Patents by Inventor Cole Franklin

Cole Franklin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230141213
    Abstract: A dual sided display includes a display projector. The display projector includes a lamp and a display projector image. The display projector image has pixels and the pixels produce light as light rays. The display includes a display panel that has an upper edge, a lower edge, a left edge and a right edge. The display panel is formed of a substrate that is translucent or transparent. A display panel first viewing surface is formed on the first side of the display panel. A display panel second viewing surface is formed on the second side of the display panel. The wherein the display panel first viewing surface is parallel to and opposing the display panel second viewing surface. The display panel has a thickness. A displayed image is displayed on the display panel first viewing surface and the display panel second viewing surface simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Cole Franklin
  • Publication number: 20230143587
    Abstract: A desalination and lithium collection system has a primary brine chamber receiving brine from a brine inlet. A charged metal has anodes and cathodes, submerged in the brine in the primary brine chamber. Electrical power applied is to the charged metal as alternating current having a frequency of less than 2kHz for conducting a primary electrolysis. A water vapor collection chamber fluidly connected to the primary brine chamber and configured to collect water vapor generated from the charged metal. A condenser chamber is fluidly connected to the water vapor collection chamber and configured to condense water vapor. A freshwater chamber is fluidly connected to the condenser and configured to collect freshwater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Cole Franklin
  • Patent number: 7946299
    Abstract: A spray cleaning device having an atomizing unit with at least one gas passage and at least one cleaning fluid passage converging into a atomizing area. The gas flowing though the gas passage and the cleaning fluid flowing through the cleaning fluid passages combine to form a mixture at the atomizing area. The accelerating unit has an acceleration passage for spraying the mixture onto a substrate surface. The gas passages are preferably angled with respect to the cleaning acceleration passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Inventors: Cole Franklin, Mark Rouillard, Yan Fan
  • Publication number: 20080230092
    Abstract: A single-substrate cleaning apparatus and method of use are described. In an embodiment of the present invention, a liquid cleaning solution is dispensed in small volumes to form a substantially uniform static liquid layer over a substrate surface by atomizing the viscous liquid with an inert gas in a two-phase nozzle. In another embodiment of the present invention, after a layer of the cleaning solution is formed over the substrate to be cleaned, acoustic energy is applied to the substrate to improve the cleaning efficiency. In a further embodiment, cleaning solution precipitates are avoided by dispensing de-ionized water with a spray nozzle to gradually dilute the cleaning solution prior to dispensing de-ionized water with a stream nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Jianshe Tang, Brian J. Brown, Richard R. Endo, Steven Verhaverbeke, Cole Franklin, Dennis J. Yost, Runzi Chang
  • Publication number: 20080087304
    Abstract: A system and method of processing a substrate. The method and system applies a liquid to a surface of the substrate so as to form a film of the liquid on the surface of the substrate, wherein a boundary layer exists at the interface of the surface and the film of the liquid. The cleaning system then applies a force that penetrates the boundary layer so as to create a localized area on the surface of the substrate that is substantially free of the liquid. The application of the force in combination with the liquid removes particles from the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Cole Franklin, Mark Roullard, Yan Fan
  • Publication number: 20080017219
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for processing a substrate utilizing sonic energy. In one aspect, the invention utilizes a transmitter having through holes to dampen sonic energy that may damage the substrate. In other aspects, the through holes of the transmitter can be adapted to introduce a liquid solution having bubbles of a controlled size into the meniscus that couples the transmitter to the surface of a substrate to be cleaned to further dampen the sonic energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventor: Cole Franklin
  • Publication number: 20070261716
    Abstract: A spray cleaning device having an atomizing unit with at least one gas passage and at least one cleaning fluid passage converging into a atomizing area. The gas flowing though the gas passage and the cleaning fluid flowing through the cleaning fluid passages combine to form a mixture at the atomizing area. The accelerating unit has an acceleration passage for spraying the mixture onto a substrate surface. The gas passages are preferably angled with respect to the cleaning acceleration passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: Cole Franklin, Mark Rouillard, Yan Fan
  • Publication number: 20070084481
    Abstract: A system and method of cleaning a substrate utilizing sonic energy and a film of subambient gasified process solution that assists in reducing damage to the substrate. In one aspect, the invention is a method comprising: a) supporting a substrate in a substantially horizontal orientation; b) applying a solution comprising a liquid and a dissolved gas to a surface of the substrate so as to form a film of the solution on the surface of the substrate, the solution being at a subambient temperature; c) coupling a transmitter to the film of the solution, the transmitter acoustically coupled to a transducer for generating sonic energy; and d) applying sonic energy through the film of the solution and to the surface of the substrate via the transmitter. The method is especially useful in minimizing damage when cleaning substrates with a surface comprising a topography having technology nodes with a width less than 100 nanometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventor: Cole Franklin
  • Publication number: 20060260641
    Abstract: An acoustic energy cleaning system and method which fosters micro-bubble formation for effective cleaning while buffering micro-bubble growth which would otherwise damage the wafer. In one embodiment, the invention includes combining a first frequency signal and a second frequency signal having a positive amplitude bias component so as to form a combined signal. The combined signal, which has a positive amplitude offset, is applied to a transducer system that converts the combined signal into acoustic waves. The acoustic waves can be applied to the object to be cleaned in a cleaning fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Yi Wu, Cole Franklin, Brian Fraser, Thomas Nicolosi
  • Publication number: 20050161059
    Abstract: A method and system for the megasonic cleaning of one or more substrates that reduces damage to the substrate(s) resulting from the megasonic energy. The substrates are supported in a process chamber and contacted with a cleaning solution comprising a cleaning liquid having carbon dioxide gas dissolved in the cleaning liquid in such amounts that the carbon dioxide gas is at a supersaturated concentration for the conditions within the process chamber. Megasonic energy is then transmitted to the substrate. The cleaning solution provides protection from damage resulting from the application of megasonic/acoustical energy. In another aspect, the invention is a system for carrying out the method. The invention is not limited to carbon dioxide but can be used in conjunction with any gas that, when so dissolved in a cleaning liquid, protects substrates from being damaged by the application of megasonic/acoustical energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Cole Franklin, Yi Wu, Brian Fraser