Patents Issued in December 1, 2009
  • Patent number: 7625472
    Abstract: A plasma-assisted sputter deposition system includes a reactor 1 into which a process gas is introduced; a doughnut-shaped electrode to be sputtered by plasma, in which a lower surface thereof is angled to a surface of a wafer; a spinning plate that spin on its central axis while moving over a circle above the doughnut-shaped electrode, in which the spinning plate contains magnet arrangement; an electrical power sources connected to the doughnut-shaped electrode, and a wafer holder for placing a wafer for film deposition, which is at rest during the film deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventor: Sunil Wickramanayaka
  • Patent number: 7625473
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a test strip with an identification function and a test instrument using the same. The test strip of the present invention comprises a substrate, a test area on the substrate and an identification area also on the substrate. The identification area has at least two identification electrodes, at least one resistor element connected in parallel with the identification electrodes, and an electrode area coupling the identification electrodes and the resistor element. Thereby, the present invention provides many sets of identification signals to differentiate customers, test strips and test instruments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: HMD Biomedical Inc
    Inventor: Tien-Tsai Hsu
  • Patent number: 7625474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrokinetic (EK) pump capable of creating high pressures electroosmotically, and capable of retaining high pressures. Both pressure creation and retention are accomplished without the need for moving parts. The EK pump uses a polymerizable fluid that creates the pressure-retaining seal within the EK pump when polymerization is initiated, typically by exposure to UV radiation. Weaklink devices are advantageously constructed including such a pressure-retaining EK pump since, among other advantages, the response of the weaklink device relies on predictable and reliable chemical polymerization reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy J. Shepodd, Matthew P. Duncan
  • Patent number: 7625475
    Abstract: A microfluidic pump has an outer housing such as a capillary tube, a nanotube, and an ionic fluid or alcohol. The nanotube is placed inside the capillary tube, and the capillary tube is filled with the ionic fluid or alcohol. A voltage source is connected to the nanotube, and upon application of a voltage to the nanotube, the ionic fluid or alcohol is pumped through the capillary tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Robert J. Howard
  • Patent number: 7625476
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for forming on a metal substrate a surface treating film excelling in corrosion resistance and stability of film-forming agent, by applying a film-forming agent by a multistage electrification system comprising at least two stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignees: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaharu Shimoda, Eisaku Okada
  • Patent number: 7625477
    Abstract: This invention provides an electrodeposition paint comprising particles of at least one metallic compound selected from bismuth hydroxide, zirconium compound and tungsten compound, said particles of the metallic compound having an average particle diameter of 1-1,000 nm. The electrodeposition paint forms coating film excelling in corrosion resistance, finished appearance, paint stability and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Kawaraya, Toshimitsu Muramatsu, Yuji Hirose
  • Patent number: 7625478
    Abstract: Blends of ZSM-48 catalysts are used for hydroprocessing of hydrocarbon feedstocks. The blend of ZSM-48 catalysts includes at least a portion of ZSM-48 crystals having a SiO2:Al2O3 ratio of 110 or less that are free of non-ZSM-48 seed crystals and have a desirable morphology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Wenyih F. Lai, Terry E. Helton, Dominick N. Mazzone
  • Patent number: 7625479
    Abstract: A binder pitch material includes a petroleum pitch and asphalt fraction obtained from petroleum crude oil and has a significantly lower polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon composition than a coal tar pitch having a like softening point. The pitch material is useful as a binder material for various applications such as clay pigeons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC
    Inventors: Melvin D. Kiser, David C. Boyer
  • Patent number: 7625480
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing asphaltene-containing feed to a pyrolysis furnace by raising the final boiling point of the feed/steam mixture to the pyrolysis furnace to ensure fouling occurs lower in the convection section where the mixture of air and steam can burn off fouling deposits during decoking operations. The final boiling point of the feed stream is increased by adding a heavy essentially asphaltene-free high boiling point hydrocarbon to the feed stream before the feed stream enters the convection section of the pyrolysis furnace, whereby said fouling occurs lower in the convection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: David Beattie, Richard Charles Stell, James N. McCoy, Bryan Daniel McVicker, Paul F. Keusenkothen, Alok Srivastava, David Bleckinger
  • Patent number: 7625481
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with a hydrogen source in the presence of an inorganic salt catalyst produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The inorganic salt catalyst comprises alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, or mixtures thereof. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Scott Lee Wellington, Thomas Fairchild Brownscombe
  • Patent number: 7625482
    Abstract: Nanoparticulates of oxygen transfer materials that are oxides of rare earth metals, combinations of rare earth metals, and combinations of transition metals and rare earth metals are used as catalysts in a variety of processes. Unexpectedly large thermal efficiencies are achieved relative to micron sized particulates. Processes that use these catalysts are exemplified in a multistage reactor. The exemplified reactor cracks C6 to C20 hydrocarbons, desulfurizes the hydrocarbon stream and reforms the hydrocarbons in the stream to produce hydrogen. In a first reactor stage the steam and hydrocarbon are passed through particulate mixed rare earth metal oxide to crack larger hydrocarbon molecules. In a second stage, the steam and hydrocarbon are passed through particulate material that desulfurizes the hydrocarbon. In a third stage, the hydrocarbon and steam are passed through a heated, mixed transition metal/rare earth metal oxide to reform the lower hydrocarbons and thereby produce hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: nGimat Co.
    Inventors: Andrew T. Hunt, Richard C. Breitkopf
  • Patent number: 7625484
    Abstract: A water treatment apparatus has a turbidity meter, which is a detection part, for detecting a generation state of bubbles in a micro/nano bubble generation state confirmation tank, as a turbidity of treatment water. The water treatment apparatus also has a controller, which is a control part, for receiving an signal representing the turbidity of treatment water detected by the turbidity meter, to control openings of air flow control valves in an interlocked manner in response to the signal, so that the amount of air flowing through the control valves is automatically controlled. The openings of the air flow control valves are controlled in an interlocked manner by the controller in such a way that the signal representing turbidity shows that the treatment water within the confirmation tank is whitely turbid (i.e., the turbidity shows not less than a specified value).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabuhsiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamasaki, Keichiro Uda, Kazumi Chuhjoh
  • Patent number: 7625485
    Abstract: A stormwater treatment system including a substantially water impermeable treatment container for treating stormwater through a bioretention mechanism. The treatment container includes an overflow/bypass opening to receive stormwater that bypasses the treatment container filter media, or is only partially treated as a result of high stormwater flows in excess of the capacity of the container to treat the stormwater. The stormwater is directed into the container through an inlet, such as an inlet pipe, preferably connected to a roof drain system for processing and treating stormwater from the roof of a building. The overflow/bypass opening may be adjacent the top wall or bottom wall of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Americast, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry Lee Siviter, Brian Richard Hofe, Edward Stuart Kay, Larry S. Coffman
  • Patent number: 7625486
    Abstract: A device for use in water comprising a carrier having an interior cavity and one or more openings allowing ingress to and egress from the interior cavity; and a moss contained within the interior cavity in which the carrier completely encloses the moss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Embro Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Knighton, Vance D. Fiegel
  • Patent number: 7625487
    Abstract: An adsorptive bed having hydrous iron oxide and calcium carbonate materials. The adsorptive bed is useful in water treatment applications for removing metal contaminants, particularly for removing arsenic-containing ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Patricia A. Crawford, Charles J. Hickey, Garth R. Parker, Jr., Jose Antonio Trejo
  • Patent number: 7625488
    Abstract: A unitary plumbing apparatus is disclosed that serves as a drain waste water strainer trap for sinks and other plumbing fixtures as well as a filter or strainer for the exiting waste water to keep the drain pipe free flowing or to recover valuables lost into drain lines. The filter or strainer can be removed from the apparatus for cleaning by removing a cap at the bottom of the apparatus. The cap can be removed by hand. The top and bottom sections of the body of one embodiment of the apparatus are mutually rotatable for convenience in connecting inlet and outlet apparatus conduits to standing plumbing drain piping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Inventor: Dale M Blackburn
  • Patent number: 7625489
    Abstract: A device for use in water comprising a carrier having an interior cavity and one or more openings allowing ingress to and egress from the interior cavity; and a moss contained within the interior cavity in which the carrier completely encloses the moss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Embro Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Knighton, Vance D. Fiegel
  • Patent number: 7625490
    Abstract: A nitrification-denitrification process using magnetic seeding and magnetic separation to treat water is provided. The process includes biologically converting ammonia to nitrates with a biofilm disposed on magnetic seed. Suspended solids are removed by mixing flocculant and magnetic seeds with the water and magnetically removing floc formed floc from the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Inventor: Steven L. Cort
  • Patent number: 7625491
    Abstract: An aeration system for a submerged membrane module has a set of aerators connected to an air blower, valves and a controller adapted to alternately provide a higher rate or air flow and a lower rate of air flow in repeated cycles. In an embodiment, the air blower, valves and controller, simultaneously provide the alternating air flow to two or more sets of aerators such that the total air flow is constant, allowing the blower to be operated at a constant speed. In another embodiment, the repeated cycles are of short duration. Transient flow conditions result in the tank water which helps avoid dead spaces and assists in agitating the membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Zenon Technology Partnership
    Inventors: Pierre Lucien Cote, Arnold Janson, Hamid R. Rabie, Manwinder Singh
  • Patent number: 7625492
    Abstract: Generally, systems for air and water purification using unpowered charged sorbent mediums (3) which may include layered double hydroxide (LDH) (1) compositions, lignin (2), and methods of sorbing inorganic or organic material(s) onto such mediums, including anionic contaminants (10), cationic contaminants (11), non ionic organic contaminants (20), and even biological agents (7) such as bacteria or viruses present in liquids or gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: The University of Wyoming Research Corporation
    Inventors: Song Jin, Terry H. Brown, Youwen You, George F. Vance
  • Patent number: 7625493
    Abstract: In order to achieve low cost of manufacture of a display device by reducing the use of primary material used in a manufacturing process of a display device and saving labor taken for a vacuum process, according to the invention, liquid droplets containing conductive particles are ejected on a film being processed by using a first liquid droplet ejecting apparatus having a liquid droplet ejecting head provided with a plurality of liquid droplet ejecting orifices, thereby a conductive film is formed. After that, a resist pattern is locally formed on the conductive film by using a second liquid droplet ejecting apparatus having a liquid droplet ejecting head provided with a plurality of liquid droplet ejecting orifices. The conductive film is etched with the resist pattern as a mask to form a wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7625494
    Abstract: The present invention is a plasma etching method including: an arranging step of arranging a pair of electrodes oppositely in a chamber and making one of the electrodes support a substrate to be processed in such a manner that the substrate is arranged between the electrodes, the substrate having an organic-material film and an inorganic-material film; and an etching step of applying a high-frequency electric power to at least one of the electrodes to form a high-frequency electric field between the pair of the electrodes, supplying a process gas into the chamber to form a plasma of the process gas by means of the electric field, and selectively plasma-etching the organic-material film of the substrate with respect to the inorganic-material film by means of the plasma; wherein a frequency of the high-frequency electric power applied to the at least one of the electrodes is 50 to 150 MHz in the etching step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masanobu Honda, Kazuya Nagaseki, Koichiro Inazawa, Shoichiro Matsuyama, Hisataka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7625495
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mechanical and/or chemical-mechanical planarization of semiconductor wafers, field emission displays and other microelectronic substrate assemblies. One method of planarizing a microelectronic substrate assembly in accordance with the invention includes pressing a substrate assembly against a planarizing surface of a polishing pad at a pad/substrate interface defined by a surface area of the substrate assembly contacting the planarizing surface. The method continues by moving the substrate assembly and/or the polishing pad with respect to the other to rub at least one of the substrate assembly and the planarizing surface against the other at a relative velocity. As the substrate assembly and polishing pad rub against each other, a parameter indicative of drag force between the substrate assembly and the polishing pad is measured or sensed at periodic intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Hofmann, Gundu M. Sabde, Stephen J. Kramer, Scott E. Moore
  • Patent number: 7625496
    Abstract: Solid water treatment compositions are provided comprising (a) a halogen-containing source; (b) a boron-containing source; and (c) a polyphosphate-containing source. Methods for their use are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Chemtura Corporation
    Inventors: Nidhi Rawat, David F. Purdy, Michael J. Engram
  • Patent number: 7625497
    Abstract: The invention provides materials and methods for making anisotropic solids which may be in the form of films, layers, shaped elements, and other shaped articles. The methods provide anisotropic solids without the need for rolling, rubbing, or stretching to impart orientational alignment of the molecules of the solid. The methods employ organic or organometallic compounds which are soluble orienting molecules. The solvent or solvent system must be sufficiently volatile to be removed without disruption of the molecular orientation. The soluble orienting molecules include those containing one or more hydrophilic and/or ionic groups and the solvent or solvent system can be a polar organic solvent or solvent system or an aqueous solvent or solvent system. The invention also provides novel compounds having quaterrylene, perylene and naphthalene ring systems carrying one or more hydrophilic and/or ionic groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno
    Inventors: Isaac K. Iverson, Suk-Wah Tam-Chang
  • Patent number: 7625498
    Abstract: The invention provides liquid crystal composites including a liquid crystal with a layered inorganic material and a photosensitive polymer dispersed therein. The layered inorganic layer reduces threshold voltage and enhances grating diffraction efficiency of the liquid crystal. The invention also provides a liquid crystal with a layered inorganic material dispersed in the liquid crystal, and a modified layered material MgAl—K2 LDH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Chung Yuan Christian University
    Inventors: Tsung-Yen Tsai, Yuan-Pin Huang, Shau-Wen Lu, Yun-Min Chang
  • Patent number: 7625499
    Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive liquid-crystal material having features including that, for example, excellent conductivity is exhibited at a low threshold voltage of about 5 V even in a room temperature range, the value of resistance varies with an applied voltage, the current density rises sharply at a voltage of about 5 V, and an excellent charge mobility is exhibited, as well as a process for producing the conductive liquid-crystal material, a liquid-crystal composition which is used for the conductive liquid-crystal material, a liquid-crystal semiconductor element, and an information recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Haramoto
  • Patent number: 7625500
    Abstract: A security feature having unique photoluminescent properties and a method for making the security feature. The security feature includes a silica carrier and a rare earth dopant dispersed throughout at least a portion of the silica carrier. The rare earth dopant includes a rare earth ion to which ligands and/or inorganic sensitizers are associated. The ligands and/or inorganic sensitizers are positioned to absorb energy and transfer the absorbed energy to the rare earth ion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph D. Roth
  • Patent number: 7625501
    Abstract: An improved color-converting photoluminescent film that provides visible light emission in the red to green portion of the visible spectrum when excited by blue light. The color-converted photoluminescent film of the invention is patternable and has improved luminous efficiency and stability and is suitable for use in electroluminescent displays. The film comprises a mixture of a clear UV curable resin and photo-initiator which does not absorb blue light; and fluorescent pigment particles, wherein a molecular additive is optionally provided in to either or both of the pigment particles and curable resin. The mixture is screen printed onto a substrate to form a film and UV cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Ifire IP Corporation
    Inventors: Maizhi Yang, John Wesley Moore, Abdul M. Nakua, Dan Daeweon Cheong, David Irvine, Xingwei Wu, James Alexander Robert Stiles, Vincent Joseph Alfred Pugliese
  • Patent number: 7625502
    Abstract: Crystalline scintillator materials comprising nano-scale particles of metal halides are provided. The nano-scale particles are less than 100 nm in size. Methods are provided for preparing the particles. In these methods, ionic liquids are used in place of water to allow precipitation of the final product. In one method, the metal precursors and halide salts are dissolved in separate ionic liquids to form solutions, which are then combined to form the nano-crystalline end product. In the other methods, micro-emulsions are formed using ionic liquids to control particle size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Brent Allen Clothier, Sergio Paulo Martins Loureiro, Alok Srivastava, Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani
  • Patent number: 7625503
    Abstract: The invention is directed a composition represented by the chemical formula EuxA1?xF2+x?2yOy wherein A is alkaline earth, 0.002?x?0.20, and 0?y?x; the composition exhibiting a luminescence spectrum characterized by peaks at 592±2 nm and 627±2 nm, wherein the ratio of the peak intensity at 592±2 nm to that at 627±2 nm is at least 5% larger than the corresponding peak intensity ratio at the same wavelengths of a first corresponding reference composition with the same value of x that has not been exposed to a temperature above 100° C., and wherein said ratio of the peak intensity at 592±2 nm to that at 627±2 nm is at least 5% smaller than the corresponding peak intensity ratio at the same wavelengths of a second corresponding reference composition with the same value of x that has been subject to heating to 900° C. for 6 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Changzai Chi, Michael Karl Crawford, Kurt Richard Mikeska
  • Patent number: 7625504
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a phosphor that can be excited by UV light between 375 to 400 nm to emit white light, which is intrinsically produced by emitting blue light with yellow light simultaneously. This compound is synthesized from organic amine, metal oxide and phosphate under hydrothermal conditions, and gives rise to a zeolitic structure with the chemical formula of (A)5-x/2[Zn9-xGaxO(HPO4)(PO4)8].yH2O (0<x<9, 0<y<15). On the other hand, when synthesized by different solvents, it is possible to obtain a phosphor of the same chemical formula and structure, but it can emit yellow light when excited by UV light or blue light emitted by LED between 300 to 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Sue-Lein Wang, Yueh-Chun Liao, Chia-Her Lin
  • Patent number: 7625505
    Abstract: Mixtures are provided of lithium salts with reducing agents for lithium evaporation. The mixtures may be particularly used in the manufacture of electroluminescent organic displays. Lithium dispensers based on the use of these mixtures are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: SAES Getters S.p.A.
    Inventors: Lorena Cattaneo, Simona Pirola, Chiharu Maeda, Antonio Bonucci
  • Patent number: 7625506
    Abstract: When manufacturing an optical recording medium by forming a resin layer on a surface of a substrate and then forming a center hole that passes through the substrate and the resin layer, a method of manufacturing an optical recording medium according to the present invention forms the center hole by forming, in the resin layer, a circular cut with a larger diameter than the center hole so as to surround a formation position of the center hole and then pressing in a punching blade for forming the center hole from a rear surface side of the substrate. By doing so, detachment of the resin layer and the production of burrs at or near the center hole can be avoided while reducing the manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Usami, Junichi Ide, Haruhiko Yamaguchi, Tomoki Ushida
  • Patent number: 7625507
    Abstract: Reduced levels of drug degradation in drug-containing multiparticulates are obtained by an extrusion/melt-congeal process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick J. Ray, Leah E. Appel, David D. Newbold, Dwayne T. Friesen, Scott B. McCray, David K. Lyon, James B. West, Marshall D. Crew, Joshua R. Shockey
  • Patent number: 7625508
    Abstract: An apparatus (20) for making nanopowder includes a reaction chamber (22), a first sprayer (25, 27), a second sprayer (26, 28) and a centrifuge (24). The reaction chamber includes a top portion (224); a bottom portion (227) opposite to the top portion; a peripheral sidewall (220, 223) interconnecting the top portion and the bottom portion; an inlet (222) formed in the top portion configured for introducing a solvent; and an outlet (229) formed in the bottom portion. The first sprayer is formed on the peripheral sidewall of the reaction chamber configured for spraying a first reactant into the reaction chamber. The second sprayer is formed in at least one of the top and bottom portions of the reaction chamber configured for spraying a second reactant into the reaction chamber. The centrifuge is connected with the outlet of the reaction chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuan-De Huang, Bor-Yuan Hsiao, Chi-Chuang Ho
  • Patent number: 7625509
    Abstract: Method of making an article, the method comprising coalescing a plurality of the glass particles. The article may comprise glass, glass-ceramic, and/or crystalline ceramic. Examples of articles include kitchenware (e.g., plates), dental brackets, and reinforcing fibers, cutting tool inserts, abrasives, and structural components of gas engines, (e.g., valves and bearings).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Anatoly Z. Rosenflanz
  • Patent number: 7625510
    Abstract: Composite tooling is fabricated with low cost dry fabrics and a neat resin instead of expensive prepregs. Dry, three-dimensional woven joint preforms are placed on a dry tool substrate and dry, 3D preforms are also placed between pre-cured egg crate-like junctions. The entire tool substrate and substrate-to-support structure joints are then resin-infused simultaneously through the use of rota-molded tooling aids, providing an additional reduction in cost. Tight control of resin content and distribution with vacuum infusion is thereby provided. This process eliminates the primary cause of structural weakness and cooling distortion, which typically occur at the attachment interface when existing methods are used. The preforms provide significantly greater pull-off strengths at interfaces than do hand-laid tie plies. Issues with tool surface durability are addressed through the use of ceramic-filled face coat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Todd H. Ashton, Richard R. Batzer, Ronald P. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7625511
    Abstract: A method and device for manufacturing tire's annular member having a stretch mainly in radial direction by use of simple devices and simple way of pressing with high precision and easiness, as to produce tire product in high quality with no fluctuation of mass and/or uniformity, comprising: a first mold including a profile mold having an annular recess; a second mold which faces the first mold; and an extruder that continuously extrudes a rubber body into the recess of the profile mold. Concurrent with such extruding, the profile mold is rotated by one turn so as to charge the rubber body into the annular recess in a manner as annularly continuous. Then, the first and the second molds are brought abut each other so as to press the rubber body between the profile and second molds; thus shaping the rubber body into a shape defined by the profile mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Kudo, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Tetsuo Tatara
  • Patent number: 7625512
    Abstract: A method of producing an object through solid freeform fabrication includes selectively depositing a boundary structure that defines a surface of the object, and depositing a flowable build material within the boundary structure, wherein the flowable build material forms a portion of the object by flowing to the boundary structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Antonio S. Cruz-Uribe, David C Collins, Jeffrey Allen Nielsen
  • Patent number: 7625513
    Abstract: A hot embossing lithography method includes the steps of: providing a press mold (20) having a press surface, the press surface having a pattern defined therein; providing a substrate (10?) having a polymer thin film (30) formed thereon; aligning the press mold with the polymer thin film; introducing a vapor to moisten the press surface for lowering a surface adsorption energy of the press surface; heating the polymer thin film to a temperature above a glass transition temperature of the polymer thin film, thereby softening the polymer thin film; pressing the press mold into the softened polymer thin film to transfer the pattern of the press mold into the polymer thin film; cooling the polymer thin film and the press mold to a temperature near the glass transition temperature of the polymer thin film; and separating the press mold from the polymer thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tai-Cherng Yu
  • Patent number: 7625514
    Abstract: A method for modifying a surface of a polymer such as a thermoplastic resin is provided, in which a supercritical fluid, especially carbon dioxide in a supercritical state is used as a solvent, and the polymer surface is further converted to have highly advanced function or high performance in a short period of time. In the method for modifying the polymer surface of the present invention, a solute is previously applied to the polymer surface. Accordingly, the solute can be permeated into the surface of the polymer swelled by the contact of the supercritical fluid. When this method is used, it is possible to permeate the solute into the polymer at a high concentration in a short period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Yusa, Masahiro Oshima
  • Patent number: 7625515
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing photonic band gap structures operable in the optical spectrum has been presented. The method comprises the steps of filling a plurality of grooves of an elastomeric mold with a UV curable first polymer, each groove in parallel with each other and partially curing the first polymer. A second polymer is coated on the first polymer. A substrate or a multi-layer polymer structure is placed on the filled mold and the resulting structure is exposed to UV light (i.e., is UV cured). The mold is peeled away from the first and second polymers such that a layer of polymer rods is formed on the substrate/multi-layer polymer structure. The process is repeated until a desired number of layers have been formed. The multi-layer structure can be used to create ceramic and metallic photonic band gaps by infiltration, electro-deposition, and/or metal coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Jae-Hwang Lee, Kai-Ming Ho, Yong-Sung Kim, Kristen Constant, Chang-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 7625516
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a sheet molded body having a desired three dimensional shape and an excellent quality of the design, which has no crease, by uniformly expanding a decorated sheet prior to molding, and closely contacting the decorate sheet to the surface of a male die. In the manufacturing method, the pressure at the front side of the decorated sheet is lowered relative to that at the back side. An arm means is then moved towards the decorated sheet from the back side of the decorated sheet so that the decorated sheet is inverted by increasing the pressure at the front side relative to that at the back side. The decorated sheet is then three dimensionally formed along the surface of the male die by, while pressing the male die from the back side and moving the arm means backwards, increasing the pressure at the front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: C.I. Kasei Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro Aida, Takeo Kobayashi, Yukio Ueda, Hiroshi Fujita
  • Patent number: 7625517
    Abstract: A cooling system for the distribution and collection of a fluid coolant in a metallurgical vessel used in the processing of molten materials. The cooling system comprises a distribution system including an intake manifold, a plurality of headers attached to the intake manifold, and a plurality of distribution dispensers positioned along each header. A collection system, including a collection manifold, is positioned to collect the fluid coolant. The distribution dispensers are positioned to direct the fluid coolant towards the collection manifold and utilize the majority of the kinetic energy contained within the coolant to direct the coolant towards the collection manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Systems Spray-Cooled, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Arthur, J. Michael Campbell, Troy D. Ward
  • Patent number: 7625518
    Abstract: A spout opening cleaner for cleaning smelt spouts of recovery boilers and the like includes an actuation arm and self-aligning cleaning head. The cleaning head employs open bail designs for enabling continued flow of smelt during a cleaning cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Clyde Bergemann, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth A. Pingel
  • Patent number: 7625519
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a biomedical porous article wherein communicability between the pores in the porous article is ensured and a desired porosity can be easily obtained, the method comprising a plate-like thread cluster formation step in which a plate-like thread cluster is obtained by dispersing many metallic threads made of a biomedical metallic material along a flat surface and entangling them; a compressing step of compressing the plate-like thread cluster into a desired thickness; and a sintering step of sintering the plate-like thread cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignees: NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Kobayashi Pharmaceut Ical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Chiba, Yoshiki Ono, Masashi Sakamoto, Akira Yamazaki, Yoichi Nishio, Kenichi Omori
  • Patent number: 7625520
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for producing metal matrix composite (MMC) sheets without intermediate process losses associated with extrusion and rolling edge cracks. The method results in theoretical sheet yield rates from the initial MMC billet of up to 100%, compared to 30 to 60% yield rates for prior-art manufacturing processes. The methods in this invention comprise the following processes: (a) preparing a MMC powder mixture; (b) preparing a frame and a billet consolidation tool; (c) loading and compacting the MMC mixture to form a framed MMC compact; (d) consolidation of the framed MMC compact to form a framed MMC billet; (e) preparing the framed billet to be a framed roll-preform; and (e) rolling the framed roll-preform to MMC sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: DWA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Y. Peng, Mark R. van den Bergh, William C. Harrigan
  • Patent number: 7625521
    Abstract: A bit body formed of a mixture of matrix material and superabrasive powder and including pockets lined with superabrasive-free matrix material, and a method for forming the same, are provided. The pockets are shaped to receive cutting elements therein. The superabrasive-free matrix material enhances braze strength when a cutting element is brazed to surfaces of the pocket. The method for forming the drill bit body includes providing a mold and displacements. The displacements are coated with a mixture of superabrasive free matrix-material and an organic binder. The mold is packed with a mixture of matrix material and superabrasive powder and the arrangement heated to form a solid drill bit body. When the solid bit body is removed from the mold, pockets are formed by the displacements in the bit body and are lined with the layer of superabrasive-free matrix material. The superabrasive material may be diamond, polycrystalline cubic boron nitride, SiC or TiB2 in exemplary embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Smith International, Inc.
    Inventors: Saul N. Izaguirre, Thomas W. Oldham, Kumar T. Kembaiyan, Gary R. Chunn, Anthony Griffo, Robert Denton, Brian White
  • Patent number: 7625522
    Abstract: One or more holes that extend through a wall of a powder metal component are formed by creating an absence of powder metal in a die set during compaction at an interface between a side surface of a punch and another side surface of the die set that faces the side surface of the punch in substantially close proximity to create the absence of powder metal at the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald D. Cooper