Treating An Article, Container, Batch Or Body As A Unit Patents (Class 432/9)
  • Patent number: 11602804
    Abstract: The present invention discloses that a multi-laser cutting method and system, which is applied to a substrate to form a primary substrate having a pattern of rounded corners and a line, the throughput could be improved because CO2 laser cannot cut the round corner at the high speed, but the substrate strength could be kept due to the high cutting quality of the lines by CO2 laser. The poor quality of the cutting edges of the round corners will not affect on the substrate strength but the round corner cutting by the second laser unit will speed up the cutting process. The present invention applies the method by the 2 different laser machines to balance the throughput. Because at the same speed, for example 150 mm/sec, the cycle time per 1 substrate will be different due to the different length of the cutting lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOPAPEX ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ENERGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hung-Tu Lu, Alexander Naumov, Vladimir Kondratenko
  • Patent number: 11439137
    Abstract: A device for applying, for a predetermined interval, heated air, which is heated to a pest extermination temperature to a to-be-treated automobile, which is housed in a freely accessible manner in a treatment chamber to exterminate pests inside the automobile includes a circulation fan device arranged in the treatment chamber, a suction part of which is oriented toward the inside of the treatment chamber, a heating member mounted in a discharge part of the circulation fan device, and a rectification member for adjusting the flow direction of the heated air delivered into the chamber via the heating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON YUSHUTSU JIDOUSHA KENSA CENTER
    Inventor: Damon Scott Jackson
  • Patent number: 10722939
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a casting is provided. The method includes creating a mixture of ceramic powder and a binder, pouring the mixture around sacrificial patterns, executing a first thermal treatment to set the mixture into a solid mold without damaging the sacrificial patterns, executing a second thermal treatment to remove the sacrificial patterns without removing any of the binder from the solid mold, executing at least one of a third thermal treatment and a chemical treatment to remove a quantity of the binder to transform the solid mold into a solid breakaway mold and pouring molten metallic material into the solid breakaway mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Joseph Marcin, Steven J. Bullied, Santosh Ranganath
  • Patent number: 10160194
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for implementing a comparatively higher speed process for surface curing of finished three-dimensional (3D) printed parts, objects and/or components, formed and/or otherwise manufactured in 3D printing systems and/or in additive material manufacturing processes. A vacuum finish curing chamber is provided within, or associated with one or more 3D printers to provide a locally-generated substantially oxygen depleted curing environment to support effective and efficient surface curing of one or more formed 3D printed parts. The vacuum finish curing system includes at least one device for emitting curing radiation and at least one object transport system for transporting formed 3D objects to the vacuum finish curing chamber without requiring user handling that would be hazardous to handling individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Atwood, Elizabeth Crossen
  • Patent number: 9958154
    Abstract: A charge electrode configured to impart a time-varying charge to a flame and a shape electrode located outside the flame may be driven synchronously by a voltage source through time varying voltage(s). The flame may be flattened or compressed responsive to an electric field produced by the shape electrode acting on the charges imparted to the flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: CLEARSIGN COMBUSTION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Colannino, Thomas S. Hartwick, David B. Goodson, Tracy A. Prevo, Christopher A. Wiklof
  • Publication number: 20150140217
    Abstract: Provided is a vertical annealing furnace, in which a heating zone and a soaking zone are communicated with each other in the upper part of the furnace, in which a part of the furnace other than the communicated parts is separated by a dividing wall, in which part of the furnace gas is suctioned into a refiner having a deoxidation device and a dehumidification device which is placed outside the furnace to decrease the dew point of the gas by removing oxygen and moisture from the gas and such that the resultant gas having a decreased dew point is returned into the furnace, in which a gas suction port into the refiner is located in the lower part of the connection part between the soaking zone and the cooling zone and in which one or more gas suction ports are located in the parts of the heating zone and/or the soaking zone outside of an area within 6 m in the vertical direction and 3 m in the longitudinal direction of the furnace from the steel strip entrance in the lower part of the heating zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Takahashi, Nobuyuki Sato, Kazuki Nakazato, Motoki Takada
  • Publication number: 20150139401
    Abstract: A method for treating a surface layer (3) of a device (1) consisting of alumina and a corresponding device (1) are proposed. The method comprises providing the device (1) with the surface layer (3) to be treated being exposed and heating the surface layer (3) of the device (1) in an oxygen-depleted atmosphere comprising e.g. one of an inert gas, nitrogen, hydrogen, argon and a combination thereof to a temperature higher than 1000° C., preferably higher than 1700° C. for a duration of preferably more than 2 hours. Due to such treatment, a superficial layer region (7) comprised in the surface layer (3) may obtain a significantly reduced electrical resistivity which is assumed to be the result of chemically reducing this superficial layer region (7). Such reduced superficial electrical resistivity may advantageously serve for example in components of electron beam devices such as x-ray tube components for preventing any charge build-up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Carolina Ribbing, Christoph Martiny
  • Publication number: 20150129490
    Abstract: Processes for manufacturing low soluble iron diatomite filter aids and such filter aids are disclosed. Aluminum oxide and/or aluminum hydroxide are used as additives when preparing the flux-calcined diatomite filter aids. As compared to either straight-calcined or soda ash flux-calcined diatomite filter aids of similar permeabilities made from the same ore, the disclosed filter aids have lower soluble iron levels. For instance, disclosed filter aids of about 0.5 to about 2.0 Darcy were made using either an aluminum oxide or aluminum hydroxide additive with soda ash. The disclosed filter aids may have an EBC soluble iron content of less than 80 ppm versus 130 ppm for similar filter aids that were made from the same ore and flux-calcined with just soda ash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: EP MINERALS, LLC
    Inventors: Qun Wang, David Scott Keselica, Kimberly Walsh, Peter Edward Lenz, Chongjun Jiang, Bradley Scott Humphreys
  • Patent number: 9005563
    Abstract: Silicon wafers having an oxygen concentration of 5·1017 to 7.5·1017 cm?3 have the following BMD densities after the following thermal processes, carried out alternatively: a BMD density of at most 1·108 cm?3 after a treatment for three hours at 780° C. and subsequently for 16 hours at 1000° C., and a BMD density of at least 1·109 cm?3 after heating of the silicon wafer at a heating rate of 1 K/min from a start temperature of 500° C. to a target temperature of 1000° C. and subsequent holding at 1000° C. for 16 hours. The wafers are prepared by a method of irradiation of a heated wafer with flashlamp which delivers energy which is from 50 to 100% of the energy density necessary for melting the wafer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Siltronic AG
    Inventors: Wilfried von Ammon, Gudrun Kissinger, Dawid Kot
  • Publication number: 20150050609
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for debindering a cellular ceramic green body. The apparatus includes a flow modulation member to selectively restrict circulation of a heated oxygen-containing atmosphere through a top of a cellular core section of the green body. The method includes heating the green body in a circulating oxygen-containing atmosphere while selectively restricting circulation of the atmosphere through the top of the cellular core section of the green body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Douglas Munroe Beall, Dana Craig Bookbinder, David John Thompson, Jianguo Wang
  • Publication number: 20150044619
    Abstract: A substrate carrier, including: a baffle having a continuous perimeter sidewall surrounding an enclosed region; and one or more standoffs attached to an inside surface of the perimeter sidewall, the one or more standoffs extending into the enclosed region and below a bottom edge of the perimeter sidewall, the one or more standoffs each having a lip located between an upper edge of the baffle and the lower edge of the baffle. Also, a method of annealing substrates using the substrate carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John C. Hall, Jeffrey C. Maling, Charles F. Musante
  • Patent number: 8944810
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for treating a selected region of a metal layer, used to form a metal card, by annealing the selected metal region so the selected region becomes soft and ductile, while the rest of the metal layer remains stiff. The softened, ductile, selected metal region can be embossed with reduced power and with reduced wear and tear on the embossing equipment. Alternatively, the annealed metal layer can undergo additional processing steps to form an assembly which can then be embossed. The method may include the use of a fixture for holding the metal layer, with the fixture having a window region for enabling heat to be applied to soften the region of the metal layer within the window region. The fixture includes apparatus for cooling the portion of the metal layer outside of the window region and for preventing the temperature of the metal layer outside the window region from rising above predetermined limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Composecure, LLC
    Inventor: John H. Herslow
  • Publication number: 20150024330
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for controlling the heating of the base within a chemical vapour deposition chamber, which apparatus is applicable to an MOCVD reaction chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Advanced Mirco-Fabrication Equipment Inc, Shanghai
    Inventors: Baoxia Tian, Steven Tianxiao Lee, Yingbin Liu, Quanyong Guo
  • Publication number: 20150017593
    Abstract: A heat treatment method of an impeller includes a heat treatment preparation process of arranging the impeller within a vacuum furnace, an impeller covering process of covering an outer peripheral surface of the impeller in a circumferential direction by a heat uniformizing jig made of a radiation conversion material which radiates transferred heat as radiant heat, and a heat treatment process including a heating process and a cooling process in which heat treatment is performed by heating or cooling the impeller covered with the heat uniformizing jig from the periphery using a heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Yoko, Hiroko Kitamoto, Shimpei Okayasu, Hiroki Takagi
  • Publication number: 20150010875
    Abstract: Several systems of thermally stable inorganic salts with low melting points are disclosed. These compositions include sodium, potassium, zinc, chloride, and sulfate and can have thermal stability limits greater than 700° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Justin Raade, John Vaughn, Benjamin Elkin
  • Patent number: 8915733
    Abstract: A method of heating a charge material by controlling heat flux in a tilt rotary furnace is disclosed. Combustion by the burner forms a heat release profile including a high heat flux region. The positioning of the high heat flux region is controllable by providing a controlled amount of secondary or staged oxidant. The burner is configured and controlled to position a region of high heat flux at a position corresponding to an area requiring greater heating, such as the area of maximum charge depth in the furnace to provide substantially uniform melting and heat distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Cao, Xiaoyi He, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov
  • Patent number: 8900384
    Abstract: In a method for heat treating a metal tube or pipe for a nuclear power plant, the tube or pipe being accommodated in a batch-type vacuum heat treatment furnace, when the tube or pipe is laid down on and is subjected to heat treatment on a plurality of metal cross beams arranged along a longitudinal direction of the tube or pipe, it is possible to suppress scratches to be formed on the outer surface of the tube or pipe and attributable to heat treatment, and to reduce the discoloration on the outer surface of the tube or pipe by holding the tube or pipe and the metal cross beams in indirect contact with each other by virtue of a heat resistant fabric having a thickness of 0.1 to 1.2 mm interposed in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Shoji Kinomura, Shinichi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 8883901
    Abstract: The current invention relates to a process for stabilizing a hypophosphite salt, comprising the step of heating the hypophosphite salt at a temperature of between 150 and 370° C. during a sufficient period of time to prevent the formation of a dangerous quantity of phosphine in their application as FR in polymers and a flame retardant polymer composition comprising a polymer and 0.1 to 30 weight percent based on the total weight of the composition of the hypophosphite salt thermally stabilized by the above process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Solvay (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Floryan De Campo, Annelyse Murillo, Junli Li, Tingting Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140323986
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing syringes. Said method comprises fixing a needle to a syringe body by use of an adhesive followed by subjecting the syringes thus obtained to heat treatment. The invention further relates to a method of reducing leachables and/or extractables in prefilled syringes, said method comprising heat treating pre-fabricated syringes at a temperature of at least 40° C. before filling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Hexal AG
    Inventor: Peter Skufca
  • Patent number: 8858740
    Abstract: In a method for heat treating a metal tube or pipe for a nuclear power plant, the tube or pipe being accommodated in a batch-type vacuum heat treatment furnace, when the tube or pipe is laid down on and is subjected to heat treatment on a plurality of metal cross beams arranged along a longitudinal direction of the tube or pipe, it is possible to suppress scratches to be formed on the outer surface of the tube or pipe and attributable to heat treatment, and to reduce the discoloration on the outer surface of the tube or pipe by holding the tube or pipe and the metal cross beams in indirect contact with each other by virtue of a heat resistant fabric having a thickness of 0.1 to 1.2 mm interposed in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Shoji Kinomura, Shinichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20140295366
    Abstract: Preparation of an electrode-active material, which uses a reactor to produce an electrode-active material by using a supercritical hydrothermal synthesis method, and a double-pipe type heat exchanger which cools the product discharged from the reactor to a subcritical range or below it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: HANWHA CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyu Ho Song, Sei Ung Park, Seong Jae Lim, Ki Taeg Jung, Kee Do Han
  • Publication number: 20140287372
    Abstract: A post-heat-treatable substrate with a thermochromic film. The post-heat-treatable substrate includes a base substrate, a thermochromic film coating the base substrate, an auxiliary film formed on at least one of the upper surface and the lower surface of the thermochromic film, and a sacrificial film formed between the thermochromic film and the auxiliary film. The sacrificial film is made of metal. Accordingly, the thermochromic material is prevented from agglomerating during post-heat-treatment of the substrate. The auxiliary film prevents oxygen and nitrogen from diffusing into the thermochromic film, so that high-temperature heat treatment, such as a process for tempering the substrate, a process for heat-strengthening the substrate and a process for forming the substrate to become curved, can be conducted on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Youngsoo JUNG, Donggun MOON, Myungi SHIM, Sangryoun RYU
  • Publication number: 20140273294
    Abstract: A system and method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. The system may measure characteristics of the substrate to determine an amount of induced stress on the substrate. The measured characteristics may include warpage, reflectivity and/or crack information about the substrate. The induced stress may be determined, at least in part, based on the measured characteristics. The system may compare the induced stress on the substrate to a maximum intrinsic strength of the substrate and adjust an anneal for the substrate based on the comparison. The adjustment may reduce or limit breakage of the substrate during the anneal. The system may control at least one of a peak anneal temperature and a maximum anneal duration for an anneal unit, which may perform an anneal on the substrate. The measurements and control may be performed ex-situ or in-situ with the anneal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun Hsiung Tsai, Ming-Te Chen
  • Publication number: 20140255858
    Abstract: A device to preheat a tape for sealing containing compartments with a sealing tape, operates intervening by heating and tensioning a sealing tape by means of a panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE SPA
    Inventor: Massimo Menzolini
  • Publication number: 20140255794
    Abstract: A composite material includes a porous organic polymer and an electrochemically active material, wherein the porous organic polymer contains a plurality of pores having a diameter of from about 0.1 nm to about 100 nm, and the electrochemically active material is disposed within the pores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC
    Inventors: Zhengcheng Zhang, Wei Weng, Shengwen Yuan, Khalil Amine
  • Publication number: 20140255638
    Abstract: An adhesive composition for bonding a wafer and a support for the wafer. The adhesive composition contains an elastomer in which a styrene unit is contained as a constituent unit of a main chain, a content of the styrene unit is 14% by weight to 50% by weight, and a weight average molecular weight of the styrene unit is 10,000 to 200,000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Hirofumi Imai, Toshiyuki Ogata, Atsushi Kubo, Takahiro Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20140242530
    Abstract: Substrate heat treatment apparatus and method are provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a substrate heat treatment apparatus including an inner shell configured to form a substrate housing space to house at least one substrate, an outer shell configured to cover the inner shell, and having at least one gas hole, and at least one heater configured to heat the substrate, wherein the at least one gas hole is configured to allow a first gas to be injected into a space between the inner shell and the outer shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Sung Guk An, Jun Heo, Jong Hyun Yun, Kyoung Wan Park, Ho Young Kang, Byung Il Lee
  • Publication number: 20140193760
    Abstract: A coated article, a process of coating an article, and a process of using an article are disclosed. The coated article includes a substrate, a porous coating material, and a thermal barrier coating material. The porous coating material includes a porosity between about 1 percent and about 20 percent, by volume. The thermal barrier coating material has a thermal conductivity that is lower than a thermal conductivity of the substrate. The porous coating material differs in one or both of composition and microstructure from the thermal barrier coating material. Additionally or alternatively, the porous coating material resists at least one of sintering, densification, and phase destabilization for a predetermined period at a predetermined temperature. The process of coating an article includes applying a coating to form the coated article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Warren Arthur NELSON, Yuk-Chiu LAU, Tamara Jean RUSSELL, Joshua Lee MARGOLIES
  • Publication number: 20140157596
    Abstract: A gage tool (700) for inspecting tolerances of a gas turbine engine seal plate (430) includes a base plate (710) arid a top plate (720). The base plate (710) includes abase opening (712) and a slot (711) with an annular shape sized to receive a seal plate (430). The top plate (720) Includes a top opening (723). The base opening (712) and top opening (723) each provide access to a portion of a seal plate (430) within the gage tool (700). The gage tool (700) also includes a first gage (750) with a probe tip for measuring a variation in an outer interlacing surface (433) of a seal plate (430) and a seal slide gage (740) for measuring a force required to rotate Ore seal plate (430) within the gage tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: SOLAR TURBINES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: James Brian Powell, Scott L. Stafford, Luvern John Weber, Terry Toshio Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20140154425
    Abstract: Method for increasing the adhesive power of a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having an upper and a lower surface, wherein at least one surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is subjected to a physical process, said physical process being selected from among the group comprising corona discharge, dielectric barrier discharge, preliminary flame treatment, or plasma treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: TESA SE
    Inventors: Hermann Neuhaus-Steinmetz, Uwe Schümann, Arne Koops, Thomas Schubert, Olga Kirpicenok, Kirstin Weiland, Dennis Perlbach, Sarah Reich
  • Publication number: 20140120483
    Abstract: A method of thermal management includes positioning a first workpiece and a second workpiece in at least one tool having internal cavities, passing a fluid into at least one of the internal cavities to cool portions of the first and second workpieces, welding the first workpiece and the second workpiece in the at least one tool by resistance heating to form a joined workpiece, controlling a rate of cooling of the joined workpiece to slow a rate of cooling through at least one of a resistive heat element or welding electrode of the at least one tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy J. Trapp, Thomas Froats Broderick, Jeffrey Root, Greg Firestone
  • Publication number: 20140087319
    Abstract: In a device for baking of clinker in a clinker, the heat generated in the furnace can be used in a particularly efficient and versatile manner if heat generated in the furnace is transferred, by means of a first heat exchanger, to a heat carrier fluid, the heated heat carrier fluid is transported through at least one line to at least one second heat exchanger, and the heat is then discharged to a heat sink, for example in order to heat a flow of flue gas to a temperature required for the dentitrifiaction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Südbayerisches Portland-Zementwerk Gebr. Wiesböck & Co. GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Leibinger
  • Publication number: 20140087320
    Abstract: A method of reheating a rail weld zone after rails were welded, a distance C between a reheating region P of a rail web portion 2 and a welding center Q is set to more than or equal to 0.2 times and less than or equal to three times a HAZ length Lh of the rail weld zone. A length B of the reheating region P may be more than or equal to 0.5 times and less than or equal to five times the HAZ length Lh of the rail weld zone. A height A of the reheating region P may be more than or equal to 0.2 times a height Hw of the rail web portion 2. A temperature Th reached in a reheating process at a center of the reheating region P may be higher than or equal to 400° C. and lower than or equal to 750° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL AND SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Karimine, Masaharu Ueda, Katsuya Iwano, Hideo Tottori, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140080080
    Abstract: A method for improving the chemical stability of a vapor transfer membrane includes providing a vapor transfer membrane including an ionomer layer having protogenic groups and then annealing the vapor transfer membrane at a temperature greater than about 100° C. Advantageously, the performance and durability of WVT membranes are markedly improved by thermally annealing the membranes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Annette M. Brenner, Shawn M. Clapham, Lijun Zou, Timothy J. Fuller, Craig S. Gittleman
  • Publication number: 20140045129
    Abstract: A system and a method are provided for melting solid sulfur and maintaining the resulting molten sulfur in liquid state. The system and the method may be fabricated, installed and operated at low capital costs, with high throughput rates at high operating efficiencies and low maintenance costs. Specific embodiments of the invention include modular and non-modular designs, which may be installed and operated with low to high degrees of automation, allowing the user to tailor the final configuration to meet specific requirements. The system of the invention comprises a specific configuration of a prescribed solid sulfur feed unit, a prescribed high-capacity melting unit, a compartmentalized pump tank assembly, and a heat exchanger located outside the high-capacity melting unit. The method provided follows the configuration of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: CTI Consulting, LLC
    Inventors: Roy Anthony Pickren, Roger Jacques Maduell, David Brian Singleton
  • Publication number: 20140014421
    Abstract: A thermal management system is provided for a vehicle having an electric traction motor and a battery pack. The thermal management system includes a battery pack heater configured to transfer heat to the battery pack, a second thermal load heater configured to transfer heat to a second thermal load, and a control system. The second thermal load heater is selectively thermally connectable to the battery pack to transfer heat from the second thermal load heater to the battery pack. When the vehicle is connected to an external energy source and the battery pack is at sufficiently low temperature, the control system is configured to control the temperature of the battery pack by activating the second thermal load heater and thermally connecting the second thermal load heater to the battery pack in response to a failure of the battery pack heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Neil Carpenter, Guangning Gao, Ibrahim Alkeilani
  • Publication number: 20130340538
    Abstract: The invention provides a planar coil (1) of a tube (2), wherein the planar coil (1) has an overall planar shape. The cross-section of the tube (2) can be oval. The invention further provides a heating device comprising one or more of the planar coil (1). The invention further provides a method for heating a sample comprising the step of heating the sample in the heating device of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Holger Eschment, Rudiger Stark
  • Publication number: 20130316294
    Abstract: An apparatus for heating a substrate during die bonding is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a substrate carrier configured to hold the substrate; a heating device configured to heat the substrate; a first actuator for effecting relative motion between the substrate carrier and the heating device such that the substrate is relatively indexed with respect to the heating device; a second actuator for effecting relative motion between the substrate carrier and the heating device such that the heating device contacts the substrate to heat different portions of the substrate. In particular, the second actuator is operative to separate the heating device from the substrate in order for the first actuator to relatively index the substrate across the heating device. A method of heating a substrate during die bonding is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Ming Yeung Luke WAN, Chi Wai CHEUNG, Chin Tung SO
  • Publication number: 20130316139
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a silicon substrate, including: performing a rapid heat treatment to a silicon substrate with a rapid-heating and rapid-cooling apparatus by maintaining the silicon substrate at a temperature that is higher than 1300° C. and not greater than a silicon melting point for 1 to 60 seconds, the silicon substrate being sliced from a silicon single crystal ingot grown by the Czochralski method; performing a first temperature decrease process down to a temperature in the range of 600 to 800° C. at a temperature decrease rate of 5 to 150° C./sec; and performing a second temperature decrease process in such a mariner that a cooling time of X seconds and a temperature decrease rate of Y° C./sec meet Y?0.15X?4.5 when X<100 and meet Y?10 when X?100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU HANDOTAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Oka, Koji Ebara, Shuji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130299491
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods for treating a laser-processed material that produces an odor due to the laser processing. The present method includes treating the laser-processed material with heat to dissipate the odor from the material. The method can also include a cooling step after heating of the laser-processed material. Multiple cycles of heating and cooling may also be performed to substantially reduce or eliminate the odor from the laser processed material. The invention also includes an article made according to the method and apparatus for laser processing with the produced article having substantially reduced odor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Daniel B. Miller, Brian Lindahl, Christopher Chow
  • Publication number: 20130299492
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods for treating laser-processed materials having an odor generated during the laser processing. The present method includes treating the laser-processed materials with heat to dissipate the odor from the material. The laser processed material may be secured to avoid curling during the heating process. The method can also include a cooling step after heating of the laser-processed material. Multiple cycles of heating and cooling may also be performed to substantially reduce or eliminate the odor from the laser-processed material. The invention also includes articles made according to the method and apparatus for producing laser processed materials having substantially reduced odor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Daniel B. Miller, Brian Lindahl, Christopher Chow
  • Patent number: 8573505
    Abstract: A method of heating an undercarriage of a machine featuring obtaining a thawing system with a hydraulic system functioning to heat hydraulic fluid and a first high pressure line and a second high pressure line each fluidly connected to the hydraulic system and each adapted to carry hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic system; operatively connecting the hydraulic system to a main engine of the machine; creating channels in the machine to allow passage of the first high pressure line and the second high pressure line from the hydraulic system to the undercarriage of the machine; and activating the system, wherein when the system is activated the hydraulic fluid is delivered to the undercarriage providing heat to the undercarriage for thawing purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Inventor: Dana A. Hennessy
  • Publication number: 20130273486
    Abstract: A layer furnace system for thermal treatment of metal components includes multiple heating levels which arranged on top of each other in vertical direction, and at least one heat source, wherein flat metal components, in particular metal sheets can be inserted into the heat levels and at last one heating level can be closed by a furnace door, wherein the furnace door is can be displaced in vertical direction for opening and closing the heat level located there behind. The present invention also relates to a method for operating the layer furnace system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Benteler Automobiltechnik, GmbH
    Inventors: Borek Dvorak, Radovan Kout
  • Publication number: 20130264023
    Abstract: A latent heat storage device is formed with a carrier substrate formed of expanded graphite material. Phase change material is infiltrated in the graphite material. A thin graphite sheet provides for the functional heat conductivity into and out of the carrier substrate. After the phase change material (PCM) is infiltrated in the carrier substrate, a density of the infiltrated carrier substrate exceeds its starting density by a ratio of at least 3:1 or 4:1 or more. The volume dimensions of the infiltrated the carrier substrate remain substantially unchanged. In the alternative, the latent heat storage device may also have a PCM coating layer on a thin carrier substrate, wherein the phase change material is interspersed in a carrier matrix forming the PCM coating layer. The composite device may be very thin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: SGL CARBON SE
    Inventors: BASTIAN HUDLER, RAINER SCHMITT, BRIAN FORD, WERNER LANGER, SYLVIA MECHEN
  • Publication number: 20130260328
    Abstract: A controller of a heat treatment apparatus forms a phosphorous-doped polysilicon film (D-poly film) on a semiconductor wafer, and determines whether the D-poly film satisfies a target heat treatment characteristic. When it is determined that the target heat treatment characteristic is not satisfied, the controller calculates a temperature in a reaction tube and flow rates of process gas supply pipes, which satisfy the target heat treatment characteristic, based on a heat treatment characteristic of the D-poly film and a model indicating relationships between changes in the temperature in the reaction tube and the flow rates of the process gas supply pipes, and a change in a heat treatment characteristic. The controller forms the D-poly film on the semiconductor wafer according to heat treatment conditions including the calculated temperature and the calculated flow rates, so as to satisfy the target heat treatment characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuichi TAKENAGA, Daisuke KUDO
  • Publication number: 20130244192
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor comprising a first shield and a second shield and a sensor stack between the first and the second shield, the sensor stack having a plurality of layers wherein at least one layer is annealed using in-situ rapid thermal annealing. In one implementation of the magnetic sensor a seed layer is annealed using in-situ rapid thermal annealing. Alternatively, one of a barrier layer, an AFM layer, and a cap layer is annealed using in-situ rapid thermal annealing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Qing He, Wonjoon Jung, Mark William Covington, Mark Thomas Kief, Yonghua Chen
  • Patent number: 8529250
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for heating at least one workpiece in a furnace by which the workpiece is heated by heating facilities. An exemplary method comprises heating a complete workpiece with the heating facilities. The exemplary method also comprises moving the workpiece out of the furnace such that a first portion of the workpiece is still inside the furnace while a second portion of the workpiece is outside the furnace and holding the workpiece at this position for a predetermined time period. Finally, the exemplary method comprises moving the complete workpiece out of the furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Inventor: Rolf-Josef Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20130230814
    Abstract: A substrate supporting assembly in a reaction space includes a heater, a substrate support member, and a shim positioned between the heater and the substrate support member. The shim may be removably secured between the heater and the substrate support member. The shim may further include an inner surface defining a perimeter of a gap. The gap may be further defined by a bottom surface of the substrate support member and a top surface of the heater. The substrate support member may further include a shoulder positioned radially outside of a substrate support position and wherein the shim inner surface is radially aligned with the substrate support member shoulder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: ASM IP HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Todd Dunn, Carl White, Michael Halpin, Eric Shero, Jerry Winkler
  • Publication number: 20130168387
    Abstract: A wood treatment method and apparatus that utilizes at least two carts for transporting bundles of wood into, out of, and between at least two wood treatment vessels. In certain situations, each of the carts can move along a dedicated path and can be located exterior to the vessels during treatment. As a result, the process can have a minimal cycle time, while maximizing throughput from the facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventor: Eastman Chemical Company
  • Publication number: 20130171365
    Abstract: A wood treatment system that includes at least one wood treatment vessel and a bundle lift system for loading and unloading a bundle of wood from a cart used to transport the bundle into and/or out of the treatment vessel. The lift system vertically disengages the bundle of wood from the cart within the interior of the vessel, thereby allowing the cart to be removed from the vessel prior to initiating treatment. The lift system, which can be physically separate from or physically coupled to the cart, is entirely disposed within a lower portion of the interior volume of the wood treatment vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventor: Eastman Chemical Company