To Remove Or Spread Applied Coating By Gas Blast Patents (Class 118/63)
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Patent number: 11955335Abstract: In a method of coating a photo resist over a wafer, dispensing the photo resist from a nozzle over the wafer is started while rotating the wafer, and dispensing the photo resist is stopped while rotating the wafer. After starting and before stopping the dispensing the photo resist, a wafer rotation speed is changed at least 4 times. During dispensing, an arm holding the nozzle may move horizontally. A tip end of the nozzle may be located at a height of 2.5 mm to 3.5 mm from the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tung-Hung Feng, Hui-Chun Lee, Sheng-Wen Jiang, Shih-Che Wang
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Patent number: 11939255Abstract: Fibrous material webs and methods of making the fibrous material webs. Binderless webs can be formed in a continuous process where fiber material, such as glass is melted and formed into fibers. The fibers are formed into a web of binderless glass fibers or a web with a dry binder. The binderless web or the web with dry binder can be layered and/or the fibers that make up the web can be mechanically entangled, for example, by needling.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Glenn Haley, David J. Gaul, Michael T. Pellegrin
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Patent number: 11761073Abstract: A hot dip coating device to provide a metal coating on a moving metal sheet, containing a liquid bath of metal coating material in use. The metal coating material on the moving metal sheet in use, including a container for the liquid bath, a guide or sink roll in the container below liquid bath surface level in use to guide the moving metal sheet through the bath, and a gas knife, above the liquid bath in use, having an outlet to project wiping gas on the metal coating on the metal sheet. At least one supporting roll with the guide or sink roll in use influence metal sheet shape in its width direction at the gas knife location. The one supporting roll is above liquid bath surface level to operate on the metal sheet before the metal sheet enters the bath. A method for use of the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY B.V.Inventors: Jeroen Martijn Link, Jaap Peter Van Eenennaam, Nico Noort, Eduard Antonie Hermanus Van Den Heuvel, Nanda Sintia Mandagi
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Patent number: 11655531Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of hot dip coating of flat steel products, comprising a step of stripping the coated steel strip by means of at least one nozzle that emits a stripping gas having a temperature T3 at an angle ? in the direction of the coated steel strip, wherein the angle ?, the distance h between the surface of the melt bath and the lower edge of the nozzle in mm, the temperature of the stripping gas in ° C. and the differential between the temperature T2 of the melt bath and the temperature T1 of the steel strip are in a particular relationship to one another, and to a correspondingly produced hot dip-coated flat steel product.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Robert Yanik, Friedhelm Macherey, Bastian Schöntaube, Frank Vennemann, Jennifer Schulz, Folkert Schulze-Kraasch
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Patent number: 11590525Abstract: A device for closing a delivery head of a dispensing machine for delivering fluid products includes a stationary support, a drive shaft, which rotates with respect to the stationary support around a vertical axis, and can be moved with respect to the stationary support along the same vertical axis, a cup-shaped closing element carried at the distal end of an arm fixed to a lower end of the drive shaft, and a screw and nut mechanism which controls a translation of the closing element in the direction of the longitudinal axis and a rotation movement to the longitudinal axis using a single actuator.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Inventor: Luca Drocco
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Patent number: 11545361Abstract: In a method of coating a photo resist over a wafer, dispensing the photo resist from a nozzle over the wafer is started while rotating the wafer, and dispensing the photo resist is stopped while rotating the wafer. After starting and before stopping the dispensing the photo resist, a wafer rotation speed is changed at least 4 times. During dispensing, an arm holding the nozzle may move horizontally. A tip end of the nozzle may be located at a height of 2.5 mm to 3.5 mm from the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tung-Hung Feng, Hui-Chun Lee, Sheng-Wen Jiang, Shih-Che Wang
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Patent number: 11532494Abstract: A system and/or method for coating a substrate. The system may include a chuck for holding and rotating the substrate, a dispensing subsystem for dispensing a coating material onto the substrate, and a shield member. The shield member may be movable towards and away from the substrate during the coating procedure. The shield member may have an inverted funnel shape. The shield member may include a central chamber through which a solvent vapor flows and a peripheral chamber that is fluidly separated from the central chamber through which a gas flows. During a coating procedure, the shield member may be moved very close to the substrate and the solvent vapor and gas may flow onto the substrate to create a solvent rich ambient around the substrate and prevent aerosols of the coating material from redepositing onto the substrate after being flung off due to spinning of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Inventors: Gary Hillman, Rajnish Tiwari, Robert D. Mohondro
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Patent number: 11313020Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hot-dip metal plated steel strip having a plated layer formed on the outer surface thereof includes continuously immersing a steel strip in a bath tub that accommodates a molten metal plating bath, causing a sink roll disposed in the bath tub to change the traveling direction of the steel strip, then causing the steel strip to pass through two support rolls formed of a stabilizing roll and a correcting roll disposed above the sink roll but below the surface of the plating bath, and extracting the steel strip out of the bath. A flow regulation plate is disposed so as to cover at least the upper side of a roll body of the stabilizing roll out of the support rolls with a gap between the flow regulation plate and the stabilizing roll, and the flow of the molten metal plating bath directed toward a portion of the steel strip located from the exit of the support rolls to the surface of the plating bath is led toward the lower side of the stabilizing roll via the gap.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hironari Kawabata, Soshi Yoshimoto, Takahiko Itagaki
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Patent number: 11305310Abstract: A metering device is disclosed for regulating the depth of a flowable product coating a surface movable relative to the metering device by directing an air curtain towards the surface. The metering device comprises a body having an interior chamber, an inlet for connecting the chamber to a source of gas under super-ambient pressure; and an opening communicating with the chamber and having a mouth through which gas is discharged from the chamber towards the surface to form the air curtain. A porous or reticulated membrane is secured to, or formed integrally with, the body of the device to lie in the path of the gas discharged through the mouth of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Landa Labs (2012) LTD.Inventors: Benzion Landa, Anton Krassilnikov
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Patent number: 11192137Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system by which a precise amount of a viscous fluid sealing compound can be dispensed at required locations through computer vision-based observation of the fluid deposited, its rate and amount of deposition and location; and that the dispensed fluid may be accurately shaped through robotic or other special purpose mechanism motion. The invention enables instant quality inspection of the dispensing process in terms of the locations, amounts and shapes of newly created seals.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Inc.Inventors: Limin Shang, Adam Neil Philip, Piotr Jasiobedzki, Mark Patrick Barnet, Timothy Reedman
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Patent number: 11071244Abstract: A device for coating seeds with a liquid dressing solution, including a housing delimiting a chamber for accommodating the seeds, a rotating system for mixing the seeds and the dressing solution, an air duct for feeding hot air into the chamber and a separating unit which is permeable to the hot air and separates the air duct from the chamber. According to this invention, the separating unit includes at least one perforated metal sheet that has an inner face facing towards the chamber, an outer face facing towards the air duct and a plurality of projections, wherein a projection rises obliquely in the direction of the outer face and forms an opening inlet, which is inclined to the metal sheet plane, on the outer face. This invention further relates to a method in which the device is used.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AGInventors: Guido Wenig, Heinz-Friedrich Schnier, Hartwig Kempkes, Anja Ehrig, Hans-Jürgen Mandt
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Patent number: 10780381Abstract: The present technology is generally related to a filter assembly. The filter assembly has a first layer has a base layer defining a first perimeter region and a region central to the first perimeter region. A first adhesive is disposed on a first surface of the first layer substantially within the central region, and first adsorbent beads are coupled to the first adhesive. A second layer has a first sheet of filter material having a second perimeter region, wherein the first perimeter region and the second perimeter region are bonded. A third layer has a second sheet of filter material having a third perimeter region, wherein the first perimeter region and the third perimeter region are bonded. The base layer, second layer, and third layer are substantially coextensive.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.Inventors: Daniel L. Tuma, Ryan M. Callahan
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Patent number: 10583453Abstract: A metering device is disclosed for regulating the depth of flowable product coating a surface movable relative to the metering device by directing an air curtain towards the surface. The metering device comprises a body (10) having an interior chamber (12), an inlet for connecting the chamber to a source of gas under super-ambient pressure; and an opening (16) communicating with the chamber and having a mouth through which gas is discharged from the chamber towards the surface to form the air curtain. A porous or reticulated membrane (18) is secured to, or formed integrally with, the body of the device to lie in the path of the gas discharged through the mouth of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: LANDA LABS (2012) LTDInventors: Benzion Landa, Anton Krassilnikov
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Patent number: 10507642Abstract: A roller arrangement for printing apparatus comprises a first roller. The first roller comprises a plurality of cells. Each of the plurality of cells receives an amount of a coating material. The roller arrangement further comprises an extractor to remove at least a portion of the coating material from a selected set of the plurality of the cells.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.Inventors: Lior Lewinz, Gil Fisher, Stylianos Manousakis
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Patent number: 10472711Abstract: An air knife includes: a nozzle main body provided so as to inject gas in response to the width of the steel plate; a nozzle lip installed on at least one of the upper section and the lower section of an outlet of the nozzle main body and extending inclinedly so that the injection cross-sectional area of the gas becomes narrow; and at least one moment generation unit, provided at one side of the nozzle lip, for generating a rotation moment so that the nozzle lip is curved in the width direction of the steel plate and a gap between other nozzle lips varies.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: POSCOInventors: Chang-Woon Jee, Yong-Hun Kweon, Yeon-Chae Jeung
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Patent number: 10376906Abstract: A gas and liquid knife and a control method thereof are provided. The gas and liquid knife includes a chamber and a knife head. An ejection opening is provided at the knife head The knife head has a first knife lip and a second knife lip. The ejection opening is defined between a first inner wall of the first knife lip and a second inner wall of the second knife lip. The chamber is defined between the first wall plate and the second wall plate slidably connected with each other. The first knife lip connects to the first wall plate. The second knife lip connects to the second wall plate. The first knife lip and second knife lip moves relatively as the first wall plate and the second wall plate slides relatively, such that a minimum distance between the first inner wall and the second inner wall could be changed.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongbo Zhang, Qingqing Ma, Zhaozeng Wu, Yubao Zi, Zuhong Liu
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Patent number: 10344795Abstract: A shaft structure installed in a shaft capable of making a power-transmission, the shaft structure including: a male component having a plurality of male splines formed on an outer peripheral part thereof; and a female component having a plurality of female splines formed on an inner peripheral part thereof, the inner peripheral part configured to allow the outer peripheral part of the male component to be engaged therein so that the male component and the female component can be slidably fitted with respect to each other in an axial direction thereby making up said shaft structure, wherein the outer peripheral part of the male component and the inner peripheral part of the female component have a fabric impregnated with rubber or resin interposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: NITTA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Aoki, Yoshiharu Kiyohara, Yoji Ishizaki, Katsuyuki Nakai, Yasuhiro Aoki, Toshihiko Kojima
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Patent number: 10011897Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for hot-dip coating a metal strip with a metal covering, wherein the metal strip is directed continuously through a melt bath, wherein the thickness of the metal covering present on the metal strip when it leaves the melt bath is adjusted by means of a scraping device, and wherein slag which is present on the melt bath is driven away from the metal strip leaving the melt bath by means of a gas flow. To prevent slag from coming into contact with the metal strip leaving the melt bath, the invention drives away the slag from the metal strip by means of at least one nozzle which is arranged in close proximity to the metal strip, that a gas flow which extends over the width of the metal strip is directed onto the surface of the melt bath.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Christopher Gusek, Joerg Schulte, Marc Blumenau, Fred Jindra, Dirk Czupryna, Rudolf Schoenenberg
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Patent number: 9951407Abstract: The present invention reduces the amount of gas consumed, edge-overcoating and splashing and adjusts plating thickness with high precision by providing a wiping nozzle with: thin plates, which are each inserted into a lip from the entrances to the lip for a specified distance to the inside of the two ends of the lip in the sheet width direction in order to seal the gas jet where the thin plates are inserted, and which are movable in the sheet width direction of the lip; and ropes extending in the sheet width direction of the lip so as to track the movements of the thin plates and seal the gas jet in a specified range.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Yonekura, Masao Tanbara, Masashi Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 9868136Abstract: A device for producing a coated steel sheet includes: a blowing-off unit which sprays a gas onto and remove an excessive coating that accumulates along a side edge of a steel sheet that threads along one direction; and a coating-collection unit which collects the excessive coating removed by the blowing-off unit. The blowing-off unit includes a spray nozzle and a gas supply member. The coating-collection unit includes a duct and a coating container. In a case where the duct is seen in a plan view, an outlet thereof is disposed to fit in and overlap an inside of an opening of the coating container, and in a case where the duct is seen in a side view, a gap is provided between the outlet and the opening of the coating container.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhide Soya, Masayoshi Nagatomi, Fumio Shibao, Hiroyasu Furukawa
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Patent number: 9685655Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming battery active material on a substrate are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for depositing a battery active material on a surface of a substrate includes a substrate conveyor system for transporting the substrate within the apparatus, a material spray assembly disposed above the substrate conveyor system, and a first heating element disposed adjacent to the material spray assembly above the substrate conveyor system configured to heat the substrate. The material spray assembly has a 2-D array of nozzles configured to electrospray an electrode forming solution on the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Fei C. Wang, Hooman Bolandi, Connie P. Wang, Victor Pebenito, Siqing Lu, Michael C. Kutney, Joseph G. Gordon, Robert Z. Bachrach
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Patent number: 9630220Abstract: An air-wiping device for removing particulates, including water, adhering to an elongated member by compressed air is provided. In particular, this invention relates to an air-wiping device that loads said elongated member by opening with a sliding motion in one plane, instead of swinging open in two planes that is commonly to the conventional air-wiping devices embodied in a clamshell configuration, which not only substantially shortens the loading time but also greatly reduces the floor space needed to accommodate said device.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Inventors: Juin-Ping Kuan, Chun-Kuang Kuan, Bruce Kuan
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Patent number: 9573172Abstract: A gas wiping apparatus includes a pair of wiping nozzles which are disposed so as to face each other and interpose a coated steel sheet therebetween in a thickness direction of the coated steel sheet, and each of which ejects a wiping gas along a width direction of the coated steel sheet; a gas shield plate that is disposed at a position which separates toward an outside from each end portion of the coated steel sheet so that the gas shield plate is interposed between the pair of wiping nozzles; and a side nozzle that ejects a gas to form a gas flow along each surface of the gas shield plate in a direction reverse to a direction in which the coated steel sheet is pulled upward.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Fukuoka, Yoshihiro Suemune, Tooru Oohashi, Yoko Amano
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Patent number: 9324984Abstract: A method for forming integral separator-electrodes for a battery. The method comprises providing a continuous electrode sheet having an electrode active material deposited on a current collector. The method includes forming a plurality of individual electrodes from the continuous electrode sheet. Each electrode is formed having a center region and a plurality of edges. A separator coating having a substantially uniform thickness is applied to the center region and the plurality of edges of each electrode. The separator coating layer is larger in size than the electrode active material coated area.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Xiaosong Huang, Hamid G. Kia
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Patent number: 9162246Abstract: A filling method exhausts gas from inside a slit nozzle that applies coating liquid onto a substrate surface while filling the slit nozzle with the coating liquid. The slit nozzle includes a coating liquid supply opening, a coating liquid discharge outlet, a manifold that is connected to the supply opening and holds the coating liquid inside the slit nozzle, a liquid channel that is connected to the manifold and supplies the coating liquid to the discharge outlet of the slit nozzle, and a ventilation hole for exhausting gas from inside the manifold. The filling method includes: a discharge outlet closing process that closes the discharge outlet while the coating liquid is being fed from the supply opening into the slit nozzle; and a ventilation hole opening process that opens the ventilation hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: HIRATA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihisa Nagata, Osamu Udo
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Patent number: 9126225Abstract: A coating apparatus includes a die coater that supplies a coating liquid to a web. The die coater includes a die main body, a manifold, a slot, a lip face, a mount, a decompression chamber, and a container. The container includes a guide plate guiding the coating liquid or a solvent ejected from the slot of the die coater without bringing the coating liquid or solvent into contact with the mount and the decompression chamber in a non-steady state, in which the coating liquid is not supplied from the die coater to the web. The container collects the coating liquid or the solvent guided by the guide plate. The coating apparatus also includes a liquid discharge tube that is connected to the container and discharges the coating liquid or solvent to an outside of the decompression chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo Yamada, Kazuya Kojima
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Patent number: 9032904Abstract: A die head is disclosed comprises: a feed slot which is positioned downstream of the moving direction of the substrate and continuously feed the coating solution; a gas suction slot which is positioned upstream of the moving direction of the substrate and suctions a gas so as to create vacuum in the vicinity of the upstream edge of the bead with respect to the moving direction of the substrate; and a gas ejection slot which is positioned between the feed slot and gas suction slot and ejects a gas so as to prevent inflow of the coating solution into the gas suction slot.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2010Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiro Horikawa
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Patent number: 9027504Abstract: A heating apparatus including: a first heating part and a second heating part between which a substrate having a coating film is disposed at a substrate position in the film thickness direction; and a distance control part which controls at least one of a first distance between the substrate position and the first heating part and a second distance between the substrate position and the second heating part.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidenori Miyamoto, Tsutomu Sahoda
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Patent number: 9021982Abstract: Provided is a gas wiping device having a box-shaped body which encloses a steel band and gas wiping nozzles, wherein it is possible to prevent splash on the steel band. A gas wiping device provided with a plating bath for storing molten metal, and a box-shaped body placed above the plating bath. The box-shaped body is provided, in the interior, with tubular members disposed along the width direction of a band-shaped body, gas wiping nozzles disposed facing one another on the respective tubular members so as to sandwich the band-shaped body, extending members disposed on both ends of gas wiping nozzle so as to extend towards the direction of gas wiping nozzle, and extending members disposed on both ends of gas wiping nozzle so as to extend towards the direction of gas wiping nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Koga, Tomohiro Fukuyama
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Patent number: 9016230Abstract: In order to remove treatment liquid (21) from a planar material to be treated (10), which is transported in an assembly for wet-chemical treatment of the material to be treated (10), a retaining surface (4, 14) is provided for holding back the treatment liquid (21). The retaining surface (4, 14) is arranged relative to a transport path of the material to be treated (10) so that a gap (8, 18) remains between the retaining surface (4, 14) and a surface of the material to be treated (10) opposing the retaining surface (4, 14), when the material to be treated (10) is moved past the retaining surface (4, 14). The retaining surface (4, 14) may, for example, be provided as an offset portion of a peripheral surface of a roll (2, 3).Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Atotech Deutschland GmbHInventors: Henry Kunze, Ferdinand Wiener
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Patent number: 9004000Abstract: A gas wiping device for preventing splash on a steel band including a box-shaped body enclosing the steel band and gas wiping nozzles is provided with a plating bath for storing molten metal, and a box-shaped body placed above the plating bath. The box-shaped body is provided, in the interior, with gas wiping nozzles disposed facing one another on the respective tubular members so as to sandwich a band-shaped body. Gas wiping nozzle is provided with a first spraying unit capable of spraying gas to the steel band, and a second spraying unit and a third spraying unit capable of spraying gas towards the direction of gas wiping nozzle. Gas wiping nozzle is provided with a fourth spraying unit capable of spraying gas to the steel band, and a fifth spraying unit and a sixth spraying unit capable of spraying gas towards the direction of gas wiping nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinichi Koga
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Patent number: 8974859Abstract: Methods of pressure coating a target surface of an article comprising one or more grooves formed in an outer surface of an article include fluidly connecting a pressure masker comprising a pressurized masking fluid to one or more coolant supply holes on a first side of the article. The one or more coolant supply holes in fluidic communication with the one or more grooves. Passing the pressurized masking fluid through the one or more grooves from the first side to a second side comprising the target surface at a pressure less than the coating pressure of the coating material, and, coating the target surface with the coating material to allow the coating material to bridge over the one or more grooves and form one or more micro-channels. The pressurized masking fluid passing through the one or more grooves prevents the coating material from permanently altering a cross sectional area of the one or more grooves along its length.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ronald Scott Bunker
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Publication number: 20150064355Abstract: There is described a method for forming an ink jet print head. The method includes providing a printhead including a nozzle plate having a plurality of apertures and coating an anti-wetting composition on a surface of the nozzle plate while the plurality apertures in the ink jet aperture plate are maintained at a first pressure such that a plurality of menisci of the composition form over the plurality of apertures. The plurality of menisci are purged by increasing the first pressure at the plurality of apertures to a second pressure greater than the first pressure. The anti-wetting composition is cured. An apparatus for applying the coating is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: J. Kirk McGlothlan, Michael B. Meinhardt, Donald Chitwood
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Patent number: 8960123Abstract: Disclosed are coating apparatus including flow coating and roll-coating that may be used for uniform sol-gel coating of substrates such as glass, solar panels, windows or part of an electronic display. Also disclosed are methods for substrate preparation, flow coating and roll coating. Lastly systems and methods for skin curing sol-gel coatings deposited onto the surface of glass substrates using a high temperature air-knife are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Enki Technology, Inc.Inventors: Brenor L. Brophy, Sina Maghsoodi, Patrick J. Neyman, Peter R. Gonsalves, Jeffrey G. Hirsch, Yu S. Yang
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Publication number: 20150040824Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for controlling the thickness of a coating made of a liquid film on a moving strip (3), characterised in that said automated means for reducing the gas flow at each of said nozzle sides comprise a moving carriage (10) guiding a retractable cable (9) able to be applied respectively onto and out of the gas discharge opening (4), inside the nozzle chamber (5) and in that, at each transversal side of the nozzle (1), a transition, between an external nozzle section where the gas flow is reduced and an internal nozzle section where the gas flow is not reduced, is assured by means of two together-moving grooved wheels or pulleys (6, 7) connected to the moving carriage (10), located side by side and having their axis perpendicular to the nozzle, so that the cable (9) is successively located against the opening (4) on an external side of the first pulley (6), between the two pulleys (6, 7) and distant from the opening (4) on an internal side of the second pulley (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Michel Dubois, Brice Van Houtte
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Publication number: 20140366802Abstract: The gas nozzle comprises: an outer tube part that is provided in an upright position with respect to the liquid surface of molten metal; an inner tube part provided inside the outer tube part, comprising a cavity inside, through which a wire rod pulled up from the molten metal passes; a void part formed between the outer tube part and the inner tube part; a gas introduction part for introducing gas into the void part; and a jetting port for jetting at least part of the gas introduced by the gas introduction part, via the void part, from one end of the outer tube part towards the liquid surface of the molten metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Motoyuki Itoh, Kyoko Takeda
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Patent number: 8851769Abstract: A substrate processing method for a substrate having a photosensitive film on a top surface thereof, includes cleaning a back surface of the substrate after the formation of the photosensitive film and before exposure processing; transporting the substrate to a temperature adjuster such as a cooling unit, while holding the substrate with a first holder; adjusting a temperature of the substrate with the temperature adjuster; transporting the substrate from the temperature adjuster to the exposure device with a second holder; and transporting the substrate after the exposure processing to a first platform while holding the substrate with a third holder.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Sokudo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Kaneyama
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Patent number: 8848161Abstract: The present invention provides a resist coating and developing apparatus, a resist coating and developing method, a resist-film processing apparatus, and a resist-film processing method, capable of reducing a line width roughness by planarizing a resist pattern. The resist coating and developing apparatus comprises: a resist-film forming part configured to coat a resist onto a substrate to form a resist film thereon; a resist developing part configured to develop the exposed resist film to obtain a patterned resist film; and a solvent-gas supply part configured to expose the resist film, which has been developed and patterned by the resist developing part, to a first solvent of a gaseous atmosphere having a solubility to the resist film. A solvent supply part supplies, to the resist film which has been exposed to the first solvent, a second solvent in a liquid state having a solubility to the resist film.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventor: Yuichiro Inatomi
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Patent number: 8807077Abstract: Exemplary coating devices and methods are disclosed. An exemplary coating device may include an atomizer for applying a spray jet of a coating means or material to a component, at least one directing air nozzle for outputting shaping or directing air in order to shape the spray jet, and a temperature-control device for controlling the temperature of the directing air. The coating device may further include a control unit which activates the temperature-control device as a function of at least one operating variable of the atomizer in order to set a predetermined directing air temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Durr Systems GmbHInventors: Alexander Meissner, Frank Herre, Marcus Frey, Torsten Block, Michael Baumann
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Patent number: 8795761Abstract: A coating device for coating a medical device with a drug-eluting material uses an in-process drying station between coats to improve a drug release profile. The drying station includes a heat nozzle configured for applying a uniform drying gas.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventors: Charles R. Bobson, Kurt Scheinpflug, Yung-Ming Chen, Jeff H. Smith
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Patent number: 8789490Abstract: A system of pointillist painting comprises an automated 3-D positioning system disposed proximate a painting surface, a colorant dispenser coupled to the gantry structure and having a dispensing tip in fluid communication with a colorant chamber, the gantry structure operable to move the colorant dispensing tip to a specified position of the painting surface, where the colorant dispenser is operable to apply a specified amount of a colorant to the painting surface and creating a dot having a two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile at the specified position.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: SSO Venture Partners, LLCInventors: John Neal Randall, Kenneth W. Page
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Patent number: 8789492Abstract: The invention is an alternative to a conventional atomizing coating apparatus. The apparatus and associated coating methodology of the invention provides a uniform atomized fluid stream, and, in turn, a uniform coating to an object on an industrial scale. The apparatus and methodology addresses many of the critical parameters associated with the conventional curtain and atomizing coating techniques, including but no limited to, uniform distribution, acoustical transparency, reduction or elimination of clogged nozzles, and elimination of the need for reciprocating nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: AWI Licensing CompanyInventor: James D. Pape
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Publication number: 20140205753Abstract: A system of pointillist painting comprises an automated 3-D positioning system disposed proximate a painting surface, a colorant dispenser coupled to the gantry structure and having a dispensing tip in fluid communication with a colorant chamber, the gantry structure operable to move the colorant dispensing tip to a specified position of the painting surface, where the colorant dispenser is operable to apply a specified amount of a colorant to the painting surface and creating a dot having a two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile at the specified position. The colorant dispenser further comprises a piston disposed in the colorant chamber, and a push rod coupled to the piston operable to advance the piston toward the dispensing tip to exude the specified amount of colorant onto the painting surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: SSO VENTURE PARTNERS, LLCInventors: John Neal Randall, Kenneth W. Page
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Publication number: 20140202380Abstract: A wiping device which blows a wiping gas toward a steel sheet from a pair of wiping nozzles disposed on both sides of the steel sheet so as to face sheet surfaces of the steel sheet, wherein the steel sheet is interposed between the pair of wiping nozzles and is pulled from a hot dip coating bath, the device includes a suctioning tube, wherein: the suctioning tube is disposed on both sides in a width direction of a section of the steel sheet, the section being positioned between the pair of wiping nozzles, so that the suctioning tube is in parallel to the steel sheet; the suctioning tube has a suctioning port that suctions an air; the suctioning port is disposed to face a side end surface of the steel sheet; a cross-sectional shape of the suctioning tube has the largest dimension thereof along a pulling direction of the steel sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicants: NPPON STEEL & SUMMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN COATED SHEET CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Imai, Takeshi Tamura, Seiji Sugiyama, Kazuhiro Miyamoto, Mitsuo Nishimata, Yasushi Yamane
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Publication number: 20140202860Abstract: A non-volatile bistable nano-electromechanical switch is provided for use in memory devices and microprocessors. The switch employs carbon nanotubes as the actuation element. A method has been developed for fabricating nanoswitches having one single-walled carbon nanotube as the actuator. The actuation of two different states can be achieved using the same low voltage for each state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Northeastern UniversityInventors: Sivasubramanian Somu, Ahmed Busnaina, Nicol McGruer, Peter Ryan, George G. Adams, Xugang Xiong, Taehoon Kim
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Publication number: 20140193588Abstract: A device for producing a coated steel sheet includes: a blowing-off unit which sprays a gas onto and remove an excessive coating that accumulates along a side edge of a steel sheet that threads along one direction; and a coating-collection unit which collects the excessive coating removed by the blowing-off unit. The blowing-off unit includes a spray nozzle and a gas supply member. The coating-collection unit includes a duct and a coating container. In a case where the duct is seen in a plan view, an outlet thereof is disposed to fit in and overlap an inside of an opening of the coating container, and in a case where the duct is seen in a side view, a gap is provided between the outlet and the opening of the coating container.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhide Soya, Masayoshi Nagatomi, Fumio Shibao, Hiroyasu Furukawa
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Patent number: 8720364Abstract: A portable machine and process is described for covering all sides of an elongated object with a liquid without the use of brushes. The machine is particularly useful with manufactured building products such as a fence picket, trim, molding, or any other type of board. The machine generally has four stations, an entry station that drives the object down a track, a liquid application station where the object is covered by liquid that is poured over the object, a blower station where the fluid is spread evenly over the object and excess fluid is blown off, and an exit station that continues to pull the object down the track and directs the object as the object leaves the exit station. Finally, the object may enter a releasably attached drop track.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Inventor: Michael Massey
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Patent number: 8646403Abstract: A treatment apparatus for treating a substrate on a surface of which a treatment film has been formed and subjected to exposure processing and developing treatment. The treatment apparatus includes a nozzle for supplying a solvent gas of the treatment film to the surface of the treatment film on the substrate, and a moving mechanism for moving the nozzle which is supplying the solvent gas, relative to the substrate. The nozzle has an elongated discharge portion at least longer than a diameter of the substrate and partition plates at a front and a rear in the moving direction of the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventor: Yuichiro Inatomi
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Patent number: 8635968Abstract: A substrate subjected to back surface cleaning by a back surface cleaning processing unit is held by a hand of an interface transport mechanism and transported to a cooling unit. The substrate whose temperature has been adjusted by the cooling unit is held by a hand of the interface transport mechanism and transported to an exposure device. The substrate subjected to exposure processing by the exposure device is held by a hand of the interface transport mechanism and transported from the exposure device to a substrate platform.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Sokudo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Kaneyama
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Patent number: 8617658Abstract: This invention relates to a method for conducting film coating on the surface of spinning circular workpiece under action of gas pressure, and nozzle utilized in the same. Circular workpiece to be coated is held on a rotating mechanism, and a feedstock loading machine having a nozzle, which is capable of guiding redundant feedstock and overflowing in a specific direction, is set to have a 100 ?m gap with the circular workpiece. When the rotating mechanism is rotated, the polymer solution is precoated on the surface of the circular workpiece, and when gas valve is opened, the polymer solution is squeezed to a predetermined thickness by an annular high pressure gas-stream formed on the periphery of a cylinder, produced from the high pressure gas released.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: National Cheng Kung UniversityInventors: Yung-Chun Lee, Chuan-Hsiang Lee, Shou-Chi Cho