65 results about "Air exposure" patented technology

The present invention relates generally to an improved process for providing complete via fill on a substrate and planarization of metal layers to form continuous, void-free contacts or vias in sub-half micron applications. In one aspect of the invention, a refractory layer is deposited onto a substrate having high aspect ratio contacts or vias formed thereon. A CVD metal layer, such as CVD Al or CVD Cu, is then deposited onto the refractory layer at low temperatures to provide a conformal wetting layer for a PVD Cu. Next, a PVD Cu is deposited onto the previously formed CVD Cu layer at a temperature below that of the melting point temperature of the metal. The resulting CVD / PVD Cu layer is substantially void-free. The metallization process is preferably carried out in an integrated processing system that includes both a PVD and CVD processing chamber so that once the substrate is introduced into a vacuum environment, the metallization of the vias and contacts occurs without the formation of an oxide layer over the CVD Cu layer. The via fill process of the present invention is also successful with air-exposure between the CVD Cu and PVD Cu steps.

The invention discloses a hydrothermal synthesis method of molybdenum disulfide nano flowers. The hydrothermal synthesis method mainly comprises the following steps: adding an inorganic molybdenum source, an organic sulfur source and a proper amount of reducing agent into deionized water, uniformly mixing the ingredients, transferring the mixture into a high pressure reaction kettle, and then heating the mixture at a high temperature for 24 hours; washing and centrifugally separating the obtained solution for multiple times, and finally drying the solution to obtain black solid powder, namely, the molybdenum disulfide nano flowers. The hydrothermal synthesis method disclosed by the invention has the beneficial effects that the whole reaction and drying process is carried out in a sealed environment to avoid direct air exposure so as to ensure the product purity; since the reducing agent adopted by the hydrothermal synthesis method disclosed by the invention can be both used as the sulfur source and as a catalyst, no impurity is generated, and thus, the product purity is further improved.

An apparatus for continuous on-line measurement of chemical composition of aerosol particles with a fast time resolution is provided. The apparatus includes an enhanced particle size magnifier for producing activated aerosol particles and an enhanced collection device which collects the activated aerosol particles into a liquid stream for quantitative analysis by analytical means. Methods for on-line measurement of chemical composition of aerosol particles are also provided, the method including exposing aerosol carrying sample air to hot saturated steam thereby forming activated aerosol particles; collecting the activated aerosol particles by a collection device for delivery as a jet stream onto an impaction surface; and flushing off the activated aerosol particles from the impaction surface into a liquid stream for delivery of the collected liquid stream to an analytical instrument for quantitative measurement.

A method and apparatus for producing super-oxygenated water for human consumption including forcing atmospheric air through a filter to remove impurities, exposing the filtered air to ultra violet light to cleanse the air, and to form ozone and oxygen in the air, forcing the filtered air, ozone, and oxygen into a stream of flowing water to dissolve said air, ozone, and oxygen in said water, and spraying the stream of water having air, ozone, and oxygen dissolved therein into a vessel under superatmospheric pressure.

A method is provided for void-free copper (Cu) filling of recessed features in a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a patterned substrate containing a recessed feature, depositing a barrier film on the patterned substrate, including in the recessed feature, depositing a Ru metal film on the barrier film, and depositing a discontinuous Cu seed layer on the Ru metal film, where the Cu seed layer partially covers the Ru metal film in the recessed feature. The method further includes exposing the substrate to an oxidation source gas that oxidizes the Cu seed layer and the portion of the Ru metal film not covered by the Cu seed layer, heat-treating the oxidized Cu seed layer and the oxidized Ru metal film under high vacuum conditions or in the presence of an inert gas to activate the oxidized Ru metal film for Cu plating, and filling the recessed feature with bulk Cu metal. The exposure to the oxidation source gas can be an air exposure commonly encountered in semiconductor device manufacturing prior to Cu plating.

The present invention relates to a volume-adjustable micro-injection device. The device includes a base structure having a syringe positioning structure and a grip, in which the syringe positioning structure can flexibly accommodate injection syringes with different volumes; a holding structure capable of flexibly adjusting an injection angle of syringe content for easier operation; a qualitative controller capable of accurately controlling injection volume; a pressure pushing structure to hold and push a plunger; an injection controller interlinked with the qualitative controller and the pressure pushing structure; and an eject structure facilitating simple operation and easy replacement of injection syringes. In contrast to conventional structures, the present invention provides advantages that control injection volume more accurately, address better injection angle control, allow for the syringe contents to be free from air exposure, require no special syringes, and allow for single-handed replacement of the injection syringe.

An apparatus for continuous on-line measurement of chemical composition of aerosol particles with a fast time resolution is provided. The apparatus includes an enhanced particle size magnifier for producing activated aerosol particles and an enhanced collection device which collects the activated aerosol particles into a liquid stream for quantitative analysis by analytical means. Methods for on-line measurement of chemical composition of aerosol particles are also provided, the method including exposing aerosol carrying sample air to hot saturated steam thereby forming activated aerosol particles; collecting the activated aerosol particles by a collection device for delivery as a jet stream onto an impaction surface; and flushing off the activated aerosol particles from the impaction surface into a liquid stream for delivery of the collected liquid stream to an analytical instrument for quantitative measurement.

Battery energized apparatus mounted within the water tank for conventional flush toilet operates in any or all of three phases of operation to eliminate odors. During the initial phase, air from the toilet bowl is drawn from the toilet tank into a plenum to expose the air to UV radiation to produce ozone molecules that have an oxidizing effect on organic matter and the UV radiation serves as a germicide and a virucide. During the flush phase, ozone enriched air is entrained in the water flowing into the toilet bowl. During the sanitizing phase, ozone enriched air is channeled from the plenum into the toilet bowl.

A rotatable greens drying device that includes a lid, a rotatable colander, a drive mechanism for rotating the colander, and a receiving ring fan which transfers rotational force from the drive mechanism to the rotatable colander. The fast moving, drier air circulated by the receiving ring fan naturally helps evaporate moisture from the surface of the greens and it helps expel water through container holes. This embodiment also allows air exposure of the leafy contents via the perforations within the spinning colander which further reduces surface moisture.

Provided is a method of depositing an amorphous silicon thin film by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to prevent bubble defect occurring when an amorphous silicon thin film is deposited on a substrate contaminated by air exposure. The deposition method includes cleaning a surface of the contaminated substrate with a reaction gas activated by plasma and depositing an amorphous silicon thin film on the cleaned substrate. Here, a vacuum state is maintained from the substrate cleaning step to the thin film deposition step in order to prevent contamination of the surface of the cleaned substrate by re-exposure to air.

A method for producing an anti-microbial fabric includes: (a) depositing anti-microbial metal-based clusters on an outer surface of a fabric substrate by sputtering a metal-based target material which possesses anti-microbial activity and which is prone to oxidation upon air exposure; and (b) depositing oxidation-resistant metal-based clusters on the outer surface of the fabric substrate by sputtering an oxidation-resistant metal-based target material in such an amount as to enable the oxidation-resistant metal-based clusters to partially cover the anti-microbial metal-based clusters so as to permit exposure of at least a part of one of the anti-microbial metal-based clusters. An anti-microbial fabric produced thereby is also disclosed.

Contaminated water is disinfected by admixture of a highly reactive gas stream containing ions of oxygen and nitrogen, formed by exposure of air to short-wavelength ultraviolet radiation, and of chlorine, formed by electrolysis of a brine solution. Solids removal can be accomplished by electrophoresis in the same unit employed for electrolysis of brine to release chlorine, or in a separate unit.

A method of cutting, thinning, welding and chemically functionalizing multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with carboxyl and allyl moieties, and altering the electrical properties of the CNT films by applying high current densities combined with air-exposure is developed and demonstrated. Such welded high-conductance CNT networks of functionalized CNTs could be useful for device and sensor applications, and may serve as high mechanical toughness mat fillers that are amenable to integration with nanocomposite matrices.

A reader is provided that, itself, addresses the issue of damage or degradation to arrays within the reader by virtue of air exposure. In doing so, experimental variability is reduced, and read / scan signal strength degradation is minimized for arrays / slides scanned or otherwise read toward the end of a run. The subject scanners employ a filter that reduces the amount of chemicals in the air inside the device that are harmful to the array, or the dye on the array. The implementation of adding a chemical filter to the reader device may be such that air is either drawn into or, alternatively, pushed through the filter into the same. It is possible that the entirety of the device may be provided with filtered air, or just the region holding slides to be scanned. Array readers so-constructed as well as associated methodology involving filtering incoming air while reading arrays are covered.

The invention discloses in-vitro tissue preserving fluid and a preparation method thereof. Each 1,000 milliliters of preserving fluid comprises the following components by weight: 5 to 200 grams of osmotic pressure regulator, 0.2 to 40 grams of a pH value buffer pair, 3 to 15 grams of potassium chloride, 1 to 5 grams of sodium chloride, 10 to 300 milligrams of antibiotic, 5 to 100 grams of glucose and the balance of deionized water. In the invention, a non-CO2 dependent buffer pair is used to reduce the dependence on CO2 in transport and an air exposure process and reduce the fluctuations of the pH value; a hypertonic and high-potassium environment is used to reduce the swelling of cells and tissues and improve the activities of the cells and tissues; and the antibiotic used is free from causing hypersensitivity reaction. The preparation method is simple and in-vitro tissue preserving fluid has a remarkable in-vitro tissue preserving effect. The in-vitro tissue preserving fluid is low in cost, has low transport requirements, and can be stored at room temperature and conveniently.

A thermal transfer system, a heat sink, and a method for transferring heat are provided. The thermal transfer system includes a fuel cell that can produce a fluid. A wick is provided to transfer the fluid to a destination at which a heat source is present. An enclosure having a porous fluid-permeable external wall can surround the fluid at the destination. When the fluid permeates or condenses on the external wall exterior surface, air exposure of that external wall will cause evaporative cooling of the fluid, and thereby enhance the cooling effect at the heat source. The fluid is a natural byproduct of the fuel cell. Accordingly, the thermal transfer system not only cools a heat source, but produces electric current. The heat sink can be thermally coupled to the heat source, and can have a plurality of fins extending from a base. One or more fins can have a fluid-permeable external wall for evaporative cooling. Fluid can be transferred more efficiently using a wick placed somewhere within the internal radial dimension of a pipe that extends from the fuel cell to the heat source. The external wall of the pipe can also be porous to maximize the fluid entrapment on the inner surface and the evaporative cooling on the external surface.

A self contained battery energized apparatus is mounted within the water tank of a conventional flush toilet to eliminate malodorous gases. Air from the toilet bowl is drawn through the stand pipe in the toilet tank into a housing to expose the air to UV radiation to produce ozone molecules that have an oxidizing effect on organic matter and the UV radiation serves as a germicide and a virucide. The ozonated and oxidized gases are exhausted through a carbon filter.

A method of manufacturing a magnetic head is provided which can improve controlling a thickness of a gap layer. A coil base layer having at least a surface layer formed of one or two or more alloys selected from Au, Ru, and Rh is formed on a contact layer. Thereby, since a surface of the coil base layer is not oxidized due to air exposure, the contact layer is not oxidized. As such, the coil base layer protects the contact layer, so that it is not necessary to perform an etching process for removing an oxide layer, as in the related art. Therefore, it is possible to further improve controlling a thickness of a gap layer without cutting the gap layer by the etching process, as compared with the related art.

The invention discloses a real-time sensing and intelligent regulating system of the testee respiratory capacity and an implementation method of the real-time sensing and intelligent regulating system. The real-time sensing and intelligent regulating system comprises a vent valve, a flow sensor, a pulse sensor, a converter, a simulation operating system and a control chip, wherein the flow sensorwhich is used for monitoring the flow of a gas inlet is arranged in the gas inlet, the pulse sensor is used for monitoring the heart rate, the converter is used for converting the gas flow speed of the gas inlet and the heart rate monitoring result data, and is adapted through a computing storage to transmit the data to the simulation operating system; the simulation operating system is used for conducting fitting operations on the heart rate data and the respiratory capacity data according to a preset heart rate-respiratory capacity control model and assigning values of related relations to the control chip; the control chip is used for calculating the respiratory capacity according to the heart rate value which is transmitted in real time, comparing the respiratory capacity with actually-measured respiratory capacity, and sending a control instruction to a control valve. By means of the real-time sensing and intelligent regulating system of the testee respiratory capacity and the implementation method of the real-time sensing and intelligent regulating system, a precise estimation and automatic control system of a crowd behavior mode can be built, and a scientific basis is provided for accurately obtaining important parameters for monitoring air exposure behaviors of a tested crowd.

The invention relates to the technical field of preparation methods of edible vegetable oils, and particularly discloses a preparation method of original ecological cold-pressed camellia oil and the camellia oil prepared by the preparation method. According to the preparation method, camellia seeds with shells are directly dried, vapor emitted from camellia seed kernels forms saturated vapor pressure under the wrapping action of the camellia seed shells at a certain drying temperature, and outside air difficultly enters the camellia seed shells, so that oxidization of natural active substances after air exposure is avoided better; in addition, through direct cold pressing of the camellia seeds with the shells, a variety of natural active nutrient substances such as coenzyme Q10 in the camellia seed shells can be dissolved more in the camellia seed oil; when the original ecological cold-pressed camellia oil prepared by the preparation method provided by the invention is used for frying food, nutritional components in the food can be retained better.

The invention discloses a preservation method for corneal limbus tissue. The method comprises a step of disinfecting fresh corneal limbus tissue and a step of air exposure preservation of the disinfected fresh corneal limbus tissue. The step of air exposure preservation is as follows: the fresh corneal limbus tissue is placed on a permeable covering film, preservation liquid or a cell culture medium capable of providing nutrients to the corneal limbus tissue is arranged below the covering film, epitheliums of cornea directly contact with air, the temperature of a culture environment in the step is 0 to 37 DEG C, and oxygen concentration is 0 to 20%. Compared to immersion preservation in the prior art, the preservation method provided in the invention has the following advantages: the structure of the preserved corneal limbus tissue is more integral; obvious apoptosis of the epitheliums of cornea does not occur; stem cells of corneal limbus can maintain high activity; and process flow is simple and reliable, is easy to implement, costs little and has other efficacy.

The invention discloses a making method of an operation vessel for preparation of pig ICSI zygotes. The making method comprises the steps that an operation liquid microdroplet of a set size, a PVP microdroplet for braking, an injection needle treatment microdroplet and a semen culture microdroplet are sequentially made on a phi 60-mm disposable cell culture dish; the semen culture microdroplet comprises a first semen culture microdroplet of an H-shaped structure, a semen screening bridge and a second semen culture microdroplet, and a large quantity of high-quality sperms are selected under the action of the semen screening bridge. The purpose of realizing a large amount of pig ICSI operation in a short time is achieved, time for selecting the sperms in the pig ICSI operation process is shortened, air exposure time of oocytes is shortened, and the survival rate of pig ICSI embryos is increased.

The invention discloses application of agaro-oligosaccharide in porphyra haitanensis immunopotentiator. The invention also discloses an application method of agaro-oligosaccharide in porphyra haitanensis immunopotentiator. Agaro-oligosaccharide is uniformly mixed with seawater to obtain agaro-oligosaccharide seawater solution with concentration of 50 to 250 Mug / ml stirring, or the agaro-oligosaccharide is uniformly sprinkled onto seawater crystals to obtain the agaro-oligosaccharide seawater solution with the final concentration of agaro- oligosaccharide in the seawater crystals being 50 to 250Mug / ml; and the prepared agaro-oligosaccharide seawater solution is used for sprinkling frond of porphyra haitanensis in an air exposure period which is cultured in a sea area or for soaking the porphyra haitanensis which is cultured in a laboratory, and the treatment time is 0.5 to 2h. Due to the adoption of the application method, weaknesses of the present technology for preventing the diseases and putridness of the porphyra haitanensis can be overcome, a growth status of the porphyra haitanensis can be improved through a method of immunology, and the resistance of the porphyra haitanensis to pathogenic microorganisms and severe environments can be enhanced.

The invention discloses an internal prestress steel and concrete combined simply supported girder bridge of a prefabricated and assembled fish-bellied corrugated steel web and a construction method thereof. A prefabricated fish-bellied corrugated steel web girder and a prefabricated concrete bridge deck are adopted, a ladle concrete component is adopted at the lower flange of the fish-bellied corrugated steel web girder, and prestress is stretched in concrete of the ladle concrete component at the lower flange. A web is in a fish-bellied corrugated shape, so that the weight of the bridge can be greatly reduced; the ladle concrete component is adopted at the lower flange, and a prestressing duct is reserved so as to stretch the prestress, so that the stiffness and bending resistance of the corrugated steel web girder are obviously improved, the problem of air exposure of externally prestressed tendons of the corrugated steel web combined girder is solved, and thus the durability and reliability of the prestressed tendons are greatly improved. Meanwhile, the prestress steel and concrete combined simply supported girder of the corrugated steel web with the structure can be conveniently transported, prefabricated and assembled and can completely meet the requirements of factory-made components and quick field installation. Accordingly, the inventors also establish a corresponding construction method which is safe, convenient and quick in construction.

The invention provides a carrier plate and film coating equipment. The carrier plate is provided with at least one hollow groove, and each hollow groove is internally provided with a supporting component so that a part to be machined can be placed in the hollow groove. When the carrier plate and the film coating equipment are applied, in the film coating process, silicon wafer turning is not needed, therefore, repeated vacuum breaking is not needed, silicon wafers are prevented from being affected by air exposure in the film coating process, the probability that the silicon wafers are pollutedis reduced, the problems that working procedures for preparing two-face solar cell pieces in the prior art are tedious, therefore, the cell piece preparation efficiency is low, and the electric performance is poor are solved, the film layer quality of the cell pieces can be improved, the cell piece preparation time can be shortened, and therefore working efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses a universal loss prevention oil tank cover. The universal loss prevention oil tank cover comprises an oil tank cover body which is matched with an oil tank opening by threads, wherein an anti-dropping device is arranged on the oil tank cover body, the anti-dropping device comprises an anti-dropping chain rope and a bar-shaped chuck, a stud is arranged on the inner end surface of the oil tank cover body, one end of the anti-dropping chain rope is provided with a screw cap which is matched with the stud by threads, the other end of the anti-dropping chain rope is connected with the center of the bar-shaped chuck, and the length of the bar-shaped chuck is greater than the inner diameter of the oil tank opening. The universal loss prevention oil tank cover is simple in structure and convenient to use, the loss of the oil tank cover can be prevented, and the situation that the oil tank cover cannot be found or the oil tank is lost can be avoided; meanwhile, the air exposure of the gasoline in the oil tank because of no oil tank cover can be avoided, and the safety is improved.