Patents Examined by Karl Kurple
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Patent number: 11964298Abstract: A slot die coating device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a slot die coater forming an internal space for housing an electrode slurry and a discharge passage in communication with the internal space to discharge the electrode slurry; and a block positioned in the internal space, wherein a first distance defined between a first inside portion and a second inside portion forming the internal space is greater than a second distance defined between a first discharge inside portion and a second discharge inside portion forming the discharge passage, and wherein the block comprises a first block facing the first inside portion and a second block facing the second inside portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Jeong Soo Seol, Hwan Han Kim, Seok Ju Chang
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Patent number: 11946145Abstract: A trough including connected walls configured to hold a molten galvanization material within the trough. The trough further includes a first end comprising a first gate system. The trough further includes a second end, opposing the first end, comprising a second gate system. The trough further includes a roller connected, inside the trough, to opposing inside walls of the plurality of connected walls. The trough further includes a sump disposed within the trough. The trough further includes an inlet connected to the sump.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Commercial Metals CompanyInventors: Roger Duane Decoster, Samuel Christian Hartley
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Patent number: 11929267Abstract: An ultraviolet (UV) lamp assembly of a UV curing tool is provided for curing a low dielectric constant (low-k) material layer of a semiconductor wafer. The UV lamp assembly includes: a UV lamp which emits UV light; a first reflector arranged proximate to a first side of the UV lamp, the first reflector including a first surface facing the UV lamp from which UV light emitted by the UV lamp is at least partially reflected; and a UV reflective coating partially coating the first surface of the reflector. Suitably, a plurality of areas of the first surface of the reflector remain uncoated with the UV reflective coating and the plurality of uncoated areas are arranged to promote a uniform exposure of the semiconductor wafer to UV irradiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Chien-Chun Hu, Kuang-Wei Cheng, Chyi-Tsong Ni
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Patent number: 11896045Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus and method for automated food preparation systems. An example apparatus includes a body defining a first end configured to receive a food item, a second end opposite the first end, and a flow channel defined by an inner surface of the body extending between the first end and the second end. In an instance in which the food item is directed into the body via the first end, the flow channel is configured to distribute a coating material about the food item before the food item exits the body via the second end.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: CFA Properties, Inc.Inventors: Chris Halford, Scott Herdic
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Patent number: 11891698Abstract: A surface treatment device includes at least one paddle in a plate shape, in a surface treatment tank, for stirring a surface treatment solution near a substrate by reciprocally moving the paddle with respect to the substrate. The paddle is configured by integrally forming multiple square bars provided in a depth direction or a horizontal direction of the surface treatment solution at regular intervals along the substrate. A liquid draining member for draining a liquid is arranged in at least one side of an end of the paddle.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoji Okuda, Daisuke Matsuyama, Masayuki Kiso, Daisuke Hashimoto, Akira Okada, Keita Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11873577Abstract: For correction of a source gas supply time and a dopant gas flow rate, a calculation unit in an epitaxial wafer production system performs not only correction based on a result of comparing measured thickness and resistivity of an epitaxial film respectively with a target thickness range and a target resistivity range, but also correction based on a variation in total output value of upper and lower lamps.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SUMCO CORPORATIONInventor: Naoyuki Wada
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Patent number: 11865563Abstract: Disclosed is a protective paint spraying equipment for a wheel hub including a centering device, a paint spraying device and a review device. This equipment covers a protective paint film with a certain hardness and transparency on a QR code of the hub, effectively avoiding damage to the QR code by the hub during the loading process, ensuring full flow traceability of the hub.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weijie Xu, Zhiguang Li, Zhiliang Zhang
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Patent number: 11866829Abstract: A gas wiping device for controlling a thickness of a coating layer deposited on a running metal strip plated with molten metal in an industrial hot-dip installation includes: a main nozzle unit and a secondary nozzle unit, for blowing a wiping jet on a surface of the running strip, the main nozzle unit and secondary nozzle unit respectively including a main and secondary chamber fed by pressurized non-oxidizing gas and at least a main and secondary elongated nozzle slot formed in a tip of the respective main and secondary nozzle units, the tips each including an external top side, facing a downstream side of the running strip, and making an angle with the surface of the running strip. The secondary nozzle unit is adjacent the main nozzle unit over an external top side of the main nozzle unit tip.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: JOHN COCKERILL S.A.Inventor: Michel Dubois
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Patent number: 11856977Abstract: A mixing apparatus is configured to efficiently input noodles coated with an additive to a receiving tray, with no need to perform weighing again after the noodles are input to the receiving tray. The mixing apparatus includes at least two hoppers that each house falling noodles and that allows the noodles to fall through rotation of the hoppers. A supply device supplies a sauce to the noodles in the hoppers, and the two hoppers are spaced from one another in the falling direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD., AJINOMOTO. CO., INC.Inventors: Shigeto Koga, Hiroshi Fujita, Yoshihiro Uchida, Kazuhiro Toyota, Takahiro Kawasoe
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Patent number: 11850628Abstract: An apparatus for applying viscous material to workpieces has at least two material outlets. A needle valve is assigned to each material outlet, the valve needle of which being able to close the respective material outlet on a valve seat. Each valve needle is assigned a cylinder, in the piston chamber of which a piston is movable by pressure applied by a fluid, and which cylinder has a piston rod for impingement on the respective valve needle, the piston rod being connected to the piston, being guided out of the piston chamber on an end face facing the valve seats and extending longitudinally. The cylinders are arranged one behind the other longitudinally and the piston rod of at least one of the cylinders is guided in a sealed manner through the piston chamber of at least one further cylinder arranged closer on the valve seats.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ATLAS COPCO IAS GMBHInventor: Heiko Bitzel
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Patent number: 11846407Abstract: A bare optical fiber manufacturing method includes applying an ultraviolet curable resin applied around an optical fiber; and irradiating the ultraviolet curable resin with ultraviolet light emitted from semiconductor ultraviolet light emitting elements, by use of an ultraviolet irradiation device having plural ultraviolet irradiation units each having plural positions where the ultraviolet light is emitted toward the ultraviolet curable resin, the plural positions being arranged on the same circle, the plural ultraviolet irradiation units being arranged in a traveling direction of the optical fiber such that the optical fiber passes centers of the circles, at least two of the plural ultraviolet irradiation units being differently arranged with respect to circumferential direction angles thereof around an axis that is the traveling direction of the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Zyunpei Watanabe, Hiroki Tanaka, Kenichi Suyama, Yoshihiro Arashitani
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Patent number: 11819975Abstract: A workpiece processing apparatus which coats a front surface of a workpiece with a resin, the workpiece having devices formed in regions demarcated by a plurality of planned dividing lines formed in a lattice pattern. The workpiece processing apparatus includes a cassette mounting base mounted with a cassette housing a plurality of workpieces, a resin coating unit that coats the front surface of the workpiece with the resin, a resin curing unit that cures the resin by applying an external stimulus to the coated resin, a resin grinding unit that flattens the cured resin by grinding the cured resin by a rotating grinding stone, and a conveying mechanism that conveys the workpiece between the units.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: DISCO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Watanabe, Ichiro Yamahata, Katsuhiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 11821072Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the vapor deposition of a coating on optical articles, comprising a distribution mask (32) for controlling the vapor deposition of a coating on optical articles that is positioned in the path of some of the molecules emitted by said emitting source in the direction of the rotatable support for optical articles. The distribution mask (32) is fitted with at least one arm (34) positioned so as to mask at least one partial zone (16) of an individual housing (28) on a portion of the revolution turn, this masked partial zone (16) comprising the center of the individual housing (28).Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: BNL EUROLENSInventor: Vicente Estevez Rodriguez
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Patent number: 11791162Abstract: A processing method in one embodiment includes: a step that takes an image of the end face of a reference substrate, whose warp amount is known, over the whole periphery thereof using a camera to obtain shape data of the end face of the reference substrate; a step that takes an image of the end face of a substrate over the whole periphery thereof using a camera to obtain shape data of the end face of the substrate; a step that calculates warp amount of the substrate based on the obtained shape data; a step that forms a resist film on a surface of the substrate; a step that determines the supply position from which an organic solvent is to be supplied to a peripheral portion of the resist film and dissolves the peripheral portion by the solvent supplied from the supply position to remove the same from the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Yasuaki Noda, Tadashi Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11776714Abstract: A device for coating a wire with polymer fibers and method thereof are provided. The device includes a wire holder unit fixing both ends of a wire, a fiber forming unit including a first fiber forming module and a second fiber forming module that receive a polymer solution, face each other, and form fibers while approaching each other and retreating from each other, and a control unit adjusting a tension of the wire by controlling the wire holder unit and crossing the wire and the fibers by controlling the fiber forming unit. The fiber forming unit rotates the wire along an axis which extends in a longitudinal direction of the wire. The fibers are attached and coated on the wire when the wire and the fibers cross each other. The wire coating method can improve an adsorption state of coated fibers by including a post-processing step.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: E-WIRELIGNER CO., LTD.Inventor: Youn Sic Chun
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Patent number: 11766690Abstract: A device for coating a cylinder includes a coating head capable of being inserted into the cylinder, a plurality of coating guns which are provided on the coating head and are configured to discharge a coating material in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the coating head, and a rotating cover which, when the coating material is discharged from one of a first coating gun and a second coating gun among the plurality of coating guns, is configured to cover the other of the first coating gun and the second coating gun, in which the plurality of coating guns are connected to coating material supply devices of different systems, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Michiko Enda, Takafumi Fujita, Yuuichi Miura, Miki Shinagawa
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Patent number: 11752518Abstract: A coating system includes a plurality of liquid immersion workstations positioned along an arcuate path, the plurality of liquid immersion workstations defining a single complete coating process for a sequence of objects. A plurality of curing workstations are configured to independently receive objects of the sequence of objects exiting the plurality of liquid immersion workstations. An articulated robotic arm has a base positioned inside the arcuate path in top plan view such that the robotic arm is operable to carry each object of the sequence of objects through each of the plurality of liquid immersion workstations and to exactly one of the plurality of curing workstations. An articulated robotic hand is provided at a distal end of the robotic arm and configured to grasp and hold each of the objects and to oscillate the object while submerged in each of the plurality of liquid immersion workstations.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventors: Robert G. Rock, Chad Martin Andreae
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Patent number: 11749549Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a substrate processing apparatus, and more specifically, to a substrate processing apparatus capable of blocking the introduction of external air and external particles into a chamber by forming an air curtain at a loading/unloading part when the chamber is open. The substrate processing apparatus of the present disclosure includes a chamber in which a space is formed, and a fluid injection part configured to inject a fluid from an outer side of a substrate loading/unloading part of the chamber through which a substrate is loaded and unloaded.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: KCTECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Dong Min Kim
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Patent number: 11742231Abstract: The present disclosure provides a flexible workpiece pedestal capable of tilting a workpiece support surface. The workpiece pedestal further includes a heater mounted on the workpiece support surface. The heater includes a plurality of heating sources such as heating coils. The plurality of heating sources in the heater allows heating the workpiece at different temperatures for different zones of the workpiece. For example, the workpiece can have a central zone heated by a first heating coil, a first outer ring zone that is outside of the central zone heated by a second heating coil, a second outer ring zone that is outside of the first outer ring zone heated by a third heating coil. By using the tunable heating feature and the tilting feature of the workpiece pedestal, the present disclosure can reduce or eliminate the shadowing effect problem of the related workpiece pedestal in the art.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hsuan-Chih Chu, Wen-Hao Cheng, Yen-Yu Chen, Yi-Ming Dai
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Patent number: 11731154Abstract: A modular apparatus for coating glass articles with a chemical compound includes a coating hood section (10a) including a series of interconnected walls (12) defining an interior chamber (18, 20a, 20b) having an inlet (32) and an outlet (44), a blower (24) positioned at least partially in the interior chamber (18, 20a, 20b) to carry air from the inlet (32) towards the outlet (44); and a connector (50) for connecting the coating hood section (10a) to an identical coating hood section (10b). The connector (50) for connecting being defined on at least one of the interconnected walls (12) of the coating hood section (10a).Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Arkema Inc.Inventors: Jeremy J. Nihart, Ryan C. Smith