applied to a field j of the wafer i is calculated using the force disturbance model, where j=1 to m. An adjustment is applied to the RFO measurement. An imprint force is applied to a film on the wafer i with the imprint head based on an output of the adjustment applied to Fact,RFO,i and a desired force to be applied to the film on the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nilabh K. Roy, Mario Johannes Meissl
  • Patent number: 12353127
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus for performing an imprint process of forming a pattern of an imprint material in a plurality of shot regions on a substrate using a mold, including a control unit configured to perform a first operation of, while driving the substrate such that a target shot region in the plurality of shot regions is located at a first position facing the mold, supplying a gas such that an amount of the gas between the mold and the target shot region becomes a reference amount, and a second operation of, after the first operation, if an error that it is estimated that the amount of the gas supplied between the mold and the target shot region does not reach the reference amount is generated, performing a process corresponding to the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Kaneto, Masato Shichijo
  • Patent number: 12330349
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint method of forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, comprising: performing preliminary curing in which the imprint material is cured to a first target hardness by irradiating the imprint material with first light, in order to execute alignment between the mold and the substrate; and performing, after the alignment, main curing in which the imprint material is cured to a second target hardness by irradiating the imprint material with second light, wherein before performing the preliminary curing, an irradiation light amount of the first light to be used in the preliminary curing is determined based on a curing time until the imprint material is cured to the first target hardness, the curing time being obtained by irradiating an imprint material with third light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 12285920
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a tool. A layer is conformed to a reference part. The layer having an adhesive side that faces outward from the reference part and a release side that faces the reference part. A plurality of prefabricated sections is adhered to the layer. A plurality of gaps is filled between the plurality of prefabricated sections with a joining material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Michael J. Fleming
  • Patent number: 12246880
    Abstract: The present invention provides a receptacle molding apparatus, a receptacle and a receptacle molding method. The receptacle molding apparatus, which is for molding a receptacle by means of heat molding, comprises: a first mold portion comprising a body molding part, which is for molding a body of a receptacle, a skirt molding part, which extends upward from the body molding part so as to mold a skirt of the receptacle, and a flange molding part which extends in the direction from the upper end of the skirt molding part toward the outside so as to mold the lower surface of a flange of the receptacle; and a second mold portion which is provided above the first mold portion, can move vertically and enable pressure-molding of the upper surface of the flange, and has a pressing surface for pressing a sheet which is to be molded into the flange from above at a position corresponding to the flange molding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CJ CHEILJEDANG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byung Kook Lee, Kwang Soo Park, Hui Jae Song, Gyu Hwan Cha
  • Patent number: 12226935
    Abstract: A preparation method of a screw pump screw pump screw rod rubber lining mould includes: mixing a high strength wear-resistant material with a binder to obtain a mixed slurry; injecting the mixed slurry into a female die for solidification and taking out to form a screw rod rubber lining mould preform; drying and sintering the screw rod rubber lining mould preform to obtain a screw rod rubber lining mould; immersing the screw rod rubber lining mould into a surface treatment liquid for surface heat treatment to form a wear-resistant layer, and cooling down to obtain a final mould. The high strength wear-resistant material is prepared by using a ZnFe2O4 nano-particle reinforced Ti(C,N)-based metal ceramic composite material; the surface treatment liquid includes an aluminum borosilicate whisker/polyimide composite material solution; the high strength wear-resistant material having good strength, good hardness, good fracture toughness, and good wear resistance is prepared and applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Baikang Zhu, Hengcong Tao, Le Zhang, Bo Ding
  • Patent number: 12204244
    Abstract: The imprint apparatus according to the present invention for forming a pattern by curing a resin in a state in which a pattern region in a mold is brought into contact with the resin on a shot region in a substrate, includes an element configured to adjust an irradiation region of light from a light source with which the substrate is irradiated, a measurement unit configured to measure a position of a mark formed in the mold, and a controller configured to control a position of the irradiation region with respect to the position of the mark in a plane parallel to a surface of the substrate, based on a measurement result of the position of the mark by the measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Arakawa, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12162188
    Abstract: A resin matrix composite used as anti-ablation coating material and its preparation method is provided. The resin matrix composite is a mixture of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), a resin, Cu, and SiO2. The mixture is uniform and include spherical particles or spherical aggregates. A method for preparing a resin matrix composite for anti-ablation coating includes mixing YSZ, a resin, Cu, and SiO2 to obtain a mixed powder and performing spray granulation of the mixed powder to obtain a resin matrix composite including spherical particles or spherical agglomerates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: AECC BEIJING INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL MATERIALS
    Inventors: Haoliang Tian, Jie Pang, Changliang Wang, Mengqiu Guo, Huanhuan Zhang, Junguo Gao, Yang Yu, Zhihui Tang, Yongjing Cui
  • Patent number: 12157254
    Abstract: A hollow body composite component is produced by a method using an injection mold, wherein a cavity of the injection mold is filled at least partially with a flowable material by injection of the flowable material, and a mandrel is driven through the flowable material to form a hollow body. Using the mandrel, at least one strip-shaped reinforcing element is introduced into a hollow body interior and is arranged on a surface of the hollow body facing the hollow body interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Baranowski, Maik Broda, Pascal Rebmann, Markus Franzen
  • Patent number: 12138847
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, the apparatus comprising: a supplier configured to supply the imprint material as a plurality of droplets onto the substrate; and a controller configured to control the supplier based on information indicating a target arrangement of the imprint material to be supplied as the plurality of droplets onto a predetermined region of the substrate, wherein the plurality of droplets in the target arrangement include a first droplet group including a plurality of first droplet arrays, a second droplet group including a plurality of second droplet arrays, and a third droplet array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshihiko Nishida
  • Patent number: 12102244
    Abstract: An ice mold for forming hollow, elongated ice structures intended to be used as drinking straws. The ice mold includes an outer tube, an inner tube concentrically positioned within the outer tube, and top and bottom caps that fluidly seal a chamber defined between the outer tube, the inner tube, the top cap, and the bottom cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventors: Bradley Shelowitz, Christopher Smith
  • Patent number: 12049021
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a building material having excellent durability. [Solution] A building material has a convex part formed on a surface thereof, the convex part including a first lateral surface part and a second lateral surface part corresponding to the first lateral surface part. The building material is formed from a mixture containing a hydraulic material, an admixture, and a plant-based reinforcing material, and the plant-based reinforcing material at least in the convex part is distributed in the mixture with the hydraulic material and the admixture attached to the plant-based reinforcing material. A distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the first lateral surface part and a distribution of the plant-based reinforcing material in the second lateral surface part are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: NICHIHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ikeda, Kazuhisa Yoshida, Hidenori Nishioka, Akihiro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 12049022
    Abstract: Extrusion dies and methods of manufacturing extrusions dies, the extrusion die including a first plate and a second plate. The first plate has first upstream and downstream surfaces. A first material of the first plate has a first elastic modulus. The first plate includes pins formed between a plurality of slots. The pins and slots define a discharge face for the extrusion die at the first downstream surface of the first plate. The second plate has second upstream and downstream surfaces. The second plate is joined at the second downstream surface to the first upstream surface of the first plate. A second material of the second plate has a second elastic modulus. The second elastic modulus is greater than the first elastic modulus. A plurality of feed holes extend from the second upstream surface of the second plate through the extrusion die into communication with the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Samir Biswas, Memduh Volkan Demirbas, Ryan Joseph Grohsmeyer, Mark Lee Humphrey, Zakariya Radwan Khayat, Kenneth Richard Miller
  • Patent number: 12036701
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transverse tensioning system that comprises a left-side clamping assembly comprising a first left-side clamp element and a second left-side clamp element. The first left-side clamp element and the second left-side clamp element clamp down on the left edge portion of the stack of plies when the stack of plies moves in a feed direction and is shaped between opposing dies. The system also comprises a right-side clamping assembly, spaced apart from the left-side clamping assembly and comprising a first right-side clamp element and a second right-side clamp element. The first right-side clamp element and the second right-side clamp element clamp down on the right edge portion of the stack of plies when the stack of plies moves in the feed direction and is shaped between the opposing dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Adriana Willempje Blom-Schieber, Jack Edward Schieber
  • Patent number: 11981073
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a powder material that has good wettability with respect to an aqueous solvent and that can be applied to a method for producing a three-dimensional molded object in which a bonding fluid and a peeling fluid are applied. In order to solve the abovementioned problem, a powder material according to the present invention is used in a method for a producing a three-dimensional molded object that includes formation of a thin layer containing the powder material, application of a bonding fluid containing an aqueous solvent and an energy-absorbing agent to the thin layer, and irradiation of the thin layer with energy. The powder material contains molding particles comprising: resin particles containing a thermoplastic resin; and an organic resin layer that is arranged around the resin particles and that contains an organic resin having a surface tension of 30-45 mN/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kazuya Isobe
  • Patent number: 11982938
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an imprint template, including: a base substrate, a pattern layer for imprinting and a planarization layer; wherein the planarization layer is located on a surface of the pattern layer facing away from the base substrate, and a surface of the planarization layer facing away from the base substrate is a plane; and the planarization layer and the pattern layer are configured such that under a specific film removing process, the planarization layer is removed while the pattern layer remains. The present disclosure further provides a preparation method of an imprint template, and an imprint method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Tan, Kang Guo, Xin Gu
  • Patent number: 11969946
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system comprising: an additive manufacturing device, said device including: a resin vessel for containing a material which is polymerisable on exposure to radiation; a build platform having a build surface arranged to have an object manufactured thereon; a radiation source; said radiation source positioned to irradiate uncured material on said build surface to manufacture the object; said device in wireless communication with a central station; said central station arranged to process data to create manufacturing files; said central station arranged to communicate said files to said device such that the device manufactures the object based upon said files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Structo Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hubertus Theodorus Petrus Van Esbroeck, Boyle Suwono, Harsh Gupta
  • Patent number: 11899360
    Abstract: An imprinting method includes placing a template onto non-solidified resin that is applied onto a surface of a substrate, such that the non-solidified resin extends into a pattern of the template in a surface direction of the substrate, starting first alignment operation to align the template with the substrate using a first alignment mark at a first timing, and starting a second alignment operation to align the template with the substrate using a second alignment mark at a second timing after the first timing. The first timing is when the non-solidified resin has extended into the first alignment mark and not yet into the second alignment mark. The second timing is when the non-solidified resin has extended into the first and second alignment marks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Mitsuyasu, Kazuya Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 11897187
    Abstract: A method of additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object includes sequentially dispensing and solidifying a plurality of layers. The plurality of layers may be formed with a plurality of different colored model materials, a flexible material arranged in a configured pattern to form a sacrificial structure at least partially encompassing the object, and a soft material. The soft material is arranged in a configured pattern to provide separation between the model material and the sacrificial structure. The plurality of different colored model materials is arranged in a configured pattern corresponding to the shape and color definition of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Stratasys Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayan Rumbak, Eduardo Napadensky, Gavish Mida
  • Patent number: 11886110
    Abstract: An imprinting apparatus includes a silicon master and an anti-stick layer coating the silicon master. The silicon master includes a plurality of features positioned at an average pitch of less than about 425 nm, each of the plurality of features comprises a depression having an opening with its largest opening dimension being less than about 300 nm. The anti-stick layer includes a crosslinked silane polymer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Merkel, Ruibo Wang, Daniel Wright, Danny Yuan Chan, Avishek Aiyar, Tanmay Ghonge, Neil Brahma, Arthur Pitera