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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...