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8228 results about "Blanket" patented technology

A blanket is a piece of soft cloth large enough either to cover or to enfold a great portion of the user's body, usually when sleeping or otherwise at rest, thereby trapping radiant bodily heat that otherwise would be lost through convection, and so keeping the body warm.

Mask material conversion

The dimensions of mask patterns, such as pitch-multiplied spacers, are controlled by controlled growth of features in the patterns after they are formed. To form a pattern of pitch-multiplied spacers, a pattern of mandrels is first formed overlying a semiconductor substrate. Spacers are then formed on sidewalls of the mandrels by depositing a blanket layer of material over the mandrels and preferentially removing spacer material from horizontal surfaces. The mandrels are then selectively removed, leaving behind a pattern of freestanding spacers. The spacers comprise a material, such as polysilicon and amorphous silicon, known to increase in size upon being oxidized. The spacers are oxidized to grow them to a desired width. After reaching the desired width, the spacers can be used as a mask to pattern underlying layers and the substrate. Advantageously, because the spacers are grown by oxidation, thinner blanket layers can be deposited over the mandrels, thereby allowing the deposition of more conformal blanket layers and widening the process window for spacer formation.
Owner:MICRON TECH INC

Method and apparatus for synthesizing new video and/or still imagery from a collection of real video and/or still imagery

An image-based tele-presence system forward warps video images selected from a plurality fixed imagers using local depth maps and merges the warped images to form high quality images that appear as seen from a virtual position. At least two images, from the images produced by the imagers, are selected for creating a virtual image. Depth maps are generated corresponding to each of the selected images. Selected images are warped to the virtual viewpoint using warp parameters calculated using corresponding depth maps. Finally the warped images are merged to create the high quality virtual image as seen from the selected viewpoint. The system employs a video blanket of imagers, which helps both optimize the number of imagers and attain higher resolution. In an exemplary video blanket, cameras are deployed in a geometric pattern on a surface.
Owner:SRI INTERNATIONAL

Patterned electroless metallization processes for large area electronics

The present invention generally provides an apparatus and method for selectively forming a metallized feature, such as an electrical interconnect feature, on a electrically insulating surface of a substrate. The present invention also provides a method of forming a mechanically robust, adherent, oxidation resistant conductive layer selectively over either a defined pattern or as a conformal blanket film. Embodiments of the invention also generally provide a new chemistry, process, and apparatus to provide discrete or blanket electrochemically or electrolessly platable ruthenium or ruthenium dioxide containing adhesion and initiation layers. In general, aspects of the present invention can be used for flat panel display processing, semiconductor processing, solar cell device processing, or any other substrate processing, being particularly well suited for the application of stable adherent coating on glass as well as flexible plastic substrates. This invention may be especially useful for the formation of electrical interconnects on the surface of flat panel display or solar cell type substrates where the line sizes are generally larger than semiconductor devices or where the formed feature are not generally as dense.
Owner:APPLIED MATERIALS INC

Phase change material thermal capacitor clothing

An apparatus and method for metabolic cooling and insulation of a user in a cold environment. In its preferred embodiment the apparatus is a highly flexible composite material having a flexible matrix containing a phase change thermal storage material. The apparatus can be made to heat or cool the body or to act as a thermal buffer to protect the wearer from changing environmental conditions. The apparatus may also include an external thermal insulation layer and / or an internal thermal control layer to regulate the rate of heat exchange between the composite and the skin of the wearer. Other embodiments of the apparatus also provide 1) a path for evaporation or direct absorption of perspiration from the skin of the wearer for improved comfort and thermal control, 2) heat conductive pathways within the material for thermal equalization, 3) surface treatments for improved absorption or rejection of heat by the material, and 4) means for quickly regenerating the thermal storage capacity for reuse of the material. Applications of the composite materials are also described which take advantage of the composite's thermal characteristics. The examples described include a diver's wet suit, ski boot liners, thermal socks, gloves and a face mask for cold weather activities, and a metabolic heating or cooling blanket useful for treating hypothermia or fever patients in a medical setting and therapeutic heating or cooling orthopedic joint supports.
Owner:BUCKLEY THERESA M

Microwave garment for heating and/or monitoring tissue

A flexible microwave applicator and method of use thereof. The applicator includes a flexible, dielectric-containing compartment (e.g. temperature regulated water or oil) having a variable contour, tissue-engaging surface and an opposite non-tissue-engaging surface and an antenna array adjacent to a non-tissue-engaging surface. The antenna array includes at least one flexible printed circuit board having a front metal surface, a dielectric substrate, a back metal surface, a connection structure for connecting the antenna array to at least one external microwave device, at least one dual concentric conductor aperture on the front surface, and at least one microstrip feedline in communication with the dual concentric conductor aperture and the connection structure. The microwave applicator also includes flexible attachment material for placement over the antenna array and dielectric compartment to allow the microwave applicator to be attached to a subject like a garment which closely conforms to the anatomy portion to be heated. The flexible attachment material may be configured such that the microwave applicator is configured as an appropriately-shaped type of garment, for example, a vest, jacket, cap, hood, blanket, custom shaped conformal wrap, sleeve, or as a pair of shorts.
Owner:RGT UNIV OF CALIFORNIA

Inorganic/organic nano composite antibacterial agent and its fabric product application

The invention relates to an inorganic / organic nano-composite antibacterial and application of fiber product thereof. 0.01-20 proportions of inorganic antibacterial, 0.01-35 proportions of organic antibacterial, 0.0001-0.4 proportion of inorganic / organic antibacterial compatibility finishing agent, 0.05-40 proportions of macromolecule bond, 0.0001-0.4 proportion of stabilizer that prevents color change of the inorganic antibacterial, 0.1-30 proportions of high efficiency emulsifying agent and 100 proportions of distilled water are added in sequence by weight proportion, wetted, dispersed, ground, dispersed at high-speed, stirred, etc., so as to acquire the nano-composite antibacterial. The antibacterial can process the fiber product by a dip-dye method, a roll-dye method, a spray method, etc. Dresses, socks and socks, blankets, beddings, gowns, patient wears, masks, medicinal gauzes, air filtering nettings, etc., made from the inorganic / organic nano-composite antibacterial of the invention are characterized by high antibacterial efficiency, rapid antibacterial function, long lasting antibacterial performance, laundering durability, etc., and the inorganic / organic nano-composite antibacterial of the invention is applicable to life, medical care, etc., and has the functions of preventing the occurrence and transmission of diseases, protecting the health of people and improving life quality.
Owner:BEIJING CHAMGO NANO TECH

Thin film fuse phase change cell with thermal isolation layer and manufacturing method

A memory device comprising a first electrode having a top side, a second electrode having a top side and an insulating member between the first electrode and the second electrode. The insulating member has a thickness between the first and second electrodes near the top side of the first electrode and the top side of the second electrode. A bridge of memory material crosses the insulating member, and defines an inter-electrode path between the first and second electrodes across the insulating member. An array of such memory cells is provided. The bridge comprises an active layer of memory material on the first side having at least two solid phases and a blanket of thermal insulating material overlying the memory material having thermal conductivity less than that of an overlying electrically insulating layer.
Owner:MACRONIX INT CO LTD

Methods of forming blind wafer interconnects, and related structures and assemblies

Methods for forming blind wafer interconnects (BWIs) from the back side of a previously thinned substrate structure such as a semiconductor wafer to the underside of a bond pad on its active surface includes the formation of a blind hole from the back side, application of a passivating layer therein, anisotropically etching to remove passivation material from the blind hole bottom, blanket-depositing at least one conductive layer within the blind hole and over the back side, blanket-depositing a resist in the blind hole and over the back side, planarizing the back side to remove resist and the at least one conductive layer, removing resist from the blind hole, and filling the blind hole with solder or other conductive material or a dielectric material. Variations in the methods include formation of a conductive pad adjacent the back side surface, disposition of a solder ball or other conductive structure on the BWI, or forming an end thereof in the form of an extended slug protruding from the back side (for ball-less attachment) as the outer terminus of the BWI.
Owner:ROUND ROCK RES LLC

Extracts from plant and non-plant biomass and uses thereof

Novel oil extracts from Angiosperm and Gymnosperm plants and other-plant biomass from human, veterinary, birds, aquatic species, microbial and mycological sources useful in human, veterinary and agricultural, mycological and microbiological applications are described. Methods of preparation of these extracts in oil and methods of application and administration are also described.
Owner:KANE SHANTARAM GOVIND

IC interconnect structures and methods for making same

Methods and structures are disclosed for advanced interconnects in sub-micron and sub-half-micron integrated circuit devices fabricated using a single damascene process. a dielectric etch-stop layer (e.g., silicon nitride) is deposited subsequent to rather than prior to CMP processing of the previous metallization layer (e.g., the conductive plug). This scheme effectively eliminates the effect of CMP-induced erosion on the etch-stop layer and therefore allows an extremely thin etch stop to be used. Moreover, a high etch-selectivity can be obtained for the trench etch, and all etch-stop material is removed from beneath the interconnect metal, thereby reducing parasitic effects. A patterned dielectric layer is used as a metal cap in place of the standard blanket silicon nitride layer, thus preventing the formation of blisters and bubbles associated with trapped moisture and gasses, and reducing interconnect capacitance.
Owner:NEWPORT FAB

Methods of forming doped and un-doped strained semiconductor materials and semiconductor films by gas-cluster-ion-beam irradiation and materials and film products

Methods and apparatus are described for irradiating one or more substrate surfaces with accelerated gas clusters including strain-inducing atoms for blanket and / or localized introduction of such atoms into semiconductor substrates, with additional, optional introduction of dopant atoms and / or C. Processes for forming semiconductor films infused into and / or deposited onto the surfaces of semiconductor and / or dielectric substrates are also described. Such films may be doped and / or strained as well.
Owner:EPION

Methods of and apparatus for electrochemically fabricating structures via interlaced layers or via selective etching and filling of voids

Multi-layer structures are electrochemically fabricated by depositing a first material, selectively etching the first material (e.g. via a mask), depositing a second material to fill in the voids created by the etching, and then planarizing the depositions so as to bound the layer being created and thereafter adding additional layers to previously formed layers. The first and second depositions may be of the blanket or selective type. The repetition of the formation process for forming successive layers may be repeated with or without variations (e.g. variations in: patterns; numbers or existence of or parameters associated with depositions, etchings, and or planarization operations; the order of operations, or the materials deposited). Other embodiments form multi-layer structures using operations that interlace material deposited in association with some layers with material deposited in association with other layers.
Owner:MICROFAB

Low noise air blower unit for inflating thermal blankets

An air blower unit operates with reduced noise while providing a stream of warmed air. The blower unit includes a housing with an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end. A support positions the housing above a support surface such that the inlet points toward the support surface, and the outlet does not point away from the support surface. A rotatable blower creates an airstream by flowing air into the housing through the inlet and out of the housing through the outlet. The outlet is coupled to a delivery conduit having an elbow that absorbs some noise from the blower, and reflects remaining noise downward. The delivery conduit may be connected to a convective thermal blanket, for example. A motor, mechanically linked to the blower, rotates the blower and resides in the housing upstream of the blower. A heater, interposed between the blower and the motor, heats the fluid stream as it passes the heater.
Owner:GEN ELECTRIC CAPITAL

Fire-blocking insulation blanket

An insulation blanket is disclosed that contains fire-blocking materials for preventing rapid penetration of fire into an aircraft fuselage in case of a fire outside the aircraft. The insulation blanket contains at least one layer of fiberglass or other thermal-acoustic insulation material without fire-blocking properties, and one or more layers of fire-blocking material. The fire blocking material is wider than the thermal-acoustic insulation so that it may be folded against and attached to adjacent structural frame members of the fuselage. In the alternative, a thermal-acoustic insulation material is used that has fire-blocking properties instead of the separate layers of fire-blocking and thermal-acoustic insulation materials. A method for installing insulation blankets according to the present invention is disclosed, whereby a fire-blocking insulation portion of the blanket is folded against and attached to frame members of the aircraft using attachment posts or spring clips.
Owner:ORCON CORP

Method of and system for thermally augmented wound care oxygenation

An oxygenation and temperature thermal therapy and oxygenation treatment pad with a plurality of air chambers is disclosed for treatment of skin wound tissues. The air chambers are filled and released by a valve assembly that may be separate from or integrated within the blanket. The thermal therapy and oxygenation treatment pad includes a fluid bladder for delivering hot and / or cold therapy to a patient in conjunction with oxygenation. The temperature therapy blanket may also include an air bladder for providing compression. Oxygenation is provided subsequent to initial heating in order to promote oxygen absorption by the wound tissues prior to the cooling thereof which facilitates pulling oxygen into the wound tissues. This Abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an Abstract that allows a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain subject matter of the technical disclosure. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).
Owner:THERMOTEK

Swaddling blanket

InactiveUS6868566B2Limit leg movementQuickly and securely wrapSleeping rugBlanketEngineeringTorso
A swaddling blanket to alleviate colic has a back panel long enough to support a child from neck to feet, a leg pouch to loosely contain the child's legs, arm restraints to hold the child's arms against and parallel to the child's torso, a tapered short blanket arm to wrap over the child, and a tapered long blanket arm to wrap around the child more than once from the opposite direction to provide comforting pressure around the child's arms and torso.
Owner:MIRACLE INT

Microwave plasma sterilisation system and applicators therefor

A sterilisation system having a controllable (e.g. adjustably modulatable) non-ionising microwave radiation source for providing microwave energy for combining with a gas (e.g. an inert gas or a mixture of inert gases) to produce atmospheric low temperature plasma for sterilising biological tissue surfaces or the like. A plasma generating region may be contained in a hand held plasma applicator. The system may include an impedance adjustor e.g. integrated in the plasma applicator arranged to set a plasma strike condition and plasma sustain condition. The gas and microwave energy may be transported to a plasma generating region along an integrated cable assembly. The integrated cable assembly may provide a two way gas flow arrangement to permit residual gas to be removed from the surface. Invasive surface plasma treatment is therefore possible. The plasma applicator may have multiple plasma emitters to produce a line or blanket of plasma.
Owner:CREO MEDICAL LTD

Web-fed rotary printing press for rapid change in production

The invention relates to a web-fed rotary printing press having a plurality of double printing units in which each of the printing units of the double printing units work together in the blanket-blanket method and each has its own drive. Transfer cylinders of each printing unit are driven independently. To permit a rapid change in production, both upon recto and verso printing, the transfer cylinders of the disconnectable double printing units are separable by eccentric bushings or swingable levers such that a web which passes through the printing press is conducted between them without being printed.
Owner:MANROLAND WEB SYST

Engine System Having Containment Blanket And Method Of Improving Engine Safety

An engine system includes an engine having a housing and moving parts for converting energy into mechanical motion; and a first containment blanket having a sheet member and a fastening system. The sheet member extends below a bottom of the engine housing. The fastening system holds the sheet member to the engine such that the first containment blanket laterally shrouds the engine housing to contain debris projected from the engine housing.
Owner:NEXTIER COMPLETION SOLUTIONS INC

Aerogel containing blanket

A process of producing a blanket is described and can involve forming an aqueous slurry of hydrophobic aerogels, fibers, and at least one wetting agent, drying the aqueous slurry to form a substantially dried product, and calendaring the substantially dried product to form the blanket. The blanket can be used in a variety of applications, including windows.
Owner:CABOT CORP

Method for multiple spacer width control

A method of forming pluralities of gate sidewall spacers each plurality comprising different associated gate sidewall spacer widths including providing a first plurality of gate structures; blanket depositing a first dielectric layer over the first plurality of gate structures; blanket depositing a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer; etching back through a thickness of the first and second dielectric layers; blanket depositing a first photoresist layer to cover the first plurality and patterning to selectively expose at least a second plurality of gate structures; isotropically etching the at least a second plurality of gate structures for a predetermined time period to selectively etch away a predetermined portion of the first dielectric layer; and, selectively etching away the second dielectric layer to leave gate structures comprising a plurality of associated sidewall spacer widths.
Owner:TAIWAN SEMICON MFG CO LTD

Method of manufacture of programmable conductor memory

Programmable conductor memory cells in a stud configuration are fabricated in an integrated circuit by blanket deposition of layers. The layers include a bottom electrode in contact with a conductive region in a semiconductor substrate, a glass electrolyte layer that forms the body of the cell and a top electrode layer. Under the influence of an applied voltage, conductive paths grow through or along the cell body. The layers are patterned and etched to define separate pillars or cells of these stacked materials. A liner layer of an insulating material is deposited over the cells and acts as a barrier to prevent diffusion of the metal in the cell body into other parts of the integrated circuit. Remaining regions between the cells are filled with an insulating layer. At least some of the insulating layer and some of the liner layer are removed to make contact to the top electrode layer of the cell and to the substrate.
Owner:MICRON TECH INC

Method and apparatus for air and fuel injection in a turbine

A method includes receiving fuel and air into a cup of a turbine fuel nozzle. The method also includes mixing the fuel and air at least partially within the cup. In addition, the method includes directing a fuel air mixture toward a turbine combustor. The method also includes shielding an inner wall of the cup with a blanket of a protective fluid flow to reduce the possibility of flame holding along the inner wall. The protective fluid flow excludes a combustible mixture of fuel and air.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Microfabrication of Carbon-based Devices Such as Gate-Controlled Graphene Devices

A graphene device includes a graphene layer and a back gate electrode connected to apply a global electrical bias to the graphene from a first surface of the graphene. At least two graphene device electrodes are each connected to a corresponding and distinct region of the graphene at a second graphene surface. A dielectric layer blanket-coats the second graphene surface and the device electrodes. At least one top gate electrode is disposed on the dielectric layer and extends over a distinct one of the device electrodes and at least a portion of a corresponding graphene region. Each top gate electrode is connected to apply an electrical charge carrier bias to the graphene region over which that top gate electrode extends to produce a selected charge carrier type in that graphene region. Such a carbon structure can be exposed to a beam of electrons to compensate for extrinsic doping of the carbon.
Owner:PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

Baby carrier with enclosure system

A baby carrier with an enclosure system to be worn on the chest of an adult is disclosed. The carrier ensures safety by allowing for the easy attachment and removal of a cover blanket while leaving the baby in the soft seat of the carrier. The carrier consists of a body blanket, a harness, a soft seat, and a cover blanket. The body blanket is a garment that runs between the adult's body and the baby. The harness consists of the waist belt and shoulder straps and is attached to the side of the body blanket facing the adult. The soft seat is attached to the side of the body blanket facing the baby. The cover blanket is a garment that when attached to the body blanket will surround not only the soft seat of the baby carrier but the entire infant including the arms and legs that are usually exposed in baby carriers. To form such an enclosure the cover blanket is connected to the body blanket along the bottom edge and along the two edges running along both sides. The cover blanket may be attached to the body blanket with zippers, snaps or any other attachment. Temperature inside the covering bag may be adjusted by partially closing two-way zippers, which also allow for easy access to the child for the adult. An integral or removable hood may be provided which can be attached in two ways to enable the baby to face toward or away from the adult. There may also be two holes or a slot on the bottom of the body blanket and the cover blanket to allow for their attachment to strollers or car seats when the waist belt and shoulder straps are removed from the body blanket.
Owner:REHBEIN JURG

Plug or via formation using novel slurries for chemical mechanical polishing

Novel slurries for the chemical mechanical polishing of thin films used in integrated circuit manufacturing. A tungsten slurry of the present invention comprises an oxidizing agent, such as potassium ferricyanide, an abrasive such as silica, and has a pH between two and four. The tungsten slurry of the present invention can be used in a chemical mechanical planarization process to polish back a blanket deposited tungsten film to form plugs or vias. The tungsten slurry can also be used to polish copper, tungsten silicide, and titanium nitride. A second slurry, which is a 9:1 dilution of the tungsten slurry is ideal for chemical mechanical polishing of titanium nitride films. A third slurry of the present invention comprises a fluoride salt, an abrasive such as silica and has a pH< / =8. The third slurry can be used to polish titanium films.
Owner:INTEL CORP
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