With Application Of Centrifugal Force Patents (Class 156/74)
  • Patent number: 6551438
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method of manufacturing a magnetic head slider and a method of fixing row bars, which realize improved fabrication accuracy without increasing manufacturing costs and can prevent adhesion of a foreign matter to a magnetic head slider. After forming a number of thin film magnetic head devices on a wafer by thin film process, the wafer is cut into a plurality of row bars. Before a rail is formed in a predetermined surface of each of the row bars by photolithography, a surface opposite to the surface to be processed of the row bar is bonded and fixed to a support substrate of a wafer shape. A protective film obtained by conducting a heat treatment on a polyimide precursor at temperature lower than temperature at which the polyimide precursor becomes polyimide is formed on the surface of the support substrate. A curing agent film containing a curing agent which promotes setting of the adhesive for bonding the row bars is formed on the surface of the protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeki Tanemura
  • Publication number: 20030017340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process or method for transferring a coating onto at least one surface of a lens blank which can be implemented in a short period of time without any risk of deformation of the lens blank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: Essilor International Compagnie Generale d'Optique
    Inventors: Peiqi Jiang, Fadi O. Adileh, Yassin Yusef Turshani
  • Patent number: 6508145
    Abstract: A composite flywheel rotor includes a flywheel hub having tapered outer surface and an axis of rotation and a flywheel rim having an axis of rotation coinciding with the hub axis of rotation. The flywheel rim has multiple rings axially press-fit together to precompress the rings to form a composite flywheel rim. Each ring is made of approximately equal radial thickness and the entire non-dimensionalized radial thickness ratio of the assembled rim should be between approximately 0.38 to 0.48. The rim is optimally made up of four or five individual rings, each of which rings has tapered inner and outer diameters, preferably tapered at small angles to produce large radial forces when the rings are pressed onto each other and the hub by pressing axially, resulting in a high radial compressive preload in the assembled rim. A taper angle of 1-5° is suitable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Toray Composites (America), Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher W. Gabrys
  • Patent number: 6500297
    Abstract: A system and method cure a resin disposed between a combination of a top substrate and a bottom substrate with low power. One of the top and bottom substrates includes metallized data pits. Resin-curing light is directed at sides of the data pits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: STEAG HamaTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Paulus, Kendrick H. Light, Scott R. Parent, Donald G. Parent, Arthur R. LeBlanc, III, Elango Ramanathan, Aziz Calcuttawala, Richard W. Stowe
  • Publication number: 20020182877
    Abstract: The present Invention provides a method of photo-processing of materials in the presence of a reactive fluid which involves using light selected on the basis that the material has a long absorption for the wavelength of emission of the light. The present invention teaches photo-processing of semiconductors such as silicon using infrared radiation and is very advantageous since, in those materials to be processed having a very long absorption for the wavelength of emission of the light, one obtains volume absorption deep under the surface of the illuminated region so that the material under the surface is heated. The material is irradiated with the light beam in the presence of a reactive gas, the light beam having a wavelength in an infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum wherein the irradiated selected region of the solid is heated and reacts with the reactive gas to remove atoms or molecules of the material from the irradiated region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Marc Nantel, Yuri Yashkir
  • Patent number: 6478908
    Abstract: This invention relates to how to obtain an optical recording disc with a good quality, capable of achieving a beautiful outline shape of the inner peripheral part side rim part of the cured ultraviolet ray curing type resin substantially concentrically even in the case there is irregularity of the wettability of both round substrates with respect to the ultraviolet ray curing type resin, and capable of providing an even film thickness of the resin with the film thickness controlled to a predetermined value or less even in the case there are irregularity of the wettability of both round substrates, difficulty in controlling the centrifugal force applied on the resin, irregularity of the plate thickness of both round substrates, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kokichi Kohinata, Shoji Akiyama, Yoshinori Itaba, Tokuhiro Morioka
  • Patent number: 6440240
    Abstract: A method for gluing two disc elements together, in particular substrates for digital audio, video or data discs, such as Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs). The disc elements are held essentially horizontally and coaxially with one another so that a gap is formed between the disc elements, after which, in an inner area of the gap, a liquid adhesive is applied in the form of separate strands in the circumferential direction on the facing sides of the disc elements. The disc elements are brought together against one another and made to rotate rapidly in conjunction with the bringing together in order, by the gravitational force of the upper disc element and the capillary force of the adhesive, in association with the centrifugal force on the latter during the rapid rotation, to form a homogeneous and bubble-free adhesive layer of predetermined thickness between the disc elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: OTB Group B.V.
    Inventor: Ove Öhman
  • Patent number: 6425968
    Abstract: A method for bonding two DVD halves (23, 24) which are so held at a distance as to form a gap therebetween, includes introducing into the gap an adhesive (36) and spreading the adhesive across both disc halves. The invention is characterized by introducing the adhesive via a central opening of the DVD by means of e.g. L-shaped metering needles (63) which are pivotally guided in a central pin that engages the central opening, or flexible plastic needles which are slidably guided in a guide tube. Through introduction of the adhesive via the central opening enables a flow to the outside, without interference from the metering needles, when the DVD halves (23, 24) rotate. There is no buildup of adhesive in front of the metering needle. The bonding process can be carried out without interruption of the application of adhesive until the spin-off has concluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Krauss-Maffei Kunstsofftechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Eichlseder
  • Patent number: 6402880
    Abstract: A method of bonding together a first disc element (1) and a second disc element (2) with the aid of glue (10) to form a DVD comprises applying a quantity of glue (10) in the form of a ring on the first disc element, said ring being disposed concentrically with a center hole through the first disc element (1), and moving a second disc element, which also has a center hole and which is parallel with the first disc element, towards the glue ring in parallel with said first disc element and with the centre holes of said disc elements in coaxial alignment, such as to enable the glue to spread between the surfaces of the disc elements through the effect of pressure and capillary action. A center peg (14) is inserted sealingly in the centre hole of the first disc element and the glue ring is applied in contact with the perimeter surface of the peg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: M2 Engineering AB
    Inventors: Göran Ewerlöf, Nils Gawell, Carl Langenskiöld
  • Patent number: 6387199
    Abstract: Fabricating belts by forcing adhesive into a belt seam using centrifugal forces. A belt having ends that are fabricated to mate along a seam is inserted into a cylinder such that a seam is formed. An adhesive is then deposited along the seam and the cylinder is spun at a speed sufficient to force the adhesive into the seam. The adhesive is then cured so as to produce a seamed belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio DeCrescentis, Ralph A. Mosher, John S. Berkes
  • Patent number: 6374894
    Abstract: A method and a device for bonding a first plate-shaped object to a second plate-shaped object by means of an adhesive. The adhesive is applied to one surface of the first object. Thereafter, said surface of the first object and one surface of the second object are pressed together. The objects are rotated at equal rotational velocities about an axis extending perpendicular to the surfaces of the objects while the two objects are pressed together. The adhesive present between the two objects spreads homogeneously therebetween by the centrifugal force acting on the adhesive. A homogeneous, relatively thin and strong layer of adhesive is formed between the two objects. The pressure is reduced on the objects to be pressed together. In a special embodiment, during a first phase, the two objects are moved towards each other at a predetermined relatively low approach speed, and are rotated at a predetermined relatively low rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Arjen W. Kuiken, Erik J. H. M. Teunissen
  • Patent number: 6367531
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a rim preform or rim-element having an axis of revolution by the placing on a preforming matrix pre-assembled fibers along two orientations defining deformable meshes. A winding of a strip of fibers is fastened on a circumference of the preforming matrix with asymmetrical orientation of the fibers, whereupon it is applied progressively until covering the entire surface of the preforming matrix by subjecting it to tensions of substantially circumferential orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Compagnie Générale des Etablissements Michelin - Michelin & Cie
    Inventors: Francois Finck, Yves Vernet
  • Patent number: 6355124
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the lamination of two lens blanks to form an ophthalmic lens comprise: a) providing a first ophthalmic lens blanks having two major surfaces thereon; b) applying a hardenable liquid adhesive to less than an entire one of said at least two major surfaces of said first ophthalmic lens blank; c) placing a second ophthalmic lens blank into contact with the hardenable liquid adhesive, forming an association of two lens blanks with the hardenable liquid adhesive between the two lens blanks; d) rotating said association of two lens blanks to assist in spreading the hardenable liquid adhesive; and e) after at least some of said hardenable liquid adhesive has spread, hardening said hardenable liquid adhesive to laminate the two lens blanks into a laminated ophthalmic lens. This method provides a relatively automated process and apparatus for performing that automated process for the lamination of ophthalmic lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: BMC Vision-Ease Lens, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Blomberg, Gert Levin, Sujal Bhalakia
  • Patent number: 6355129
    Abstract: A system and method cures a combination of a top and a bottom substrate with a resin disposed in-between. A cure device inherently warps the combination in one direction as a result of a curing operation that the cure device performs on the combination. A temperature gradient inducing device is disposed closer to one of the top and bottom substrates to create a temperature gradient between the top and bottom substrate and thereby warp the combination in a direction opposite to the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: STEAG HamaTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Paulus, Kendrick H. Light, Scott R. Parent, Donald G. Parent, Elangovan Ramanatham
  • Patent number: 6352612
    Abstract: A system and method cure a resin disposed between a combination of a top substrate and a bottom substrate with low power. One of the top and bottom substrates includes metallized data pits. Resin-curing light is directed at sides of the data pits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: STEAG HamaTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Paulus, Kendrick H. Light, Scott R. Parent, Donald G. Parent, Arthur R. LeBlanc, III, Elango Ramanathan, Aziz Calcuttawala, Richard W. Stowe
  • Publication number: 20020023703
    Abstract: A method and a device for glueing together two disc elements. The two disc elements are brought together coaxially against each other to form a gap between the disc elements. In an inner area of the gap a liquid adhesive is applied so that it comes essentially simultaneously into contact with facing sides of the two disc elements. The two disc elements are then brought towards each other to achieve a uniform adhesive layer between the disc elements. The disc comprises lower and upper holders for respective disc elements and a unit for applying liquid adhesive in an inner area of the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Applicant: OTB Group, B.V.
    Inventor: Ove Ohman
  • Publication number: 20020007895
    Abstract: An assembly for supporting a fiber optic termination or connector in a centrifuge and comprising a cylindrical body member having a top portion adapted to receive the ferrule body portion of a fiber optic termination or connector and a bottom portion for receiving a cylindrical piston/sealing unit. The piston portion of the piston/sealing unit includes a compressible tip which is adapted to a butt up against the outer end of the ferrule body portion of the fiber optic termination or connector. A cylindrical end cap fits over the upper end of the body member for holding the fiber optic termination in place on the body member and causing a seal to be formed between the termination or connector and the upper portion of the body member adjacent the compressible tip of the plunger. The parts, when fitted together, are placed in a centrifuge which is operated for a predetermined spin cycle, so as to cause any bubbles in the uncured liquid adhesive to be vented outwardly from the termination through the end cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventor: John R. Kolasinski
  • Publication number: 20020005242
    Abstract: A device for gluing together two disc halves which are each provided with a central hole, to produce a disc, for example an optical data carrier, such as a DVD, comprises a rotatable carrier provided with a mandrel on which the disc halves can be accommodated, in such a manner that the mandrel fits through their central holes. Furthermore, there is a light radiation source which emits a light beam which can be displaced in the radial direction with respect to the mandrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Applicant: O.T.B. Group B.V.
    Inventors: Anthonius Martinus Lambertus Habraken, Marc Evers, Bob Reuser
  • Publication number: 20010054856
    Abstract: A flywheel system for storing and delivering on demand electrical energy includes a flywheel supported for high speed rotation on bearings in a vacuum enclosure, and a motor-generator for spinning the flywheel up to speed and then for converting the rotational inertia in the flywheel back to electrical power. The flywheel includes a solid steel hub and a rim having only two rings press-fit on the hub with an interference fit. The rings are filament wound construction made primarily from standard modulus carbon fiber/epoxy. The steel hub stores between 40% and 60% of the energy in the flywheel. The press-fitting of the rings on the hub creates radial interference pressure between the hub and each of the composite rings that is greater than 5 ksi when at rest. The outer carbon fiber/epoxy ring is radially thinner than the inner ring, and both the hub outer diameter and the inner diameter of the assembled composite rim are tapered with the same angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventor: Christopher W. Gabrys
  • Publication number: 20010052468
    Abstract: The invention is relative to an electrode for gas evolution in electrolytic and electrometallurgical industrial applications, made of a metal substrate having a surface morphology characterized by a combination of micro-roughness and macro-roughness which favors high adherence of a superficial catalytic layer in order to prevent detachment of the same and passivation of the substrate even under critical operating conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: Ruben Ornelas Jacobo, Giuseppe Faita, Lawrence Gestaut, Corrado Mojana
  • Publication number: 20010035250
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to significantly inhibit the formation of voids between substrates bonded together when a liquid adhesive is supplied onto an optical disc substrate or when the optical disc substrate is bonded to another optical disc substrate. Accordingly, the present invention discloses a method for bonding two optical disc substrates together which comprises the steps of joining the optical disc substrates together with an adhesive and curing the adhesive, wherein the adhesive is supplied onto the optical disc substrate by an electric field formed between the adhesive-supplying nozzle, for supplying the adhesive onto the optical disc substrate, and the optical disc substrate, and the two optical disc substrates are then joined together and subjected to spun by a spinning process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: Origin Electric Company, Limited.
    Inventors: Shinichi Shinohara, Hideo Kobayashi, Masahiro Nakamura, Kanya Kaji
  • Patent number: 6309485
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the manufacture of laminated compact disc. When forming an adhesive layer between a first substrate and a second substrate, and laminating the first substrate and second substrate to produce a disc, temperature and other conditions are adjusted based on the adhesive layer thickness of the manufactured optical disc, thus the viscosity of adhesive is changed to match each process. Accordingly, high quality discs can be consistently manufactured, and the operating efficiency of the manufacturing apparatus can be improved. Moreover, an optical disc free of bubbles mixed in the adhesive layer of a laminated optical disc can be stably manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisaki Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Inoue, Hirokazu Itou, Toshikazu Kozono
  • Patent number: 6294035
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a thin-sheet-coated composite substrate bonds together a thin sheet and a substrate which unavoidably has an irregular thickness with an adhesive so that the outer surface of the thin sheet has the highest possible flatness. A surface plate having a flat surface of high flatness is held by a chuck included in a spinner with the flat surface facing upward. The thin sheet is placed on the surface plate in close contact with the flat surface of the surface plate. A liquid adhesive is dropped on the thin sheet and the substrate is placed on the adhesive. The chuck is rotated at high rotational speed to spread the adhesive in the space between the thin sheet and the substrate and to remove a surplus portion of the adhesive from the space between the thin sheet and the substrate by centrifugal force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Shimbo
  • Patent number: 6287404
    Abstract: An assembly for supporting a fiber optic termination or connector in a centrifuge and comprising a cylindrical body member having a top portion adapted to receive the ferrule body portion of a fiber optic termination or connector and a bottom portion for receiving a cylindrical piston/sealing unit. The piston portion of the piston/sealing unit includes a compressible tip which is adapted to a butt up against the outer end of the ferrule body portion of the fiber optic termination or connector. A cylindrical end cap fits over the upper end of the body member for holding the fiber optic termination in place on the body member and causing a seal to be formed between the termination or connector and the upper portion of the body member adjacent the compressible tip of the plunger. The parts, when fitted together, are placed in a centrifuge which is operated for a predetermined spin cycle, so as to cause any bubbles in the uncured liquid adhesive to be vented outwardly from the termination through the end cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: John R. Kolasinski
  • Patent number: 6263939
    Abstract: The disk-shaped optical information medium of this invention includes: a first substrate having a center hole; a second substrate having a center hole; and a radiation curable resin interposed between the first and second substrates for bonding together the first and second substrates, wherein the optical information medium further includes a stopper for preventing the radiation curable resin from protruding into the center holes of the substrates, and a space between the first and second substrates of at least a half of a clamp region for clamping the optical information medium is filled with the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisaki Miyamoto, Michiyoshi Nagashima, Kiyoshi Inoue, Sakae Noda
  • Patent number: 6231706
    Abstract: Substrates to be paired are alternately aligned. One substrate of a pair of substrates adjacent to each other is turned over thereby to face the other substrate, and the substrates held in a state facing each other are sent to a bonding position. An adhesive is supplied annularly into an interval of the substrates, and the substrates are rotated in a planar direction to thereby narrow the interval and eventually spread the adhesive in a radial direction to form an adhesive layer. The lower substrate is supported from below and carried from the bonding position to a setting position, and the adhesive layer is set, whereby an optical disk is obtained. The optical disk is taken out from the setting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihide Higaki, Keinosuke Kanashima, Katsuhiro Kida, Hideki Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 6231705
    Abstract: A method for laminating boards includes placing boards with a narrow gap therebetween, inserting an adhesive injection nozzle the gap, discharging of adhesive from the nozzle into the gap so that the discharged adhesive makes into contact with the two boards, continuing discharging the adhesive while the boards are being rotated in a planar direction thereof so that the adhesive is placed in a loop within the gap, retreating the nozzle from the gap, and narrowing the gap between the boards so that the adhesive is spread throughout the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keinosuke Kanashima, Norihide Higaki, Toshiyuki Fujioka, Susumu Nojiri, Hiroyuki Fukuno, Osamu Hirota
  • Patent number: 6224702
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical disc which is capable of speeding up the curing of an adhesive and capable of reducing an area or space occupied by a curing unit when manufacturing an optical disc, and a method of manufacturing an optical disc which is not susceptible to heat from a curing unit or a UV irradiation unit while an adhesive is cured. The method of manufacturing an optical disc includes a step of supplying lower and upper disc substrates, a step of spreading an adhesive between the lower and upper discs, and a step of irradiating the adhesive spread between the lower and upper discs with UV, wherein the irradiation step is performed on a turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Kitano Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoko Kitano, Mikuni Amo
  • Patent number: 6214412
    Abstract: A system and method distribute a resin disposed between a top substrate and a bottom substrate. Each substrate has a center hole, and the top and bottom substrates and the resin define an interior region. A top substrate assembly forms a seal over the center hole of the top substrate and creates a vacuum at the interior region. A bottom substrate assembly receives the top and bottom substrates with the resin disposed in-between. A spinning assembly causes the top and bottom substrates to spin according to a predetermined spin profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: First Light Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Paulus, Michael L. Cadorette, Arthur R. Leblanc, III, Scott R. Parent, Peter A. Whiteside, Elangovan Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 6183577
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical information medium has a step of bending at least one of a first board and a second board having a center hole, a step of applying a radiation-curing resin onto the bent board in a doughnut form while the bent board is rotated, and a step of lapping the other board on the bent board and rotating the paired boards integrally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Kozono, Toshio Yanai, Manabu Nakanishi, Kiyoshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 6179031
    Abstract: Apparatus for the gluing of two substrates in six processing steps for fabrication of a digital video disc including a motor-driven plate (2) for holding the first substrate (5), a glue dispenser disposed above the plate (2), grasping and holding device for providing vertical movement of the second substrate (7). The side of the plate turned toward the first substrate (5) has a radially outer plane portion (10) in the form of a disk concentric to its axis of rotation (R) and a radially inner portion (11) adjacent to this where the face (F) of this inner portion (11) turned toward the substrate (5) is formed by the outer face of a flat, straight frustum of a cone whose peak (S) strikes the axis of rotation (R) below the plane of application (E) of the substrate (5). In the transitional area from the annular portion (10) to the conical portion (11) an annular groove (12) running coaxially to the axis of rotation is cut into the plate (2) which is connected to a pressure source via channels (13, 13′, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Leybold Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Rack, Peter Sauer, Stefan Szellas
  • Patent number: 6165299
    Abstract: A method for making a digital versatile disc (DVD) includes providing top and bottom substrates, each of the top and bottom substrates being disc-shaped and having a pitted surface. A reflective layer is formed over the pitted surface of the top substrate and a semireflective layer is formed over the pitted surface of the bottom substrate. A wetting promoter is applied over the reflective layer of the top substrate and, if desired, over the semireflective layer of the bottom substrate. The top and bottom substrates are bonded together with an adhesive material using a simple drop technique to form a DVD. The wetting promoter enhances wetting of the adhesive material on the bonded surfaces of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Inventors: Jia Ji (George) Guan, Roland P. Zaiss
  • Patent number: 6126765
    Abstract: In a method of forming a microchannel and/or microcavity structure by bonding together two elements (1, 2) having opposed plane surfaces of the same or different materials, one or both surfaces having open channels and/or cavities, bonding is effected by applying to one or both element surfaces (1, 2) a thin layer (3) of a solution of a material capable of fusing with and having a lower melting point than that of the material or materials of the two element surfaces (1, 2) in a solvent which substantially does not dissolve the element surface material or materials. The solvent is then removed, and the two elements (1, 2) are brought together and heated to a temperature where the dissolved material is caused to melt but not the element surface material or materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Pharmacia Biotech AB
    Inventor: Ove Ohman
  • Patent number: 6103039
    Abstract: A system and method cures a combination of a top and a bottom substrate with a resin disposed in-between. A cure device inherently warps the combination in one direction as a result of a curing operation that the cure device performs on the combination. A temperature gradient inducing device is disposed closer to one of the top and bottom substrates to create a temperature gradient between the top and bottom substrate and thereby warp the combination in a direction opposite to the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: First Light Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Paulus, Kendrick H. Light, Scott R. Parent, Donald G. Parent, Elangovan Ramanatham
  • Patent number: 6068771
    Abstract: A method for preparing a spiral wound filtration module is provided. The module has a central permeate carrier tube. The method includes winding at least one filtration leaf about the permeate carrier tube. The filtration leaf includes a first membrane sheet, a permeate carrier sheet, and a second membrane sheet. The winding step creates an end face extending radially outwardly from the permeate tube on each end thereof. After winding, the filtration module is maintained in a wound state. An adhesive is then supplied to each end face and a vacuum is applied through each of the permeate tube. While the vacuum is applied, the permeate tube and filtration leaf assembly are spun in a centrifuge until the adhesive has solidified. After spinning, each end face of the module is severed at a distance between the level of adhesive along the feed spacer screen and the level of adhesive along the permeate carrier sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Koch Membrane Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas McDermott, Martin Roos, Stephen Jens, Robert Kovar
  • Patent number: 6051481
    Abstract: A method and a device for bonding a first plate-shaped object to a second plate-shaped object with an adhesive. The adhesive is applied to one of the two surfaces of the first object, whereafter said surface of the first object and one of the two surfaces of the second object are pressed together. The plate-shaped objects are rotated at equal rotational velocities about an axis of rotation extending perpendicularly to said surfaces of the objects for at least a time period during which the two objects are being pressed together. In this way, the adhesive present between the two objects spreads homogeneously between the two objects under the influence of the centrifugal force acting on the adhesive, so that a homogeneous, relatively thin and strong layer of adhesive is formed between the two objects. In addition, the pressure with which the objects are to be pressed together is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Arjen W. Kuiken, Erik J. H. M. Teunissen
  • Patent number: 6013145
    Abstract: There is provided a method of curing an optical disc capable of effectively curing the optical disc without generating a warp phenomenon when optical disc is cured while ultraviolet curing resin material is irradiated with ultraviolet. The method of curing an optical disc comprises overlaying first and second resin substrates onto each other by way of an adhesive made of ultraviolet curing resin material, the method further comprising clamping the optical disc by ultraviolet transmittance plates at both sides thereof, and curing the adhesive while being irradiated with ultraviolet from outside of the ultraviolet transmittance plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Kitano Engineering, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikuni Amo, Masami Inouchi
  • Patent number: 5981050
    Abstract: A multiple ply composite structure used to reinforce, seal and shape concrete structures has a first ply formed of unidirected continuous filament reinforcements which are bonded together by a thermosetting polymeric resin matrix. A second ply comprises a plurality of separately spaced protuberances, each of which is individually coated with a hardenable thermosetting polymeric resin. The hardenable thermosetting polymeric resin of the second ply bonds the first ply to the second ply by forming a concave resin meniscus which anchors each of the protuberances of the second ply to the first ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Inventors: Charles E. Kaempen, Charles Robert Kaempen
  • Patent number: 5972145
    Abstract: Disclosed is the use of a removable passivating layer in multichip packaging and CUBE applications. The process takes advantage of the fact that various metal ions will react with the carboxylic acid groups of various polyimide precursors. The polyimide will cure at a first temperature and the system may be manipulated and tested. At a later point, the polyimide is subjected to a second, higher temperature in order to decompose or completely destroy the polyimide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven John Holmes, Harold George Linde
  • Patent number: 5954908
    Abstract: A developing storage disc boss adapted to engage a recess in a rotatable holding table for developing a storage disc including two discoid resin substrates with adhesive contained in a space therebetween. The developing storage disc boss includes a barrel portion for the engagement and a suction cylindrical portion that extends upwardly and orthogonally from a top planar wall of the barrel portion. There is a suction passage extending axially along the boss which includes first and second passages. There are a plurality of suction holes around the periphery of the suction cylindrical portion which communicate with the space between the two substrates. The holes extend radially through the suction cylindrical portion and have inner ends that open directly into the first passage. The first passage opens directly into the second passage, and the diameter of the second passage is greater than that of the first passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Kitano Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikuni Amo, Masami Inouchi
  • Patent number: 5932042
    Abstract: Automatic process control of the optical disc bonding process is achieved by tacking the adhesive and deforming the composite prior to final bonding. A separator chuck is used to maintain the separation of the disc halves through tack curing and a disc deforming jig is used during final bonding to compensate for any tendency of the disc halves to deform during the bonding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Inventors: Lewis Gensel, Edward Misewicz, William Mueller, Edward Pickutoski, Peter Van Hoof
  • Patent number: 5876528
    Abstract: A method and a resulting cable (10) is disclosed which precludes fluid wicking within the interior of the cable (10) by impregnating the cable (10) with a sealing composition and curing the sealing composition therein. The cable (10) includes an ultimate strata (18), a penultimate strata (20) and a central strata (40) concentrically disposed. The central strata (40) includes a central signal transmission medium (44) separated from the penultimate strata (20) by a central insulator or dielectric (42). The penultimate strata (20) includes a braided sheath (32) circumscribing a braided conductor (22) and an insulator (30) interposed therebetween. The ultimate strata (18) surrounds the interior or the penultimate strata (20) and central strata (40) of the cable (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Bently Nevada Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Nikkels, Dave Van den Berg
  • Patent number: 5843257
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for effectively developing an adhesive in a storage disc including differentiating a suction force applied from a surface of a rotary holding table from a drawing force applied from a boss. The method includes holding a storage disc on a rotary table by suction, the storage disc including two disc-shaped resin substrates each having a central hole and adhesive interposed therebetween. A boss of the rotary holding table is inserted into the central holes of the two disc-shaped resin substrates, and individual suction and drawing passages are provided for holding the storage disc on the rotary table and for drawing the adhesive by way of the boss, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Kitano Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Inouchi
  • Patent number: 5814179
    Abstract: A blood dialyzer is produced by a process in which a plurality of artificial composite fibers having core portions consisting of a water-insoluble core liquid and surrounded by sheath portions consisting of a fiber-forming polymer are subjected to a removal of almost all of the core liquid; the resultant hollow fibers are bundled; the hollow fiber bundle is packed in a cylindrical case having open end; end portions of spaces left between the hollow fibers peripheries and between the hollow fibers and the inside surface of the cylindrical case are sealed with a bonding material, to fix the hollow fiber bundle to the cylindrical case at the end portions thereof; and the hollow fibers in the cylindrical case are cleaned with a cleaning liquid comprising at least one aliphatic monohydric alcohol having 3 to 8 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Satoru Ohmori, Hironori Matsuda, Takahiro Daido, Takeyuki Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 5800670
    Abstract: A spreader of an optical disc capable of receiving an adhesive when first and second resin substrates are rotated at high speed in a spreading step in the case of manufacturing the optical disc, and capable of preventing the adhesive from being contaminated at the peripheries of the first and second resin substrates. The spreader of the optical disc for spreading the adhesive comprises the first resin substrate and second resin substrate, wherein the first and second resin substrates are laid on and bonded to each other by way of the adhesive and rotated together, a rotatable receiving platform on which the first resin substrate is placed, and a cover member for receiving the adhesive scattered from the first and second resin substrates when they are rotated. The spreader of the present invention can surely receive the adhesive interposed between the first and second resin substrates, which is scattered outward, and prevent the adhesive from being scattered therearound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Kitano Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoko Kitano
  • Patent number: 5759332
    Abstract: A laminate optical disc which has excellent heat resistance and also has sufficient bond strength. Radiation-curing adhesive layers are formed on a pair of transparent base plates excluding the outermost circumferential portions, respectively, and an ultraviolet-curing resin is applied to the outermost circumferential portion. Then, the pair of transparent base plates are bonded together by the radiation-curing adhesive layers, and also ultraviolet light is irradiated to the ultraviolet-curing resin to fix the base plates firmly to each other along the outermost circumferential portions. In a process for producing a laminate optical disc, radiation-curing adhesive layers are formed respectively on a pair of transparent base plates, and then irradiated with a radiation excluding at least the outermost circumferential portion to be tackified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignees: Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Pioneer Video Corporation
    Inventors: Masahide Itoigawa, Mitsuhiko Sasano, Shinichi Hanzawa, Masaaki Motokawa, Yoshikazu Hirai, Haruhisa Maruyama
  • Patent number: 5716761
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a double-sided-multi-layered optical disc. An intermediate substrate having pits on both the major surfaces is previously prepared as well as first and second substrates. The method rotates the first substrate, the intermediate substrate and the second substrate with respect to the common center thereof so as to form unhardened radiation setting resin layers between adjacent substrates so that thicknesses of the unhardened resin layers are adjusted to predetermined values, and then the method irradiates a radiation onto the unhardened resin layer so as to harden the unhardened resin layers to solid resin layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Iida, Takanobu Higuchi, Keiji Suga
  • Patent number: 5669995
    Abstract: A recordable compact disc comprises a 0.6 millimeter clear plastic or glass substrate on which is grown a thin-film image layer having several distinct recording planes. Each recording plane is separated from the next by a clear plastic layer. Each recording plane includes an organic dye layer in combination with another clear layer that has a different index of refraction. Different color dyes are used for each recording plane. A method for storing and reading data to and from a multilayer recordable compact disc with different color dye layers uses high powered color lasers to write each recording plane and low powered monochromatic reading lasers that are sensitive to the constructive and destructive light interference effects caused by micron variations in the clear plastic layers in each recording plane. The micron variations used for each recording plane are unique and chosen along with the monochromatic reading laser colors to have minimal crosstalk between recording-plane data channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Inventor: Gilbert H. Hong
  • Patent number: 5503696
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a magnetic head includes steps of stacking a magnetic layer on a ceramic substrate, coating an adhesive over the magnetic layer while rotating the substrate in a predetermined speed, forming a substrate block by stacking a plurality of substrates, and forming at least one pair of magnetic ferrite blocks by vertically and longitudinally slicing the substrate block. The adhesive is consistently coated on a gap formation plane of the magnetic ferrite block while being rotated by a predetermined speed, the pair of ferrite blocks are pressed to be bonded to each other, thereby completing the magnetic head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae H. Kim
  • Patent number: 5492587
    Abstract: A pellicle for use on a photomask reticle in conjunction with deep ultraviolet light wavelengths. The membrane of the pellicle comprises a purified fluoropolymer that has been spin coated on a glass substrate treated with a surface modifier and then separated and mounted on an aluminum frame. The aluminum frame has vents that filter air of contaminants and which allow an equalization of air pressure on both sides of the pellicle membrane when a peel-off backliner is in place on the opposite side of the frame. A permanent bond is made between the membrane and frame and a sticky adhesive is used to keep the backliner on the frame until peel-off. The sticky adhesive is such that the backliner may be re-attached a plurality of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Inventor: Gilbert H. Hong