Abrading inventions 12/06

20060292967 - Polishing apparatus: A polishing apparatus has a top ring (1) configured to hold a semiconductor wafer (W) on a substrate holding surface and a pushser (130) configured to deliver the semiconductor wafer (W) to the top ring (1) and receive the semiconductor wafer (W) from the top ring (1). The pushser (130)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20060292968 - Apparatus and method for manufacturing magnetic head slider and polishing device: An apparatus and a method for manufacturing a magnetic head slider are to improve product quality of the magnetic head slider while simplifying the process and reducing the manufacturing time. The apparatus includes: holding devices for holding the both ends of a block member of an array of the magnetic... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20060292969 - Dressing tool, dressing device, dressing method, processing device and semiconductor device producing method: A dressing apparatus DA is constructed from a pad holding mechanism 10 which holds a polishing pad 15 that has a doughnut disk-form pad surface 15a, and which causes this polishing pad 15 to rotate, a dressing tool 2 which has a substantially rectangular dressing surface 3, and a dressing... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060286902 - Eyeglass component engraving device: A laser cutting tool whose position, aiming direction and cutting duration are controlled by a programmable microprocessor, is housed in a cabinet above a platen equipped with a number of component-holding stations. Each of the stations has a plurality of vises sized to grasp an eyeglass component including lenses or... Agent: Charmasson, Buchaca & Leach, LLP

20060286903 - Eyeglass lens processing apparatus: An eyeglass lens processing apparatus includes; a lens holding unit that holds an eyeglass lens; a data input unit that inputs target lens shape data; a lens measuring unit that measures a refractive surface of the held lens based on the input target lens shape data to obtain an edge... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060286904 - Polishing system with in-line and in-situ metrology: A computer-implemented method for process control in chemical mechanical polishing in which an initial pre-polishing thickness of a substrate is measured at a metrology station, a parameter of an endpoint algorithm is determined from the initial thickness of the substrate, a substrates is polished at a polishing station, and polishing... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060286905 - Jet device for mixing fluid: A grinding and/or polishing machine for grain crops such as rice, wheat or other types of grain crops, comprising a grinding rotor surrounding a sifting basket. The grinding rotor is embodied as a hollow shaft and has openings enabling air to enter the working area. The air enters the hollow... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060286906 - Polishing pad comprising magnetically sensitive particles and method for the use thereof: The invention provides polishing pads comprising a deformable polishing pad body and magnetically sensitive particles dispersed therein, wherein one or more properties of the polishing pad are altered when in the presence of an applied magnetic field. The invention further provides a polishing system and a method for polishing a... Agent: Steven Weseman Associate General Counsel, I.p.

20060286907 - Grinder wheel for liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating liquid crystal display device using the same: A grinder wheel for a liquid crystal display device and a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device using the same are provided. Two grinding surfaces are formed in the grinder wheel used for grinding a substrate so that it is possible to improve grinding characteristics, to increase the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20060286908 - Grinding wheel spindle: A spindle for a grinding wheel which is to grind re-entrant cams on camshafts is described, comprising a drive motor, a shaft extending from the motor at the end of which is mounted a grinding wheel, and a rigid elongate casing extending from the motor and encasing the shaft. The... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20060286909 - Grinding wheel structure: A grinding wheel structure including a wheel assembly having two wheels and a grinding section defined between inner sides of the wheels for grinding a tip of a knife. A retainer ring is located between the two wheels for the tip of the knife to lean against. The grinding section... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060286910 - Guard for an electric machine tool, electric machine tool, and system comprising a guard and electric machine tool: g

20060286911 - Non-glazing dressing wheel: A non-glazing dressing wheel (10) suitable for dressing a grinding wheel surface to be used for maintaining a certain tolerance to assure reliability and quality control of ground parts during the grinding operation. The dressing wheel includes at least a first dressing wheel component (12) including at least one interrupted... Agent: Cargill & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20060286912 - Hybrid burnishing head design for improved burnishing of disk media: A hybrid burnishing head for processing of surfaces of hard disk media comprises a solid body including a first major surface and a second, opposed major surface comprising a burnishing surface including first and second surface portions, wherein the first surface portion is configured for providing air bearing stability and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060281392 - Lens edger: A lens edger which is capable of measuring the curvature of an eyeglass lens is disclosed. The lens edger includes a carriage which rotatably fixes a pair of lens fixing shafts and moves the position of the lens fixing shafts clamping a lens to be processed; a lens rotation motor... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060281393 - Chemical mechanical polishing tool, apparatus and method: A chemical mechanical polishing tool, apparatus and method. The polishing tool includes a central polishing assembly comprised of a central pad mount on a central shaft. That central pad mount beneficially retains a center polishing pad. Also included is a ring polishing assembly comprised of a ring pad mount with... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20060281394 - Apparatus and process for cylindrically grinding workpieces: An apparatus for cylindrically grinding workpieces includes a first holding tool (100) for positioning pre-grinding workpieces (60) and a second holding tool (200) for positioning partially ground workpieces (i.e. workpieces which have been ground on one side only). The first holding tool defines a first groove (12) for containing the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20060281395 - Retaining ring with flange for chemical mechanical polishing: A retaining ring has a generally annular body with a top surface, a bottom surface, an inner diameter surface, and an outer diameter surface. The outer diameter surface includes an outwardly projecting flange having a lower surface, and the bottom surface includes a plurality of channels.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060281396 - Grinding element for mounting in a groove: The present invention relates to a grinding element for mounting in a recess (41) in a surface of a cylindric drum (42) and including a retainer means (2) designed with outer sidewalls that are complementary to sidewalls of the recess (41), where a squeezing force (F) on the sidewalls of... Agent: James C. Wray

20060276106 - Method for supplying lens of eyeglasses: A method of supplying a spectacle lens by bevel-edging an uncut spectacle lens based on specified lens edge shape data includes a lens edging step (S2) to rim machine a spectacle lens based on a lens edge shape data and a prescribed edging condition of the spectacle frame, a lens...

20060276107 - Method for processing and measuring rotationally symmetric workpieces as well as grinding and polishing tool: A method for processing a rotationally symmetric workpiece, preferably having optically effective surfaces, whose symmetry axis is aligned parallel with the z-axis and which is moveable parallel with the z-axis, using a rotating, rotationally symmetric grinding or polishing tool whose rotation axis is aligned parallel with the y-axis and which...

20060276109 - Customized polishing pads for cmp and methods of fabrication and use thereof: The present application relates to polishing pads for chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) of substrates, and methods of fabrication and use thereof. The pads described in this invention are customized to polishing specifications where specifications include (but not limited to) to the material being polished, chip design and architecture, chip density...

20060276108 - Methods and materials for making a monolithic porous pad cast onto a rotatable base: The present invention includes methods and materials for making a brush or pad for removing materials, particles, or chemicals from a substrate. The brush or pad includes a rotatable base for supporting a porous pad material. The base include an inner surface and an outer surface and a plurality of...

20060276110 - 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 elongated edge of the blade into sustained contact with the hardened surface of an object and positions the plane of...

20060276111 - Conditioning element for electrochemical mechanical processing: Embodiments of a conditioning element for conditioning a processing pad are provided herein. In one embodiment, a conditioning element for conditioning a processing pad includes a body having a face. A plurality of diamond particles are disposed on the face and define a conditioning surface. The diamond particles are of...

20060276112 - Hand held abrasive blaster: A hand held abrasive blaster includes a tubular wand housing and an abrasives conduit which extends into the wand housing. The abrasives conduit includes a fixed portion at the rearward end and a rotatable portion at the forward end. A motor rotates the rotatable portion. A pair of spaced apart...

20060276113 - Polishing cloth, polishing apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor devices: There is disclosed a polishing cloth having an abrasive layer containing a polymer material which is a hydrolyzable with an aqueous medium and being capable of exhibiting a stable polishing performance for a relatively long period of time without necessitating a dressing treatment....

20060276114 - Angle grinder: An angle grinder is provided including a trigger assembly for selectively actuating the angle grinder. A particle separation assembly is provided for the removal of any dust, particle, or artifacts that may have entered into the housing of the angle grinder. A brush biasing system is also provided to ensure...

20060276115 - Apparatus and method for conditioning polishing surface, and polishing apparatus and method of operation: A chemical-mechanical polishing apparatus is provided with a downstream device for conditioning a web-shaped polishing pad. The device may be used to condition a glazed portion of the pad, and then the conditioned pad portion may be used again for polishing. The conditioning device is preferably arranged to apply different...

20060276116 - Dust collecting container for a hand-held machine tool: A dust-collection container (11) for a hand-held power tool with a dust-extraction device is indicated that has a container wall that encloses a dust-collection volume and a dust-intake opening (19) for connection to a dust-discharge adapter of hand-held power tools. To ensure timely emptying of the full dust-collection container (11)...

20060276117 - Grinding wheel with sand paper items: The present invention concerns a grinding wheel (1) including a circular wheel that rotates about a central axis and with a surface (2) to which edge parts of a number of sand paper items (3) are fastened, and that the surface (2) has increasing height inwards from a periphery (6)...