Patents Issued in April 8, 2004
-
Publication number: 20040065215Abstract: A mushroom compost compacting assembly includes a feed hopper unit, a mixer unit, a conveyor unit and a compactor unit all of which are separate and distinct from each other. The units are detachably connected to each other so that the units could be assembled at the mushroom house itself adjacent to the mushroom beds. Compost would be fed to the hopper unit and then to the mixer unit which would spread the compost and feed some of the compost to the conveyor unit with the remaining compost being fed to the compactor unit. The compactor unit includes a series of compactor drums for compacting the compost. The compost fed into the conveyor unit would be discharged directly on the netting of a mushroom bed while the compacted compost from the compactor unit would be delivered to the mushroom bed directly on the compost delivered by the conveyor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Remo Toto
-
Publication number: 20040065216Abstract: The invention relates to the field of powder metallurgy, in particular to the design of autoclaves for manufacturing of composite materials by treatment of workpieces of discrete materials, mostly powders, at high pressures and temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Vladimir Isakovich Snop
-
Publication number: 20040065217Abstract: A workpiece carrier positioning structure used in an auto printing and drying machine for controlling positioning of a workpiece carrier fixedly carried on a carriage sliding in a track, for enabling the workpiece carrier to be positively maintained in a printing/drying position, in which the workpiece carrier is transversely slidably mounted on transverse axles at the carriage and supported between compression springs on the transverse axles, and a longitudinal slide is controlled by an air cylinder to move a notched stop block into engagement with a roller at the bottom side of the workpiece carrier to hold the workpiece carrier in the printing/drying position when the carriage approached.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Chin-Wang Lan
-
Publication number: 20040065218Abstract: The invention relates to a guiding device for metal sheet printing machines and metal sheet painting machines, which have at least two printing cylinders and a transfer drum situated therebetween. The guiding device is arranged on said transfer drum and, to be precise, is located close to the imaginary cylindrical outer surface of the transfer drum. The guiding device comprises at least one guiding element with an outwardly turned bearing surface for supporting the rear edge of the metal sheets. The guiding element is pivotally mounted by means of a swivel bearing whose pivotal axis is parallel to the axis of the transfer drum. The guiding element is coupled to a pivot drive by means of which its bearing surface can be adjusted to different pivoting angles (&bgr;) with regard to the tangent to the imaginary cylindrical outer surface of the transfer drum.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: BAUER + KUNZI GESELLSCHAFT FUR DRUCKTECHNIK MBHInventors: Hans Beger, Harald Klotz, Otto Kunzi
-
Publication number: 20040065219Abstract: The invention relates to a golf ball stamping device comprising a housing. The housing accommodates an ink pad (19), a first means (11), with which a golf ball (4) can be mounted in a manner that prevents it from turning, and a stamping means (12), with which at least one character can be stamped onto the golf ball (4). The invention also relates to a method for stamping golf balls.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Peter Wahler
-
Publication number: 20040065220Abstract: An extendable auto printing and drying machine is constructed to include two end tables, and adjustable number of rectangular machine tables alternatively reversely arranged between the end tables, each rectangular machine table having a printer and dryer unit formed of a printing module and a drying module at two sides, a transmission chain loop provided in the rectangular machine tables and the end tables rotatable by an external motor drive, and a plurality of carriages respectively installed in transmission chain loop, the carriage each having a workpiece carrier adapted to carry a respective workpiece for printing and drying by the printing modules and drying modules of the printer and dryer units of the rectangular machine tables when the transmission chain loop rotated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Chin-Wang Lan
-
Publication number: 20040065221Abstract: In the plate supplying apparatus of the present invention, various vibrations are provided to a plate secured via suction during a separating operation by causing pad rods 403 to repeat a slight ascent and a pause, and thereafter causing the pad rods 403 to make an abrupt descent, thereby reliably peeling off a slip sheet adhering to the back face of the plate. Further, vibration in the rod-up/down direction is provided to the plate during the separating operation, and the plate is not pushed hard. Thus, it is possible to prevent the plate from being damaged. A raising and lowering motor 52 is driven to lower the cassette 9. A separating operation for peeling off a slip sheet S adhering to the back face of the plate P is performed, and thereafter the plate P secured via suction is turned over and transferred.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: DAINIPPON SCREEN MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Morihiro Takeda
-
Publication number: 20040065222Abstract: The invention relates to an ignition device (7) for a safety system, particularly an airbag, a belt tightener or similar in vehicles. According to the invention, means of ignition are arranged in a housing and can be activated by input signals which are fed via supply lines (3,4). At least one electronic component (10) is connected to the supply lines (3,4).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Martin Schmid, Manfred Mahr
-
Publication number: 20040065223Abstract: Passenger boats are accelerated along a submerged guide rail structure that is arranged in various closed loop courses, including “Figure-Eight,” hour-glass, serpentine and oval patterns, as well as linear guide track structures that extend in parallel between a launch station and a return station. A dual “Figure-Eight” watercourse includes a simulated jump ramp and an underground tunnel arrangement. The launching and operating speed of each boat relative to the other is controlled so that the boats approach and pass in close proximity to each other and then recede from each other as they travel in opposite directions along adjacent guide track sections, and in passing, project water spray onto each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Errol W. McKoy
-
Publication number: 20040065224Abstract: The invention provides longitudinally extending track support and track members for a mobile storage unit. The track support's upper surface has at least one protrusion which projects above and extends longitudinally along that upper surface. A mating recess extends within and along the track member's under surface. The recess and protrusion are sized and shaped for loose-fit longitudinal engagement of the protrusion within the recess when the track member is laid atop the track support. This permits limited transverse movement of the track member with respect to the track support, reducing susceptibility of the mobile storage unit's wheels to derailment if a transverse force is applied to mobile storage unit as it rolls along the track.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: George Glen Gilbert, Howard Allen Larlee, Neil Higgins
-
Publication number: 20040065225Abstract: The invention relates to a bath for the electrodeposition of gold and gold alloys and to its use for producing dental moldings. In this bath, the gold is in the form of a gold sulfite complex. The bath according to the invention and/or the use according to the invention is distinguished by the fact that in addition to the optional presence of further metals and standard additives for gold sulfite baths of this type, there is at least one bismuth compound. This bismuth compound is preferably a complex compound, in particular with the complex-forming agents NTA, HEDTA, TEPA, DTPA, EDNTA or EDTA.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Susanne Ruebel, Manfred Stuemke
-
Publication number: 20040065226Abstract: The colored liquid composition of the invention for a highlighter comprises a coloring element and water, the water content by weight lies in the range 10% to 30%. In addition, it comprises at least 40% of a liquid component having surface tension greater than 40 mN/m. In a variant, the coloring element is a tracer solvent having a fluorescent appearance under basic pH, in particular hydroxypyrenetrisulfonic acid, the pH of the composition lying in the range 8 to 9, and the component having surface tension greater than 40 mN/m is triethanolamine. Under such circumstances, the composition contains an acid to neutralize the triethanolamine in part in order to obtain the basic pH, for example hydrochloric acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Jose Duez, Carine Bethouart
-
Publication number: 20040065227Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising an ink vehicle, a colorant, and a nonpolymeric organic gelator selected from the group consisting of anthracene-based compounds, steroid compounds, partially fluorinated high molecular weight alkanes, high molecular weight alkanes with exactly one hetero atom, chiral tartrate compounds, chiral butenolide-based compounds, bis-urea compounds, guanines, barbiturates, oxamide compounds, ureidopyrimidone compounds, and mixtures thereof, said organic gelator being present in the ink in an amount of no more than about 20 percent by weight of the ink, said ink having a melting point at or below which the ink is a solid, said ink having a gel point at or above which the ink is a liquid, and said ink exhibiting a gel state between the melting point and the gel point, said ink exhibiting reversible transitions between the solid state and the gel state upon heating and cooling, said ink exhibiting reversible transitions between the gel state and the liquid state uponType: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Marcel P. Breton, Danielle C. Boils-Boissier, Donald R. Titterington, Jule W. Thomas, Jeffrey H. Banning, Christine E. Bedford, James D. Wuest
-
Publication number: 20040065228Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a mixture of bioactive glass and dental glass for producing an agent for a permanent dental filling. The bioactive glass is preferably contained in a binding agent for binding a dental filling to a tooth, in a glass-ionomer cement, in a glass-plastic composite, in a composite-reinforced glass-ionomer cement and/or in an agent for treating the tooth root, the neck of the tooth and/or the tooth crown and preferably contains fluoride ions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Susanne Kessler, Sean Lee
-
Publication number: 20040065229Abstract: The invention relates to plasticizer-containing polyvinylbutyrals that are characterized by containing as the plasticizer at least one dibenzoate of alkylene and polyalkylene glycols. The invention further relates to a method for producing said compounds, and to their use in molding compounds of all types, especially for producing films that can for example be used as an intermediate layer in laminated safety glasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Bernd Papenfuhs, Martin Steuer
-
Publication number: 20040065230Abstract: An ink-jet recording sheet, comprising a support having thereon a porous ink receiving layer, the porous ink receiving layer including inorganic particles, a hydrophilic binder and a polymer, wherein the polymer has a plurality of carbon-carbon unsaturated bonds, provided that the unsaturated bonds are non-aromatic; the polymer has a recurring unit derived from butadiene or isoprene.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Konical CorporationInventors: Eisaku Katoh, Atsushi Tomotake, Toshihiko Iwasaki, Masayuki Ushiku, Junji Ito, Yukako Taka
-
Publication number: 20040065231Abstract: A high chroma, opaque gamma 2,9-dichloroquinacridone pigment specified by its particle shape and size and characterized by C.I.E. color space values in masstone, and a process for its preparation is disclosed. The new gamma 2,9-dichloro-quinacridone pigment is especially useful for coloring coating compositons, such as automotive paints, and plastics.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Fridolin Babler
-
Publication number: 20040065232Abstract: An adhesive composition comprising a polymeric matrix and absorbent particles wherein at least a part of the absorbent particles are microcolloid particles. The microcolloid particles are water absorbent particles preferably having a rounded or of microcolloids to an adhesive handling properties compared to state of the art technology as well as the rheological properties of the adhesive matrix may be less affected than by addition of traditional hydrocolloids.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Mads Lykke
-
Publication number: 20040065233Abstract: The present invention relates to a fiber-reinforced cement based or cementitious material, and process for making, where the reinforcing fiber is a chemically treated cellulose or non-cellulose fiber. The fiber reinforced cementitious material includes (i) cement, (ii) optionally, sand, aggregate, or sand and aggregate, and (iii) chemically treated fibers having a polyvalent cation content of from about 0.1 weight percent to about 5.0 weight percent based on the dry weight of the treated fibers. The present invention further provides for a fiber reinforced cementitious material having a weak acid content of from about 0.5 weight percent to about 10 weight percent based on the dry weight of the treated fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Jeffery Todd Cook, Howard Leon Schoggen, Robert Irvin Bell, David Jay Smith, Gerald Hunt Morton
-
Publication number: 20040065234Abstract: The invention provides a material turn table for supporting objects to be worked on. The material turn table includes a placement plate upon which objects are placeable; a supporting plate; and a support assembly that connects the placement plate to the supporting plate in such a manner that the placement plate is rotateably supported above the supporting plate. The support assembly includes an annular first pipe connected to the placement plate and an annular second pipe connected to the supporting plate. A portion of a length of the first pipe is disposed telescopically relative to the second pipe. An annular bearing assembly connects the small pipe to the large pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: William C. Bullock, Yves Triolet
-
Publication number: 20040065235Abstract: An ergonomic desk comprises a work-surface with a cut-out opening having a ladder-like frame positioned therein. The ladder-like frame extends from below the work-surface, through the cut-out opening, and further extends past the work-surface. Left and right rungs on a first and second ladder structure of the ladder-like frame, respectively, allow for the adjustable mounting of a monitor shelf and rung-based additions. The work-surface comprises an end panel, to which a desk addition may be adjacently positioned. The ladder-like frame may further comprise a footrest and a planar backing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Sergio Schulte de Oliveira
-
Publication number: 20040065236Abstract: A transport container (3) for sheets that is intended for use as a transport container for sheets (1) in transporting the sheets (1) by ship, for instance. The transport container (3) for sheets comprises an upper structure (14) intended to be placed on top of the sheets (1). The transport container (3) comprises at least one movable support (15) that can be moved under the sheets (1), when the upper structure (14) is on top of the sheets (1), in suxh a manneer that the upper structure (14) and the movable support (15) at least partly surround the sheets (1), and the sheets (1) can be moved by moving the transport container (3) for sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Hans Langh
-
Publication number: 20040065237Abstract: A foldable table includes four legs, two first slide carriages, two second slide carriages, two first linkages, two second linkages, two supports and two tabletops. Four fixation holders, the first and the second slide carriages are inserted to the legs while the first and the second linkages are respectively pivoted to where between the fixation holders and the first, and the second slide carriages. The two supports are pivoted to the front and the rear of the legs; and the tabletops are pivoted to the second slide carriages to achieve easy and fast folding of the table when its use is not required.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Tony Tsai
-
Publication number: 20040065238Abstract: An elevational adjusting device using an air pressure rod to lift an object is disclosed. A connector is used to connect the object with the air pressure rod. The adjusting device comprises an operating rod fixed to the object to be adjusted; a rope; and a movable plate pivotally connected to the connector. The pull end and the pressure applied end of the movable plate are not at the same line. It is only necessary to rotate the operating rod, the rope will be pulled to drive the pressure applied end of the movable plate to touch a touch moving end of the movable plate of the air pressure rod, causing the air pressure rod to move telescopically to drive the object to move upwards or downwards so as to adjust the position of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Chao Ken Chen
-
Publication number: 20040065239Abstract: An elevational adjusting device using an air pressure rod to lift an object is disclosed. A connector is used to connect the object with the air pressure rod. The adjusting device comprises an operating rod fixed to the object to be adjusted; a rope; and a movable plate pivotally connected to the connector. The pull end and the pressure applied end of the movable plate are not at the same line. It is only necessary to rotate the operating rod, the rope will be pulled to drive the pressure applied end of the movable plate to touch a touch moving end of the movable plate of the air pressure rod, causing the air pressure rod to move telescopically to drive the object to move upwards or downwards so as to adjust the position of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Chao Ken Chen
-
Publication number: 20040065240Abstract: Plastic mulched raised beds are fumigated using a fumigation system containing two opposing armatures affixed to a mounting arm at about a 15° angle and a blunt-ended knife with a blade attached at about a 90° angle to the knife. The system allows fumigant to be applied to the interior of the raised, plastic mulched beds without disturbing the mulch.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Daniel O. Chellemi, John Mirusso
-
Publication number: 20040065241Abstract: A thread guide device for a sewing machine comprises thread transfer means 10 and threading means. The thread transfer means 10 includes a thread holding portion 30 capable of holding an upper thread, and the upper thread is held in an upper thread holding position by the thread holding portion 30 and is thus transferred to the vicinity of a lower needle eye. The threading means inserts, into the needle eye, the upper thread transferred to the vicinity of the needle eye by the thread transfer means 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Juki CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Kotaki
-
Publication number: 20040065242Abstract: An amphibious catamaran is characterised by the inclusion of two spaced apart hulls (1,2); a framework (3) supporting the hulls; a motor (14) supported by the framework; a drive unit (21) for water propulsion actuated by the motor (14) in use; at least (3) land wheels such as (40-44); two sub-frames (44, 45), each supporting one or more land wheels (40-44); height adjustment means (46; 47) enabling in use one sub-frame, and preferably both sub-frames (44, 45), to be moved with respect to the framework (3) from a position where the land wheels (40-44) stably support the catamaran for travel on land, with the hulls (1, 2) clear of the land, and a position where those of the land wheels (40-44) associated with the moveable sub-frame are raised upwardly above the bottoms of the hulls (1, 2); drive means (not shown but including motor (14)) for land propulsion coacting with one or more of said land wheels (40-44); steering means (not shown) for steering the craft on water and on land; and an input station (59) forType: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: John Alley Hough, Louis Edward Shilton, Barry Stephen Pentecost
-
Publication number: 20040065243Abstract: A sliding keel sailboat of the type comprises a sailing hull, a mast and a sailing arrangement whereon aero-dynamic forces, apt to be transferred to the hull through the mast, push, the mast being integral with a pivoting structure which can swing around a pivoting axis, parallel to a longitudinal central axis of the sailboat, in a respective seat in the sailing hull, the pivoting structure being arranged so that the crew can stand on it so as to balance the forces acting on the mast.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Agostino Ferrari
-
Publication number: 20040065244Abstract: A deflector device for use with a tow line between a seismic survey vessel and a tow, in particular a streamer or streamer array, in the water behind the vessel comprises a vertically oriented wing-shaped body for producing a sideways force as it is towed through the water, and a towing bridle adapted to connect the wing-shaped body to the tow line. The bridle comprises first and second connecting elements connected between the tow line and respective longitudinally-spaced points along the high pressure side of the wing-shaped body. The wing-shaped body includes one or more buoyancy elements to render it slightly positively buoyant, and the length of at least one of the connecting elements is adjustable by remote contol in order to tilt the wing-shaped body. This gives the sideways force a vertical component, and so allows remote control of the depth of the deflector device, as well as its lateral offset from the vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Philippe Hocquet, Ottar Kristiansen
-
Publication number: 20040065245Abstract: A platform structure surrounded by water is disclosed. The platform structure is put together with hollow tubes passing through recesses and internal passages of inflated sacks floating on the water surface and holding in between and underwater a series of slats to comprise a firm and flat underwater platform. The apparatus is specially designed to be disassembled and carried compactly on the trunk of an automobile, with the sacks deflated and the series of slats rolled up. The hollow tubes which join together the sacks and the slats can also be separated from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Antonio M. Arias
-
Publication number: 20040065246Abstract: A Wing In Ground Effect Vehicle has a pair of supercavitating endplates (17) which extend below the fuselage (2) such that they can be immersed in water during flight thereover. The endplates have a nose (28) defining a leading edge (20) and adapted to generate a supercavity. The endplates (17) typically pivot about a pivot axis P to provide a stabilising weathercock-type effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Ken R Allen
-
Publication number: 20040065247Abstract: The present invention relates to an unmanned underwater vehicle for tracking and homing in on submarines. The unmanned underwater vehicle comprises a propulsion unit and at least one attachment device for attaching the vehicle to the hull of a submarine. The at least one attachment device may comprise at least one movable corkscrew and/or at least one movable permanent magnet. The at least one corkscrew may be used when the submarine hull is coated with an elastomeric material. The at least one permanent magnet may be used when the submarine hull is ferrous and uncoated or thinly coated. A method for intercepting and covertly reporting the activities of a submarine using the unmanned underwater vehicle is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Duane M. Horton
-
Publication number: 20040065248Abstract: A control surface system is particularly well suited to provide improved control for undersea vehicles having integrated motor propulsors (IMP). The control surface system is deployable beyond lateral peripheral dimensions of the IMP and undersea vehicle. A plurality of arc-shaped control elements is disposed in a stowed position in an annular intake recess inside of an annular duct on the undersea vehicle. Struts connect each of the control elements to the annular duct. A deployment device rotates each of the control elements and the struts radially outwardly beyond lateral peripheral dimensions of the vehicle to a fully deployed position. A latching mechanism selectively engages and disengages the struts to hold the control elements in the stowed position and the fully deployed position, respectively. Launch tubes sized for the undersea vehicles can launch undersea vehicles provided with control surface system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: Thomas J. Gieseke
-
Publication number: 20040065249Abstract: A vehicle direction indicator system is designed to alert surrounding drivers of the intentions of the vehicle operator. The indicator system has a plurality of end points and each end point is powered by the vehicle's electrical system and includes a housing, a light source holder and a lens attached to the front portion of the housing. The end points may be positioned in various locations such as the grill, spoiler, side markers and the like and may simultaneously emit a color when the vehicle driver actuates the indicator system within the vehicle. The system is preferably mounted onto the front portion of the vehicle and is capable of telling other drivers at a four way intersection that the signaling device is about to continue in a straight direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventor: George L. Williams
-
Publication number: 20040065250Abstract: An epitaxial silicon wafer which comprises a silicon wafer produced by a method characterized as comprising pulling up a silicon single crystal under a condition wherein when an oxygen concentration is 7×1017 atoms/cm3 a nitrogen concentration is about 3×1015 atoms/cm3 or less, and when an oxygen concentration is 1.6×1018 atoms/cm3 a nitrogen concentration is about 3×1014 atoms/cm3 or less, and, an epitaxial film formed on the wafer. The epitaxial film, being formed on such a wafer, has crystal defects, which are observed as LPD of 120 nm or more on the epitaxial film, in a range of 20 pieces/200-mm wafer or less. The epitaxial silicon wafer contains nitrogen atoms doped therein and also has satisfactory characteristics as that for use in a semiconductor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Komatsu Denshi Kinzoku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Komiya, Shiro Yoshino, Masayoshi Danbata, Kouichirou Hayashida
-
Publication number: 20040065251Abstract: With respect to a liquid phase growth method for a silicon crystal in which the silicon crystal is grown on a substrate by immersing the substrate in a solvent or allowing the substrate to contact the solvent, a gas containing a raw material and/or a dopant is supplied to the solvent after at least a part of the gas is decomposed by application of energy thereto. In this manner, a liquid phase growth method for a silicon crystal, the method capable of achieving continuous growth and suitable for mass production, a manufacturing method for a solar cell and a liquid phase growth apparatus for a silicon crystal are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoji Nishida, Takehito Yoshino, Masaaki Iwane, Masaki Mizutani
-
Publication number: 20040065252Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of forming a layer on a solidified portion of a substrate that facilitates fabrication of metrology standards. The method features defining a planarity of the layer, which is formed by creating a flowable region on the solidified portion of the substrate, as a function of the volume of the flowable material in the region. Recognizing that the topology of a substrate upon which the layer is formed is not planar, on the nano-scale, the present invention is directed to fabricating high resolution features on the substrate and transferring the features into a solidified region of the substrate. Specifically, by minimization of the layer thickness while maximizing the planarity of the interface of the layer with the solidified portion of the substrate, it was found that very small features may be precisely and repeatably formed in the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, Michael P.C. Watts
-
Publication number: 20040065253Abstract: Process for producing silicon oxide containing thin films on a growth substrate by the ALCVD method. In the process, a vaporisable silicon compound is bonded to the growth substrate, and the bonded silicon compound is converted to silicon dioxide. The invention comprises using a silicon compound which contains at least one organic ligand and the bonded silicon compound is converted to silicon dioxide by contacting it with a vaporised, reactive oxygen source, in particular with ozone. The present invention provides a controlled process for growing controlling thin films containing SiO2, with sufficiently short reaction times.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Eva Tois, Suvi Haukka, Marko Tuominen
-
Publication number: 20040065254Abstract: A die, having multiple discharge orifices arrayed in a generally straight line for applying an application fluid to an object of application, and an internal application fluid reservoir, wherein braces are provided in the application fluid reservoir and extending in a direction generally orthogonal to the direction of the array of the discharge orifices. Also, an application apparatus and method for application fluid, for relatively moving a base material wherein stripe-shaped vertical barrier ribs are formed on the surface of the base material and horizontal barrier ribs having a height equal to or lower than the vertical barrier ribs are formed in a direction generally orthogonal to the vertical barrier ribs, and a die provided facing the base material, while discharging application fluid from multiple discharge orifices provided on the die, thereby applying application fluid to selected grooves between the vertical barrier ribs of the base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Hideki Ikeuchi, Takashi Yoshiyama, Yoshihisa Higashida, Masanori Ueda, Yasuki Shimizu
-
Publication number: 20040065255Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a cyclical layer deposition system, which includes a processing chamber; at least one load lock chamber connected to the processing chamber; a plurality of gas injectors connected to the processing chamber. The gas injectors are configured to deliver gas streams into the processing chamber. The system further includes at least one shuttle movable between the at least one load lock chamber and the processing chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Michael X. Yang, Joseph Yudovsky, Hyungsuk Yoon, Xiaoxiong Yuan
-
Publication number: 20040065256Abstract: An improved chemical vapor deposition system including a lid having a channel configured for delivering reactive cleaning gas to the interior of the vapor deposition system. The lid including a cleaning gas distribution channel fluidly connected to a plurality of cleaning gas injection ports. The lid geometry is configured to generate desirable concentration gradients of reactive cleaning gas to the interior of a vapor deposition chamber. In some embodiments, the concentration gradient is selected to compensate for the temperature dependence of cleaning reactions. Methods of using the disclose system are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Gi Youl Kim, Marbert G. Moore, Adrian Jansz, David K. Foote, Richard Lee Hendrickson, Ken Doering
-
Publication number: 20040065257Abstract: A new and improved, self-aligning mark shield for PVD chambers. The mark shield of the present invention comprises an annular body having a retainer flange for engaging and retaining a substrate on a substrate support of a process chamber. An annular locating pin is provided on the bottom surface of the body for engaging the substrate support and preventing excessive X- and Y-axis movement of the substrate on the substrate support. The mark shield obviates the need for a standard ceramic isolation assembly to maintain the mark shield in position in the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jen-Hung Huang, Wu-Xing Lin, Jiunn-Kae Chiang
-
Publication number: 20040065258Abstract: An atomic layer deposition method includes positioning a plurality of semiconductor wafers into an atomic layer deposition chamber. Deposition precursor is emitted from individual gas inlets associated with individual of the wafers received within the chamber effective to form a respective monolayer onto said individual wafers received within the chamber. After forming the monolayer, purge gas is emitted from individual gas inlets associated with individual of the wafers received within the chamber. An atomic layer deposition tool includes a subatmospheric load chamber, a subatmospheric transfer chamber and a plurality of atomic layer deposition chambers. Other aspects and implementations are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Gurtej S. Sandhu, Trung Tri Doan
-
Publication number: 20040065259Abstract: A susceptor device comprises a susceptor base body, a temperature controlling section, an adhesive layer which attaches the susceptor base body and the temperature controlling section unitarily, an O-ring which is disposed near a peripheral section of the adhesive layer, a circular O-ring which is disposed on a bottom surface of the temperature controlling section, an O-ring supporting section which surrounds the temperature controlling section and compresses the O-rings on the temperature controlling section, and pushup screws which push up and fix the O-ring supporting section toward the temperature controlling section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Inazumachi, Mamoru Kosakai
-
Publication number: 20040065260Abstract: A heating element CVD system wherein one or a plurality of connection terminal holders is placed in the processing container, and each of the connection terminal holders holds a plurality of connection terminals. Each of the connection terminals connects the heating element to the electric power supply mechanism electrically such that a connection region of the heating element connected to the connection terminal is not exposed to a space in the processing container.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicants: ANELVA Corporation, JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Keiji Ishibashi, Masahiko Tanaka, Minoru Karasawa, Hideki Sunayama, Kazutaka Yamada, Hideki Matsumura, Atsushi Masuda
-
Publication number: 20040065261Abstract: A truncated dummy plate which is suitable for promoting substantially uniform flow of process gases among all regions on the surface of a substrate to facilitate deposition of a film having uniform thickness on the substrate. The truncated dummy plate has a circular shape with a flat edge provided in the curved edge of the dummy plate. At least two, and preferably, about three or four of the dummy plates are positioned in the sites on a wafer boat which are in relatively close proximity to a gas outlet in a process furnace typically during a LPCVD process carried out in the furnace. The flat or truncated edges of the dummy plates are disposed on the gas inlet side of the process chamber, with the round edges of the dummy plates disposed on the gas outlet side of the process chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yen-Hsing Chen, Hsing-Jui Lee, Fu-Kuo Tseng, Ching-Ling Lee, Kuo-Hung Liao
-
Publication number: 20040065262Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for coating one or more workpieces such as components to be used in jet engines or industrial turbines. The apparatus comprises a device for simultaneously manipulating a workpiece about multiple axes while holding a center of the workpiece at a fixed position with respect to a source of coating material. The device for manipulating the workpiece preferably comprises a modular fixture while allows the workpiece to be simultaneously rotated about a first axis, rotated about a second axis at an angle to the first axis, and titled through a range of motion such as from +45 degrees to −45 degrees with respect to the first axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Steven M. Burns, Richard W. Varsell
-
Publication number: 20040065263Abstract: Systems and methods for rapidly identifying live eggs within a stream of eggs with high accuracy, are provided. A stream of eggs are candled via a candling apparatus and each candled egg is designated as being either live, non-live, or “uncertain”. Eggs designated as non-live and uncertain are removed from the stream. Each egg designated as uncertain is “recandled” at a separate station via an additional candling procedure in order to definitively determine if the “uncertain” egg is live or non-live. Uncertain eggs identified as being live via recandling are returned to the egg stream such that the stream contains only live eggs. The uncertain eggs determined to be non-live via recandling are removed and are either discarded or used for other purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: John H. Hebrank, Thomas Bryan
-
Publication number: 20040065264Abstract: A method and apparatus for the automated milking of dairy cattle employing live capture of the teats of a dairy cow without requiring identification of a particular dairy cow or the prior knowledge of the location of the individual teats. The live capture milking apparatus locates the individual teats of a dairy cow and attaches a teatcup to the teat without the need for human intervention. After the milking operation is completed, the live capture milking apparatus returns to a home position where cleaning and sanitization the milking equipment occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Innovative Automation, Inc.Inventors: James A. Ealy, Benjamin L. Carpenter, Troy E. Chambers