Plasma spraying of conversion screens
What is claimed is: 1. An X-ray image intensifier tube having an entrance screen comprising a first phosphor layer deposited upon a first carrier, an exit screen comprising a second phosphor layer dep... Read More
Inventors: Popma, Theo J. A.; Te Raa, Gerhardus A.; Vink, Adrianus T.;, Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation (New York, NY) |
Ultrasonic transducer and method for using same
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The preferred embodiment of the present invention is now described with reference to the figures, wherein like numbers represent like parts throughout the figures. While s... Read More
Inventors: Sleva, Michael Z.; Hunt, William D.; Connuck, David M.; Briggs, Ronald D.;, Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta, GA); Medical College of Georgia Research Institute (Augusta, GA) |
Flexural plate sound transducer having low resonant frequency
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference should now be made to the drawing figures, on which similar or identical elements are given consistent identifying numerals throughout the various figures there... Read More
Inventors: Rorick, Timothy P.;, Assignee: Raytheon Company (El Segundo, CA) |
Through-port load carrier and related test apparatus
OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In this specification, terms like "front," "rear," "inside" and the like are used. Such terms are based upon, e.g., the front and rear of an exemplary chamber and upon the re... Read More
Inventors: Liken, Peter A.; Ensing, Steven B.;, Assignee: Venturedyne Limited (Milwaukee, WI) |
Positioning and clamping device of a board
It is an object of the present invention to provide a positioning and clamping device for positioning a printed circuit board at a proper location. It is another object of the present invention to pro... Read More
Inventors: Tokairin, Takeshi; Ishijima, Tatsuyuki;, Assignee: Seikosha Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Appearance inspection apparatus and appearance inspection method of electronic components
The present invention relates to substantially shortening the time required for conducting the appearance inspection of electronic components soldered to a printed circuit board. The appearance inspec... Read More
Inventors: Tokura, Nobufumi;, Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Method of installing wire harness
To achieve the aforementioned objectives, there is provided a method for installing a wire-harness which interconnects electrical circuits provided at the inside of a compartment of a motor vehicle an... Read More
Inventors: Yabe, Kazuyoshi;, Assignee: Yazaki Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Workpiece handling apparatus
The primary object of the present invention resides in the provision of a workpiece handling device of the type described which is of relatively simple and economical construction. At the same time, t... Read More
Inventors: Mason, Arthur C.; Faitel, William M.; Haselhuhn, James M.;, Assignee: Lamb Technicon Corp. (Warren, MI) |
Integrated circuit placement device vacuum head
OF THE INVENTION, appended claims, and accompanying drawing. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of a vacuum head in accordance with the present invention illustrating th... Read More
Inventors: Lee, John S.; Lozinski, Daniel L.;, Assignee: Micro Component Technology, Inc. (St. Paul, MN) |
Method and apparatus for handling parts
FIG. 1 illustrates an apparatus 10, in accordance with the invention, for removing a component 12 (best seen in FIG. 2) from a shipping tube 14 and then orienting the component for pickup by a pickup... Read More
Inventors: Hellstern, Richard;, Assignee: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Technologies, Inc. (Berkeley Heights, NJ) |
Non-circular piston rings
What is claimed is: 1. A piston ring for a non-circular engine cylinder, which cylinder has a wall contacted by the ring, the cylinder being in an engine which is in a cold state before being placed i... Read More
Inventors: Duck, Gerhard; Brillert, Hans-Rainer; Mierbach, Albin;, Assignee: Goetze AG (Burscheid, DE) |
Hand apparatus for holding article
The present invention has been made in consideration of the above situation, and has as its main object to provide a gripping apparatus capable of gripping a plurality of articles of different grippin... Read More
Inventors: Yakou, Takeshi;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Robotically loaded epitaxial deposition apparatus
OF THE PRESENT INVENTION In FIG. 1, a graphite susceptor 1 is shown as it would appear during the operation of loading and unloading semiconductor wafers 3. Susceptor 1 is, for example, an elongated,... Read More
Inventors: Severns, David W.; Tompson, Brian; Lindstrom, Paul R.; Carlson, David K.;, Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
LCD error detection system
OF THE PRESENT INVENTION The present invention describes a liquid crystal display (LCD) device error detection system. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order t... Read More
Inventors: Young, Steve; Foster, Nigel;, Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc. (Cupertino, CA) |
Method of inspecting thin film transistor liquid crystal substrate and apparatus therefor
An object of the present invention is to provide an inspection method of a thin film transistor liquid crystal substrate and an apparatus therefor, wherein various short circuit defects existing on a ... Read More
Inventors: Maeda, Shunji; Kubota, Hitoshi; Ono, Makoto;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
LCD panel test apparatus
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an LCD panel test apparatus which is capable of automatically testing an LCD panel to find out display defects of the display panel. It i... Read More
Inventors: Nagashima, Teruhiko; Aoki, Hiroyuki;, Assignee: Advantest Corp. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for testing an electrically conductive substrate
The present invention is directed to a method of testing an electrically conductive substrate. The method includes a step of contacting a surface of a sensing material to a surface of a substrate to f... Read More
Inventors: Listwan, Andrew;, Assignee: |
Efficient debug package design
These needs are met by the invention, which provides a plurality of small probe apertures in the semiconductor die, with locations strategically chosen to allow access to power core bumps and/or circu... Read More
Inventors: Malladi, Deviprasad; Ansari, Shahid; Chen, Hanxi; Sen, Bidyut; Boyle, Steven;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Apparatus for analyzing semiconductor memories
What is claimed is: 1. The method of physically locating and optically examining faulty cells in a semiconductor device by means of a scanning electron microscope comprising the steps of positioning a... Read More
Inventors: Lockhart, Jr., James A.; Chang, Shung-huei;, Assignee: Burroughs Corporation (Detroit, MI) |
Simplified solar cell material tester
Referring more particularly to the drawings, FIGS. 1 through 3 show an apparatus and circuit for determining the quality of semiconductor material to be employed as solar cells. The quality of solar ... Read More
Inventors: Garlick, George F. J.;, Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company (Los Angeles, CA) |
Color variation in a passively illuminated display using fluorescent light sources
The passively illuminated display of the present invention is capable of producing color variation with only a single light source having a time varying chromatic output. It also is capable of having ... Read More
Inventors: Glass, David W.; Routt, Jr., Wilson M.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Personality board
I claim: 1. A personality board for use with a semiconductor wafer test set interposed between a test set test head and a probe card, said personality board comprising: a plurality of electrically con... Read More
Inventors: Ogura, Mitsuhiro;, Assignee: Hewlett Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Apparatus for manufacturing liquid crystal display screens
The present invention is a manufacturing apparatus that provides for producing relatively large LCD screens. The manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is able to accomplish this by very acc... Read More
Inventors: Joffe, Benjamin; Schrall, Werner J.; Simon, Lawrence A.; Kerekes, Tom A.; Johnson, Todd;, Assignee: Interserv Corp. (Bloomington, MN) |
Polysilicon transistors formed on an insulation layer which is adjacent to a liquid crystal material
The present invention comprises a method, and resulting apparatus, for fabricating AM displays, by using silicon thin film transfer processes to remove areas or tiles of circuits, formed in Si thin fi... Read More
Inventors: Vu, Duy-Phach; Dingle, Brenda D.; Dingle, Jason E.; Cheong, Ngwe;, Assignee: |
Method of combining plate members and plate member combining device for carrying out the method
The present invention has been made in view of the foregoing problems in the plate member combining method an the plate member combining device and it is therefore an object of the present invention t... Read More
Inventors: Goda, Yoshimasa;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Tiled panel display assembly
In accordance with the present invention, the manufacturing yield for large area panel displays is significantly improved by the utilization of a large number of small area displays mounted on a commo... Read More
Inventors: Li, Che-Yu;, Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, NY) |
Plywood lay-up system
What is claimed is: 1. A lay-up method for assembling plywood veneer plies, the lay-up method comprising the steps of: (a) conveying a long grain back veneer ply to a conveyor toward a position beneat... Read More
Inventors: Fujii, Yutaka; Akao, Fuminori; Omelchuk, John;, Assignee: Kitagawa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (Hiroshima-ken, JP) |
Large area tiled modular display system
A readily manufacturable tiled modular display system includes an array of display modules that contain corresponding thin seal liquid crystal displays to produce a displayed image that appears seamle... Read More
Inventors: Mazurek, Niel; Zammit, Theodore J.; Maloney, Thomas C.;, Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Seoul, KR) |
Tiled flat-panel display with tile edges cut at an angle and tiles vertically shifted
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a tiled, seamless type of flat-panel display having improved light efficiency, increased pixel density and improved color purity. The displa... Read More
Inventors: Greene, Raymond G.; Skinner, Dean W.;, Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc. (Endicott, NY) |
Method and apparatus for securing distance of spark discharge gap of spark plug by means of image data processing
The present invention has been made in view of the above mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method or apparatus for adequately securing a predetermined distance... Read More
Inventors: Nakatani, Hiroshi;, Assignee: Denso Corporation (Kariya, JP) |
LCD 
