Abstract: A manufacturing system includes a substrate disposed on a conveyer system. The conveyer system includes a pair of side supports. The substrate is moved on the conveyer system until the substrate is disposed over a bottom support block. The bottom support block is raised to physically contact the substrate. A transfer arm module is provided. The transfer arm module includes a flat bottom surface and an opening formed in the flat bottom surface. The transfer arm module is disposed with the flat bottom surface physically contacting the substrate opposite the bottom support block. A vacuum is enabled through the opening of the transfer arm module. The substrate is lifted off the bottom support block using the vacuum. The substrate is moved over a printing pallet using the transfer arm module. The vacuum is disabled when the substrate is in a positioning area of the printing pallet.

Abstract: An integrated circuit is provided with guard rings that form ring-like reverse-biased p-n junctions around circuitry. Capacitors may be integrated into the guard rings. Power supply lines may be connected to the guard rings and the capacitors. The capacitors may stabilize power supply voltages on the power supply lines. The power supply lines may be arranged such that they are parallel to each other. The power supply lines can form one or more parallel plate capacitors that stabilize the power supply voltages on the power supply lines.

Abstract: Process for crystallizing fatty substances for their subsequent fractionation especially by pressure filtering, consisting in particular in melting the fatty substances, dividing the molten mass into beads, feeding these beads into a pre-refrigerated aqueous solution, adjusting the concentration of the fatty substance relative to the aqueous solution, adjusting the feed rate of said beads, adjusting the temperature of the beads/solution mixture, maintaining said mixture temperature until the crystallization of each bead has completely stabilized, subsequently transferring the beads/solution mixture to the filtration location, separating the fatty substance beads under a low pressure from the aqueous solution, and finally extracting from said fatty substance beads, under high pressure, the liquid portion of the fatty substance, and apparatus for applying this process.