723 results about "Grind" patented technology

A process for forming backside illuminated devices is disclosed. Specifically, the process reduces processing damage to wafers caused by poor bond quality at the wafer edge ring. In one embodiment, a wafer edge trimming step is implemented prior to bonding the wafer to the substrate. A pre-grind blade is used to create a straight edge around the wafer perimeter, eliminating any sharp edges. In another embodiment, edge trimming is performed after the wafer has been bonded to the substrate, and a pre-grind blade is used to remove portion of the wafer edge ring subject to poor bonding quality before grinding. The final thickness of the ground wafer is about 50 microns in either case.

A beverage cartridge system is adapted to brew a beverage through a brewer having a holder adapted to receive the cartridge system. The holder may have a deep well with one or more needles therewithin to pierce through the bottom of the cartridge system when inserted into the well. The cartridge system may include a short cup and a tall cup, where the tall cup is taller than the short cup to pack more beverage grind. The cartridge system may include a filter within an outer cup. The bottom of the filter may be deep enough to be juxtaposed to the bottom of the cup. The filter may be formed from a material that is substantially resistant to piercing by the needle within the holder such that when the outlet needle pierces through the bottom of the cup, the outlet needle raises the filter at a point of contact, and the filter substantially resists the outlet needle from piercing through the filter during a brewing process.

According to the package and the method for manufacturing the package of the present invention, a chip can be formed extremely to be thin, and manufactured at lower cost and higher throughput, and the variations of a chip thickness can be reduced without back grind that causes cracks or polishing marks. In the present invention, a semiconductor film with a thickness of at most 500 μm deposited over a substrate serving as a support medium is crystallized with a CW laser light, and a chip having a semiconductor device is formed to have a total thickness of 5 μm, preferably at most 2 μm by using the crystallized semiconductor film. Consequently, the chip is mounted on an interposer after separating a substrate.

The method comprises: sampling coal core from underground mining; at underground mining, measuring and calculating the gas loss quantity of coal core; at the ground, measuring and calculating the desorption of the coal mining gas; measuring and calculation the grind gas desorption of partial coal core; calculating the content of gas capable of being desorbed.

A subject for the invention is to provide a lithium secondary battery which can be improved in high-output/high-input characteristics based on a reduction in the thickness of an active material layer, has a long life, and is highly safe. The invention relates to: a negative-electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, which is in a carbonaceous powder form and in which when a dispersion prepared by dispersing 100 g of the active-material powder in 200 g of water together with 2 g of carboxymethyl cellulose is examined by the grind gauge method for determining the degree of dispersion in accordance with JIS K5400, the particle diameter at which particles begin to appear is 50 μm or smaller; a negative electrode for lithium secondary battery which comprises a current collector having provided thereon an active material layer comprising an active material and an organic material having binding and thickening effects, wherein the active material layer has a thickness of 50 μm or smaller and an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) as measured in accordance with JIS B0601 of 5 μm or smaller; and a lithium secondary battery employing the negative electrode.

A process is provided for the leaching of copper from chalcopyrite using ferric sulfate in which acceptable rates of leaching are achieved by controlling the surface potential of the chalcopyrite to an empirically determined "window" within the broad range of 350 to 450 mV. The most effective process conditions involve the selection of the said surface potential; the leach temperature; the pH of the leach solution; and the fineness of the grind of the chalcopyrite. The invention may be applied to both tank leaching and heap leaching processes.

A medical device for severing and removing small amounts of internal tissue for biopsy sampling or other purposes is disclosed. Versions of the device may include a hollow probe having a piecing tip, a tissue receiving aperture and a vacuum lumen; a cutter within the probe having a cutting edge that moves past the tissue receiving aperture, and a cutter driver mechanism. A cutter for use with versions disclosed herein may include an angled cutting tip and a cutting edge having a concave grind. Versions of the device also may include an aspirator fluidly connected to the vacuum lumen, coordinated operation of the aspirator and the cutter driver mechanism, and a fluid management system. Versions described may be used for removing multiple samples of tissue during a single insertion of the probe proximate to a target tissue mass.

A coffee extracting apparatus for a coffee machine, which allows easy extraction of coffee liquid and easy removal of coffee grinds, is disclosed. The coffee extracting apparatus includes a machine case, a hopper receiving coffee grinds, a cylinder unit disposed below the hopper and rotated within a certain angle range, a upper piston movably inserted in the cylinder unit and having a hot water path therein, a lower piston inserted in the cylinder unit to press coffee grinds against the upper piston and having coffee discharge paths therein, cam and link members to guide movement of the cylinder, the upper piston and the lower piston, and a drive unit mounted on the machine case to supply driving force to the cam members. The coffee extracting apparatus is easily removed from the coffee machine. A unit amount of coffee liquid is extracted every revolution of the drive unit. Since hot water to be mixed with coffee grinds is supplied to the lower piston from the upper piston, adhesion of coffee grinds on a bottom surface of the upper piston is avoided.

The present invention is directed to a water-based acrylic emulsion dispersant to be used as a grind resin to incorporate inorganic pigment into a pigment dispersion for a coating composition. The acrylic emulsion dispersant is the reaction product of butyl methacrylate, butyl acrylate, styrene, methyl ether polyethylene glycol methacrylate, polyethylene glycol methacrylate, and polyphosphoric acid. The present invention is also directed to a method of preparing the acrylic emulsion dispersant. In this method, the butyl methacrylate, butyl acrylate, and styrene are combined with water to establish a first reaction blend. Similarly, the methyl ether polyethylene glycol methacrylate and the polyethylene glycol methacrylate are combined with water to establish a second reaction blend. Next, the first and second reaction blends are polymerized to form an intermediate emulsion polymer containing a hydroxyl group from the functionality of the polyethylene glycol methacrylate. Finally, the hydroxyl group from the polyethylene glycol methacrylate is reacted with polyphosphoric acid to form the acrylic emulsion dispersant which is utilized for efficient wetting and grinding of the pigment.

A subject for the invention is to provide a lithium secondary battery which can be improved in high-output/high-input characteristics based on a reduction in the thickness of an active material layer, has a long life, and is highly safe. The invention relates to: a negative electrode for lithium secondary battery which comprises a current collector having provided thereon an active material layer comprising an active material and an organic material having binding and thickening effects, wherein the active material is a powdery active material comprising an amorphous-material-coated graphite, and when a dispersion prepared by dispersing 100 g of the active-material powder in 200 g of water together with 2 g of carboxymethyl cellulose is examined by the grind gauge method for determining the degree of dispersion in accordance with JIS K5400, the particle diameter at which particles begin to appear is 50 μm or smaller; and a lithium secondary battery employing the negative electrode.

A precision grinding apparatus includes a grinding worm for precision grinding a case-hardened face gear. A shaper is first placed into contact with a face gear, to thereby shape a surface of the face gear into a plurality of face gear teeth. The shaper is then removed, and the face gear is case hardened. The grinding worm is disposed in a normal orientation to the case-hardened face gear and includes a spiral tooth extending along a perimeter of the grinding worm. The spiral tooth of the grinding worm is adapted to contact and precision grind the case-hardened gear. A dressing tool includes a protrusion for contacting the spiral tooth of the grinding worm, as the spiral tooth contacts and precision grinds the case-hardened face gear. The dressing tool thus maintains the shape of the grinding worm to within a desired tolerance range.

A device and method for sharpening a mower blade are provided, in which a mounting device for mounting a rotary blade having two opposite cutting edges to be sharpened, wherein the mounting device is capable of positioning the blade in a first fixed state and a second, axially pivoting state. One or more grinding head assemblies are each positioned on an opposite end of the blade, wherein the grinding head assemblies respectively grind the two opposite cutting edges to be sharpened. A control system controls movement of the two grinding head assemblies. The mounting device positions the blade in the first fixed state to enable the two grinding head assemblies to grind the cutting edges in a direction substantially parallel to the cutting edges of the blade to perform a straight grind, and then may position the blade in the second axially pivoting state to enable the blade to pivot around its blade rotation axis away from the grinding head assemblies upon completion of the straight grind, thereby forming a curve at the end of each cutting edge. The mounting assembly also holds the blade in a third, freely rotating state in which the blade may substantially freely rotate around its blade rotation axis to enable balancing of the blade after sharpening.

A portable lightweight grind rail assembly formed of a tube supported on a multiplicity of spaced apart tube supports, each tube support having a base, a tube receiving surface and tube receiving mechanism which retains a portion of the tube on the tube receiving surface.

The present invention involves a system and method for grinding herbs, tobacco, marijuana and the like. The herb grinder system herein includes interchangeable and replaceable lower grinder plates that are secured in place with threading, bayonet mounts or the like. The upper and lower grinding plates are provided with blades having a modified diamond shape which provides extremely sharp leading edges regardless of which direction the grip assembly of the grinder housing is rotated. The lower plates are also provided with variations in the size, shape and arrangement of hole sizes through which the ground material is allowed to pass through. This construction provides the user with the ability to control his/her grind size mixture, which may be consistent sized grinds or a mixture of different sized grinds.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for brewing a desired portion of a beverage, such as a single-cup portion of coffee, are provided. The system can include one or more hopper assemblies configured to provide a controlled dose of beverage material to a brew chamber. The system can also include a water input system configured to wet the ground beverage material as the grinds enter the brew chamber and substantially prevent steam from reaching grinder components of the system. Further, the system can include an automatic cleaning mechanism such that a user does not need to manually clean components of a brewing machine between brew cycles.

A skate sharpening device is provided which allows a grinding device to rotate with respect to a working surface of the device in both a cross grind configuration and a finish grind configuration. The grinding device pivots about a pin and is guided by a threaded stud protruding through an arcuate slot and securable using a flared, hand operated nut. A slidable rack attached to the grinding device is moveable in fore and aft directions relative thereto. A dressing tool may be attached to the rack and its forward position is governed by an actuating system. The actuating system allows a user to selectively inhibit forward movement of the rack to position the dressing tool at a suitable position to allow a dressing bit to contact a grinding wheel attached to and powered by the grinding device to dress the grinding wheel.

The invention relates to a precise remedy method for two sections of grind, belonging to the ore crash, the mill technical field in the method of preparation. The newly feeding ore with the largest size 25-15 mm is ground to the size smaller than 0.15 mm for two sections, wherein the size smaller than 0.074 mm reaches 70 wt% or thinner product fineness. According to the requirement, the precise makeup remedy method in two sections of grinding suggested in the invention mills the newly feeding mineral grain to the largest size 2-3 mm, wherein the size smaller than 0.074 mm is 20-30wt%, in the second grinding, the size is then ground to smaller than 0.15 mm, wherein the size smaller than 0.074 reaches beyond 70%, to replace the experience remedy method with rude and bad effect in the existing production. The invention not only used in the two section grinding circuit, but also is fit for the three-section grinding circuit, which has good product size characteristic, high sizing index, and can be applied in the grinding technology of the different ore rigidity, different mill specification, different rotating speed mill and different character of ore.

Methods, devices, and compositions relating to processed grain products are disclosed. An exemplary method disclosed is a fiber separation process for the ethanol industry corn products of Distillers Dried Grains (DDG) and Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) resulting from the widely used dry grind technology. A disclosed process and apparatus allows the removal and separate recovery of fiber-reduced DDG or DDGS products with expanded potential for use as a non-ruminant feed product in addition to the removal and separate recovery of a fiber-enriched product. The specific processes, devices, and compositions disclosed are readily adaptable to modern ethanol production plants.

The invention discloses an optimal control method for grinding and grading mineral powder, which is characterized in that: the grinding load and grinding concentration is obtained by sampling grinding-grading process signal, with the help of the advanced control and through testing the state in the grinder; the optimal grinding load, the optimal sand-returning ratio, the optimal grinding concentration and the optimal overflow concentration are obtained through the grinding load optimization, the sand-returning ratio optimization, the grinding concentration optimization and the overflow concentration optimization; the feeding quantity is obtained through the control algorithm of the feeding quantity ; the sand-returning water volume is obtained through the control algorithm of the sand-returning water volume; the discharging water volume is obtained through the control algorithm of the discharging water volume. The optimal control method has advantages that: the global optimization to the grinding-grading process is realized; and meanwhile the diagnosis is done to reveal the fault of the grinding-grading process; the appraisal and analysis is executed in the grinding-grading process; reasonable advice is come out; continuous, stable, safe and economic running is ensured; so the method is widely used in the grinding-grading process and similar wet milling process in other industry crafts.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a powdered test sample for a transmission electron microscope. The method comprises the following steps of: cutting a crystal with a flat and neat surface from a soluble monocrystalline material according to a cleavage surface of the soluble monocrystalline material; placing an electron microscope carrying net onto the cut crystal block; ultrasonically dispersing the powdered sample to be observed by using absolute ethanol, dropping a proper amount of dispersed liquid onto the carrying net and naturally drying in the air; sputtering and depositing a layer of metal thin film by adopting a magnetron sputtering technology, and wrapping and fixing particles to be analyzed onto the carrying net by using the deposited thin film; after sputtering, shearing off a sputtered thin film along the edge of the carrying net; placing the carrying net with the fixed particles to be analyzed into an ion milling for milling until leakage; and taking down the sample and placing into the electron microscope for observation after the center of the sample is punctured. By the method, the problems that a plurality of powdered samples which have large particle size and complicated structure and are hard to smash or grind are hard to prepare, and an observation area is limited and the sample is easy to pollute can be solved; and the method is a sample preparation method with high sample preparation success rate and high suitability.

Provided are a sealing resin sheet, wherein a clean, smooth and flat ground surface is obtained by grinding after resin sealing, a method for producing an electronic component package using the same, and an electronic component package obtained by the production method. The present invention provides a sealing resin sheet, wherein a ground surface has a mean surface roughness Ra of 1 μm or less when grinding is performed under conditions of a grind bite peripheral velocity of 1000 m/minute, a feed pitch of 100 μm and a cut depth of 10 μm after a heat curing treatment is performed at 180° C. for 1 hour; and a Shore D hardness at 100° C. after the heat curing treatment is 70 or more.

A sharpener for creating cross-grind knife edges includes a nominally flat annular abrasive sharpening member which could be a ring or a disk and is rotated about its center and held against a moving knife edge facet to simultaneously and sequentially abrade the knife edge at multiple locations on the abrasive member. The disk may be slidably mounted on a shaft in opposition to a spring restraining force. The disk is nominally disposed in a vertical orientation. The sharpener may include multiple stages including a manual stage having a pair of off axis conical shaped rotatable abrasive coated disks which have abrading lines on opposing facets which are not parallel but cross and intersect in a crossing pattern at the blade edge.

The present invention relates to a pigment dispersion and a method of producing a pigment dispersion by grinding a grind mixture comprising a pigment, a humectant, water, and a polymeric dispersant. The invention also relates to an ink composition comprising an aqueous carrier and a pigment dispersion produced by grinding a grind mixture comprising a pigment, a humectant, water, and a polymeric dispersant. The invention also relates to an ink composition comprising a pigment, a polymeric dispersant, a humectant, a basic dye, an aqueous carrier, wherein the pH of the ink composition is less than or equal to 7.

The invention relates to a grinding method to improve aluminum ore grinding particle distribution. It screens or separates the fine aluminum ore or paste, with thick particles or block ore for grinding. Using quick grinding, forced ore extraction and highly efficient leveling technique, it reduces the regrinding for acceptable grain product, reducing pelitization or overgrinding, especially fine level content, with -200 being 85%, reducing -400 content lower than 40%, significantly improving grain distribution of the grind ore and reduced grinding energy consumption.

Automatic dosage unit for dosage of a product into a collecting unit, said dosage unit comprising a grinding device, which is arranged to prepare, e.g. grind or mill, a product, and an identification device. The collecting unit comprises a handle, which is adapted to hold a container, such as a bag, and an adjustable part, and in that the identification device is arranged to identify a setting of the adjustable part of the collecting unit and on the basis of this setting dose a predetermined amount of the product into the container.

In the manufacture of a brush-shaped grindstone (3), embedding holes (310) are formed in a grinding element holding surface (311) of a holder (31) in mutually separated positions. A base end side of a plurality of wire-shaped grinding elements (32), formed such that a composite yarn composed of inorganic filaments is impregnated and hardened with a resin, is aligned, and rod assemblies (320) are thereafter formed by fixing the base end side of the plurality of wire-shaped grinding elements (32) with adhesive (71) in holes (60) of a die material (6), which is formed to have substantially the same size as the embedding holes (310) of the holder (31). The rod assemblies (320) are thereafter embedded in the embedding holes (310) of the holder (32), and fixed with adhesive (72). Whereby, removing burrs from a precision work component, performing polishing, and the like can be carried out with good efficiency and high precision.

A grinding assembly for shaping work pieces that includes one or more grind spindles. Each of the grind spindles include two independent grinding wheels driven by a single spindle drive. The grind spindles translate horizontally to perform both edge and face grinding with a single grind spindle. A non-contact position sensor in a work spindle measures work spindle displacement during grinding and provides feedback to the grind spindle to regulate the force imparted on the work piece by the grind spindle. In variations, an abrasive wheel disposed radially with respect to an axis of spindle rotation is utilized to perform edge grinding of the work piece. In other variations cleaning, polishing and grinding are carried out in a single grinding assembly. In yet other variations, a wheel dressing apparatus is utilized to dress the wheel when one or more forces to maintain productivity of the grind wheel exceed a threhold.