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Substrate-processing apparatus with buffer mechanism and substrate-transferring apparatus
ActiveUS7690881B2Low costSmall footprintPliersSemiconductor/solid-state device manufacturingEngineeringActuator
A substrate transfer apparatus for loading and unloading substrates in a reaction chamber, includes: an arm having a distal end which is laterally movable in a straight line direction; and end-effectors for loading and unloading substrates in a reaction chamber, which include a lower end-effector and an upper end-effector. One of the lower end-effector or the upper end-effector is movably coupled to the arm at a distal end of the arm, and the other end-effector is fixed to the movably coupled end-effector. The fixed end-effector is fixed to the movably coupled end-effector.
Owner:ASM JAPAN
Method for plasma etching a chromium layer suitable for photomask fabrication
A method for etching a chromium layer is provided herein. In one embodiment, a method for etching a chromium layer includes providing a filmstack in an etching chamber, the filmstack having a chromium layer partially exposed through a patterned layer, providing at least one halogen containing process gas to a processing chamber, biasing the layer disposed on a substrate support in the processing chamber with a plurality of power pulses less than 600 Watts, and etching the chromium layer through a patterned mask. The method for plasma etching a chromium layer described herein is particularly suitable for fabricating photomasks.
Owner:APPLIED MATERIALS INC
RF device in drinkware to record data/initiate sequence of behavior
InactiveUS20050087255A1Easy and efficient to manufactureDurable and reliable constructionCredit registering devices actuationLiquid fillingEngineeringCommunication device
A drinkware is provided to provide information to a receiver. The drinkware is a RF device coupled to a handheld drinking container. The RF device can receive and send RF signals and communicate with a sensory device. A transmitter can send a signal to the communication device, which then activates sensory device. The RF device can communicate with the transmitter to control a fountain machine.
Owner:WHIRLEY IND
Disposable food container with a linear sidewall profile and an arcuate outer flange
InactiveUS6715630B2Good physical propertiesLose weightEnvelopes/bags making machinerySpecial paperEngineeringUltimate tensile strength
The present invention is directed to rigid disposable food containers provided with a relatively steep sidewall with a generally linear profile and an outwardly flared arcuate flange portion. The containers are further characterized by a flange outer vertical drop wherein the ratio of the length of the vertical drop to the characteristic diameter of the container is greater than about 0.01. By virtue of unique geometry, the containers of the invention exhibit improved rigidity and / or rim stiffness yet have favorable runnability in pressware manufacturing systems characteristic of plates of lower strength.
Owner:GPCP IP HLDG LLC
Container with measuring device holding means
Owner:PLASTIPAK PACKAGING
Car navigation device using forward real video and control method thereof
InactiveUS7353110B2Minimizing distraction and anxietyInstruments for road network navigationRoad vehicles traffic controlGyroscopeGps receiver
A car navigation device using a forward real video and a control method thereof are disclosed. The car navigation device using a forward real video along the travel direction of a vehicle, comprises a camera that photographs the forward real video and outputs the photographed video on a screen, a GPS receiver that receives current position information of the vehicle from a satellite, and a navigation main module that receives the current position information of the vehicle from the GPS receiver, obtains more accurate current position information through calibration using a speed sensor and a gyro, extracts TBT information based on the obtained accurate current position information and user's set destination point information by a general method, and overlays the TBT information on the screen containing the forward real video along the direction of a destination point.
Owner:DVS KOREA +2
Eating utensil to monitor and regulate dietary intake
ActiveUS20100240962A1Avoid damageReduce his or her dietary intakeSurgeryInertial sensorsEating UtensilsEngineering
Dietary intake regulating devices that can assist a user in measuring his or her dietary intake and optionally his or her physical activity are disclosed.
Owner:CONTANT CHRISTINE
Object locating and retrieving system utilizing labels
InactiveUS20010056313A1Reliably findReliably graspProgramme controlProgramme-controlled manipulatorWheelchairMedicine
A system for locating and retrieving objects of a variety of sizes, shapes, weights, positions and orientations is disclosed. The system comprises a robot arm, a control computer, a gripper, an operating sequence, a set of objects and a set of machine-readable or bar code labels mounted on said objects, and a scanner. The system locates a requested object, calculates its position and moves the gripper into position for pickup. Alternate embodiments include mounting on a wheelchair and use in medical, dental, library and stockpicking environments.
Owner:OSBORNE WILLIAM JOSEPH JR
Self-feeding apparatus with hover mode
InactiveUS20020064438A1Flexible choiceFood degradationProgramme controlGripping headsAutomatic steeringEngineering
A robotic self-feeding device uses a multiplicity of dishes, utensils and control methods to handle a wide variety of food, including sandwiches. Its operating sequence has a hover mode in which a utensil is automatically steered over a food holder and is constrained from moving away from the food holder. The user points to the desired food with the utensil and triggers pickup which is automatically accomplished. Its gripper can operate tong utensils to grasp food. It can cut food. The process of eating is thus easy and intuitive for people who may have a wide variety of severe paralysis disabilities.
Owner:OSBORNE JR WILLIAM JOSEPH
Plastic container with horizontally oriented panels
A molded polymeric container generally symmetric about a vertical axis includes at least two rows of panels disposed circumferentially around the body, the panels having central portions that are sufficiently flexible to be dimensionally responsive to changes in pressure within the container. At least one row of the panels has a margin having a horizontal width exceeding the vertical height, thus being laterally elongate with a height / width aspect ratio of less than one. The pressure responsive central portion of each laterally elongate panel is a smooth outwardly projecting dome from a peripheral root of a generally radially projecting wall defining the margins of circumferential rings and posts separating the panels. The outwardly projection domes of the laterally elongate panels can have a variety of shapes.
Owner:BALL CORP
Self-feeding apparatus with hover mode
A robotic self-feeding device uses a multiplicity of dishes, utensils and control methods to handle a wide variety of food, including sandwiches. Its operating sequence has a hover mode in which a utensil is automatically steered over a food holder and is constrained from moving away from the food holder. The user points to the desired food with the utensil and triggers pickup which is automatically accomplished. Its gripper can operate tong utensils to grasp food. It can cut food. The process of eating is thus easy and intuitive for people who may have a wide variety of severe paralysis disabilities.
Owner:OSBORNE JR WILLIAM JOSEPH
Workpiece gripping device
Owner:FANUC LTD
Snap-together eating utensil assembly
InactiveUS7013568B2Secure retentionFacilitate gripping and manipulationKitchen equipmentMetal-working hand toolsEating UtensilsEngineering
An eating utensil assembly includes a knife, a fork and a spoon. The knife includes an elongate handle, and grooves are formed in opposite surfaces of the handle. The fork and the spoon each have channel-shaped handles that can be nested over the handle of the knife. Additionally, the channel-shaped handles of the fork and spoon have elongate ribs configured for releasable snapped engagement with the grooves in the handle of the knife.
Owner:COMMUNITY NAT BANK
Method and system for implementing a user interface for a device through recognized text and bounded areas
InactiveUS20060066591A1Efficient accessDwelling equipmentCharacter and pattern recognitionNatural language processingText string
A method and system for implementing a user interface for a pen device through recognized text and bounded areas. The method includes recognizing a text string and accessing a function or application related to the text string upon the recognition. An output is provided in accordance with the function and the function is associated with the text string. Alternatively, selection of the text string automatically applies the recognized result of the text string to a currently active application. The method includes recognizing an actuation within a bounded area and automatically accessing a function related to the bounded area upon the actuation. A text string recognized within a bounded area produces an output in accordance with the text string and the bounded area.
Owner:LEAPFROG ENTERPRISES
Tableware
InactiveUS20050155229A1Improve handling strengthCheap manufacturingKitchen equipmentMetal working apparatusWave structureEngineering
The present invention relates to tableware. The tableware includes a handle and a holding section connected with the handle. The cross-section of the handle is “M”-shaped, with a “V”-shaped groove extending from the middle of the handle to the holding section, and at least one V-shaped groove being positioned in the middle of the holding section. The above-mentioned parts make up the strengthened tableware. The “M”-shaped and “W”-shaped grooves strengthen the handle, the palm and the finger of the tableware. On the other hand, the manufacturing and concave points located at the “M”-shaped groove of the front surface and the “W”-shaped groove of the back surface of the tableware enable the tableware to overlap closely and steadily because of a parallel-wave structure principle. Different types or the same type of tableware can overlap closely.
Owner:LEE CHING MOU
Layer picking end effector system, apparatus and method
A system, method and apparatus for handling and moving a layer of articles, such as cased products. The system and apparatus comprise a hood enclosure having four side panels, and four interconnected corner member. The side walls and corner members interoperate to form an adjustable enclosure to pick the layer of articles. A vacuum generate is utilized to evacuate air from the hood enclosure to assist in lifting the layer of articles. The hood enclosure may utilize an array of vacuum cups to assist in the lifting of articles into the hood enclosure. The method is directed towards utilizing the hood layer end effector to move and hand articles.
Owner:SAGE AUTOMATION
Active Foodware
Active foodware comprises at least a plate unit that provides visual stimuli by having a power source and a visual sensory stimulating component to provide light emanating from the plate. Other devices can provide auditory and haptic stimuli. The plate unit can be a single component where the device and circuitry are all contained in the unit and protected from water or can be two components an upper translucent plate and an underplate comprising the devices and circuitry for directing light through the upper plate.
Owner:KRAMER JAMES F
Gripping and vacuum end effector for transferring articles
InactiveUS6860531B2Reduce operating costsImprove performanceGripping headsArticle unpackingVacuum pressureEngineering
An end effector for a robot is used to unpack flattened stackable items from a container using a fixed sized vacuum plenum and simple adjustable gripping elements. The gripping elements comprise a pair of adjustable, smooth blades. In addition, the end effector includes mechanisms for retaining and transporting the container.
Owner:ABB INC
Rotary knife with blade bushing
A powered rotary knife includes a handle, a blade housing, an annular blade, and a blade bushing for rotatably mounting the blade within the housing. The blade housing includes an inner groove that is operable to receive the blade bushing therein. The blade housing and blade bushing are split in order to expand and receive the blade. The blade includes an outer groove that is also operable to receive the blade bushing. Thus, the blade bushing is spaced between the blade housing and blade and rotatably secures the blade within the blade housing.
Owner:HANTOVER
Food container having improved tamper evident features
A plastic food container includes a lid adapted for sealing arrangement with a base. The rim of the base has an undercut formation adapted to receive the perimeter flange and flange tab of the lid when the lid and base are in the sealed arrangement. The flange tab includes an undercut release mechanism that allows a user to grasp a portion of the flange tab and initially open a sealed container via the extraction of the flange tab from the undercut formation by application of pulling force to the undercut release mechanism. The flange tab includes tamper evident means that provides visible indication that the undercut release mechanism has been utilized to initially open the sealed container.
Owner:ANCHOR PAKAGING INC
Portion control serving utensils
InactiveUS20050011367A1Accurately determineKitchen equipmentFood preparationDisplay deviceEngineering
A serving utensil device determines a characteristic of food contained on the device. The device includes a utensil portion for receiving food and a handle portion removably secured to the utensil portion that includes a measuring mechanism for determining a characteristic of food contained on the utensil portion. A series of interchangeable utensil portions can be used with the device. A display device is located on the handle portion for displaying a characteristic of food, such as the amount, volume, and / or temperature.
Owner:CROW FREDERICK W
Aluminum base alloys
High strength, high ductility aluminum base alloys containing from 3 to 18.5 atomic percent nickel and 3 to 14.0 atomic percent yttrium, said alloy being in the devitrified state and containing less than 40 percent intermetallic phases.
Owner:RAYTHEON TECH CORP
Snack tray with dispensing compartment
Owner:PLASTIC INGENUITY
Mobile-dining mealholder with bottle-supported plate-lid
A mobile-dining mealholder with a plate-lid and detachable bottle, the bottle including a narrow cylindrical neck with projections at axially-spaced positions, and the plate-lid including (a) a horizontal cap portion having a downwardly-extending cylindrical skirt with projections at axially-spaced positions such that the skirt detachably engages the neck and (b) a tray portion extending outwardly from the lower edge of the skirt and having food-holding areas about the cap portion. Certain preferred embodiments involve: the tray portion having depressed regions and vertically-extending portions positioned transverse to imaginary pivot lines across the tray portion to avoid excessive flexing; the tray portion being complementary to a shoulder portion of the bottle for enhanced support; and / or either push-on or quarter-turn engagement of bottle and plate-lid.
Owner:SPARKS INT
Convenient food container
A food container includes a base (12) with a food-holding cavity (14) and a lid (20) that closes the cavity, each formed of plastic sheeting. The lid defines an eating utensil (32) such as a fork, by a breakaway line that extends around the utensil and that can be easily broken to remove the utensil. The base has radially inner and outer upstanding flanges (64, 62) and an upwardly-opening base groove (66) between them that receives a lid lip (72). At an initial opening section (60) that occupies less than one-fifth of the container perimeter, a section (62A) of the outer base flange is partially separated from the rest of the base by a cut (80) extending along the base groove and by opposite breakable lines. At that section, the inner base flange (64A) is of reduced width to provide more room for a person to grasp the lid, and there is also a smaller interference fit between the base inner flange with walls of the lid groove.
Owner:PWP INDS
Enclosed living cell dispensing tube
Owner:BIOGAIA AB
Mobile-dining mealholder with beverage container plate-lid
InactiveUS6360885B1The method is simple and convenientResists beverage leakageTravelling carriersHoldersEngineeringMechanical engineering
Owner:SPARKS INT
Disposable servingware containers with flange tabs
Disposable containers include peripheral tabs which are useful for positioning and processing the containers and operate as separators. In a preferred embodiment, the tabs correspond to tabs on a paperboard blank where the tabs are useful for controlling the orientation of the blanks so that printed and shape features may be kept in registration during manufacturing of a disposable servingware container.
Owner:GPCP IP HLDG LLC
Appetizer food tray assembly
A food tray assembly comprises a serving platter and a receptacle platter. The serving platter has a central aperture disposed there through and a serving area defined between the central aperture and a perimeter thereof. The receptacle platter has a bottom and a peripheral wall extending from the bottom at a perimeter thereof. The serving platter and the receptacle platter are releasably coupled to one another.
Owner:EDISON NATION
Mobile station capable of and a method for generating chip patterns for transmission
InactiveUS20080214222A1Easy to useIncrease link capacityDwelling equipmentConnection managementSpread factorEngineering
A base station configured to communicate with a mobile station includes a controlling-information transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The controlling-information transmitting unit is configured to transmit to the mobile station as a set of controlling information, an information set indicating an environment of a cell which is resided by the mobile station, or an information set indicating power of interference from surrounding cells, or an information set indicating a condition of propagation channel. The receiving unit is configured to receive a signal transmitted from the mobile station, based on said set of controlling information, via a variably-controlling process of a spreading factor and a number of chip repetitions.
Owner:NTT DOCOMO INC