Controlled furnace heat treatment
The present invention is directed to a heat treatment apparatus for performing heat treatment of a substrate. The heat treatment apparatus according to the present invention comprises a heating furnac... Read More
Inventors: Terauchi, Kenichi; Okamoto, Takeo;, Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. (Kyoto, JP) |
Method and apparatus for preheating semiconductor chips
This invention was created to solve the above-described problems. The purpose of this invention is to provide a preheating method and apparatus for heating a plurality of chips immediately before bond... Read More
Inventors: Mitarai, Tadashi; Kanda, Makoto;, Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) |
Method and apparatus for repairing damaged tubes
WITH OBJECTS It is one object of the present invention to provide a simple and easy method to repair damaged tubes. It is another object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for ... Read More
Inventors: Findlan, Shane J.; Childs, Wylie J.;, Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Glass-ceramic plate with multiple coil film heaters
The present invention, in accordance with one form thereof, relates to a solid plate cooktop or surface heating unit that is provided with a metallic film heater comprising a plurality of conductive s... Read More
Inventors: Hurko, Bohdan;, Assignee: General Electric Company (Louisville, KY) |
Replaceable soldering tip assembly
OF PRESENTLY PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In FIG. 1, a hand held electric soldering instrument 10 is shown which exemplifies a current, state of the art modern tool providing the advantages heretofore known... Read More
Inventors: Fortune, William S.;, Assignee: |
Vertical heat-treatment apparatus for semiconductor parts
It is an object of the present invention to provide a heat-treatment apparatus for semiconductor parts, capable of reliably sealing a heat-treatment gas supplied into a heat-treatment tube and stably ... Read More
Inventors: Koyama, Mitsutoshi; Takahashi, Koichi; Sonobe, Hironori;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Semiconductor wafer reaction furnace with wafer transfer means
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The following is a description of a first embodiment of the present invention according to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is comprised of many of the same components and descr... Read More
Inventors: Kakizaki, Satoshi; Karino, Toshikazu; Izumi, Shoichiro; Koizumi, Mikio; Ozawa, Makoto; Ikeda, Fumihide; Yoshida, Tohru; Saito, Ryoji;, Assignee: Kokusai Electric Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Processing apparatus with means for rotating an object mounting means and a disk body located in the mounting means differently relative to each other
An object of this invention is to provide a single sheet (wafer) processing apparatus which can homogeneously and simultaneously remove impurities on the surface and the underside of an object to be t... Read More
Inventors: Takahashi, Nobuaki;, Assignee: Tokyo Electron Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Wafer processing chuck using slanted clamping pins
These objects of the invention and other objects, features and advantages to become apparent as the specification progresses are accomplished by the invention, according to which, briefly stated, a gr... Read More
Inventors: Hobson, Phillip M.; Dick, Paul H.;, Assignee: Varian Associates, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Electric cigar lighter with a bimetallic snap-action disc for overload protection
Starting from the abovementioned prior art and avoiding the disadvantages mentioned in the foregoing, the object of the present invention is to provide an overload protective device for an electric ci... Read More
Inventors: von Gaisberg, Alexander; Fischer, Alexander;, Assignee: Schoeller & Co. Elektrotechnische Fabrik GmbH & Co. (Frankfurt, DE) |
Liner for submerged entry nozzle
OF THE INVENTION As mentioned above, the premature clogging of pouring nozzles due to alumina buildup has long been a problem in the continuous casting art, particularly when casting so-called alumin... Read More
Inventors: Benson, Paul M.;, Assignee: Vesuvius Crucible Company (Wilmington, DE) |
Heat exchanger for gases
Accordingly, the invention relates to a heat exchanger for gases, constructed as a vertical shaft with an upward flow of gas between rows of staggered horizontally arranged sets of tubes, downwardly r... Read More
Inventors: Bockman, Ole K.; Rydland, Kjell;, Assignee: A/S Norsk Viftefabrikk (Oslo, NO) |
Inlet system for gas scrubber
I claim: 1. An improved inlet system (14) for a silicon gas scrubber (10) having a well flushed first scrubbing chamber (12) with a first cross sectional area and into which the inlet system (14) comm... Read More
Inventors: Johnsgard, Mark W.;, Assignee: Airgard, Inc. (Campbell, CA) |
Method for increasing the batch size of a barrel epitaxial reactor and reactor produced thereby
Contrary to the results achieved in the prior art, according to the principles of this invention, a prior art barrel epitaxial reactor is configured to achieve an increased batch size. Unlike the prio... Read More
Inventors: Moore, Gary M.;, Assignee: Moore Epitaxial, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
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 B.; Carlson, David K.;, Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Distribution chamber for an electric steam iron with two compartments separated by a partition
What is claimed is: 1. In an electric steam iron comprising a casing (1) and a sole (2) extending longitudinally from a point (3) toward a heel (4) of the iron and separated from the casing (1) by a t... Read More
Inventors: Bouleau, Jean-Paul A. A.; Guillot, Gerard L. H.;, Assignee: Moulinex (Societe Anonyme) (Bagnolet, FR) |
Human tPA production using vectors coding for DHFR protein
A. Definitions As used herein: Human "tissue plasminogen activator" (tPA) is a fibrinolytic protein as described in U.S. Ser. No. 272,093, filed June 11, 1980, now abandoned, which is a continuation ... Read More
Inventors: Levinson, Arthur D.; Pennica, Diane; Kohr, William J.; Vehar, Gordon A.; Goeddel, David V.; Yelverton, Elizabeth M.; Simonsen, Christian C.;, Assignee: Genentech, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) |
Method for prevention of autodoping of epitaxial layers
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to eliminate or minimize autodoping of an epitaxial layer caused by dopant diffusion off of the back side of the substrate. Another object of the pre... Read More
Inventors: Roth, Scott S.; Steinberg, Joe; Morgan, H. Scott;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) |
Bake-stable HgCdTe photodetector and method for fabricating same
OF THE INVENTION Although described below in the context of a fabrication process for PV detectors having a mesa geometry, it should be realized that the teaching of the invention is applicable also ... Read More
Inventors: Cockrum, Charles A.; Gesswein, Francis I.; Schulte, Eric F.;, Assignee: Santa Barbara Research Center (Goleta, CA) |
Multistep planarized chemical vapor deposition process with the use of low melting inorganic material for flowing while depositing
It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide a process for planarizing an integrated circuit structure comprising an initial ECR plasma deposition of a conformal insulation layer followed ... Read More
Inventors: Maydan, Dan; Wang, David N.;, Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Apparatus for treating wafers in the manufacture of semiconductor elements
It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for the treatment of wafers in the manufacture of semiconductor elements of the type described above, which occupies less surface area ... Read More
Inventors: Kunze-Concewitz, Horst; Muller-Uri, Hans;, Assignee: Convac GmbH (Wiernsheim, DE) |
Colored glass-ceramic articles
I claim: 1. A glass-ceramic article having a predominant crystal phase of tetrasilicic fluormica and which exhibits a yellow coloration in visible light and fluoresces with a yellow coloration while b... Read More
Inventors: Grossman, David G.;, Assignee: Corning Incorporated (Corning, NY) |
Process for electrolytically surface-roughening aluminum support
The object of the present invention is to provide an electrolytic surface-roughening process to prepare a lithographic aluminum support whose non-image area is difficult to be stained and which has a ... Read More
Inventors: Nakanishi, Haruo; Sakaki, Hirokazu;, Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (Minami-ashigara, JP) |
Method for the formation of monomolecular adsorption films or built-up films of monomolecular layers using silane compounds having an acetylene or diacetylene bond
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a method for forming a monomolecular adsorption film of a silane compound having a diacetylene bond or a diacetylene polymer derived from the si... Read More
Inventors: Tamura, Hideharu; Ogawa, Kazufumi;, Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) |
Organic nonlinear optical material
OF THE INVENTION In the general formula (I), R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may together form a cyclic structure such as an ethylene structure. The 4-nitrophenylaminoacetaldehyde acetal represented by the gener... Read More
Inventors: Ogata, Naoya; Yokowo, Yasuhiko;, Assignee: Ogata; Naoya (Tokyo, JP); Miyata; Seizo (Tokyo, JP); Ube Industries Ltd. (Yamaguchi, JP); Research Development Corporation of Japan (Tokyo, JP) |
Method for recording and reproducing information, apparatus therefor and recording medium
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information, which enables recorded characters, drawings, pictures, codes and binary informatio... Read More
Inventors: Matsuo, Makoto; Utsumi, Minoru; Ogusu, Chihaya; Mukasa, Shunsuke; Kudo, Yoshiaki; Obata, Hiroyuki; Aono, Takashi; Mohri, Hiroshi; Koike, Masato; Amano, Hideaki; Saito, Norikazu;, Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Preparation of diamond and diamond-like thin films
OF THE INVENTION In the examples below, three different compounds were used as organic molecules, representing high molecular weight molecules which are rich in carbon and hydrogen. Each had a hydrop... Read More
Inventors: Yu, Bing-Kun;, Assignee: The University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT) |
Apparatus and method for producing monomolecular films or monomolecular built-up films
It is the object of this invention to provide an apparatus and method in which the above problems have been eliminated and which make it possible to form a monomolecular film or a monomolecular built-... Read More
Inventors: Matsuda, Hiroshi; Kawada, Haruki; Kasanuki, Yuji; Yanagisawa, Yoshiharo; Morikawa, Yuko;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Method of manufacturing a polymer ultra thin film electret
According to a first aspect of the invention we provide an ultra thin polymer film electret comprising a polymer and a substrate having a surface electric charge, wherein a side chain of the polymer a... Read More
Inventors: Mino, Norihisa; Yamagata, Yoshikazu; Ogawa, Kazufumi;, Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Substrate surface preparation
What is claimed is: 1. A method of providing a substrate having a solid surface, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a polymer, (b) contacting the substrate surface with a composition co... Read More
Inventors: Guire, Patrick E.; Dunkirk, Shawn G.; Josephson, Mark W.; Swanson, Melvin J.;, Assignee: BSI Corporation (Eden Prairie, MN) |
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