Patents Issued in July 17, 2008
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Publication number: 20080169389Abstract: A collapsible stand with at legs connected to a pivot junction via extension supports which may be retracted or expanded in relation to the pivot junction to create a variety of variety of radii to accommodate different objects such as water coolers, the object either resting on the extension supports or on accessories such as a shelf which may be selectively coupled to the stand.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: J. Lyle Hill
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Publication number: 20080169390Abstract: A mounting bracket for securing a doorway jumper apparatus having clamp contacts is provided. The mounting bracket includes a flange and a housing having a receptacle area. The housing is located at a center portion of the flange. The flange includes holes through which fasteners are insertable to affix the housing to a beam or to a wall above a doorway.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: David R. Hinkle, Leane Vandeman
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Publication number: 20080169391Abstract: A fixing module capable of fastening a board having an engaging portion includes a bracket, an extending component, and a fixing component. The bracket has a protrusion. The extending component is used for supporting the board in a first direction. The fixing component for holding the board with the extending component includes a baseboard, an elastic hook, and a sheath. The elastic hook includes an inclined structure, a first stopper, and a second stopper. The inclined structure is connected to the baseboard. The first stopper is connected to the inclined structure for holding the board with the extension component in the first direction. The second stopper is connected to the first stopper for constraining the board in a second direction. The sheath is connected to the baseboard for holding the protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Shih-An Lin
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Publication number: 20080169392Abstract: A mounting bracket for mounting a utility meter transponder on a lip of a meter box has a base element adapted to abut the meter box, and a mounting flange extending outwardly from the base element to engage the lip of the meter box. A fastener is adapted to fasten the base element to the meter box; and a transponder mounting element extending downwardly from the base element opposite the mounting flange. The transponder mounting element is adapted to mount the utility meter transponder.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Randy K. McClure, Elaine Carvalho
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Publication number: 20080169393Abstract: An electronic device holder includes: a base; a pivot seat extending uprightly from the base; first and second pivot joints; a connector having front and rear end portions, the rear end portion of the connector being pivoted to the pivot seat through the first pivot joint so as to permit rotation of the connector relative to the pivot seat about a first axis; and a device holding seat having front and rear sides. The rear side of the device holding seat is pivoted to the front end portion of the connector through the second pivot joint so as to permit rotation of the device holding seat relative to the connector about a second axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Chen-Hsing Wang, Chia-Lin Lee
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Publication number: 20080169394Abstract: The invention includes a mount with a knob including a shaft extending therefrom. A two piece socket housing defines a socket therebetween. The two piece socket has a portion formed as a first clamp element. A ball member is disposed in the socket and includes a slot and an attachment structure. A second clamp element has a connector, preferably an internally threaded nut captured therein. The shaft passes through a first portion of the two piece socket, the slot of the ball member, a second portion the two piece socket and terminates in the second clamp element, such that when the knob is manipulated, the two piece socket fixes the ball member in position and a clamping force is generated between the first clamp element and the second clamp element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: G. Daniel Pedemonte
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Publication number: 20080169395Abstract: A hook assembly includes a mounting member having an opening defining a vertical axis. A hook member is removeably secured to the mounting member through the opening. In one embodiment, the mounting member includes a retainer slideably coupled to a mounting rail, with the retainer slideable along the mounting rail in the longitudinal direction to a plurality of positions. A method of assembling a hook assembly includes mounting a mounting member to a surface defining a plane and successively threading a hook portion and a shaft portion of a J-shaped hook member through an opening in the mounting member without breaking the plane with the hook member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Charles E. Bullock
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Publication number: 20080169396Abstract: A tool hanger and method for using the same. A tool hanger engages the battery pack of a battery-powered tool and is removably secured to the battery pack or extension. A hanger member portion of the tool hanger is adapted to hang the tool from a desired place.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2005Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Darrel Heen
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Publication number: 20080169397Abstract: A beverage cup holder. The beverage cup holder has a housing with a top and bottom, and includes first and second opposing arms for gripping the sidewalls of a cup or beverage container. The first and second opposing arms each comprise a plurality of telescoping chain-links. A retractable bottom support arm extends from the bottom of the housing for supporting the base of a beverage container. A retractable cup holder support arm extends from the top of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Eddie Somuah
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Publication number: 20080169398Abstract: Provided herein is an item holder assembly that includes an attachment mechanism for attaching the assembly to an object such as a laptop computer, an item holder such as a beverage holder, and al flexible extension member connecting the attachment mechanism to the item holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Rod S. Berman
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Publication number: 20080169399Abstract: Provided herein is an item holder assembly that includes an attachment mechanism for attaching the assembly to an object such as a laptop computer, an item holder such as a beverage holder, and a flexible extension member connecting the attachment mechanism to the item holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Rod S. Berman
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Publication number: 20080169400Abstract: Provided herein is an item holder assembly that includes an attachment mechanism for attaching the assembly to an object such as a laptop computer, an item support or holder, and a member for connecting the attachment mechanism to the item holder or support.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Rod S. Berman
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Publication number: 20080169401Abstract: A portable holder for a monitor is taught, whereby a flat-panel monitor can be suspended in a portable holder from a ceiling or from a vertical object. The holder comprises a body, a mechanism for holding a monitor and the body together, a stem with a ball-type terminus, an optional attachment, and a mechanism for suspending the monitor holder from a ceiling, using the stem, or a vertical object, using the optional attachment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Geoffrey Alan Fryer
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Publication number: 20080169402Abstract: An overhead mounted view screen assembly is provided including a headliner mount assembly. A view screen component in include having a view screen surface, a lower screen edge, and a pair of screen side edges. A pair of extension mount arms include a left extension mount arm having a lower left arm portion mounted to the view screen component and an upper left arm portion rotatably engaged to the headliner mount assembly. A right extension mount arm includes a lower right arm portion mounted to the view screen component and an upper right arm portion rotatably engaged to the headliner mount assembly. The view screen component is movable between a storage position and an active position. A see-through zone is formed between the left extension mount arm and the right extension mount arm when in the active position to allow rear-view view window pass through.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventor: Alan Sturt
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Publication number: 20080169403Abstract: A projection system comprising: a screen and a projector spaced from the screen to project an image onto the screen, the screen and projector being suspended respectively from housings located in or on the ceiling or a wall of the room; each housing supporting an axially extending rod that supports a plurality of flexible suspension lines that are connected to an upper surface of the screen or a mount for a projector; and means to rotate each rod whereby the screen and projector can be lowered into an operative position or the lines can be wound onto the rods to lift the screen or projector into a stored position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2006Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: CINEWARE PTY LTDInventor: Glen Rooney
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Publication number: 20080169404Abstract: An outboard motor and steering system motion stabilizer that positively locks the outboard motor and steering system in the proper position for trailering. This design effectively isolates the road-to-trailer-to-motor shock transfer that is delivered to the lower unit of the outboard by traditional transom savers that brace the outboard to the trailer. This invention is universally designed to be easy for the user to setup to fit most outboard brands and sizes with hydraulic tilt and trim systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: James Dale Smith
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Publication number: 20080169405Abstract: A telescopic tube having an outer tube, an adjustable tube, a housing and a locking clamp. The outer tube has a top end. The adjustable tube is mounted slidably in the top end of the outer tube and has multiple locking notches. The housing is attached to the top end of the outer tube, is mounted slidably around the adjustable tube and has a central top hole, a front opening and an inner surface. The locking clamp is mounted movably in the housing and has an elongated through hole, a rear inner surface, a spring and a locking rod. The spring is mounted between the housing and the locking clamp. The locking rod is formed on and protrudes in from the rear inner surface of the elongated through hole and selectively engages a locking notch in the adjustable tube to hold the adjustable tube in place.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: I-Tsen Chen
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Publication number: 20080169406Abstract: A pole assembly comprises a pole configured to have a fixture coupled to one end thereof, the pole coupleable to an anchor to support the pole, and a cover having a shape geometrically complementary to a shape of the anchor to at least partially conceal at least a portion of the anchor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Matthew John Weiss, Michael Eugene Olsen
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Publication number: 20080169407Abstract: A quiver support has a housing with a U-shaped member. At the base of the U-shaped member is a threaded member or other mounting device, preferably on a rear portion of the quiver support. A quiver holder extends from the U-shaped member and receives the quiver in two co-axial slotted arms.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: JAMES E. BROBERG
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Publication number: 20080169408Abstract: Provided herein is an item holder assembly that includes an attachment mechanism for attaching the assembly to an object such as a laptop computer, an item support or holder, and a member for connecting the attachment mechanism to the item holder or support.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Rod S. Berman, Rhiannon AARONS
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Publication number: 20080169409Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing bracket for preventing release of gear shafts in a transmission that is provided between the gears fitted around the middle portions of a driving shaft and a driven shaft in the transmission in such a manner as to be insertedly fitted around the driving shaft and the driven shaft, wherein the upper and lower portions of the fixing bracket are connected by means of a connection part, upper and lower through-holes formed in the fixing bracket are adapted to insert the driving shaft and the driven shaft thereinto, and bearings are formed along the inner peripheries of the upper and lower through-holes, thereby greatly reducing the interference occurring during a high-speed rotation of the driving shaft and the driven shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Heon Kyu Kim
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Publication number: 20080169410Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for lifting and supporting a vehicle is described. The system includes at least one vehicle hoist fitting configured to distribute the weight of the vehicle along a skin of the vehicle, at least one removable bearing cup assembly configured to attach to said vehicle hoist fitting, and at least one trunnion assembly configured for attachment to a support structure and further configured to engage said removable bearing cup assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Roy P. Murata, Raymond D. Fierro, John J. Brown
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Publication number: 20080169411Abstract: A dispenser for small items has a side wall integral with a bottom panel. A top cover joins the side wall and is rotated between a closed position in contact with the side wall and an open position providing access to the interior. A pair of elongate arms are hinged to the side wall and are rotatable over a range of angles. The arms are configured with a cam segment having a sequence of spurs selectively engagable with the side wall so as to set the arms at a desired angle relative to hold the dispenser in a tilted position to better expose the interior. The arms are hooked so as to grip a roll rod for hanging the dispenser below it.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Forrest G. Quinn, Jeff Harlan
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Publication number: 20080169412Abstract: To manufacture a casting core, one or more recesses are formed in at least one face of metallic sheetstock. After the forming, a piece is cut from the metallic sheetstock. The piece is deformed to a non-flat configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Jacob A. Snyder, James T. Beals
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Publication number: 20080169413Abstract: A directional alignment and alignment monitoring sensor system that is designed to be mounted to a directional or omni-directional antenna wherein the system includes a sensor having one or more phototransistors that are associated with one or more baffle members and wherein each baffle member defines a restrictive light passageway toward a phototransistor such the by measuring the time that a phototransistor is illuminated, a correct orientation of the antenna may be accurately determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Robert Wayne Austin, Gregory A. Mercier, Bruce Weddendorf
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Publication number: 20080169414Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide a method and apparatus for measuring the gain of output transistors of pixels in an imager device. Source/drain terminals of the output transistor and a reset transistor are driven with various input voltages to generate pixel output voltages. The slope of a line representing the relationship between the output voltages and the input voltages is determined. A component of the slope corresponding to gain not caused by the output transistor is removed from the slope to determine the gain of the output transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Xiangli Li
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Publication number: 20080169415Abstract: A support mechanism for protecting an object is described. The support system includes at least one support or friction ring for providing dynamic protection to the object. One embodiment includes a support ring having corrugated bumps. Another embodiment includes multiple support rings axially separated by spacers. In another embodiment a support mechanism is provided having at least one friction ring in combination with O-rings. A compound optical coupler is also described, which has a self-wetting clear optical coupling gel and an elastomeric load ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Dwight Medley, Larry D. Frederick, Dean Estill
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Publication number: 20080169416Abstract: Apparatus for analysing molecules, including an ablation device 1,10 for releasing molecules from a sample, and a laser device 1,2,3 for illuminating released molecules with a shaped laser pulse thereby to ionize and/or dissociate the molecules. The ablation device or laser device has at least one component which is not shared by the other device. This enables the steps of ablation and ionization/dissociation to be separated. The ablation device may be means for generating an ion or neutral beam, or an unshaped laser pulse. The laser device may be a femtosecond shaped pulse laser. The ablation device may illuminate the sample with a beam and the laser device preferably produces a pulse shaped laser beam which is spaced part from the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: PULSED INSTRUMENTS, INC.Inventors: Stephen Paul Thompson, Victor Parr, Herschel Rabitz
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Publication number: 20080169417Abstract: Ion mobility spectrometer. The spectrometer includes an enclosed region having a gas with a selected chemical species contained therein. An energy source ionizes the gas and the chemical species. Spaced apart electrodes generate high frequency and DC electric fields across the enclosed region and circuitry is provided for generating voltage waveforms on the electrodes. The voltage waveforms include a symmetric RF field to minimize ion loss and to prevent clustering of the ions with water molecules during an ion buildup phase. A DC and asymmetric, non-uniform RF field is provided to separate and focus the ions in the region during an ion separation phase. Finally, a changing DC or RF field causes the ionized chemical species to move to the electrodes and read-out circuitry responds to current in the electrodes to indicate the presence and/or amount of the chemical species.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Daniel R. Cohn, Leslie Bromberg
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Publication number: 20080169418Abstract: A detector includes a reflector and a scintillator in optical communication with the reflector, wherein both the reflector and the scintillator are fabricated from the same material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Haochuan Jiang, David Michael Hoffman
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Publication number: 20080169419Abstract: A system for reading data is described. The system includes a detector that includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The second semiconductor device is configured to remove a need to scrub the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Scott William Petrick, Alan Dean Blomeyer
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Publication number: 20080169420Abstract: A radiation image detecting device is provided with a flat panel detector constituted with a plurality of elements arranged in a plane configuration so as to detect radiation having transmitted through a radiographic subject; a signal processing section to process signals outputted from the flat panel detector; a radiation shielding section to shield the signal processing section from radiation having transmitted through the flat panel detector; a power source section to supply electric power to the flat panel detector and the signal processing section; and a non-contact power receiving section to receive electric power supplied with a non-contact way in a form of a magnetic flux and to supply the electric power to the power source section. The non-contact power receiving section is arranged on a location where the magnetic flux is not blocked by the radiation shielding section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Yoshihiko EGUCHI
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Publication number: 20080169421Abstract: An imaging system is based on in-line x-ray optics arranged in combination with an X-ray detector to detect radiation from radio-labeled substances within an object to be imaged. This arrangement will provide a nuclear imaging device with potentially orders of magnitude higher resolution and efficiency and it will moreover be relatively easy to align and to produce and assemble in large quantities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Mats Danielsson
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Publication number: 20080169422Abstract: Some embodiments include methods, devices and systems of radiation detection by asynchronous demultiplexing. In some embodiments, an apparatus to read a plurality of electrical signals received from an electrode may include two or more electrical signal readers, wherein each of the signal readers is individually switchable between a coupled state in which an input of the signal reader is coupled to the electrode, and a decoupled state in which the input is decoupled from the electrode; and a controller to detect the plurality of electrical signals, to selectively switch the two or more signal readers to the coupled state to receive at least one sequence of two or more of the detected electrical signals, respectively, and to selectively activate the two or more signal readers to process the two or more detected electrical signals, respectively. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Arie Shahar, David Braginsky, Daniel Shalom, Uri El-Hanany, Zeev Gutman
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Publication number: 20080169423Abstract: The Missile Approach Warning Sensor Test apparatus, MAWST, serves to test the operability of a missile-approach warning system, MAWS, operating in the solar-blind UV-C range and/or in the IR range. The system, which finds application in military and civilian aircraft, vehicles, and ships, reacts to the radiation emission of an approaching guided missile and triggers protective measures. The test apparatus stimulates the MAWS by means of a simulated radiation emission. The test apparatus contains the following components: a UVC-LED which emits UV light in the range of 240 to 290 nm and a controller which activates at least the UVC-LED so that it simulates an emission profile of a guided missile.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Christoph Betschart, Benjamin Wepfer
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Publication number: 20080169424Abstract: A nuclear radiation detector is disclosed wherein the capacitance of the detector is significantly reduced. This improvement results in more efficient and accurate measurements of radiative entities. The design also permits greater packing density in applications requiring large arrays of radiation detectors, such as would be needed in the monitoring systems of nuclear power plants. Moreover, the disclosed design reduces costs associated with detector arrays by enabling neighboring elements to share critical components.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2005Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Albert G. Beyerle
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Publication number: 20080169425Abstract: A waveform detector may include multiple stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2005Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Edward K.Y. Jung, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood
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Publication number: 20080169426Abstract: A technique for reducing magnetic fields at an implant location is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as an apparatus and method for reducing magnetic fields at an implant location. The apparatus and method may comprise a corrector-bar assembly comprising a set of magnetic core members, a plurality of coils distributed along the set of magnetic core members, and connecting elements to connect ends of the set of magnetic core members with each other to form a rectangular corrector-bar configuration. The corrector-bar assembly may be positioned at an exit region of a magnetic deflector to improve uniformity of a ribbon beam having a plurality of beamlets exiting from the magnetic deflector and the rectangular corrector-bar configuration may provide a desired magnetic field clamping action.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth H. Purser, James S. Buff, Victor Benveniste
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Publication number: 20080169427Abstract: Techniques for providing ion source feed materials are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a container for supplying an ion source feed material. The container may comprise an internal cavity to be pre-filled with an ion source feed material. The container may also comprise an outer body configured to be removably loaded into a corresponding housing that is coupled to an ion source chamber via a nozzle assembly. The container may further comprise an outlet to seal in the pre-filled ion source feed material, the outlet being further configured to engage with the nozzle assembly to establish a flow path between the internal cavity and the ion source chamber. The container may be configured to be a disposable component.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.Inventors: Christopher R. HATEM, Craig R. Chaney, Eric R. Cobb, Joseph C. Olson, Chris Campbell
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Publication number: 20080169428Abstract: The device comprises a chamber in which a UV radiation source and an enclosure are arranged, the enclosure comprising a bottom wall for mounting a specimen, a UV radiation filter facing the bottom wall and a plurality of sidewalls interconnecting the bottom wall and the UV radiation filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: ATLAS MATERIAL TESTING TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventor: Artur Schoenlein
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Publication number: 20080169429Abstract: An electronic emission device emitting plural beams of electrons and including a first structure of a plurality of electron beam emission micro-sources, and a second structure opposite the first structure for collecting electrons emitted by the first structure and for carrying out a secondary emission following the collection. The device can be applied in particular to the field of direct writing lithography.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2006Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie AtomiqueInventors: Pierre Nicolas, Yohan Desieres
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Publication number: 20080169430Abstract: After a sensor section has been dipped in a liquid sample, the sensor section is moved into a predetermined atmosphere, which is substantially free from occurrence of absorption or scattering of exciting light and fluorescence. In the state, in which the sensor section has been located in the predetermined atmosphere, exciting light is produced by a light source and is propagated through the interior of the sensor section. The exciting light is radiated out from an outside surface of the sensor section in order to excite a fluorescent substance for indicating the presence of a substance to be analyzed in the liquid sample. Fluorescence, which is produced by the fluorescent substance when the fluorescent substance is excited by the exciting light, is detected by a photodetector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihito KIMURA, Kiyoshi FUJIMOTO
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Publication number: 20080169431Abstract: This invention relates to systems and test strips for detecting the photosynthesis-inhibitory activity of substances by providing cells or cell parts with an intact photosystem, introducing the cells or cell parts into a planar layer, applying the test substance to the planar layer or into the planar layer, excitation of the luminescence of the cells or cell parts in the planar layer by an excitation light source, measuring the luminescence of the cells or the cell parts in the planar layer by means of a detector, and associating the detector signal with the degree of photosynthesis inhibition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: BAYER INNOVATION GMBHInventors: Wolfgang Kreiss, Mark Wilhelm Drewes, Gunther Eberz, Norbert Caspers
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Publication number: 20080169432Abstract: In a method of annealing a storage phosphor screen comprising a photostimulable phosphor by adding energy in form of heat and/or radiation, said method is applied during a time and in relative humidity conditions such that said phosphor shows peaks in an electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrum measured at a frequency of 34 GHz, at flux densities of magnetic fields of 880 mT, 1380 mT and 1420 mT, wherein said peaks exceed normalized signal intensity percentages of at least 45% and even of at least 55%, wherein a central peak height in the said EPR-spectrum, measured at a magnetic flux density of 1220 mT, is calculated to have a normalized value of 100%.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Jean-Pierre Tahon, Frank Loncke, Henk Vrielinck, Freddy Callens
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Publication number: 20080169433Abstract: Provided is an electron beam exposure apparatus for forming a desired pattern on a sample mounted on a wafer stage by exposure with an electron beam generated form an electron gun. The electron beam exposure apparatus includes: supplying device of injecting a reducing gas into a column in which the electron gun and the wafer stage are housed; and control unit of performing control so that the injection of the reducing gas into the column is continued for a predetermined period of time. Organic contamination is combined with H generated from the reducing gas by irradiation of an electron beam, and then evaporates. Further included is supplying device of injecting an ozone gas into the column. The control unit may perform control so that the injection of the ozone gas into the column in addition to the injection of the reducing gas is continued for a predetermined period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Yoshihisa Ooae
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Publication number: 20080169434Abstract: This invention relates to a method of scanning a substrate through an ion beam in an ion implanter to provide uniform dosing of the substrate. The method comprises causing relative motion between the substrate and the ion beam such that the ion beam passes over all of the substrate and rotating the substrate substantially about its centre while causing the relative motion. Rotating the substrate while causing the relative motion between the substrate and the ion beam has several advantages including avoiding problematic angular effects, increasing uniformity, increasing throughput and allowing a greater range of ion beam profiles to be tolerated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Geoffrey Ryding, Takao Sakase, Marvin Farley, Theodore H. Smick
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Publication number: 20080169435Abstract: This invention relates to an ion beam monitoring arrangement for use in an ion implanter where it is desirable to monitor the floating potential across an ion beam used for implantation. The invention provides a ion beam monitoring arrangement comprising a device configured to measure the floating potential of an ion beam when incident thereon, wherein the device is coupled to a substrate support so as to face outwardly in a position so as not to be obscured by a substrate of the contemplated size when held by the substrate holder. Thus, measurements of the floating potential may be taken with a substrate held in place. The ion beam monitoring arrangement may be used to move the device into the ion beam in much the same way as it used to scan a substrate through the ion beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Takao Sakase, Marvin Farley, Steven C. Hays
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Publication number: 20080169436Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include an electron beam lithography device using a dynamically controllable photocathode capable of producing a patterned electron beam. One such implementation includes a dynamic pattern generator configurable to produce an electron beam having a desired image pattern impressed thereon. Such an electron beam pattern being enabled by selectively activating programmable photoemissive elements of the pattern generator. The apparatus further including an illumination source arranged to direct a light beam onto the dynamic pattern generator to produce the electron beam having the desired pattern. The electron beam being directed through associated electron optics configured to receive the electron beam from the dynamic pattern generator and direct the electron beam onto a target substrate mounted on a stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventor: Allen M. Carroll
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Publication number: 20080169437Abstract: A shielding can (100) includes a shielding case (10) configured to reducing electromagnetic interference, and a cushion (20) integrally mounted to the shielding case by insert molding. The cushion is configured to absorb shock force. A method for making the shielding can includes the following steps: providing a mold; placing a shielding case in the mold; injecting shock absorbing material into the mold to form a cushion on the shielding case; cooling the molded shielding can; and removing the shielding can from the mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.Inventor: Chia-Hsin Chang
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Publication number: 20080169438Abstract: An identification device operable to identify a type of a recording medium includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the recording medium with light, a reading unit configured to read the light that is irradiated from the irradiation unit and that is reflected from the recording medium to obtain an image, a processing unit configured to process the image obtained by the reading unit to output a plurality of pixel data items each having a light intensity value, a calculation unit configured to calculate a value representing amounts of change by which the light intensity values of the plurality of pixel data items continuously increase and decrease, and an identification unit configured to identify the type of the recording medium on the basis of the value representing the amounts of change calculated by the calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takuma Murata
