789 results about "Laser heating" patented technology

This disclosure teaches a method of filling deep vias or capping deep conducting paste filled vias in silicon or glass substrate using laser assisted chemical vapor deposition of metals. This method uses a continuous wave or pulsed laser to heat the via bottom and the growing metal fill selectively by selecting the laser wavelength such that silicon and/or glass do not absorb the energy of the laser in any appreciable manner to cause deposition in the field. Alternatively holographic mask or an array of micro lenses may be used to focus the laser beams to the vias to fill them with metal. The substrate is moved in a controlled manner in the z-direction away from the laser at about the rate of deposition thus causing the laser heating to be focused on the surface region of the growing metal fill.

A method and apparatus for extracting methane gas from methane hydrate. The method includes heating the methane hydrate with a laser apparatus. The laser apparatus includes a diode laser or a solid state laser that is pumped with a diode laser. The laser is guided to a working end of a tool with a fiber optic bundle. The tool is guided to heat the methane hydrate with the laser, which emanates from a beam expander at the working end of the tool. The tool can be modified for removing obstructions of methane hydrate in pipelines. Also, the tool can be modified for extracting methane from mined methane hydrate, which is in a container. The characteristics of diode lasers or diode-pumped solid state lasers such as efficiency, size, nature of operation, environmental impact and durability, make methane gas extraction from methane hydrate economically feasible.

A glass film laminate is manufactured by setting a surface roughness Ra of a surface of a glass film having a thickness of 200 μm or less to contact a support glass, which supports the glass film, and a surface of the support glass to contact the glass film to 2.0 nm or less, and by bringing the surfaces of the glass film and the support glass into surface contact with each other. After that, a laser scribing operation is carried out, in which a scribe line is formed in the glass film by propagating an initial crack through laser heating of the glass film followed by subsequent cooling of the glass film.

In a method for a laser-induced thermal separation of plate glass by thermal scoring using a laser beam heating the glass along a desired separation line with subsequent cooling of the laser-heated line, wherein the heat is applied by the laser beam in a number of repetitive passes at intensities based on glass thickness and desired cutting speeds.

The invention discloses an auxiliary laser heating milling device and method. A laser focusing head is arranged on the traditional numerical control milling machine, and laser is introduced in through optical fiber to increase the local workpiece temperature so as to achieve the purpose of improving the material processability. A rotating workbench is additionally arranged on the condition that the laser focusing head and a milling cutter are fixed relatively, and the method of rotating a workpiece is adopted so that the workpiece direction relative to the laser incidence direction is changed and the auxiliary laser heating milling of the complex workpiece is hereby realized. The invention overcomes the defect that the auxiliary heating milling direction can not be changed and provides a new method for processing the complex workpiece made of the material which is difficult to process.

An ignition device for the ignition of a gas mixture in a main combustion chamber (1), in particular of an internal combustion engine, is proposed, wherein the absorber body (5) is heated by means of a laser (8). A prechamber (10) is located upstream of the absorber body (5) on the combustion chamber inner side (6) in order to improve the ignition behaviour.

A method of depositing various materials onto heat-sensitive targets. Heat-sensitive targets are generally defined as targets that have thermal damage thresholds that are lower than the temperature required to process a deposited material. The invention uses precursor solutions and/or particle or colloidal suspensions, along with optional pre-deposition treatment and/or post-deposition treatment to lower the laser power required to drive the deposit to its final state. The present invention uses Maskless Mesoscale Material Deposition (M³D™) to perform direct deposition of material onto the target in a precise, highly localized fashion. Features with linewidths as small as 4 microns may be deposited, with little or no material waste. A laser is preferably used to heat the material to process it to obtain the desired state, for example by chemical decomposition, sintering, polymerization, and the like. This laser processing may be performed in an ambient environment with laser powers of less than 100 milliwatts.

A thin film magnetic read/write head for use in magnetic data storage systems to enable writing of data to a magnetic data storage medium with the assistance of laser heating. The read/write head allows magnetic reading of data from the storage medium, and thermally assisted magnetic writing of data on the storage medium. A waveguide is provided in a write gap in the form of an optical circuit having a plurality of inputs and a single output at the air bearing surface (ABS) for concentrating laser light used for heating the storage medium during the write operation. The thermally assisted magnetic writing improves the thermal stability of the recorded data and usefulness thereof throughout a wide temperature range.

The invention relates to a laser heating rivetless riveting device in the technical field of automobile manufacturing. The laser heating rivetless riveting device comprises a compound punch pin, a compound blank holder, a compound lower die and a laser control system, wherein, the compound punch pin is sheathed with the compound blank holder, and the compound punch pin, a workpiece and the lower die are arranged coaxially from top to bottom; hollow circular holes are formed at the center parts of the compound punch pin and the compound lower die; optical fiber tubes and concave lenses are arranged in the hollow circular holes; grooves are formed in the surfaces of the compound blank holder and the compound lower die in contact with a panel veneer, and are used for laying out thermistors that are lead wires; and the lead wires are connected with a laser control system. The laser heating rivetless riveting device heats a forming area of riveting material through laser before riveting forming so as to improve the forming performance of material, prevents fragile material from being easy to crack and fracture during the riveting process, reduces the plastic deformation resistance of material at the same time, enables the panel veneer to deform fully during the forming process, is easy to get a rivet joint with better quality, and reduces the requirements on riveting force and rigidity of riveting equipment at the same time along with the reduction of plastic deformation resistance of material.

The invention discloses a single-chip magnetic sensor, and a laser heating-assisted annealing apparatus thereof and a laser heating-assisted annealing method thereof. The laser heating-assisted annealing method comprises the following steps: (a), annealing is carried out on a magnetic thin film in a strong magnetic field, so that magnetic moments on a pinning layer of the magnetic thin film are towards a same direction; (b), the magnetic thin film is fixedly disposed on a clamp of a movable platform; (c), a laser source is opened to emit a laser beam, which is attenuated through an optical attenuator; the direction of the attenuated laser beam is changed through a reflective mirror; and the laser beam with the changed direction is focused into a light spot by a focusing objective lens; (d), the movable platform is moved, in order that the focused light spot of the laser beam is aimed at the magnetic thin film so as to enable the magnetic thin film to be heated by the laser beam; (e), a magnetic field intensity of an electromagnet arranged on the movable platform is adjusted, so that a magnetic domain of the heating area of the magnetic thin film can be overturned; and (f), the magnetic thin film is cut into slices, and the slices of the cut magnetic thin film are bound into one.

The invention discloses a laser packaged glass powder sealing material for photoelectric device packaging, and belongs to the technical field of photoelectric device packaging. The sealing material is a combined material of laser packaged glass powder and high-temperature non-conductive ceramic powder added according to the proportion of 5 to 15%. All elements in the sealing material are easily available, so that the cost is low. The softening point of the packaged glass powder has the temperature of 420 to 450 DEG C and the coefficient of thermal expansion of 75*10 <-7>/DEG C. In the packaging of glass, the selection range of laser heating equipment is wider, the laser packaged glass powder sealing material adapts to various different packaging manners, the cost is lowered, and the efficiency is improved; the added ceramic powder plays a role in supporting frit bands, and the frit bands have relatively low flowability in packaging, the packaged bands are closer to the distribution of the frits in sedimentation, the displacement deformation generated in the frit heating process is easy to control to enable the packaged bands to be regular; the frit bands have no great displacement deformation, no remark air holes exit in the packaged bands, and the erosion of oxygen and moisture is blocked by the effective airtight.

The invention provides a laser heating assisted turning device and method. The laser heating assisted turning device comprises a turning device body, a laser device, a non-contact temperature measuring device and a control device, wherein a tool and a workpiece are fixed to the turning device body, the tool is detachably connected with the turning device body, the laser device is used for heating the workpiece through laser, the non-contact temperature measuring device is used for acquiring the temperature at the cutting position of the workpiece in real time, and the control device is used for comparing data of an optimum temperature field stored in the control device with temperature data acquired by the non-contact temperature measuring device in real time and controlling the laser device to adjust laser parameters so as to achieve the optimum temperature field if difference exists. The laser heating assisted turning device has the advantages that the laser parameters are adjusted in a data matching mode so that the temperature field at the cutting position of the workpiece can be always consistent to the optimum temperature field, the cutting performed in the temperature field makes the service life of the tool longest, the machined surface quality of the workpiece is the best, and the turning efficiency is the highest.

An x-ray image of a body can be modified by absorption of laser radiation that causes thermal gradients to be generated in portions of the body. If an object within the body has a higher optical absorption than the surrounding medium, the effect of absorption of the laser radiation is to cause the production of thermal gradients. Thermal gradients give rise to density gradients, which modify an x-ray image through changes in x-ray index of refraction at the site of the thermal gradient. The overall effect of the laser heating is to produce an x-ray contrast mechanism wherein the x-ray image becomes sensitive to differences in the optical absorption within a body. An application of the invention is for detection of tumors that are highly vascularized, using a laser operating in the near infrared.

The invention discloses a microplastic shaping method and device of microelement in the microplastic piece preparing and shaping technical domain, which comprises the following parts: laser heating system, microshaping system, loading system, control system and assembling platform, wherein the flat-top laser beam emitted by laser is loaded on the surface of microelement surface through transmittable terrace die, which utilizes laser to do non-contact heating of working piece and heat conductivity; the heat work piece material is below recrystallizing temperature for shaping temperature scale; the terrace die does feeding movement towards female die through microdriving system; the loading system combines the microdriving system to realize loading action for microblank to finish microplastic shaping. The invention reduces the deformation resistance of material at non-contact heating on the upper surface of working piece through laser, which increases the evenness of material fluidity for batching manufacturing of microelement to realize automation manufacturing easily.

A fractional treatment system can be configured with a laser wavelength that is selected such that absorption of the laser wavelength within the tissue increases as the tissue is heated by the laser (e.g., 1390-1425 nm). Desirably, the laser wavelength is primarily absorbed within a treated region of skin by water and has a thermally adjusted absorption coefficient within the range of about 8 cm⁻¹ to about 30 cm⁻¹. An adjustable mechanism can be used to adjust the beam shape, beam numerical aperture, beam focus depth, and/or beam size to affect the treatment depth and or the character of the resulting lesions. The system may be designed to be switchable between a treatment mode that is semi-ablative and a treatment mode that is not semi-ablative. Adjustment of these parameters can improve the efficiency and efficacy of treatment. Illustrative examples of adjustable mechanisms include a set of spacers of different lengths, a rotatable turret with lens elements of different focal distances, an optical zoom lens, and a mechanical adjustment apparatus for adjusting the spacing between two optical lens elements.

In a fractional treatment system, an adjustable mechanism can be used to adjust the beam shape, beam numerical aperture, beam focus depth, and/or beam size to affect the treatment depth and or the character of the resulting lesions. Adjustment of these parameters can improve the efficiency and efficacy of treatment. Illustrative examples of adjustable mechanisms include a set of spacers of different lengths, a rotatable turret with lens elements of different focal distances, an optical zoom lens, and a mechanical adjustment apparatus for adjusting the spacing between two optical lens elements. In one aspect, the fractional treatment is configured with a laser wavelength that is selected such that absorption of the laser wavelength within the tissue decreases as the tissue is heated by the laser (e.g., 1480-1640 nm). Desirably, the laser wavelength is primarily absorbed within a treated region of skin by water and has a thermally adjusted absorption coefficient within the range of about 7 cm⁻¹ to about 26 cm⁻¹.