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6926582 |
System and method for rounding disk drive slider corners and/or edges using a flexible slider fixture, an abrasive element, and support elements to control slider orientation
A system and method for burnishing the edges and corners of hard disk drive sliders uses a combination of flexible tape fixturing and mechanical protrusions located beneath the tape to...
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6918817 |
Cleaning tool and method
A hand-held cleaning tool for foam buffing pads includes a paddled cleaning wheel mounted for rotation on a shaft attached to the end of a pistol grip handle. The paddle cleaning wheel grips the...
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6916229 |
Machine-implemented method for forming a release surface of a mold
A machine-implemented method is provided for forming a release surface of a mold. The mold has a mold cavity confined by an inner peripheral surface defining a mold cavity axis. The method includes...
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6916227 |
Method and apparatus for processing sliders for use in disk drives and the like
A system and method are described for processing a slider (e.g., one to be used in a disk drive apparatus). Corners of the sliders are abraded while still a part of a row of sliders in a part-off...
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6913522 |
Method and device for grinding central bearing positions on crankshafts
An apparatus for grinding center bearings of crankshafts includes a clamping unit for clamping and driving a crankshaft; a grinding spindle, positionable perpendicular to the crankshaft; a...
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6911059 |
Abrasive pad and process for the wet-chemical grinding of a substrate surface
An abrasive pad is suitable for the wet-chemical grinding of a substrate surface. The novel abrasive pad has a polymer matrix with a defined water-solubility. The water-solubility is realized by...
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6908362 |
Reel-to-reel substrate tape polishing system
Disclosed is a reel-to-reel single-pass mechanical polishing system ( 100 ) suitable for polishing long lengths of metal substrate tape ( 124 ) used in the manufacture of high-temperature...
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6905402 |
Polishing pad for planarization
The present invention relates to a polishing pad. In particular, the polishing pad of the present invention comprises a sublayer, a middle layer, and a top layer which can function as a polishing...
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6896590 |
CMP slurry and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device
Disclosed is a CMP slurry, comprising a dispersion containing first particles having a primary particle diameter falling within a range of 5 nm to 50 nm and second particles having a primary...
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6893325 |
Method and apparatus for increasing chemical-mechanical-polishing selectivity
Method and apparatus for increasing chemical-mechanical-polishing (CMP) selectivity is described. A CMP pad is formed having a pattern of recesses and islands to provide non-contact portions and...
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6893326 |
Coating removal
An indium tin oxide (ITO) coating is selectively removed from a substrate by printing a mask on the coated surface of the substrate to cover those regions of the surface on which the ITO is to...
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6890248 |
Apparatus and method for consistently retaining a gas turbine engine blade in a predetermined position and orientation
A method and apparatus of retaining a gas turbine engine blade in a fixed predetermined position includes the following steps: inserting an airfoil portion of the gas turbine engine blade within a...
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6890243 |
Processing method and apparatus of distal end of optical fiber
A method and apparatus are disclosed wherein, while holding an optical fiber 1 by an optical fiber holder section 4 so as to serve a distal end 1 a of the optical fiber 1 as a free end and...
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6890242 |
Method of fabricating a semiconductor device
Techniques for recycling waste particles may include solidifying particles, which were generated by machining a crystal ingot into a wafer or by machining a semiconductor wafer, into a cake, and...
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6887131 |
Polishing pad design
A method is provided for creating a polish pad. This may involve determining a design layout of a wafer. The design layout may include a distribution of metal line features on the wafer. A polish...
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6881124 |
Method of manufacturing magnetic head
An L-shaped slide plate mounted with a workpiece holding device on a slide guide is firmly attached to an angle adjustment mechanism, and a reciprocating motion drive unit mounted with the angle...
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6881133 |
Method of grinding for a vertical type of double disc surface grinding machine for a brake disc
A double surface grinding method for a vertical type of double disc surface grinding machine in which upper and lower ground surfaces of a work like a disc brake are ground simultaneously. The...
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6872125 |
Tool for smoothing a workpiece
A tool for abrading a workpiece to smooth the surface thereof. The tool has a shank portion and a working portion. The working portion has a smooth and non-abrading surface, with one or more...
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6869340 |
Polishing cloth for and method of texturing a surface
A polishing cloth has a base material of a woven cloth formed by weaving in woven bundles of plastic fibers and its surface layer is formed by portions of these woven bundles which are cut and...
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6869341 |
Single-sided finishing apparatus
A single-sided finishing apparatus is provided having a plurality of finishing stations with rotating transfer stations positioned therebetween. A hold down system presents the edge of the...
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6869336 |
Methods and compositions for chemical mechanical planarization of ruthenium
Methods and compositions are provided for the chemical mechanical planarization of ruthenium. The method includes polishing the ruthenium layer using a low contact pressure and exposing the...
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6869338 |
Method of surface-treating reactor member and method of manufacturing reactor member by using the surface treatment method
A method of surface-treating a reactor member for effectively removing a Cr-deficient layer and a work-hardened layer considered to be a cause of stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) under low-stress...
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6866565 |
Polishing tool and polishing apparatus
A polishing tool is used for polishing a workpiece in a state such that the workpiece is pressed against and brought into sliding contact with the polishing tool. The polishing tool is formed of...
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6866560 |
Method for thinning specimen
A method for thinning (such as in grinding and polishing) a material surface using an instrument means for moving an article with a discontinuous surface with an abrasive material dispersed between...
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6863591 |
Device and methods for dressing card clothing
A device for dressing a card clothing, especially an all-steel sawtooth clothing, drawn over a preferably cylindrical drum, with a dressing system that can be moved along a path predetermined by a...
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6860794 |
Method of polishing concrete surfaces
A method of applying a protective gloss coating to a concrete floor includes applying a low viscosity organic coating to the concrete floor, removing the excess organic coating that lies above the...
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6855033 |
Fixture for clamping a gas turbine component blank and its use in shaping the gas turbine component blank
A gas turbine component blank is shaped by clamping the gas turbine component blank into a fixture that accurately positions the gas turbine component blank in three dimensions. The positioning is...
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6852007 |
Robotic method of transferring workpieces to and from workstations
An integral machine for polishing, cleaning, rinsing and drying workpieces such as semiconductor wafers. A load/unload station has a plurality of platforms for receiving cassettes of wafers to be...
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6852008 |
Method and apparatus for discharging works from a centerless grinder
A method and apparatus for discharging work product from a device wherein a roller which is biased to push against the top of the work product cooperates with a stopper which engages the surface of...
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6843707 |
Methods for aligning a surface of an active retainer ring with a wafer surface for chemical mechanical polishing
CMP methods reduce a cause of differences between an edge profile of a chemical mechanical polished edge of a wafer and a center profile of a chemical mechanical polished central portion of the...
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6843815 |
Coated abrasive articles and method of abrading
A curable composition comprises epoxy resin preparable by reaction of epichlorohydrin with at least one of bisphenol A or bisphenol F, polyfunctional (meth)acrylate, dicyandiamide and...
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6843705 |
Apparatus for finishing a magnetic slider
A process for finishing a disc drive slider in which a pressure generator applies multiple pressures to the back surface of one slider while the front surface of the one slider contacts a lapping...
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6840842 |
Burnishing pad, burnishing machine equipped with burnishing pad and burnishing method
An objective of the present invention is to provide a burnishing pad, capable of removing dirt by burnishing a place (i.e., a dirty point) onto which dirt attaches to impart sufficient luster, and...
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6835118 |
Rigid plate assembly with polishing pad and method of using
An apparatus according to the principles of the present invention includes a rotatable platen, a rigid plate member with a top surface and a bottom surface, includes pin members coupled to the...
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6830504 |
Barrier-slurry-free copper CMP process
A method of polishing a metal layer comprising the following steps. A structure having an upper patterned dielectric layer with an opening therein is provided. A barrier layer is formed over the...
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6830503 |
Catalyst/oxidizer-based CMP system for organic polymer films
The invention is directed to a method of polishing a substrate comprising (i) providing a substrate comprising an organic polymer film, (ii) contacting the substrate with a chemical-mechanical...
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6827632 |
Method for polishing a fiber optic attenuator ferrule
A method for polishing a ferrule structure having first and second end faces is disclosed herein. The method includes positioning the ferrule structure within a housing such that the first end face...
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6824452 |
Polishing pad and process of chemical mechanical use thereof
A chemical mechanical polishing to polish a substrate having a layer to be polished thereon is described. A pre-polishing process is performed using a softer polishing pad to remove partially...
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6823567 |
Process for producing sanded elastic fabrics, and fabrics made therefrom
A process for making sanded elastic fabrics having low fuzz is described. The process involves sanding an elastic fabric with a microfinishing film to achieve a fabric having good side-center-side...
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6821188 |
Diamond compact
There is disclosed a method of abrading a product where a corrosive environment is experienced which includes the steps of using, as the abrading element, a composite diamond compact comprising a...
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6817925 |
Multistage fine hole machining method and device
A multistage fine-hole machining device has lap stations for lapping an inner surface defining a through-hole of a workpiece. Each of the lap stations has a passing unit for passing wire through...
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6811467 |
Methods and apparatus for polishing glass substrates
A method of polishing a surface of a glass, ceramic, or glass-ceramic substrate to minimize the waviness, waviness variation, and average surface roughness of the surface, whereby the substrate is...
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6811470 |
Methods and compositions for chemical mechanical polishing shallow trench isolation substrates
Methods and compositions are provided for planarizing a substrate surface with reduced or minimal defects in surface topography. In one aspect, a method is provided for processing a substrate...
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6811473 |
Process for machining a wafer-like workpiece
A process for machining a wafer-like workpiece between two plates, in which material is abraded from the workpiece under the influence of an auxiliary substance supplied and of a pressure acting on...
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6808441 |
Dental tool sharpener and method of use
A dental tool sharpener is disclosed having a base. A grinding surface is rotatably attached to the base about a fixed axis, the axis of rotation being perpendicular to the base. a positioner is...
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6802762 |
Method for supplying slurry to polishing apparatus
A method for feeding slurry, and a slurry feeder capable of feeding slurry to a chemical mechanical polishing apparatus, are disclosed. Slurry is fed from a slurry supply tank, that stores slurry...
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6802878 |
Abrasive particles, abrasive articles, and methods of making and using the same
Sintered alpha alumina-based abrasive particles comprising alpha alumina, Gd 2 O 3 , and ZnO, and methods of making the same. The abrasive particles can be incorporated, for example, into a variety...
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6802761 |
Pattern-electroplated lapping plates for reduced loads during single slider lapping and process for their fabrication
A lapping plate has photolithographically defined patterns that are electroplated to produce lands with well-defined channels. By choosing a particular geometry, the retention force is...
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6800018 |
Cutting device for separating individual laminated chip assemblies from a strip thereof, method of separation and a method of making the cutting device
An abrasive wheel is used to separate individual laminated chips from a strip by cutting through the copper bridging elements. The abrasive wheel is made up of abrasive particles bonded in a matrix...
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6796882 |
Appliqué film and paint treatment removal tool
An appliqué film and paint removal tool includes a central rotating shaft, a spring-loaded locator pin, at least three freely rotating bearings, an arbor, and a collar. The rotating shaft may be...
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