Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture inventions 02/06

20060037686 - Methods and systems for selectively connecting and disconnecting conductors in a fabric: Methods and systems for selectively connecting and disconnecting conductors in a fabric are disclosed. First and second conductors are integrated into a fabric such that the conductors intersect at a crossover point. The conductors are bonded to each other at the crossover point to improve AC and DC characteristics. Disconnect...

20060037687 - Methods for cable sealing: Methods for providing a cable closure enclosing a cable splice include wrapping a flexible wrap including a gel layer and a flexible support layer around the cable splice with the gel layer adjacent the cable splice. The gel layer may have an adhesion-reducing substance applied on at least part of...

20060037688 - Method and apparatus for applying aligned tape patterns: A method and apparatus for applying aligned decorative tape patterns to opposite sides of a glass sheet. The glass sheet is positioned such that the first side of the glass sheet is accessible to a tape application head. A first tape pattern is automatically applied to the first side of...

20060037689 - Method and apparatus for applying ductile tape: The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for applying a ductile decorative tape to a glass surface, such as a window lite. One aspect of the invention is an automatic tape applicator pressure roller for applying a tape having a curved profile to a glass surface. Another aspect of...

20060037690 - Method of production of peeling layer paste and method of production of a multilayer type electronic device: a step of adding to the primary slurry a binder-lacquer solution to dilute the primary slurry to prepare a secondary slurry having a nonvolatile concentration of 15 wt % or less and a content of the binder of 12 parts by weight or more with respect to 100 parts by...

20060037691 - Method and apparatus for making an adhesive cleaning sheet: A method of selectively applying pressure-sensitive adhesive to a nonwoven web and thereby forming a cleaning sheet having adhesive free peaks and adhesive containing valleys includes coating an adhesive transfer roll with adhesive, transferring a portion of the adhesive to raised regions of a female pattern forming roll, and transferring...

20060037692 - Method and apparatus for making an adhesive cleaning sheet: A method of selectively applying pressure-sensitive adhesive to a nonwoven web and thereby forming a cleaning sheet having adhesive free peaks and adhesive containing valleys includes coating an adhesive transfer roll with adhesive, transferring a portion of the adhesive to raised regions of a female pattern forming roll, separating the...

20060037693 - Applying adhesive labels to products and product containers: A web (36) of paper or the like has labels (42) defined therein by printing the web (36) followed by skip cutting (40) the web to define the label boundaries. The skip cutting (40) leaves the labels (42) connected to the remainder of the web (36) by breakable catch points...

20060037694 - Method and apparatus for joining protective tape: In a method for allowing a cutter blade to relatively travel along an outer periphery of a semiconductor wafer to cut a protective tape joined to a surface of the semiconductor wafer in conformity with an outer shape of the semiconductor wafer, the cutter blade is allowed to relatively travel...

20060037695 - Method for producing plastic tanks for liquids: A method for producing plastic tanks for liquids with a tapping valve, wherein the tank is produced from a tubular parison by blow molding, and wherein a holding flange or a threaded socket is formed on the tank. After the drain outlet of the tank has been cut out of...

20060037696 - Polyterafluoroethylene laminated article: To provide a PTFE laminated article having a sufficient adhesive strength and a PTFE backing sheet having a low permeability, in which a specific weight of a PTFE sheet can be maintained high. A specific weight of the PTFE sheet is maintained at 2.175 or more by carrying out thermo-fusing...

20060037697 - Delabeling method, device for carrying out the same and use thereof: A method for separating or removing from a label carrier labels that adhere with a certain adhesive force to or on a label carrier, in particular to or on a bottle case, very particularly to or on a bottle or on the lateral surfaces of a bottle case, is known;...

20060037698 - Systems and methods for processing microfeature workpieces: Systems and methods for processing microfeature workpieces are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system comprises a processing chamber having a workpiece processing site configured to receive a microfeature workpiece and a main inlet through which a processing fluid can flow into the processing chamber. The system further comprises a...

20060037699 - Polishing pad and method for manufacturing semiconductor device: A polishing pad enabling a highly precise optical endpoint sensing during the polishing process and thus having excellent polishing characteristics (such as surface uniformity and in-plane uniformity) is disclosed. A polishing pad enabling to obtain the polishing profile of a large area of a wafer is also disclosed. A polishing...

20060037700 - Method and apparatus for removing material from a substrate surface: Methods and apparatus for removing material from a substrate, such as an IC component, are disclosed. The methods include creating a plasma in an evacuatable chamber, by providing a power source to an electrode in the chamber, and contacting the substrate surface with at least one of ions, atoms and...

20060037701 - Plasma processing apparatus and method: An apparatus includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode for supporting a wafer disposed opposite each other within a process chamber. A first RF power supply configured to apply a first RF power having a relatively higher frequency is connected to the upper electrode. A second RF power supply...

20060037702 - Plasma processing apparatus: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber having a ceiling and a sidewall, a susceptor, disposed in the processing chamber, for mounting thereon an object to be processed, a processing gas supply mechanism for supplying a processing gas through the ceiling to generate a plasma, an exhaust plate that...

20060037703 - Plasma processing apparatus and method: An apparatus includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode for supporting a wafer disposed opposite each other within a process chamber. A first RF power supply configured to apply a first RF power having a relatively higher frequency, and a second RF power supply configured to apply a second...

20060037704 - Plasma processing apparatus and method: A plasma processing apparatus for processing a substrate by using a plasma includes a processing chamber for accommodating and processing the substrate therein, a lower electrode for mounting the substrate thereon in the processing chamber, an upper electrode disposed to face the lower electrode in the processing chamber, a radio...

20060037705 - Temperature control assembly for use in etching processes and an associated retrofit method: A temperature control assembly for use in etching processes includes a housing, a cooling conduit, fasteners, and a mounting block. The fasteners couple to the housing and operate to associate the cooling conduit, which is formed from a non-corrosive metallic material, with the housing. The mounting block is coupled to...

20060037706 - Beverage bottle labeling apparatus configured to label beverage bottles in a beverage bottling plant: A beverage bottle labeling apparatus configured to label beverage bottles in a beverage bottling plant. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate...

20060037707 - Apparatus and method for fabricating bonded substrate: A bonded-substrate fabricating apparatus capable of reducing defective bonded substrates fabricated. A transfer robot sucks the outer edge area of the bottom surface of a substrate and spouts gas toward the bottom surface of the substrate to carry the substrate into a vacuum process chamber of a press machine while...

20060037708 - Method for pressure bonding of a breaker-tread assembly with a carcass assembly by means of stitching in the manufacture of green tyres and device for accomplishment of such method: Described is a method of joining a belt-tread assembly with a carcass assembly by stitching in green tyre production such that a pressure is applied in radial inward direction on the rotating outer peripheral surface of a belt-tread assembly (5) partially joined with an inflated carcass assembly (1) of a...

20060037709 - Label attaching apparatus which attaches a label to external peripheral surface of a test tube: A label attaching apparatus includes a supplying mechanism, an attaching mechanism, and a label supplying mechanism. The supplying mechanism has a holding mechanism which holds a test tube in a standing attitude, and an elevating mechanism which moves up and down the holding mechanism between an attaching position and a...

20060037710 - Membrane applicator: A membrane applicator comprises a wheeled carriage adapted to ride on a surface to be covered with the membrane. A roll mount system is provided on the carriage to support a roll of membrane thereon. A press roll is mounted to the carriage for pressing the membrane against the surface...

20060037711 - Gluing device in a bottom laying device: Disclosed is a bottom laying device for cross bottom bags (1) which are formed from tubular pieces (1). The bags pass through various processing stations inside the bottom laying device. The axis of the tubular pieces (1) during conveyance through said bottom laying device is oriented in a horizontal and...

20060032572 - Body-contact protective interface structure with neutral internal adhesive interface: A method for fabricating a plural-layer, body-contacting protective and cushioning interface structure including the steps of (a) providing at least a pair of viscoelastic, non-springy, acceleration-rate-sensitive core layers, (b) facially bonding these two core layers using curable and initially wet, flowable adhesive which is based upon a solvent of one...

20060032573 - Optical product cure oven: A cure oven comprises a sealable door and one or more pressure valves mounted inside for curing optical subcomponents that have been assembled using an adhesive. The cure oven comprises a chamber that can be configured to receive several hundreds of assembled optical subcomponents. The cure oven is further coupled...

20060032574 - Method for fabricating multi-layer ceramic substrate: A method for fabricating a multi-layer ceramic substrate is disclosed. The method compresses multi-layer green tapes by a mold apparatus having an upper mold and a lower mold. The method provides a carrying board and multi-layer green tapes over the lower mold. The method compresses the green tapes by the...

20060032575 - Manufacturing method of rubber member for tire: A manufacturing method of a rubber member for a tire is provided with a winding step of overlapping and winding a rubber strip (10) in a peripheral direction and in a spiral shape. The rubber strip (10) is provided with a plurality of exhaust grooves (11) which extend in a...

20060032576 - Radially expansible tire assembly drum and method for forming tires: A method of building a tire carcass onto a toroidially expanded building drum core is disclosed which comprises: transferring a breaker and tread package to a mold; loading the tire carcass at diameter D1 into the mold; toroidally expanding the tire carcass to a second diameter D2 wherein the tire...

20060032577 - Method for the manufacture of a smart label inlet web, and a smart label inlet web: The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a smart label inlet web, in which method a smart label is protected from external effects with a surface film coated with an adhesive, the adhesive being in contact with the smart label. The adhesive is cured by radiation. The...

20060032578 - Method for producing a laminate having varying pre-strained elastics: An extensible laminate having a first web material, a second web material, a first elastic and a second elastic having different stretch properties. The elastics are laminated between the first and second materials. The elastics have substantially the same equilibrium points within the laminate. The elastics are pre-strained at different...

20060032580 - Laminate from which decorative films can be applied to a substrate: A laminate from which decorative films can be precisely applied to a substrate. The laminate includes a polymeric cover sheet having opposite outer and inner major surfaces. A layer of structured pressure sensitive adhesive is adhered to the inner major surface of the cover sheet. The structured pressure sensitive adhesive...

20060032579 - Oblique veneer laminated material and method of manufacturing the same: A veneer laminated material formed by improving a laminated material (2) formed in a plate or column shape by stacking a plurality of sheet-like veneers overlappingly with each other and adhering them to each other, and a method of manufacturing the veneer laminated material. The method comprises the steps of...

20060032581 - Method and apparatus for performing a charging process on an image carrying device: A charge roller that includes a metal core, an elastic member configured wrapped around the metal core, and film members is disclosed. Each of the film members is wrapped around each end of the elastic member in a circumferential direction of the metal core such that at least a part...

20060032582 - System and method for low temperature plasma-enhanced bonding: A method for bonding a plurality of substrates includes performing a gas plasma treatment on the plurality of substrates, and performing a water plasma treatment on the plurality of substrates. Additionally, a system for performing low temperature plasma enhanced bonding includes a substrate housing structure having a substrate receiving volume,...

20060032583 - Apparatus and method for fabricating bonded substrate: A bonded-substrate fabricating apparatus capable of reducing defective bonded substrates fabricated. A transfer robot sucks the outer edge area of the bottom surface of a substrate and spouts gas toward the bottom surface of the substrate to carry the substrate into a vacuum process chamber of a press machine while...

20060032584 - Plasma processing apparatus capable of suppressing variation of processing characteristics: A plasma processing apparatus includes a reaction container with the inner side wall thereof insulated, a sample rest and an antenna arranged in the reaction container. The high-frequency power is supplied to the antenna from a plasma generating power supply, the processing gas is introduced into the reaction container and...

20060032585 - Plasma processing method and apparatus: A high-dielectric-constant gate insulating film 32 such as HfO2 is etched with gas plasma using gas selected from Ar gas, He gas, Ar+He mixed gas, and mixed gases formed by mixing CH4 with the preceding gases while maintaining a temperature of 40° C. or higher, thus ensuring high etching selective...

20060032586 - Reducing electrostatic charge by roughening the susceptor: A substrate support and method for fabricating the same are provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a substrate support includes an electrically conductive body having a substrate support surface that is covered by an electrically insulative coating. At least a portion of the coating centered on the substrate support...

20060032587 - Device for connecting two wafers in a planar manner for grinding down and cutting up a product wafer: A device for connecting two wafers in a planar manner for grinding down and cutting up a product wafer has a vacuum chamber, a chuck for receiving a carrier wafer, a heating device for heating up the chuck and a vacuum-chamber cover with a vacuum-holding device, on which a product...

20060032588 - Method and system for cast molding a fluid conduit: A system and method for insulating an outer surface of a fluid conduit is provided. A portion of the circumference of the outer surface of a conduit is surrounded in a film, thereby forming a generally annular pocket between the outer surface of the conduit and the inner surface of...

20060032589 - Method and apparatus for producing wearing article: An apparatus and method for producing a wearing article of the present invention includes supplying an elastic member; stretching the elastic member; placing the stretched elastic member so that the elastic member spreads across a plurality of first webs divided in a transport direction; making a part of a second...

20060032590 - Dispenser with a cover: A dispenser with a cover whose overall size can be kept compact and which is provided with a cover to protect the applicator tip when not in use is to be provided. The dispenser with a cover is provided with a body, an applicator tip protruding through a tip aperture...

20060032591 - Installation and method of applying a lahel to a flowerpot and flowerpot thus obtained: Method for applying a label to a flowerpot. Before placing the label the flowerpot is provided with hot melt adhesive, after which the label, which in itself is not adhesive, is pressed against the flowerpot. The hot melt adhesive is sprayed by an adhesive applicator station onto a series of...

20060027302 - Screen conveyor for panel-pressing system: A conveyor displaces a succession of identical screens along a closed annular path having a generally horizontal upper stretch and a lower return stretch spaced below the upper stretch. Particle mats are formed on the screens on the upper stretch. A press along the upper stretch downstream of the mat-former...

20060027304 - Label sticking device and label sticking method: A label sticking device is provided with a suction head 50 which holds a label L peeled off from a release liner S in the process of paying out a raw sheet M, a camera 15 which inspects a position of the sucked label, a label-positioning device 16 which adjusts...

20060027303 - Method and system for manufacturing laminated cartons: A method and system for manufacturing laminated cartons, in which webs of carton materials are fed along paths of travel toward a laminating station. A sensor reads printed indicia along a first one of the webs and controls application of adhesive to the second web for attaching the webs to...

20060027306 - method for producing prefastened absorbent product with elastic reclosable sides: An absorbent prefastened product in the form of a disposable pants diaper is provided with a side closure arrangement on each side. The side closure includes front and rear side flaps having elastic portions where an inner surface of a rear side flap is overlapped and welded to an outer...

20060027305 - Production method of ultrasonic weld assembly: When a weld area of weld surface between a flange portion 3a of a pipe 3 and a flange portion 4a of a pipe connection member 4 is S and total energy consumed on the weld surface is Et, ultrasonic welding is carried out to produce said ultrasonic weld assembly...

20060027307 - Method of application of a dielectric sheet and photosensitive dielectric composition(s) and tape(s) used therein: A castable photosensitive dielectric composition, a conformable photosensitive green dielectric tape suitable for hot roll lamination, methods of application of the unique compositions and tapes, method of forming an electronic circuit, and multilayered electronic circuit and structures utilizing and/or formed from said compositions and tapes....

20060027308 - Method and apparatus for curing patches on composite structures having complex substrates: In a method and apparatus for repairing a metal or composite structure such as an aircraft component wherein the component is repaired utilizing a heat spreader or caul plate and heat is applied to the caul plate or through the heat spreader to a repair whereby the component placed in...

20060027309 - Manufacturing method of rubber member for tire: The invention can reduce a step between rubber strips even in the case that the rubber strip is made thick, and inhibits a reduction of uniformity and tire quality, a deterioration of a tire outer appearance, and the like. A rubber strip (10) may be scalene triangular shape, a trapezoidal...

20060027310 - Shaping drum having rotary under-heel gripping means: A shaping drum (T) for a tire carcass (C), comprising two side plates (4, 4′), mounted on a shaft (1) of axis XX′ and moving axially on said shaft, said side plates comprising circumferential receiving grooves (6, 6′) intended to hold the heels of the tire to be shaped while...

20060027311 - Decorative elements provided with a curled or crimped configuration at point of sale or point of use: Decorative grass and methods of providing same are disclosed wherein the decorative grass is either maintained in flattened configuration until restraint is removed and/or the decorative grass is curled and/or crimp at the point of use and/or sale....

20060027312 - Punched adhesive tape for semiconductor, method of manufacturing lead frame with the adhesive tape, lead frame with the adhesive tape, and semiconductor device comprising the lead frame: A punched adhesive tape for semiconductor which is made by punching an adhesive tape comprising a base film and an adhesive layer provided on one or each side of the base film to mark the regions in the adhesive tape where contaminants or defects are contained; a method of producing...

20060027313 - Method for making grip on handle: A method for making a grip on a handle of a sports apparatus includes the steps of forming a synthetic leather having a base supporting member and a polyurethane layer bonded to the base supporting member, then cutting the synthetic leather into a synthetic leather sheet member having two longitudinal...

20060027314 - Mould: A mould for fabricating a moulded product comprising a laminate of a thermoplastic surface material and a structural material. The mould comprises a closed, air impervious first mould surface for shaping the surface material and an air permeable liner which is located in relation to the mould. The liner is...

20060027315 - Process for manufacturing a headliner for the interior of an automobile and installation for use in the process: m

20060027316 - Laminating adhesive: A laminating adhesive comprising as binder a mixture of A) a polymer obtainable by polymerizing free-radically polymerizable compounds, and B) compounds containing ethylenically unsaturated, free-radically polymerizable groups (polymerizable groups for short) and having a weight-average molecular weight Mw of less than 5000 g/mol....

20060027317 - Methods of sealing micro wells: The present invention provides miniaturized instruments for conducting chemical reactions where control of the reaction temperature is desired or required. Specifically, this invention provides chips and optical systems for performing and monitoring temperature-dependent chemical reactions. The apparatus and methods embodied in the present invention are particularly useful for high-throughput and...

20060027318 - Apparatus for manufacturing bonded substrate: The present invention provide an apparatus for manufacturing a bonded substrate that suppresses a defect in the bonded substrate. When the pressure in a vacuum chamber is at the atmospheric level, upper and lower chuck units respectively attract substrates through vacuum. When the vacuum chamber is depressurized, each chuck unit...

20060027319 - Method and apparatus of manufacturing glued laminated wood: A method and apparatus of manufacturing glued laminated wood such as laminated veneer lumber (LVL) are disclosed. The glued laminated wood is made of a number of wood sheets such as veneer sheets which are laminated together by a hot press with a thermosetting adhesive into a continuous length of...

20060027320 - Composition and method relating to a hot melt adhesive: The present invention includes compositions relating to a hot melt adhesive that includes a copolymer of butene-1, a wax, and a tackifying resin. The present invention further relates to adhesives initially exhibiting adhesion properties and subsequently non-adhesion qualities. Methods of using these adhesives are also part of the claimed invention....

20060027321 - Adhesive composition: The invention relates to an adhesive composition comprising the reaction product of at least one nitrogen-containing polymer and at least one polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated diluent....

20060027322 - Polarizing plate and process for producing the same: The polarizing plate of the invention comprises a norbornene resin film, a polyurethane layer, an adhesive layer and a polarizing film which are laminated in this order. The polarizing plate exhibits excellent adhesion between the optical film and the polarizing film, is excellent also in properties such as heat resistance...

20060027323 - Substrate processing apparatus which performs predetermined processing by supplying a processing liquid to a substrate which is held at a substrate processing position: A top rim portion of a spin base 21 seats plural chuck pins F1 through F3 and S1 through S3 which are structured to abut on an outer circumferential surface of a substrate W and hold the substrate W, and further, plural support members 22 are fixed projecting upward on...

20060027325 - Method and apparatus for photomask fabrication: The invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling critical dimension (CD) uniformity of a photomask by neutralizing CD variation associated with pattern density and process fluctuation....

20060027324 - Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method: The present invention provides a plasma processing apparatus that can accomplish fine and precise processing of a sample over a wide area of the surface thereof. A plasma processing apparatus 100 has a processing chamber 101, a sample stage 102 that is supplied with different amounts of coolants at the...

20060027326 - Semiconductor substrate processing chamber and substrate transfer chamber interfacial structure: A semiconductor substrate processor includes a substrate transfer chamber and a plurality of substrate processing chambers connected therewith. An interfacial structure is received between at least one of the processing chambers and the transfer chamber. The interfacial structure includes a substantially non-metallic, thermally insulative mass of material interposed between the...

20060027327 - Apparatus and methods for a low inductance plasma chamber: In certain aspects, a plasma chamber is provided that has (1) a chamber size of at least about 1.8 by 2.0 meters; and (2) an effective inductance having an inductive reactance of not more than about 12-15 ohms. The plasma chamber may be used, for example, to process substrates used...

20060027328 - Hollow anode plasma reactor and method: The plasma processing apparatus includes a plasma chamber, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a plasma containment device. The plasma containment device has a plurality of slots and is electrically coupled to the first electrode. The containment device is configured to confine plasma within an inter-electrode volume while facilitating...

20060027329 - Multi-frequency plasma enhanced process chamber having a torroidal plasma source: A method and apparatus for processing a substrate includes a reactor chamber having a chamber wall and containing a substrate support. An electrode overlies the substrate and is spaced apart from the substrate support. One or more plasma sources maintains plasma in the reactor in one or more torroidal paths...

20060027330 - Device for vacuum-pressing of dvd substrates: The invention relates to a device for vacuum-pressing of disk-shaped substrates, in particular DVD substrates into a finished DVD, wherein the device has a vacuum chamber with two substrate holders and an intermediate element that can be displaced inside the vacuum chamber; and wherein the intermediate element divides the vacuum...

20060027331 - Adhesive film sticking apparatus: For detection of an adhesive film adhesively provided on a base tape of a film supply tape, a front end of the adhesive film is detected based on the detection of a predetermined displacement amount of a roller contactor of a detection sensor, the roller contactor being displaceable in a...

20060027332 - Sticking device and sticking method: A sticking device is arranged to be provided with a suction device including a suction surface 25A to suck label L and a driving device rotating and moving the suction device. When the suction surface sucks the label, the right side region of the suction surface faces the upper surface...

20060027333 - Label peeling mechanism and label printer: A label peeling mechanism and a label printer having a label peeling mechanism reliably print and dispense labels without problems such as paper jams. The label peeling mechanism has a web-bending guide having a convex curved surface for bending a continuous web having labels affixed to the front surface thereof...

20060021691 - Production method of multilayer electronic device: A production method of a multilayer electronic device, comprising the steps of forming a lower side green sheet 10a including at least a ceramic powder on a supporting body 20; forming an electrode pattern layer 12a on a surface of the lower side green sheet; forming a green chip by...

20060021692 - Method of manufacturing pneumatic tire: A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire comprises making a raw tire and vulcanizing the raw tire. The raw tire comprises a toroidal main body and a tread ring. The tread ring comprises a tread reinforcing belt and a raw tread rubber disposed on the radially outside of the tread...

20060021693 - Method and apparatus for forming a core of plies, belts and beads and for positioning the core in a mold for forming an elastomeric tire: A method and apparatus for forming a core of plies, belts and beads and for positioning the core in a mold for forming an elastomeric tire. The core is built up on a mandrel of the inner mold that is formed from hard foam core segments positioned between top and...

20060021694 - Device for winding a cylindrical sleeve around a toric ring: Device (D) for winding a cylindrical sleeve (C) of axis XX′ around a toric ring (R) so that the end (E) of the said cylindrical sleeve is engaged between the toric ring (R) and the cylindrical sleeve (C) itself in order to make at least one complete turn around the...

20060021695 - Process for producing absorbent core structures: The present invention is method for forming a sandwich structure having a pattern of particulate material enveloped between a carrier material and a cover material. The method allows accurate forming of pre-determined pattern at high production speed. Such a method is particularly useful in the manufacture of disposable absorbent articles,...

20060021696 - Process for producing plastic parts: A process for production of components of a plastic material, in particular fiber-reinforced plastic material. The component is produced starting with a device for providing plastic material to a continuous manufacturing process involving roller profiling of heated plastic material. The plastic material is assembled in the device for providing of...

20060021697 - Member for reinforcing, sealing or baffling and reinforcement system formed therewith: A member is provided for reinforcing, sealing or baffling structures of articles of manufacture such as automotive vehicles. The member typically includes a carrier member at least partially formed of a metal material and having a cellular structure. The member also typically includes an expandable material disposed on the carrier...

20060021698 - Applying glue using an injection molding machine: A method of applying glue using an injection molding machine. The method includes providing a first substrate. The first substrate is inserted into a mold. A layer of glue is formed on the first substrate by injection molding glue into the mold. After allowing the glue to cure and removing...

20060021699 - Heat-resistant flexible laminated board manufacturing method: A laminate having good appearance, which avoids such a problem that end waviness is produced in the laminate during lamination, thus making it impossible to fix the laminate in the process for formation of a circuit pattern. A method of producing a laminate is disclosed which comprises continuously laminating a...

20060021700 - Plasma processing apparatus and method: Disclosed is a plasma processing apparatus and a plasma processing method, by which ions of plasma can be injected uniformly over the whole surface of a substrate to be processed, in a short time. Specifically, when the substrate is processed in a reaction container, the gas pressure inside the reaction...

20060021701 - Dual-chamber plasma processing apparatus: A dual-chamber plasma processing apparatus comprises two reaction spaces which are equipped with different gas inlet lines and different RF systems. Each reaction space is provided with an RF wave entry path and an RF wave return path to supply RF power from an RF power source and return RF...

20060021702 - Cluster tool and method for process integration in manufacture of a gate structure of a field effect transistor: A method and apparatus for process integration in manufacture of a gate structure of a field effect transistor are disclosed. The method includes assembling an integrated substrate processing system having a metrology module and a vacuumed processing platform to perform controlled and adaptive plasma processes without exposing the substrate to...

20060021703 - Dual gas faceplate for a showerhead in a semiconductor wafer processing system: A faceplate for a showerhead of a semiconductor wafer processing system is provided. The faceplate has a plurality of gas passageways to provide a plurality of gases to the process region without commingling those gases before they reach the processing region within a reaction chamber. The showerhead includes a faceplate...

20060021704 - Method and apparatus for etching si: f

20060021705 - Substrate mounting apparatus and control method of substrate temperature: A substrate mounting apparatus, comprises a ceramic base having a substrate mounting surface, and a jointing layer, which is formed on an opposite surface to the substrate mounting surface of the ceramic base, and has jointing materials differing in a thermal conductivity by in-plane regions and arranged in the regions....

20060021706 - Adhesive injection apparatus and method: Adhesive injection apparatus, designed to inject an adhesive into gaps between a plurality of layers of flat plate members, includes: a receptacle for holding therein the flat plate members; an evacuation section for evacuating the interior of the receptacle and the gaps between the flat plate members; an adhesive supply...

20060021707 - Apparatus for forming an air spring flexible member: Tubular-shaped flexible members for air springs are made of rubber or rubber-like elastomers and are reinforced by reinforcement layers. In order that the air spring flexible member can roll telescopically off a roll-off piston, the tubular-shaped flexible member sections must be brought into a slightly conical or bottle-like configuration and...

20060021708 - Tape cutting mechanism: A cutting mechanism includes a tensioned tape and a cutting assembly. The cutting assembly includes an edge for cutting tape. The tape is drawn over the edge to cause a rotation such that when a given rotation has been achieved contact forces between the tape and the edge cause the...

20060021710 - Die bonding apparatus: A die bonding apparatus includes a pre-press and fix unit and a bonding unit each having an imager and a holder that can move independently and simultaneously. This allows the imager and the holder to simultaneously exhibit their respective functions. Consequently the die bonding apparatus can mount an electronic component...

20060021709 - Lamination apparatus and method of use: A lamination apparatus and method of use, and more particularly a lamination apparatus for automatically laminating photographs onto album pages is provided. The lamination apparatus includes a holder slidably mountable on a main body and having an exit region in communication with an input region of the main body. A...