Patents Examined by Natasha N Campbell
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Patent number: 10286880Abstract: A system includes a nozzle directed toward a sensor window and a Venturi valve including a discharger that is connected to the nozzle. The Venturi valve is connected to a fluid input valve and an air source.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: David Schmidt, Douglas Scott Rhode
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Patent number: 10273631Abstract: [TASK] Provided is a method of spraying a chemical solution, the method being capable of efficiently applying a chemical solution to a traveling canvas and sufficiently preventing the adhesion of paper powder and pitch to the canvas. [MEANS OF SOLVING THE PROBLEM] The present invention provides a method of spraying a chemical solution Y, the method comprising spraying the chemical solution Y continuously on a canvas K used in a dry part D of a paper machine by a spraying apparatus 10 while making the canvas K travel, wherein the canvas K is guided to an inside roll IR and an outside roll OR, and wherein the spraying apparatus 10 is disposed upstream from the outside roll OR and between the inside roll IR and the outside roll OR, and the chemical solution Y is sprayed toward the outside roll OR along a travel direction Y2 of the canvas K.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: MAINTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Sekiya, Daisuke Kobayashi, Tomohiko Nagatsuka
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Patent number: 10265739Abstract: The application describes several methods and an apparatus for treatment of at least partial areas of a substrate. In said methods, at least one liquid is applied to at least one partial area of the substrate and electromagnetic radiation is introduced into this liquid, in order to achieve a desired effect in accordance with the respective method. In one method, radicals are generated in the liquid by means of UV radiation prior to application of the liquid, wherein generation of the radicals occurs directly before applying the liquid to the substrate, such that at least a portion of the radicals reaches the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: SUSS MICROTEC PHOTOMASK EQUIPMENT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Uwe Dietze, Peter Dress, SherJang Singh
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Patent number: 10269590Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an automatic scrubbing apparatus for an electronic module and an automatic scrubbing method thereof. The automatic scrubbing apparatus for an electronic module comprises: a fixing mechanism for limiting and fixing the electronic module, a cleaning brush, a driving mechanism, and a spraying mechanism for spraying the bromine-based cleaning agent on the surface of the electronic module. The fixing mechanism comprises a carrier for providing a groove to hold the electronic module, and the depth of the groove is smaller than the height of the electronic module to expose debris on the side surface of the electronic module. The fixing mechanism further comprises a fixing frame, the fixing frame locates above the electronic module to limit the electronic module. The debris on the side surface and the foreign body on the back of the product can be effectively cleaned, so that the cleaning quality is improved.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: UNIVERSAL SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiang Wu, Wenjing Huang
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Patent number: 10217628Abstract: Imaging can be performed well even when an imaging device is disposed at a position facing a peripheral portion of a substrate. A substrate processing apparatus 16 which performs a processing of removing a film on a peripheral portion of a substrate W includes a rotating/holding unit 210 configured to hold and rotate the substrate; a first processing liquid supply unit 250A configured to supply a first processing liquid for removing the film onto the peripheral portion of the substrate while the substrate is being rotated in a first rotational direction R1 by the rotating/holding unit; and an imaging unit 270 provided at a position in front of an arrival region 902 of the first processing liquid on the substrate with respect to the first rotational direction R1, and configured to image the peripheral portion of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yoshifumi Amano, Satoshi Morita, Ryoji Ikebe, Isamu Miyamoto
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Patent number: 10192758Abstract: A throughput in processing a substrate can be improved and a running cost thereof can be reduced. A substrate processing apparatus 1 that processes a substrate 3 with a processing liquid and dries the substrate 3 includes a substrate rotating device 22 configured to rotate the substrate 3; a processing liquid discharging unit 13 configured to discharge the processing liquid toward the substrate 3; a substitution liquid discharging unit 14 configured to discharge a substitution liquid, which is substituted with the processing liquid on the substrate 3, toward the substrate 3 while relatively moving with respect to the substrate 3; and an inert gas discharging unit 15 configured to discharge an inert gas toward a peripheral portion of the substrate 3 in an inclined direction from above the substrate 3 while moving in a direction different from a direction in which the substitution liquid discharging unit 14 is moved.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yosuke Kawabuchi, Hisashi Kawano, Satoru Tanaka, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Kotaro Oishi, Kazuyoshi Shinohara, Yuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 10186418Abstract: For execution of substrate processing using multiple processing units available in parallel, two or more processing units to be used in parallel are selected from the multiple processing units such that an conveying-out standby time does not exceed a given permissible time. The conveying-out standby time is a time when a substrate after subjected to substrate processing by the processing unit is placed in standby until the substrate is transported from the processing unit by a transporting part. A schedule is made that includes processing by the transporting part of transporting a substrate toward the two or more processing units, substrate processing by the two or more processing units, and processing by the transporting part of transporting a substrate from the two or more processing units. The processing unit and the transporting part are controlled to execute substrate processing on multiple substrates in order according to the schedule.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshifumi Okada
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Patent number: 10165925Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dishmachine that includes at least two tanks and methods of using the tanks to isolate, substantially isolate, or incrementally isolate different chemistries from each other during a cycle. The disclosed dishmachine design and method allows for the use of two different, and potentially incompatible, reactive, or offsetting chemistries to be used in the same dishmachine cycle.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Lee J. Monsrud, Jeffrey P. Ellingson, Brian P. Carlson, Louis M. Holzman
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Patent number: 10149960Abstract: A device for clearing obstructions from a medical tube, such as a chest tube, is disclosed in various embodiments. The device features a clearance member in the form of a loop. The loop desirably has a diameter that substantially corresponds to the inner diameter of the medical tube. Also desirably, the loop presents a substantially unobstructed pathway therethrough for the flow of material from a location in the medical tube distal to the loop to a location in the medical tube proximal to the loop regardless whether the clearance member is being translated or is at rest in the medical tube. Methods of utilizing such a device are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: CLEARFLOW, INC.Inventors: Edward M. Boyle, Jr., Nathan J. Dale, Paul C. Leonard, Alan Marc Gillinov, Sam Kiderman, William E. Cohn
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Patent number: 10125577Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of cleaning and inspection of drilling mud carrying flow lines, each flow line having an inner surface. The method includes affixing a fitting to the flow line, the fitting having a main flow channel and a branch flow channel extending at an angle from said main flow channel. A first end portion of the fitting can have an attachment that enables connection of the fitting to the flow line at one flow line end portion. A second end portion of the fitting can have one or more doors that can be moved between opened and closed positions, the door or doors providing an opening that is not closed when the doors are in the closed position. A suction line can be connected to the branch flow channel. A cleaning tool can be guided first into the fitting and then into the flow line using a fluid carrying cable. The cleaning tool and jetting fluid can be used to clean drilling mud and debris from the inner surface of the flow line.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: TRI-STATE ENVIRONMENTAL, LLCInventor: Anthony Scott Carter
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Patent number: 10111574Abstract: Method and apparatus for treating dishware, in which the method comprises the steps of providing a treatment composition comprising a photoactive component, contacting in an appliance the treatment composition with the dishware, and irradiating the treatment composition with visible light. The step of irradiating the treatment composition with visible light is performed with a source of light that is tool free insertable into and removable from the appliance.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Alan David Willey, Robb Richard Gardner, Kady Lynn Willison, William Richard Mueller, Jacob Robert Adams
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Patent number: 10112218Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a chamber cleaning apparatus and a control method thereof. The chamber cleaning apparatus comprises: a controller for providing control signals, a supplying device, and a cleaning rail provided within the chamber. The supplying device has a first working position and a second working position, the first working position corresponding to a conveyance entrance, and the second working position corresponding to a conveyance outlet; the supplying device comprises at least two scrolls, and cleaning cloth partly on the cleaning rail; the scroll at the first working position is connected to one end of the cleaning cloth, for conveying the cleaning cloth from the conveyance entrance to the cleaning rail, and the scroll at the second working position is connected to the other end of the cleaning cloth, for collecting the cleaning cloth passing through the conveyance outlet.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Hu, Xiangming Meng, Changkai Jie
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Patent number: 10098519Abstract: A lighted dispenser having a light housing comprising a power source and source of light conductively connected to the power source and a treatment composition reservoir operatively connected to the light housing, the reservoir having a dispensing outlet wherein the lighted dispenser is sized and dimensioned to fit within an interior portion of a washing appliance.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Alan David Willey, Philip Andrew Sawin, John Todd Dipre, Gary Joseph Foose
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Patent number: 10086802Abstract: A vehicle snow removal device is disclosed. With the new product being made of rigid material, and having a closed sided, concave shape, the vehicle can be easily cleaned. With the long handle member provided, the user does not get their hands in the snow and can remove snow from entire surface area of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Inventor: Michael Scott Vaeth
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Patent number: 10087373Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous process for converting carbonaceous material contained in one or more feedstocks into a liquid hydrocarbon product, said feedstocks including the carbonaceous material being in a feed mixture including one or more fluids, said fluids including water, the process comprising converting at least part of the carbonaceous material, and further in a state of cleaning the pressure and temperature is set to a predetermined desired level; where prior to the cleaning, the inflow of feed mixture is terminated and the system is filled with a fluid, where the temperature and the pressure are altered to the predetermined level at a predetermined rate and where the pressure is constantly kept at a level above the saturation pressure for the fluid at a given temperature, where the inflow of at least one cleaning fluid is initiated and the at least one cleaning fluid is circulated in the system for a predetermined time; where upon reaching the predetermined time for the cleaning fluid cirType: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: STEEPER ENERGY APSInventor: Steen Brummerstedt Iversen
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Patent number: 10086495Abstract: The present invention provides a cleaning brush and a cleaning apparatus that can effectively discharge dust, removed from a dresser disk of a CMP apparatus upon cleaning the dresser disk, to the outside of the cleaning system in order to prevent the dust from being again deposited on the dresser disk. A cleaning brush includes a large number of brushes formed to protrude on its top surface, vertical through-holes and into which a nozzle for ejecting a cleaning fluid is inserted, and a recessed groove formed on a lower surface that lower ends of the through-holes and face. It is configured such that dust deposited onto the brushes upon cleaning the dresser disk is discharged to outside from the recessed groove through a gap between the surrounding of the nozzle and the inner surface of the through-holes and together with the cleaning fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: EBARA CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Shinozaki
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Patent number: 10081906Abstract: A method to wash and dry carpets and an in situ carpet washing service is described. The service uses transportable equipment comprising in one frame a washing unit, a drying unit and conveyor for transferring the carpet between the washing and drying units of the equipment, a control unit for controlling the operation of the equipment, and means for receiving production goods to the equipment. In the equipment the carpet is transported from a first feeding end, through the washing and drying units to the second receiving end at a constant speed such that the washing and drying steps can be completed in less than 20 minutes and the tack free carpet can be returned to the customer without a need of a replacement carpet.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: West Heat Rauma OYInventors: Risto Kunnas, Arvo Lahtinen, Kari Matula
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Patent number: 10065218Abstract: A solidified body forming step includes: a first step of landing a processing surface of a cooling member on a liquid film to solidify the liquid to be solidified located in an area sandwiched between an upper surface and the processing surface; and a second step of releasing the processing surface from the solidified area solidified in the first step. The processing surface has a lower temperature than a freezing point of the liquid to be solidified. Adhesion between the solidified area and the processing surface is smaller than that between the solidified area and the upper surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Kitagawa, Katsuhiko Miya
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Patent number: 10058900Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holder, and a discharge head for peripheral area from which a fluid is discharge toward a surface peripheral area of the substrate held on the substrate holder. The discharge head for peripheral area includes multiple nozzles, and a support part that supports the nozzles integrally. The nozzles include a processing liquid nozzle from which a processing liquid is discharged toward the surface peripheral area, and a gas nozzle from which gas is discharged toward the surface peripheral area. The gas nozzle is placed upstream of a rotative direction of the substrate relative to the processing liquid nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomonori Fujiwara, Nobuyuki Shibayama, Yukifumi Yoshida
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Patent number: 9993852Abstract: Described embodiments include an unmanned aerial vehicle and a method. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes an airframe and a rotary wing system coupled with the airframe and configured to aerodynamically lift the vehicle in the air. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes a flight controller configured to control a movement of the vehicle while airborne. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes a cleansing controller configured to manage a removal of a surface contaminant from a selected portion of a surface of an external object using an airflow generated by the rotary wing system.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Inventors: Hon Wah Chin, Bill Gross, Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Robert C. Petroski, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.