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7241205 Method of processing a substrate  
A method of processing a substrate is disclosed, wherein a sidewall surface of a notch portion formed in a circumferential portion of a substrate to be processed is polished by using a cylindrical...
7241204 Polishing pad, method of producing same and method of polishing  
A polishing pad has a resin sheet having a flat surface and abrading particles fixed inside and on the surface of this resin sheet. Its tensile strength is in the range of 30 MPa or greater and 70...
7241203 Six headed carousel  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for polishing semiconductor substrates with improved throughput and reduced foot print. One embodiment of the present invention provides an...
7241202 Substrate polishing apparatus  
A substrate polishing apparatus for polishing a polishing surface of a substrate has a film thickness monitoring device for monitoring a state of a film thickness of a thin film on the polishing...
7241201 CMP pad analyzer  
An ultrasonic CMP polishing pad analyzer is disclosed. The analyzer provides a manufacturer or other user an ability to inspect a CMP polishing pad without removing the pad from the CMP machine by...
7241200 Control system and method for processing jewelry and the like  
A control system for controlling processing of workpieces such as jewelry has gantry and gimbal units having x, y, z translational and x, y, z rotational degrees of freedom, the units carrying a...
7240416 Process for manufacturing electrically conductive components  
A method of forming a device, such as an electrode array for a cochlear implant. The method comprises a step of forming a predetermined pattern of relatively electrically conductive regions and...
RE39714 Hand-holdable gas/abrasion apparatus  
A hand-holdable apparatus useful for abrading a surface is provided. The invention is particularly useful for dental applications using a stream of abrasive particles suspended in a gas stream to...
7238097 Polishing pad and method of producing same  
A transparent pad having a polishing surface with an average surface roughness of 5 μm or less is used as a polishing pad. An indentation is formed on the back surface of the transparent pad such...
7238096 Orbital rotary blade sharpener  
An orbital rotary blade sharpener for sharpening rotary cutter blades and other rotary blades includes a bottom blade holding portion having a center and a perimeter edge, a top blade holding...
7238095 Pneumatic grinder with improved muffling structure  
A pneumatic grinder with improved muffling structure primarily comprises a driving portion, a grinding wheel fixing portion provided at one end of the driving portion, a first housing connected to...
7238094 Belt oscillating apparatus of belt sander  
A belt oscillating apparatus of a belt sander, wherein the belt sander includes a machine frame, a driving wheel, a driven wheel, a sand belt mounted on the driving wheel and the driven wheel, and...
7238093 Polishing cloth for chemical mechanical polishing, and chemical mechanical polishing apparatus using said cloth  
A chemical mechanical polishing cloth for chemically mechanically polishing a workpiece. This chemical mechanical polishing cloth includes, on the opposite-to-workpiece face thereof: polishing...
7238092 Low-force electrochemical mechanical processing method and apparatus  
The present invention relates to semiconductor integrated circuit technology and discloses an electrochemical mechanical processing system for uniformly distributing an applied force to a workpiece...
7238091 Stone fabrication scheme  
Methods and systems of fabricating stone products are provided. The method comprises the steps of providing a stone piece, separating the stone piece into a plurality of sawed stone slabs by...
7238090 Polishing apparatus having a trough  
Methods and apparatus for chemical mechanical polishing are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a table top and a transfer station and multiple polishing stations are mounted on the...
7238089 Polishing method for inner surface of tubular brittle material and tubular brittle material obtained by polishing method  
An object of the present invention is to provide a polishing method for producing, in a relatively short period of time, a tubular brittle material having an inner surface of high surface precision...
7238088 Enhanced diamond polishing  
A grown single crystal diamond is polished using a non contact polishing technique, which leaves a residue on the diamond surface. In one embodiment, a wet chemical etch is performed to remove the...
7238087 Planarizing device and a planarization method for semiconductor substrates  
A substrate-planarizing device and method of using the device comprising a substrate storage stage outside a room, and on a base inside the room, a multi-joint transfer robot, a temporary alignment...
7238086 Surface finishing method for aluminum shapes by barrel polishing  
A surface finishing method for aluminum shapes by barrel polishing, wherein caps are mounted at both open ends of a hollow aluminum shape, and two aluminum shapes each mounted with the caps are set...
7238085 Method and apparatus to process substrates with megasonic energy  
A variety of techniques may be employed, alone or in combination, to enhance contact between a processed substrate and applied megasonic energy. In accordance with one embodiment of the new...
7238084 Chemical mechanical polishing apparatus and chemical mechanical polishing method using the same  
Polishing uniformity in a CMP process may be improved due to an improvement in the temperature uniformity of a polishing surface, when a wafer is polished by a CMP apparatus including a polishing...
7238083 Wafer carrier with pressurized membrane and retaining ring actuator  
A wafer carrier for controlling downward force and edge effect during chemical mechanical planarization. A retaining ring actuator is disposed within the retaining ring to control the height of the...
7238082 Workpiece headstock  
Workpiece headstock for a machine tool, especially for a grinding machine, with a spindle ( 6 ); with a clamping device ( 7 ), which is connected to the spindle ( 6 ) and which is used to...
7237323 Method for manufacturing a magnetic head  
A method of making a magnetic head having an air bearing surface (ABS) composed of a flat and smooth worked surface and having a reduced step produced between a rail portion on the ABS and an...
7237321 Method for fabricating a CPP magnetic transducer using CMP-assisted lift-off and a CMP-resistant metal layer  
A method is described which uses a CMP resistant metal layer to replace the upper dielectric layer in the track width definition phase of a TMR or CPP spin valve magnetic head. The metal which is...
7237315 Method for fabricating a resonator  
A method for fabricating a quartz nanoresonator which can be integrated on a substrate, along with other electronics is disclosed. In this method a quartz substrate is bonded to a base substrate....
7235296 Formulations for coated diamond abrasive slurries  
The present invention is directed to an abrasive article and methods of making the abrasive article. An abrasive coating on the abrasive article comprises at least 20% by weight of a superabrasive...
7235154 Devices and methods for optical endpoint detection during semiconductor wafer polishing  
A method of measuring a change in thickness of a layer of material disposed on a wafer while polishing the layer. Light is directed at the surface of the wafer from an optical sensor disposed...
7235114 Flexible abrasive article  
A resilient flexible abrasive article includes a continuous backing layer including a support layer coated with foam, the continuous backing layer having opposed major surfaces, at least one of the...
7235007 Divided grinding tool  
The invention relates to a grinding tool which comprises at least two detachable parts which are connected together. Both parts form a grinding disk-type body comprising a grinding surface which is...
7235006 Power tool with dust collection function  
A power tool with a dust collection function has a motor, a dust collection fan, and a cover member. The dust collection fan is driven by the motor for collecting a dust. The cover member covers...
7235005 Belt sander  
A sander comprised of a high voltage direct current motor for providing rotational torque to the sander is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a motor housing generally encompasses the motor for...
7235004 Precision means for sharpening and creation of microblades along cutting edges  
A knife-edge conditioning apparatus comprises at least one precision angled knife guide with one face of the knife blade maintained in sustained sliding or rolling contact and which guides the...
7235003 Method and apparatus for grinding of concrete floors  
A method for dry finishing of a floor surface consisting of concrete, stone, marble, terrazzo, densite or other hard materials is disclosed. The method comprises finishing of the floor surface...
7235002 Method and system for making glass sheets including grinding lateral edge(s) thereof  
A method and system for making glass sheets is provided. At least one grinding wheel is provided for grinding a lateral edge of a glass sheet. An airbag and corresponding air pressure regulator are...
7235001 Polishing apparatus  
The polishing apparatus is capable of transferring a work piece to a top ring without moving the work piece from the center and capable of precisely polishing the work piece. The polishing...
7235000 Methods and systems for conditioning planarizing pads used in planarizing substrates  
Monitoring the process of planarizing a workpiece, e.g., conditioning a CMP pad, can present some difficulties. Aspects of this invention provide methods and systems for monitoring and/or...
7234999 Method for estimating polishing profile or polishing amount, polishing method and polishing apparatus  
A polishing method can automatically reset polishing conditions according to a state of a polishing member based on data on a polishing profile changing with time, thereby extending life of the...
7234998 Chemical mechanical polishing method, chemical mechanical polishing system, and manufacturing method of semiconductor device  
Setting a polishing rate and a polishing time in chemical mechanical polishing can be performed with high accuracy by considering a product wafer of an object to be polished, and an instrumental...
7234997 Device for grinding of clothing in a textile machine  
A grinding device for the flats of a card comprises elastically bendable elements which enter between the clothing points, brush over the side flanks of the points and thereby grind the points....
7234224 Curved grooving of polishing pads  
A method is provided for forming grooves in a polishing pad useful for planarizing a substrate in a chemical mechanical planarization process. The method maintains average velocity as a function of...
7232444 Microdermabrasion canister rack system  
A canister rack system for a microdermabrasion machine has a base with bores. The base has conduits for crystal passage through the canister rack. The canisters are mountable upon the canister rack...
7232364 Abrasive cleaning article and method of making  
The present invention provides an abrasive cleaning article, a method of making an abrasive cleaning article, and a method of cleaning a surface with an abrasive cleaning article. In one aspect,...
7232363 Polishing solution retainer  
A substrate polishing apparatus and method are described. A base includes at least one movable platen to engage a polishing pad. At least one carrier head assembly presses a substrate against the...
7232362 Chemical mechanical polishing process for manufacturing semiconductor devices  
A chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) process for the manufacturing of semiconductor devices is disclosed. The process includes removing a first portion of a first layer of interconnect materials...
7232361 Rock saw  
The present invention discloses an automated rock saw having a saw motor load sensor to control the speed of the conveyor bringing the rock to the saw blade. As the saw motor works harder to cut a...
7232360 Uninterrupted abrasive fluid supply  
A substantially uninterrupted flow of a pressurised abrasive slurry is maintained by successively charging each of a plurality of vessels V 1 , V 2 with an abrasive material while discharging an...
7229346 Finger-mounted tool device  
A finger-mounted tool device includes a finger-gripping sleeve formed of a hollow body tube and an abrading member. The hollow body tube is formed of a spirally wrapped progression of a spring...
7229345 Knife sharpener  
The invention concerns a knife sharpener for household knives or the like. In order to design a knife sharpener, which, one the one hand, can be used for sharpening and sits solidly on a surface...