Plural Projectors Patents (Class 118/313)
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Patent number: 8714102Abstract: A liquid drop discharge device provides a head unit 420 which discharges filter element material relative to each of various colors of color filters. The head unit 420 is composed of an ink jet heads which are arranged on one end of a print substrate plate having a shape of rectangular card and head devices 433 which are arranged on the other end of the print substrate plate comprising connectors 441. The head devices 433 are aligned in two rows, as two groups, in a staggered arrangement so that a portion on which the connectors 441 are aligned in one of the two rows does not face to the same portion of the other in the two rows and protrudes outside of the print substrate plate. The head unit 420 discharges the filter element material onto predetermined portions in a superimposing manner while shifting along a direction which intersects to a direction along which the head devices 433 are arranged.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shinichi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20140106482Abstract: A deposition apparatus includes a deposition source containing a deposition material, the deposition source including a center area between two outer areas along a first direction, and a plurality of spray nozzles arranged on the center area of the deposition source along the first direction, the plurality of spray nozzles being configured to spray the deposition material toward a surface substrate, wherein the spray nozzles include first and second spray nozzles, the first spray nozzles having terminal ends thereof parallel to and facing the surface of the substrate, and the second spray nozzles having terminal ends thereof at an oblique angle with respect to the surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Inventor: Sang-Shin LEE
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Patent number: 8689726Abstract: The present invention comprises an automated apparatus capable of spray depositing polyelectrolytes via the LbL mechanism with minimal or no human interaction. In certain embodiments, the apparatus sprays atomized polyelectrolytes onto a vertically oriented substrate. To counteract the effects of irregular spray patterns, the substrate is preferably slowly rotated about a central axis. In certain embodiments, the apparatus also includes a forced pathway for the droplets, such as a pathway created by using a vacuum. In this way, a thicker or three-dimensional substrate can be coated. In certain embodiments, the apparatus is designed so as to be scalable. Thus, through the use of multiple instantiations of the apparatus, a large or irregularly shaped substrate can be coated. Rolls of textile can therefore be coated using the apparatus. Additionally, the present invention includes a method to uniformly coat a substrate, such as a hydrophobic textile material, using aqueous solutions of polyelectrolytes.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Massachusetts Institute Of TechnologyInventors: Kevin C. Krogman, Paula T. Hammond, Nicole S. Zacharia
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Patent number: 8691022Abstract: The wet treatment of wafer-shaped articles is improved by utilizing a droplet generator designed to produce a spray of monodisperse droplets. The droplet generator is mounted above a spin chuck, and is moved across a major surface of the wafer-shaped article in a linear or arcuate path. The droplet generator includes a transducer acoustically coupled to its body such that sonic energy reaches a region of the body surrounding the discharge orifices. Each orifice has a width w of at least 1 ?m and at most 200 ?m and a height h such that a ratio of h to w is not greater than 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Lam Research AGInventors: Frank Holsteyns, Alexander Lippert
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Publication number: 20140079884Abstract: The disclosure provides materials, apparatuses, and methods for making multilayer coatings with a high degree of efficiency and control. In some aspects, for example, coatings are described having multiple layers of nanoparticles and a polyelectrolyte, wherein the nanoparticles form tightly packed monolayers. The interface between monolayers may include polyelectrolyte material. One or more aspects of such monolayers and interfaces are controllable.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Svaya Nanotechnologies, IncInventors: Kevin Krogman, J. Wallace Parce, Melissa Fardy, Siglinde Schmid, Thomas Workman, Thomas Fong, William E. Jarvis, Benjamin Wang
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Patent number: 8663746Abstract: An apparatus and system for stirring liquid inside a flow cell. In one implementation, the apparatus includes a rotatable disc configured to receive liquid at a top side of the disc and distribute the liquid substantially evenly around a periphery of the flow cell. The disc has a triangular cross sectional area. The apparatus may further include a set of fins attached to a bottom side of the disc, wherein the set of fins is configured to draw the liquid from the periphery of the flow cell into the center of the flow cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventor: Rajesh Kelekar
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Patent number: 8656936Abstract: Apparatuses, and related methods, for processing a workpiece that include a particular barrier structure that can overlie and cover a workpiece. Apparatuses, and related methods, for processing a workpiece that include a particular movable member that can be positioned over and moved relative to a workpiece. Apparatuses, and related methods, for processing a workpiece that include a particular ceiling structure that can overlie a processing chamber. Nozzle devices, and related methods, that include a particular annular body. Nozzle devices, and related methods, that include a particular first, second, and third nozzle structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Tel FSI, Inc.Inventors: Jimmy D. Collins, Samuel A. Cooper, James M. Eppes, Alan D. Rose, Kader Mekias
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Publication number: 20140045344Abstract: A coater apparatus that coats a substrate with a chemical liquid includes a chemical liquid nozzle, a solvent nozzle, a solvent bath, a dummy dispense port, and an ionizer. The chemical liquid nozzle dispenses the chemical liquid onto the substrate. The solvent nozzle dispenses a solvent onto the substrate. The solvent bath contains a solvent and stores a tip of the chemical liquid nozzle when the chemical liquid nozzle is in standby such that the tip is exposed to a solvent vapor. The dummy dispense port exhausts the chemical liquid being dummy dispensed from the chemical liquid nozzle and stores the solvent nozzle when the solvent nozzle is in standby. The ionizer ionizes an atmosphere around the dummy dispense port.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Masashi TERAO
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Publication number: 20140037853Abstract: Embodiments relate to depositing a layer of material on a permeable substrate by passing the permeable substrate between a set of reactors. The reactors may inject source precursor, reactant precursor, purge gas or a combination thereof onto the permeable substrate as the permeable substrate passes between the reactors. Part of the gas injected by a reactor penetrates the permeable substrate and is discharged by the other reactor. The remaining gas injected by the reactor moves in parallel to the surface of the permeable substrate and is discharged via an exhaust portion formed on the same reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: Veeco ALD Inc.Inventor: Sang In Lee
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Patent number: 8642131Abstract: A deflecting air ring includes a plurality of deflecting air nozzles for discharging a deflecting air jet onto a spray jet of a vaporizer in order to shape the spray jet. The deflecting air nozzles are configured such that the deflecting air jet is substantially laminar within a first region, while the deflecting air nozzles also generate turbulence in a second region situated downstream of the first region of the deflecting air jet.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Durr Systems GmbHInventors: Hans-Jürgen Nolte, Peter Marquardt, Harald Gummlich, Andreas Fischer, Harry Krumma, Jürgen Berkowitsch
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Patent number: 8631758Abstract: A drum coating device for coating work-pieces includes a main body, a support element, a cleaning device, a spraying device, a rotary drum device, a heating device, and a drive device. The main body defines a receiving room. The support element is received in the receiving room and defines slots for receiving the work-pieces. The cleaning device cleans the work-pieces. The spraying device sprays coating materials to the work-pieces. The rotary drum device uniformly coats the coating materials on the work-pieces. The heating device heats the coating materials coated on the work-pieces. The drive device includes a rotating drive rotating the support element and a linear drive raising or lowering the support element in the receiving room.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shao-Kai Pei
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Publication number: 20140011005Abstract: A system for depositing a substance onto a substrate comprises continuously transporting the substrate in a transport direction while traversing a deposition arrangement across the substrate to deposit the substance in a number of swathes. During such movement the positions of the deposition arrangement and the substrate are controlled with respect to one another such that the swathes complement one another to provide substantially uniform coverage of the substrate. As a result of the defined arrangement, improved substrate speeds can be achieved since there is no need for the substrate to stop at each traverse.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Gerrit KOELE, Alan HUDD
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Patent number: 8622017Abstract: An electroless plating system includes a plating solution, and controlling reducing agents in the plating solution for deposition over outlier features smaller than about five hundred nanometers and isolated by about one thousand nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Igor Ivanov, Robert D. Tas, Shashank Ravindra Kulkarni, Ron Rulkens
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Patent number: 8616152Abstract: An apparatus for coating a stent comprises a coating solution reservoir, a stent support for carrying a stent adjacent the reservoir, transducers for generating waves through the coating solution, and a controller that controls timing at which the transducers are powered in order to eject a droplet of the coating solution.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventor: Yung Ming Chen
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Patent number: 8613981Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of composites, composed of at least one outer layer b) and of an isocyanate-based rigid foam a), where the outer layer b) is moved continuously and the starting material for the isocyanate-based rigid foam a) is applied to the outer layer b), which comprises achieving the application of the liquid starting material for the isocyanate-based rigid foam a) by means of at least one fixed tube c) which has openings f) and which has been placed, with respect to the outer layer b), so as to be parallel to the plane of the outer layer and at right angles to the direction of movement.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Lars Schoen, Roland Fabisiak, Rainer Hensiek, Peter Huntemann, Ruediger Viereck, Maria Thomas, Bernd Schaper
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Publication number: 20130333614Abstract: A header intended to be installed in a horizontal platform in the form of a working table of a recoating machine to repair lids, comprises a copying device (1) sustained by a cam support (5), joined in turn to an upper support (4), the copying device having a copying cam body (3) solidary to the cam support (5), the static solidary set of these three elements (3-4-5) being coupled around the main rotary shaft (10), to which lower extremity a drum (18) is affixed dragging the copying device with its rotary movement. The copying device has, among its elements, roller followers (25) driven in grooves (3?) located in the copying cam body 3, the copying device (1) also having coating guns (17).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventor: José Peñalver Garcia
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Patent number: 8601974Abstract: A conveying device for a deposition device includes a transport device and a carrier. The transport device includes a main body, two wheels, a connection shaft, and a first bevel gear. The connection shaft is mounted on the main body. The two wheels are mounted on two opposite ends of the connection shaft. The first bevel gear is sleeved on the connection shaft. The carrier includes a revolving frame, a rotating shaft, a second bevel gear, and at least one carrying bar. The rotating shaft is mounted on the revolving frame. The second bevel gear is sleeved on one end of the rotating shaft and meshed with the first bevel gear. The revolving frame rotates relative to the rotating shaft. The at least one carrying bar is mounted on the revolving frame and driven by the rotating shaft to rotate. Each carrying bar includes supporting elements for carrying workpieces.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chung-Pei Wang
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Publication number: 20130316081Abstract: A system and method for three-dimensional printing are provided. One three-dimensional printing system includes a first printing surface configured to hold a first three-dimensional object. The three-dimensional printing system also includes a second printing surface configured to hold a second three-dimensional object. The three-dimensional printing system includes at least one printing head disposed adjacent to the first and second printing surfaces for printing the first and second three-dimensional objects. A vertical position of the first printing surface is controlled independently from a vertical position of the second printing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Michael Andrew Kovalcik, Eric Alan Estill, Donnell Eugene Crear
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Patent number: 8585937Abstract: A method for forming an embedded passive device module comprises depositing a first amount of an alkali silicate material, co-depositing an amount of embedded passive device material with the amount of alkali silicate material; and thermally processing the amount of alkali silicate material and the amount of embedded passive device material at a temperature sufficient to cure the amount of alkali silicate material and the amount of embedded passive device material and form a substantially moisture free substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Nathan P. Lower, Ross K. Wilcoxon, Alan P. Boone, Nathaniel P. Wyckoff, Brandon C. Hamilton
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Patent number: 8584613Abstract: A head for dispensing a thin film over a substrate is disclosed. The head includes a body assembly that extends between a first and a second end that is at least a width of the substrate. The body includes a main bore that is defined between the first and the second ends, the main bore connected to an upper side of a reservoir through a plurality of feeds that are defined between the main bore and the reservoir. The body also includes a plurality of outlets connected to a lower side of the reservoir and extend to an output slot. The plurality of feeds have a larger cross-sectional area than the plurality of outlets and the plurality of feeds are fewer than the plurality of outlets. Wherein fluid is configured to flow through the main bore, through the plurality of feeds along the bore and fill the reservoir up to at least the threshold level before fluid is evenly output as a film out of the output slot onto the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Arnold Kholodenko, Cheng-yu Lin, Leon Ginzburg, Mark Mandelboym, Gregory A. Tomasch, Anwar Husain
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Patent number: 8584615Abstract: A spray assembly includes a power source, a motion control mechanism such as a cam box, and at least one spray head structured to apply a coating to a plurality of can ends. Each spray head includes a mounting member, a pivot member, a gun assembly including a plurality of spray guns, and a transfer mechanism for transferring a predetermined motion induced by the cam box from the cam box to the pivot member. Each of the spray guns applies the coating to the can ends in accordance with the predetermined motion. Preferably the predetermined motion as an oscillating motion transferred to the pivot member by belts, thereby oscillating the spray guns. The spray assembly may include a plurality of spray heads, wherein can ends of the same or different sizes are transferred in lanes to a corresponding one of the spray heads.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventor: Dennis C. Stammen
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Patent number: 8574674Abstract: A substrate is first rotated at a first rotation speed, and a resist solution is applied. Rotation of the substrate is decelerated to a second rotation speed lower than the first rotation speed so that the substrate is rotated at the low speed to smooth the resist solution on the substrate. Rotation of the substrate is then accelerated to a third rotation speed higher than the second rotation speed, and a solvent for the coating solution and/or a dry gas are/is supplied to the resist solution on the substrate. The solvent gas is supplied to a portion of the resist solution on the substrate thicker than a set thickness, and the dry gas is supplied to a portion of the coating solution on the substrate thinner than the set thickness. This thins the thicker portion of the resist solution and thickens the thinner portion to uniform the resist solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventor: Takashi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20130287950Abstract: A linear liner machine includes a base. A plurality of fluid dispensing apparatus such as, for example, sealant guns, are fixed in a stationary position in a linear configuration on the base. A conveying assembly such as, for example, a conveyor belt, conveys container closures to the sealant guns. A manipulation mechanism such as, for example, a number of motors and at least one wheel member, manipulate (e.g., rotate or spin) each of the container closures with respect to a corresponding one of the sealant guns as it dispenses a sealant to line the container closures. Accordingly, the liner comprises a plurality of independent lining stations, wherein operation of a number of said independent lining stations can be stopped while the remaining independent lining stations continue to operate to line the container closures. An associated method of lining container closures is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: NEIL A. ZUMBERGER, Gregory H. Butcher, Aaron E. Carstens, Jason A. Davidson
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Patent number: 8567342Abstract: A coating device includes a coating mechanism which includes nozzles for ejecting a liquid material onto front and rear surfaces of a substrate while rotating the substrate; and an adjusting mechanism which adjusts the coating state of the liquid material at the outer periphery of the substrate; wherein the adjusting mechanism includes a dip portion which dips the outer periphery of the substrate in a solution while rotating the substrate and dissolves and removes a thin film formed on the outer periphery of the substrate; and a suction portion which suctions the vicinity of the outer periphery of the substrate after dipping in the solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Sahoda, Futoshi Shimai, Akihiko Sato
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Publication number: 20130280425Abstract: A liquid treatment method includes: supplying a first organic solvent to a substrate with the substrate being held horizontally by a substrate holder; and thereafter supplying a second organic solvent to a substrate held by the substrate holder, the second solvent having a higher cleanliness than the first solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Yuichi YOSHIDA, Kousuke YOSHIHARA
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Patent number: 8561570Abstract: A droplet discharge device is configured to control the drive corresponding to a prescribed set of the nozzles selected to discharge droplets during a main scan when the droplets are arranged in the first partition regions, based on a pre-measured distribution of a droplet discharge amount of each of the prescribed set of the nozzles so that the droplet discharge amount approximates a predetermined optimal amount, and to control the drive waveforms corresponding to the nozzles included in a plurality of potential combinations of the nozzles selected to discharge droplets during a main scan when the droplets are arranged in the second partition regions, based on a pre-measured distribution of an average droplet discharge amount calculated from an amount of droplets discharged from the each of the nozzles in all the potential combinations so that the droplet discharge amount approximates the predetermined optimal amount.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Sadaharu Komori, Tsuyoshi Kato, Tamotsu Goto
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Patent number: 8561571Abstract: A method of applying a coating solution onto an upper surface of a glass plate that is transported in a substantially horizontal attitude, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the method including the steps of transporting the glass plate into a coating chamber, and opening the plurality of coating nozzles which are positioned in a row at constant intervals therebetween along a curved shape of the upper surface of the glass plate in a width direction of the glass plate perpendicular to the direction of transporting the glass plate by the nozzle position adjusting means and the nozzle height adjusting means, to thereby inject the coating solution when the coating nozzles are located in a region of the upper surface of the glass plate which extends from the leading edge of the glass plate to the rear edge of the glass plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2009Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Central Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Takafumi Shioi, Tadaaki Nakano, Shigeo Hamaguchi, Yoshinori Akamatsu, Nobuyuki Itakura
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Publication number: 20130274700Abstract: A method of dispensing adhesive onto a stretched elastic strand includes applying a first volume of adhesive onto a first portion of the elastic strand, applying a second volume of adhesive onto a second portion of the elastic strand, and applying a third volume of adhesive onto a third portion of the elastic strand. The second volume is less than the first and third volumes. When the elastic strand is adhered to a substrate to form a personal disposable hygiene product, the first and third portions of the elastic strand define opposing ends of the elastic strand, which are adhered with a larger amount of adhesive to resist creep at the opposing ends. The reduction of adhesive in the second or central portion between the opposing ends significantly reduces the adhesive add on in the personal disposable hygiene product.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: NORDSON CORPORATIONInventor: Michael W. Harris
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Publication number: 20130269605Abstract: A device for applying a fluid media onto a substrate as the substrate is moved past the device in an advancement direction includes a channel. A slot nozzle is arranged downstream of the channel in a flow direction of the fluid media. A nozzle body comprises dispensing nozzles. Each dispensing nozzle comprises a dispensing opening which leads into the channel. The dispensing openings are arranged on a line extending transverse to the advancement direction. Application modules are configured to intermittently dispense the fluid media onto the substrate via the dispensing nozzles. The application modules are arranged on the nozzle body in at least two rows offset from each other transverse to the advancement direction of the substrate. Adjacent rows of the at least two rows are inclined towards one another at an inclination angle. The at least two rows are arranged to incline along the line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: BAUMER HHS GMBHInventors: Markus Jochheim, Martin Kotecki, Dieter Baldauf, Achim Skicki
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Patent number: 8555805Abstract: A spray gun (31) is attached to a multi-function unit (32) movable in a horizontal direction and a perpendicular direction. The spray gun (31) is mounted to a support holder (33), and the support holder (33) is connected to a support arm (35) of the multi-function unit (32). The support arm (35) is attached to a unit cover (36) which is openable/closable with respect to a casing (2). The support holder (33) and the support arm (35) can hide and house a liquid hose and an air hose therein so that the hoses and the like are arranged in an apparatus in such a state as to be completely free from being exposed. An installation position of the spray gun (31) can be finely adjusted by the multi-function unit (32) during a coating process, thereby enabling a control for keeping constant distances between tablet surfaces and the spray gun (31).Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2009Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Freund CorporationInventors: Yasutoyo Fusejima, Takuya Nakamura, Takashi Terada, Shigemi Isobe
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Patent number: 8550029Abstract: A fluid agent applying multi-vent nozzle is capable of densely disposing ejecting vents. The multi-vent nozzle has a main body configured in a casing block, a raised surface provided at a distal end of the casing block, contoured and dimensioned corresponding to a target area to apply fluid agent to, and a plurality of ejecting vents defined in the raised surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Suncall CorporationInventor: Kenji Mashimo
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Patent number: 8544409Abstract: A coating zone comprises a conveyor for transporting an application object. At least one guide rail extends through the coating zone adjacent the conveyor, arranged above the conveyor at a height at least at the level of the top of the object. At least one robot may move along the conveyor on the guide rail, the robot having a first axis for joint rotation of at least one moving member of the robot in relation to a main body guided along the guide rail. A load-bearing structure supports the at least one guide rail, the load-bearing structure including at least one load-bearing pillar extending substantially vertically downwards from the level of the guide rail. The guide rail and the main body of the robot are arranged in such a way that the first axis of the robot is inclined relative to a vertical plane parallel to the conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Dürr Systems GmbHInventors: Frank Herre, Juergen Haas, Michael Baumann, Marcus Frey, Hans Vetters, Jan Grigoleit
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Publication number: 20130247821Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive application apparatus for manufacturing a blade for a wind power generator. The adhesive application apparatus for manufacturing a blade for a wind power generator according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: a blade mold on which a blade is mounted; a plurality of adhesive application units positioned to be spaced apart from the blade mold and configured to apply an adhesive on an inner surface of the blade; a horizontal transfer unit configured to transfer the adhesive application unit in a horizontal direction; and a vertical transfer unit configured to transfer the adhesive application unit in a vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SAMSUNG HEAVY IND. CO., LTD.Inventors: Sangmin Choi, Kihyun Kim, Soohyun Eum
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Publication number: 20130247820Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a film formation device that is able to prevent a size increase in a configuration around a mist jet nozzle while maintaining uniform spouting of a mist to a substrate on which a film is to be formed. The present invention includes a mist generator (2) that generates a mist of a raw material of a film to be formed, and a mist jet nozzle (1) that jets the mist generated by the mist generator to a substrate on which a film is to be formed. The mist jet nozzle includes: a main body (1A) having a hollow portion (1H); a mist supply port (5a) that supplies the mist; a spout (8) that jets the mist to the outside; a carrier gas supply port (6a) that supplies a carrier gas; and a shower plate (7) having a plurality of holes (7a) formed therein. By the arrangement of the shower plate, the hollow portion is divided into a first space (1S) connected to the carrier gas supply port and a second space (1T) connected to the spout.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYS CORPInventors: Hiroyuki Orita, Takahiro Shirahata, Akio Yoshida
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Patent number: 8534222Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to apply a liquid uniformly on a to-be-coated area of an object subjected to liquid coating. A delivery unit which delivers the liquid on the to-be-coated area of the object subjected to liquid coating comprises a main body filled with the liquid and a nozzle plate which is provided at one end side of the main body and which is provided with a delivery path for delivering the liquid. The axial line of the delivery path is inclined relative to a vertical axis toward an opposite side of a travelling direction in which the delivery unit travels relative to the to-be-coated area.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Isao Ebisawa
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Patent number: 8535756Abstract: A nozzle for dispensing a random pattern of liquid adhesive filaments. The nozzle may include first and second air shim plates, an adhesive shim plate and first and second separating shim plates. The first and second air shim plates each have respective pairs of air slots. Each air slot has a process air inlet and a process air outlet and the air slots of each pair converge toward one another such that the process air inlets are farther apart than the process air outlets in each pair. The adhesive shim plate includes a plurality of liquid slots each with a liquid outlet. Four process air outlets are associated with each of the liquid outlets. The process air slots are adapted to receive pressurized process air and the liquid slots are adapted to receive pressurized liquid adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Benjamin J. Bondeson, Thomas Burmester, Hubert Kufner, Joel E. Saine
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Publication number: 20130236644Abstract: A system for painting a structure includes a motorized, wheeled vehicle that is movable along a surface and includes a frame and a lift structure coupled with the frame. The system also includes a support structure supported by the lift structure, and a table supported by the support structure. The table is translatable relative to the support structure. The system also includes a mount structure rotatably coupled with the table and a kit of parts that includes a spray head assembly configured for releasable attachment to the mount structure. The system further includes a paint reservoir and a pump, each being supported by one of the vehicle and the support structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: September 12, 2013Inventors: Adam G. Logan, Cameron Michael Johnson, Jeffrey David Weikel
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Publication number: 20130228123Abstract: A paint-spray line comprising a number of sprayers which are provided to discharge paint onto an item to be coated and are connected to a paint supply unit via a common main supply line is also suitable, to a particular extent and at an expense kept particularly low, for a need-based provision of individual quantities of paint which are kept at a particular minimum. For this purpose, the conveying device, provided for feeding paint into the main supply line is configured according to the invention as a single-piston pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: LACTEC GMBHInventors: Winfried OTT, Volker Weiss
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Publication number: 20130228122Abstract: A coating apparatus for forming a thin UV curable resin coating on threaded end portions of a steel pipe comprises a spraying unit having at least two nozzles adapted to spray the resin coating composition by pneumatic atomization toward the threaded end portion of the steel pipe, a resin supply system for supplying the resin coating composition to each nozzle, and a first nozzle support means which supports each nozzle for movement in the axial direction of the steel pipe and in the vertical direction. The two nozzles are disposed at different positions at least in the axial direction of the steel pipe at angles which are sloped such that the sprayed streams from the nozzles approach each other. The resin supply system has a regulator for maintaining the spraying air pressure of the resin coating composition in each nozzle of the spraying unit at a predetermined respective value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2011Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicants: Vallourec Mannesmann Oil & Gas France, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Masayoshi Sasaki, Katsutoshi Sumitani, Takumi Nakamura, Jun Masubuchi
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Patent number: 8522714Abstract: A wet processing apparatus for wet-processing substrates can suppress the reduction of throughput when some component part thereof becomes unserviceable. The wet processing apparatus includes a first nozzle unit and a second nozzle unit. When the wet processing apparatus operates in a normal mode, a substrate carrying mechanism is controlled so as to deliver substrates alternately to processing units of a first group and those of a second group so that the substrates are processed sequentially in order. When the processing units of the first group (the second group) are unserviceable due to the inoperativeness of the substrate holders, a processing liquid supply system or a nozzle support mechanism, the nozzle unit for the processing units of the second group (the first group) is moved to process substrates by the serviceable ones of the first group (the second group).Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Naofumi Kishita, Kouji Fujimura, Yoshitaka Hara
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Patent number: 8522712Abstract: In a template treatment of forming a film of a release agent on a treatment surface of a template, the treatment surface of the template is first cleaned. Thereafter, in a coating unit, the release agent is applied to the treatment surface of the template. The release agent on the template is then dried. Then, alcohol is applied to the release agent on the template to make the release agent adhere to the treatment surface of the template and to remove an unreacted portion of the release agent. Thereafter, the alcohol on the template is dried and removed. In this manner, a film of the release agent is formed in a predetermined film thickness on the treatment surface of the template.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Koukichi Hiroshiro, Takanori Nishi, Takahiro Kitano, Shoichi Terada
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Patent number: 8516974Abstract: A wet masking system for applying a maskant to a portion of a workpiece includes one or more pressurized mixing vessels with agitators for continuously blending the ingredients of the maskant, a dispensing system connected to the vessels for supplying metered volumes of maskant to injection valves. An electronic controller operable for controlling the system to coat the portion. A fixture for holding the workpiece with just the portion inside a cavity of the fixture includes one or more inlet ports alignable with injection ports of the injection valves injecting the maskant into the cavity. Heaters are positioned for drying or flash drying the maskant on the portion of the workpiece. Recirculation lines from the injection valves to at least one of the mixing vessels operated by the controller to flow the maskant through the recirculation lines after a period of time when no maskant is flowing through masking system.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nicholas Shawn Woodard, Albert Dean King
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Publication number: 20130206063Abstract: Adhesive application apparatus and methods are disclosed herein. An example adhesive application apparatus includes a spray assembly to apply a quantity of mixed adhesive to a designated spray area of a panel. The spray assembly has a spray boom to support a spray nozzle and an adhesive mixing chamber. The adhesive mixing chamber is coupled to the spray assembly upstream from the spray nozzle. A first fluid path provides a first adhesive component to the adhesive mixing chamber and a second fluid path provides a second adhesive to the adhesive mixing chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: August 15, 2013Inventors: Pieter Terblanche Janse Van Rensburg, Graeme Paul Clark
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Publication number: 20130202796Abstract: A plant for the surface decoration of elongate items includes an inlet section and an outlet section for one or more items having an external peripheral surface to be decorated, a support system for the elongated objects on a predetermined lying plane, a system for continuously forwarding the items from the inlet section to the outlet section along a longitudinal feeding direction, with the items substantially parallel to the same longitudinal direction, and a decorating system for the external surface of the items. The decorating system includes a plurality of jet devices arranged along the longitudinal direction, at least one of which is oriented to direct a jet of a pigmented substance on a portion of the external surface of the items at least partially different from another surface portion designed to be decorated by another device. A method for decorating elongate objects is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Inventor: Giancarlo Fenzi
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Patent number: 8499715Abstract: A coating apparatus includes a first coating device, a number of second coating devices and a number of substrate holders. Each of the substrate holders is rotatable relative to the first coating device and the second coating devices such that one of two opposite holding surfaces of the substrate holder alternately faces the first coating device and the second coating devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shao-Kai Pei
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Patent number: 8485123Abstract: An imprint lithography apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has a substrate table configured to support a lithographic substrate and a plurality of nozzles arranged to eject fluid onto the lithographic substrate, the plurality of nozzles extending over a distance which is substantially equal to or greater than a width of the substrate, wherein the nozzles, the lithographic substrate, or both, are moveable relative to the other.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignees: ASML Netherlands B.V., Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Johan Frederik Dijksman, Antonius Johannes Joseph Wismans, Anke Pierik, Martin Maurice Vernhout, Sander Frederik Wuister, Yvonne Wendela Kruijt-Stegeman
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Patent number: 8485122Abstract: There is described a gluing unit (1) for applying adhesive to a succession of opening devices (3) to be fitted to respective sealed packages of pourable food products, the unit (1) having: conveying means (20) for feeding the opening devices (3) along a path (A); and adhesive dispensing means (21) located along the path (A) and interacting with each opening device (3) on the conveying means (20) to apply the adhesive to a portion (10) of the opening device (3); and the unit (1) being characterized in that the dispensing means (21) are movable parallel to the path (A), so as to increase output of the unit (1).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.Inventors: Alessandro Morselli, Roberto Franceschi, Alessandro Zuccotti
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Patent number: 8485124Abstract: Disclosed is a silver thin film spread apparatus by means of deposition of nano metallic silver, the apparatus comprising: a treatment booth formed at one side with an inlet for inputting a substrate, and formed at the other side with an outlet for discharging the substrate; a transfer device formed at a lower side of the treatment booth for transferring the substrate; a spray device formed at an upper side of the treatment booth for spraying silver solution on a surface of the substrate; a moving device for linearly reciprocating the spray device; and a rotation device formed at the lower side of the treatment booth for rotating the substrate, whereby reflectivity can be enhanced by increasing film compactness and coating uniformity of thin film, where the substrate is rotated at a predetermined constant speed to allow the spray guns to linearly reciprocate and to allow the nano silver thin film to be uniformly spread and deposited on the surface of the substrate at a predetermined constant frequency.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: NANO CMS Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shi Surk Kim, Seong Uk Lee, Si Doo Kim
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Patent number: 8481124Abstract: A deflecting air ring is disclosed having a plurality of deflecting air nozzles for discharging a deflecting air jet onto a spray jet of a vaporizer in order to shape the spray jet. The deflecting air nozzles are configured such that the deflecting air jet is substantially laminar within a close region, while the deflecting air nozzles also generate turbulence in a remote region situated downstream of the close region of the deflecting air jet.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Durr Systems GmbHInventors: Hans-Jurgen Nolte, Peter Marquardt, Harald Gummlich, Andreas Fischer, Harry Krumma, Jurgen Berkowitsch
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Publication number: 20130168664Abstract: A printing method for use in fabrication of an electronic unit comprising one or more lines of a regularly repeating structural feature formed over a substrate, the structural feature repeating over a regular interval along each line. The method comprises: using a first print-head arrangement to print portions of a composition at a first pitch along each of the lines; and using a second print-head arrangement to print portions of the composition at a second pitch along each of the lines; such that the first and second pitches together produce a beating pattern along each of the lines, having a beating wavelength matched to the interval of the regularly repeating structural feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Mark Crankshaw