Abstract: A system and method for mitigating collisions for an articulated work vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a controller configured to determine a safe-zone around the articulated work vehicle based on signals corresponding to sensed objects around the articulated work vehicle. The controller is further configured to determine a position and velocity of one or more peripheral points on the articulated work vehicle based on signals from a set of sensor systems operatively coupled to the articulated work vehicle. The controller is further configured to receive a driver control input. The controller is further configured to apply a limit to the driver control input when a peripheral point on the articulated work vehicle is expected to be within a predetermined distance to a nearest edge of the safe-zone.

Abstract: Methods for post-mold processing a Venturi device for generating vacuum are disclosed that improve the evacuation time thereof. The methods include providing a molded Venturi device having a body defining a Venturi gap between an outlet end of a converging motive passageway and an inlet end of a diverging discharge passageway, where the outlet end defines a motive exit having flash extending radially inward and the inlet end defines a discharge inlet having flash extending radially inward. Then, the method includes positioning the molded Venturi device with an inlet end of the converging motive passageway facing a blasting nozzle or with an outlet end of a diverging discharge passageway facing a blasting nozzle, and propelling blasting media into the motive inlet or the discharge exit of the Venturi device to remove the flash in the motive exit and in the discharge inlet, or vice versa.

Abstract: Aerosols can be created by filament stretching and breaking of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids by applying a strain to and stretching the fluid. The fluid is stretched along a strain pathway and forms a fluid filament between diverging surfaces. The stretched fluid filament breaks into droplets that can be harvested to form a mist or aerosol. The aerosol creation systems can include one or more pairs of counter-rotating rollers that are positioned adjacent to each other that stretch the fluid or a pair of pistons that move toward and away from each other to stretch the fluid. Some aerosol creation systems can include multiple pairs of counter-rotating rollers that are positioned in a circular, oval, or linear pattern. The aerosol creation system with multiple pairs of counter-rotating rollers can generate mist is one or more directions and can be positioned between two concentric rings or linearly, among other configurations.

Abstract: A substrate is held and rotated in a horizontal attitude by a rotation holder. A coating liquid is supplied by a coating liquid supplier to a surface to be processed of the substrate rotated by the rotation holder. A first removal liquid is supplied by a first removal liquid supplier to a first annular region at a peripheral portion of the substrate rotated by the rotation holder before the coating liquid supplied by the coating liquid supplier loses fluidity. In this state, a supply position of the first removal liquid by the first removal liquid supplier is moved from an inner edge to an outer edge of the first annular region.

Abstract: A spraying system for spraying a fluid includes a nozzle assembly configured to spray the fluid in response to receiving a control signal, a sensor configured to transmit a detection signal upon detection of a target, and a user interface configured to receive input from an operator. The spraying system further includes a control system communicatively coupled to the sensor to receive the detection signal from the sensor, the control system configured to transmit the control signal to the nozzle assembly at least in part in response to reception of the detection signal, the control system further configured to determine a fluid band length and an offset distance of the fluid band length from the target based at least in part on information input by the operator to the user interface. The user interface displays a graphic representation of the fluid band length and the offset distance relative to the target.

Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic atomizing device which performs atomization at low cost. An electrostatic atomizing device (M4) is installed in an atomization chamber (10) of a separation apparatus. The electrostatic atomizing device (M4) includes a plate-like inclined surface electrode (101) and a plate-like counter electrode (102) parallel to the surface electrode (101). A solution is diffused by diffusers (108) onto an upper end of the surface electrode (101). The solution flows down along a front surface of the surface electrode (101) while being spread in a thin film form, and is atomized by an electric field between the surface electrode (101) and the counter electrode (102).

Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a cold spray deposition system includes a nozzle body with an axial bore. The axial bore defines a converging segment, a diverging segment downstream of the converging segment, and a throat fluidly connected between the converging and diverging segments of the axial bore. A particulate conduit is fixed within the axial bore and extends along the axial bore diverging segment for issuing solid particulate into the diverging segment of the axial bore.

Abstract: Embodiments herein include apparatus and methods for coating medical devices. In an embodiment, a coating apparatus is included having a coating application unit including a movement restriction structure, a fluid applicator having a lengthwise major axis, a fluid distribution bar having a body angled with respect to the major lengthwise axis of the fluid applicator between 0 and 20 degrees, a rotation mechanism and an axial motion mechanism. The axial motion mechanism configured to cause movement of at least one of the coating application unit and the rotation mechanism with respect to one another. Other embodiments are also included herein.

Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus includes a plurality of liquid processing units, a plurality of individual exhaust paths, a common exhaust path, a first outside air intake section, a first regulation valve, a second outside air intake section, and a second regulation valve. The liquid processing units perform a liquid processing on a processing target object. An exhaust gas from an inside of the liquid processing unit flows in the individual exhaust paths. The exhaust gas from the individual exhaust paths flows in the common exhaust path. The first outside air intake section is formed at the most upstream side to introduce outside air. The first regulation valve is provided in the first outside air intake section. The second outside air intake section is formed at a downstream side of the common exhaust path from the connection. The second regulation valve is provided in the second outside air intake section.

Abstract: A functional film manufacturing method, in manufacturing a functional film having an organic layer on a support and an inorganic layer on the organic layer, comprises steps of preparing a coating material containing an organic compound which has a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or higher and is to be the organic layer, and an organic solvent; coating a support surface with 5 cc/m2 or more of the coating material such that the organic layer thickness becomes 0.05 to 3 ?m; forming the organic layer by drying the coating material on the support surface such that the coating material has a viscosity of 20 cP or higher and a surface tension of 34 mN/m or less in a decreasing-rate-of-drying state, and curing the organic compound; and forming the inorganic layer on the organic layer surface by a vapor phase deposition method accompanied by generation of plasma.

Abstract: A printing base comprises: a carrying base, an extension base, a vacuum pump and a gas injection valve; the extension base is located at the periphery of the carrying base; the surface of the carrying base has at least one absorbing hole for absorbing the substrate, and the surface of the extension base has at least one injecting hole. By adding a extension base at the periphery of the carrying base, the invention can avoid the provision of test area at the periphery of the display area on the substrate, and increase the area of the display area, and in turn reduce the bezel width of the liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: A dyeing device dyes a resin body by vaporizing and depositing a sublimation dye adhered to a dyeing base to a resin body and fixing the dye to the resin body. The dyeing device lowers the pressure inside a closed chamber that closes the periphery of the resin body by a pump. In the state where the adhesion surface of the dyeing base to which the dye is adhered faces the resin body without contact, by heating the dye adhered to the dyeing base inside the closed chamber of which the pressure is lowered, the dye is sublimated, vaporized, and deposited on the resin body. The pressure inside the closed chamber is raised higher than the pressure at the vaporizing and depositing time. By irradiating the resin body on which the dye is vaporized and deposited with electromagnetic wave, the resin body is heated and the dye is and fixed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for installing a frangible collar onto a fastener installed in a hole using an end effector in which rotation of the fastener is not restricted by the hole. Rotation of the fastener may be restricted using the end effector. A frangible collar may be installed onto the fastener by an element installer of the end effector while the while restricting rotation of the fastener. A frangible portion of the frangible collar may be sheared off by torqueing the frangible portion using the end effector.

Abstract: An orthodontic protection device including: a protective layer shaped sized to fit over the facial surface of at least one tooth of a human and any orthodontic appliances affixed to the facial surfaces of the at least one tooth, wherein the protective layer includes a moldable material; and an adhesive layer including at least one hygroscopic polymeric material on a facial surface of the protective layer.

Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concepts provide an apparatus and a method for treating a substrate. The apparatus includes a substrate support unit supporting the substrate, and a liquid supply unit supplying a treatment solution to the substrate supported by the substrate support unit. The liquid supply unit includes a nozzle discharging the treatment solution to the substrate, a liquid supply line supplying the treatment solution to the nozzle, a mixing member installed on the liquid supply line, a mixing space formed within the mixing member, and a gas supply line connected to the mixing member to supply a gas into the mixing space. The mixing member includes a body within which the mixing space is formed, and an inflow port combined with the body such that the gas supplied through the inflow port is mixed with the treatment solution in the mixing space to form nano-sized bubbles.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a method for spraying a chemical solution that makes it possible to uniformly apply a chemical solution onto a moving body and that exhibits excellent spraying efficiency. [Solution] The present invention is directed to a method for spraying a chemical solution in which, in a dry part D of a paper-making machine, a chemical solution is continuously sprayed onto a moving body that guides wet paper X, while a nozzle device S is reciprocating in directions orthogonal to a moving direction of the moving body with the moving body in motion, wherein: the moving body is a cylindrical dryer roller D1 or an endless canvas K1; and a travel distance H that the nozzle device S moves during a single rotation of the moving body and a width W of a sprayed area that is formed on the moving body by the nozzle device S satisfy the relationship represented by the following expression: 0.5?H/W?20.

Abstract: A method and manufacturing unit for producing a rotor blade (5) of a wind turbine (1) from at least a first rotor blade element (11, 11?, 12, 12?) and a second rotor blade element (11, 11?, 12, 12?). The first rotor blade element (11, 11?, 12, 12?) and the second rotor blade element (11, 11?, 12, 12?) are positioned in the desired relative arrangement with respect to each other such that a joint gap (13) remains between the first rotor blade element (11, 11?, 12, 12?) and the second rotor blade element (11, 11?, 12, 12?). Adhesive is introduced into the joint gap (13) for joining the first rotor blade element (11, 11?, 12, 12?) and the second rotor blade element (11, 11?, 12, 12?).

Abstract: A system is disclosed for determining process parameters for the spray application of viscous fluids, which can include an application system, which can be actuated by predefining input parameters, for a viscous fluid having at least the components of metering device, fluid valve and application nozzle. The dynamic behavior of the application system can be dependent, with respect to the volume flow profile of the viscous fluid during the application, and also on predefinable control process parameters. Methods are disclosed for determining and applying process parameters for the spray application of viscous fluids with a system, and for controlling the spray application of an application system, which can be actuated by predefining input parameters, for a viscous fluid.

Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein pertain to novel methods and apparatus for removing material from a substrate. In certain embodiments, the method and apparatus are used to remove negative photoresist, though the disclosed techniques may be implemented to remove a variety of materials. In practicing the disclosed embodiments, a stripping solution may be introduced from an inlet to an internal manifold, sometimes referred to as a cross flow manifold. The solution flows laterally through a relatively narrow cavity between the substrate and the base plate. Fluid exits the narrow cavity at an outlet, which is positioned on the other side of the substrate, opposite the inlet and internal manifold. The substrate spins while in contact with the stripping solution to achieve a more uniform flow over the face of the substrate. In some embodiments, the base plate includes protuberances which operate to increase the flow rate (and thereby increase the local Re) near the face of the substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a lithography apparatus that includes a plurality of patterning devices each of which is configured to perform patterning for a substrate supplied from a preprocessing apparatus; and a controller configured to control the plurality of patterning devices such that a plurality of substrates respectively belonging to a plurality of lots is subjected to parallel processings by the plurality of patterning devices based on a plurality of recipe information respectively corresponding to the plurality of lots, and transmit information regarding a schedule of the parallel processings to the preprocessing apparatus.

Abstract: A user-propelled collapsible apparatus comprises a body (1) provided with wheels (21) and a retractable handle means (3) for propelling the apparatus. Bracing means (5) is provided for the handle means, the bracing means being movable between a deployed configuration in which the bracing means supports the extended handle means and a stored configuration in which the bracing means lies substantially adjacent to the body.

Abstract: Imaging is performed such that a flow-down path of the liquid from the nozzle arranged above a work to an upper surface of the work is included in an imaging field of view (Step S401). A total value of pixel values of pixels belonging to each pixel column composed of the pixels arranged in a line along a flow-down direction of the liquid in an evaluation region corresponding to the flow-down path out of an imaged image is calculated (Step S402-S403). Based on a change mode of the total value in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the flow-down direction, presence or absence of the flow-down of the liquid is determined (Step S405-S407).

Abstract: The invention relates to applying a liquid to pasty hot-melt adhesive to a substrate (44), comprising a template (29), having at least one cavity (38) for the hot-melt adhesive, and also comprising an adhesive-transfer infeed (33), which is assigned to the template (29) and through which the adhesive can be introduced into the cavity (38). The special feature consists in that the apparatus (10) further comprises a transporting-fluid-supply opening (35), assigned to the template (29), and a device for displacing (13, 15), in particular pivoting, the template (29) between a first position, in which the cavity (38) is assigned to the adhesive-transfer infeed (33), and a second position, in which the cavity (38) is assigned to the transporting-fluid-supply opening (35), and therefore the adhesive, in the second position, can be discharged from the cavity (38) by a transporting fluid flowing through the transporting-fluid-supply opening (35).

Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus performs a liquid processing on a rotating substrate by supplying a processing liquid. Surrounding members surround a region including an upper space of a cup body surrounding the rotating substrate and provided with an opening above the substrate. An air flow forming portion forms a descending air flow from an upper side of the cup body. A bottom surface portion blocks between the cup body and the surrounding member along a circumferential direction. An exhaust port is provided above the bottom surface portion and outside the cup body to exhaust an atmosphere in a region surrounded by the surrounding members and the bottom surface portion.

Abstract: Aerosols can be created by filament stretching and breaking of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids by applying a strain to and stretching the fluid. The fluid is stretched along a strain pathway and forms a fluid filament between diverging surfaces. The stretched fluid filament breaks into droplets that can be harvested to form a mist or aerosol. The aerosol creation systems can include one or more pairs of counter-rotating rollers that are positioned adjacent to each other that stretch the fluid or a pair of pistons that move toward and away from each other to stretch the fluid. Some aerosol creation systems can include multiple pairs of counter-rotating rollers that are positioned in a circular, oval, or linear pattern. The aerosol creation system with multiple pairs of counter-rotating rollers can generate mist is one or more directions and can be positioned between two concentric rings or linearly, among other configurations.

Abstract: A method for painting a component such as a motor vehicle body component includes applying to the component a base coat layer, a pattern such as a decorative strip or a graphic element, and applying a clear lacquer coat. The pattern (7) is applied to the base coat layer without interposing a clear lacquer coat. A corresponding painting facility is provided.

Abstract: A soil remediation unit that changes the use and purpose of certain commercially available aggregate mixing devices and or pug mills for removing unwanted contaminants from a quantity of contaminated soil aggregate or substrate which includes a canopy and a burner tube attached to the canopy. The burner tube includes an upper securing element and a lower adjustment element. The soil remediation unit also includes a burner supported in a desired position within the burner tube by the upper securing element and the lower adjustment element.

Abstract: Aerosols can be created by filament stretching and breaking of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids by applying a strain to and stretching the fluid. The fluid is stretched along a strain pathway and forms a fluid filament between diverging surfaces. The stretched fluid filament breaks into droplets that can be harvested to form a mist or aerosol. The aerosol creation systems can include one or more pairs of counter-rotating rollers that are positioned adjacent to each other that stretch the fluid or a pair of pistons that move toward and away from each other to stretch the fluid. Some aerosol creation systems can include multiple pairs of counter-rotating rollers that are positioned in a circular, oval, or linear pattern. The aerosol creation system with multiple pairs of counter-rotating rollers can generate mist is one or more directions and can be positioned between two concentric rings or linearly, among other configurations.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning wafers includes a chamber, a rotatable substrate holder inside the chamber, a nozzle above the rotatable substrate holder, a cover facing downward and fluidly coupled with the nozzle. The rotatable substrate holder is configured to mount one or more semiconductor wafers on the rotatable substrate holder. The nozzle is configured to spray a cleaning medium onto the one or more semiconductor wafers. The cover is of a shape having a top edge with a top cross-sectional area and a bottom edge with a bottom cross-sectional area.

Abstract: A curtain coating device for paper and board machines has a nozzle beam (10) with a nozzle lip (12) with an edge strip (11) for feeding the coating color curtain and edge guides (20) located along each edge of the nozzle lips (12) controlling the width of the coating color curtain. The edge guide (20) has upper and lower ends. Flow surfaces (22) extend in a substantially vertical direction parallel and next to each other. The edge guide has a lubrication feed (24), additional lubrication feeds (26) and a suction opening (27). The flow surfaces (22) are inclined toward each other forming a flow guide recess (25) which extends in a vertical direction such that the form of the flow surfaces (22) with the flow guide recess (25) is concave. A protrusion (21) extends within the recess in the direction of the flow guide recess (25).

Abstract: Forecasted drive unit dispatch is described. An inventory pod associated with a materials handling action is identified, and a first drive unit is requisitioned and dispatched to retrieve the inventory pod and return it to a materials handling station. Concurrently, the ongoing status of other materials handling actions are monitored over time. Based on the ongoing status, a timeframe for the completion of another materials handling action is determined. An inventory pod zone associated with the other materials handling action is identified, and a second drive unit is dispatched on a forecasted route toward the inventory pod zone based on the timeframe. Later, the second drive unit is redirected to a particular inventory pod within the inventory pod zone. The second drive unit arrives at the particular inventory pod in less time because it was dispatched on the forecasted route toward the inventory pod zone earlier.

Abstract: The present teachings disclose various embodiments of a gas enclosure system can have a gas enclosure that can include a printing system enclosure and an auxiliary enclosure. In various embodiments of a gas enclosure system of the present teachings, a printing system enclosure can be isolated from an auxiliary enclosure. Various systems and methods of the present teachings can provide for the ongoing management of a printing system by utilizing various embodiments of isolatable enclosures. For example, various measurement and maintenance process steps for the management of a printhead assembly can be performed in an auxiliary enclosure, which can be isolated from a printing system enclosure of a gas enclosure system, thereby preventing or minimizing interruption of a printing process.

Abstract: Device for the removal of scale from the surface of a metal product (11) by delivering water under pressure, said device comprising a box-like structure (20) defining an internal space (22) for the passage of the water under pressure, connected to an exit fissure having a gap (23) with a gap value of less than a millimeter, the gap extending continuously for at least the entire width of the metal product (11).

Abstract: An additive-manufacturing device including a build chamber. The additive-manufacturing device further includes a base adjustably coupled to the build chamber. The additive-manufacturing device further includes a build platform adjustably coupled to the base and configured to travel, relative to the base and perpendicular to the base.

Abstract: A coating device comprises at least one application apparatus to discharge a coating agent from at least one coating agent nozzle. The application apparatus is configured to apply an oscillation to at least one of the coating agent and at least one coating agent jet such that at least one of the coating agent and the at least one coating agent jet break up into droplets.

Abstract: An apparatus for loading material into a stent strut can comprise a chamber in which a pressure gradient is formed when gas moves through the pressure chamber. While injecting material into a lumen within the stent strut, the pressure gradient inhibits material from leaking out of side holes to the lumen.

Abstract: Aerosols can be created by filament stretching and breaking of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids by applying a strain to and stretching the fluid. The fluid is stretched along a strain pathway and forms a fluid filament between diverging surfaces. The stretched fluid filament breaks into droplets that can be harvested to form a mist or aerosol. The aerosol creation systems can include one or more pairs of counter-rotating rollers that are positioned adjacent to each other that stretch the fluid or a pair of pistons that move toward and away from each other to stretch the fluid. Some aerosol creation systems can include multiple pairs of counter-rotating rollers that are positioned in a circular, oval, or linear pattern. The aerosol creation system with multiple pairs of counter-rotating rollers can generate mist is one or more directions and can be positioned between two concentric rings or linearly, among other configurations.

Abstract: A glass bead dispensing apparatus for alternatively being manually held and operated or attached to a walk-behind pavement line striper. A glass bead dispenser is mounted to the horizontal support bar of the line striper so it can be vertically adjusted or quickly demounted for manual use. A bead gate actuation cable extends between the bead dispenser and a forward mounting block for applying glass beads when the paint sprayer of the line striper is actuated. A direction-reversing bell crank is pivotally mounted to the forward mounting block. A sprayer operator connecting link is connected between the direction-reversing bell crank and the paint sprayer operator. For hand held operation, a handle bar is attachable to an upstanding support post of the bead dispenser and has a hand-actuable lever attachable to the gate actuation cable for manually opening and closing the bead gate.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for hand disinfection quality control comprising the steps of providing hand disinfection medium comprising light reflecting particles responsive to light mostly outside the visible spectral range of light, applying the hand disinfection medium comprising the light reflecting particles in a prescribed manner for a prescribed time, illuminating the disinfected hands with a light source providing light in a spectral range for activating the reflecting particles. The method further comprises providing digital images of the hands from both sides, determining the concentration of reflecting particles, comparing determined concentration values with a predetermined threshold value corresponding to acceptable hand cleanness, and determining whether the quality of disinfection is acceptable or not according to the result of comparison.

Abstract: A device designed to transport paper currency in a protected fashion. While being transported, the device monitors for tampering or break-in attempts and subsequently generates warning notifications, devalues currency with indelible ink, or sounds an alarm depending on configuration and the type of tampering detected. Further, techniques are described for transferring indelible ink efficiently and reliably to a cash compartment area of the transport case.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for open-atmosphere flame based spraying employs a nozzle to preheat, pressurize and atomize a mechanically pumped reactive and flammable liquid solution through a small orifice or a nozzle and then a set of pilot flames to combust the spray. The liquid feedstock is preheated to a supercritical temperature before reaching the nozzle and is pressurized before spraying due to a reduced size of the outlet port of the feedstock flow channel relative to the inlet. A supplementary collimating, or sheathing, gas is supplied to the flow channel of the feedstock and both the feedstock and the supplementary gas are uniformly heated before spraying. This arrangement helps to avoid clogging of the nozzle and results in satisfactory control of the properties of the particulate products of the spraying procedure.

Abstract: To provide a conveyor apparatus that is capable of performing an operation of a bagged electrode with the bagged electrode being in a non-expanding state. A conveyor apparatus 1 conveys a bagged electrode 100 that is formed by sandwiching an electrode 110 by a pair of separators 120, 130 and by partly welding an outer circumference of the pair of separators 120, 130. The conveyor apparatus 1 has a conveyor unit 10, an operating unit and an air-blowing unit 20. The conveyor unit 10 conveys the bagged electrode 100 while holding the bagged electrode 100. The operating unit performs an operation of the exposed bagged electrode 100 at a part of a conveyor line of the conveyor unit 10. The air-blowing unit 20 blows toward a surface that is an opposite side to a held surface of the bagged electrode 100.

Abstract: A forming material having a layer on at least one of surfaces of a support substrate material, wherein the layer contains a fluorine-containing compound, and has a 60-degree specular gloss level prescribed in JIS Z8741 (1997 edition) greater than or equal to 60%, and the layer has a surface property with a number of peaks exceeding a root-mean-square roughness (Rq) observed under an atomic force microscope (AFM) greater than or equal to 500 and less than or equal to 1500 per 25 ?m2.

Abstract: A method for producing tablets containing ammonium nitrate, including dripping a product melt containing ammonium nitrate with a drop former having a rotating, pierced drum and a nozzle strip contacting an inner face of the pierced drum, so that the product melt is pressed through openings of the pierced drum. The method additionally includes placing the product drops on a circulating cooling conveyor belt, and solidifying the product drops during the transport on the cooling conveyor belt by cooling and removing the solidified product drops from the cooling conveyor belt.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal drip irrigation device, comprising a duct container, in which a plurality of liquid crystal ducts are arranged. The liquid crystal ducts pass through the duct container from top end surface to bottom end surface of the duct container. A baffle is appressed to the bottom end surface of the duct container. A plurality of through holes corresponding to the liquid crystal ducts in positions are formed on the baffle. The bottom end surface of the duct container is provided with a first actuator and the baffle is provided with a second actuator. The first actuator and the second actuator drive the baffle to move relative to the duct container.

Abstract: An improved spray apparatus designed to optimize the pattern of the texture material and the performance of the spray apparatus to look and perform similar to a hopper texture gun or texture spray rig used by professionals. The spray apparatus, has a housing defining a cavity. A transfer wheel is rotatably mounted to the housing, the transfer wheel having a hub defining a hub axis, and a plurality of transfer flaps. A propeller is rotatably mounted to the housing and positioned above the transfer wheel, the propeller having a spindle and a plurality of fins. A firing pin is attached to the housing above the propeller. An actuator is mounted to the housing to cause the propeller to rotate.

Abstract: A coating film forming apparatus includes: a coating nozzle; a horizontal moving mechanism that relatively moves a substrate and the coating nozzle; a pressure regulating mechanism that regulates a pressure inside the coating nozzle; and a controller that changes an amount of the coating solution to be supplied from the coating nozzle, wherein the coating nozzle includes: a discharge port that is formed long in a direction perpendicular to a direction of the relative movement with respect to the substrate; and a storage chamber that communicates with the discharge port and stores the coating solution therein, and wherein while the coating solution is applied to the substrate, the pressure regulating mechanism is controlled according to a change in width of the substrate, to regulate the pressure inside the storage chamber to thereby change a discharge amount per unit time of the coating solution to be discharged.

Abstract: A digital painting process provides computer-controlled finishing of dental articles. The process can selectively apply different materials over portions of a dental article in one or more layers to achieve a multi-chromatic finish having a variety of colors, finishes, and surface properties that closely match the appearance and function of human dentition.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of growing a thin film are provided. The method comprises at least (a) providing a number of substrates; (b) cleaning the substrates; and (c) placing the substrates into a reaction liquid; (d) vibrating the reaction liquid by ultrasonic waves such that a thin film is grown on the substrates evenly.

Abstract: A wafer-level coating method and a coating system are provided. A strip-shaped sprayer is disposed above the wafer, and a length of the strip-shaped sprayer is larger than a diameter of the wafer. Then, a coating process is performed by spraying a material from the strip-shaped sprayer to form a material layer covering a top surface of the wafer and moving the strip-shaped sprayer relative to the wafer in a direction vertical to a length direction of the strip-shaped sprayer for at least a distance equal to or larger than the diameter of the wafer. Next, the moving strip-shaped sprayer and the spraying of the material are stopped after the material layer is formed.