Chemistry: electrical and wave energy inventions 02/06

20060037854 - Gas purifying apparatus, image forming apparatus having the same, and method of purifying gas of the image forming apparatus: A gas purifying apparatus oxidatively decomposes and discharges impurities such as flammable hydrocarbons (CmH2n) contained in gas generated from a toner by fixing an image. An image forming apparatus having a gas purifying apparatus, and a method of purifying gas of the image forming apparatus are also provided. The gas...

20060037855 - Processing tools, components of processing tools, and method of making and using same for electrochemical processing of microelectronic workpieces: Processing tools, components of tools, and methods of making and using such devices for electrochemical processing of microelectronic workpieces. One aspect of the invention is directed toward reaction vessels for electrochemical processing of microelectronic workpieces, processing stations including such reaction vessels, and methods for using these devices. For example, one...

20060037856 - Electrode for electrochemical reduction: An electrode (10) is provided for electrochemical reduction of a workpiece (20) that is to be treated. The electrode (10) has a predefined contour and contains an electrically conductive material. The electrically conductive material of the predefined contour forms an electrode core (12). The outside of the electrode core (12)...

20060037857 - Workpiece holder for processing apparatus, and processing apparatus using the same: An inexpensive workpiece holder having high reliability and a processing apparatus equipped with the workpiece holder are provided, in which damage caused by oxygen in the air is prevented. The holder comprises: a ceramic body which has an electrode and a heater circuit and which can holds a workpiece; a...

20060037858 - Electroless plating apparatus and electroless plating method: A plate is placed near a substrate held by a substrate holding section. A treating liquid is ejected from a treating liquid ejecting section, thereby plating the substrate electrolessly. The treating liquid flows through the gap between the substrate and the plate. Therefore a flow of the treating liquid occurs...

20060037859 - Electrochemical cell connector: The present invention relates to electrochemical cells including a connector which mates with a connection device to provide electrical connection to meter circuitry....

20060037860 - Small separation apparatus: An apparatus for processing compounds in small volumes by electrophoresis, the apparatus comprising: (a) a cathode in a static cathode buffer zone or compartment; (b) an anode in a static anode buffer zone or compartment, the anode disposed relative to the cathode so as to be adapted to generate an...

20060037861 - Electrodeposition process: The present invention is directed to an electrodeposition process for producing a coated substrate having improved properties. The electrodeposition process comprises coating a substrate with a liquid coating composition, immersing the substrate with the liquid coating composition in an electrodeposition bath, and applying an electrical current having a specified voltage...

20060037862 - Electrodeionization apparatus: An electrodelonization apparatus comprising multiple anion exchange membranes 13 and cation exchange membranes 14 that are alternately arranged between a cathode 12 and an anode 11 to alternately form concentrating compartments 15 and desalting compartments 16 is described. The concentrating compartments 15 and the desalting compartments 16 are filled with...

20060032736 - Deformation reduction at the main chamber: A vacuum chamber with a cover with a first section, a second section, and a pocket between the first section and second section is provided. The vacuum chamber has a main cavity to which the first section is adjacent. The vacuum chamber may be used for plasma processing, which may...

20060032735 - Rejuvenation of refractory metal products: Refractory metal products, such as tantalum, can be rejuvenated after metal consumption in selected zones by filling the zones with powder and simultaneously applying focused radiant energy to the powder....

20060032737 - Magnetron sputtering device, a cylindrical cathode and a method of coating thin multicomponent films on a substrate: The invention relates to a magnetron sputtering device particularly comprising at least one vacuum chamber and being intended for the coating of multicomponent films on a substrate by means of magnetron co-sputtering; said device is provided with a cylindrical cathode (1, 1′) mounted rotatably around the axial longitudinal shaft and...

20060032738 - Power delivery control and balancing between multiple loads: A plasma process machine includes at least two electrodes disposed in a processing chamber and in contact with targets, an alternating current source connected to supply power to the electrodes, and a power delivery controller adapted to control power delivered by the alternating current source to the electrodes. The power...

20060032739 - Method for producing silicon oxide film and method for producing optical multilayer film: The invention provides a method for producing a silicon oxide film, whereby a film having uniform optical constants such as refractive index, absorption coefficient, etc. can be formed continuously at a high deposition rate. A method for producing a silicon oxide film, which comprises depositing a silicon oxide film on...

20060032740 - Slotted thin-film sputter deposition targets for ferromagnetic materials: A slotted sputtering target for a magnetron sputtering system for thin-film deposition particularly suited for ferromagnetic target materials such as cobalt, nickel, and iron or an alloy including more than one of these elements....

20060032741 - Sputtering cathode adapter assembly and method: An adapter assembly is provided for supporting a sputtering cathode in a fixed opening in the chamber of a sputter coating machine. The assembly includes: one of several adapter bodies, each configured to support, in the fixed opening, a target of one of a plurality of sizes and types, and...

20060032742 - Laminated membranes for diffusion limited gas sensors resistant to pressure variations: A micro fuel cell sensor having laminated gas permeable membrane. The sensor comprises a housing, first and second gas diffusing electrodes spaced from one another, a fuel-cell spacer having an acidic electrolyte disposed between said first and second electrodes, and two gas permeable membranes. The first gas permeable membrane comprises...

20060032743 - Electrochemical measurement apparatus: Disclosed is an electrochemical measurement apparatus, which comprises an electrode group 6 for detecting a specific intra-environment substance in accordance with an electrochemical reaction caused by a working electrode 6b, a correction-equation storage part 11b storing a nonlinearity correction equation which includes an eigenvalue of an element forming a characteristic...

20060032744 - Lambda probe: A lambda probe for an internal combustion engine for the measurement of the fuel-air ratio in the exhaust gas stream of the internal combustion engine is proposed, in which the portion of the oxygen sensor element reaching into the exhaust gas stream is surrounded by a protective element for trapping...

20060032745 - Gas sensing device: A device for sensing a gas comprises a plastics housing (106, 107) moulded in situ around at least one portion of a conducting lead frame (100), the housing defining an enclosure (113) and being provided with means for enabling gas flow into the enclosure. A gas sensitive element (114) within...

20060032746 - Method and device for contacting a microfluidic structure: The present invention relates to a method and a device for contacting a microfluidic structure. The device comprises a receptacle for the microfluidic structure and also a contact unit. According to one aspect of the invention, the contact unit has at least one hollow needle, which is designed for piercing...

20060032747 - Automated electrophoresis gel manipulation apparatus and method: An automated, computer controlled assembly is provided for continuously processing a large number of electrophoresis gels. The assembly includes a loading assembly for loading a gel onto a carrier, a gel staining assembly and a scanning and cutting assembly. The staining assembly and the scanning and cutting assembly each include...

20060032748 - Method for coating objects: A method for the electrophoretic application of a polymeric coating to an object having an elongate portion on a continuous belt, comprising the steps of positioning the object to engage a retaining member, the retaining member engaging the continuous belt such that a retaining portion on the retaining member releasably...

20060032749 - Contact assembly and method for electrochemical mechanical processing: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for processing a substrate in an electrochemical mechanical planarizing system. In one embodiment, a contact assembly for electrochemically processing a substrate includes a housing having a ball disposed in a passage formed through the housing. The ball is adapted to...

20060032750 - Method for producing matrices of addressed ligands on a carrier: According to this method, an element is used such as a reservoir (1) filled with ligand and containing an electrode (3) to deposit and electrochemically fix the ligand to the conductive carrier (7). The ligand may be an oligonucleotide or a peptide, and fixing may be obtained by electropolymerisation of...

20060032752 - Methods and structures for the production of electrically treated items and electrical connections: This invention involves unique electroplated items comprising electrically conductive polymers. In addition, novel processing is taught to facilitate continuous production of electrically treated items. Many embodiments employ directly electroplateable resins for particular advantage. Unique methods of establishing electroplated electrical connections are taught....

20060032751 - System for coating objects: A system for coating an object having an elongate portion and a method of employing the same that includes at least one retaining member engaging a continuous belt, the retaining member including a retaining portion positioned to releasably retain the elongate portion of the object to the belt for coating...

20060032753 - Electrolytic-water supplying faucet: A faucet is capable of supplying electrolytic water. The faucet comprises a cold water supply tube for supplying unprocessed water; a hot water supply tube; a water mixing valve for mixing cold and hot waters from the cold water supply tube and hot water supply tube; a faucet body connected...

20060032754 - Plant for decomposition of water by electrolysis: The suggested plant for decomposition of water by electrolysis permits to convert mechanical and heat energy into electrical and chemical energy as it contains an electrolyzer comprising: a body installed on a shaft connected to a drive and incorporating ducts for supplying electrolyte solution and extracting the electrolysis products as...

20060027450 - Arrangement and method for the production of gas-impermeable layers: An arrangement and a method for the production of gas-impermeable layers, in particular for the coating of gas-permeable synthetic material substrates. With the aid of this arrangement or of the method light-permeable as well as also light-impermeable gas-blocking layers are produced using only one sputtering installation. A simple change-over switching...

20060027451 - Methods for sputtering a target material by intermittently applying a voltage thereto and related apparatus, and methods of fabricating a phase-changeable memory device employing the same: A method of sputtering to deposit a target material onto a substrate includes supplying an ionized gas to the substrate and the target material. A first DC bias voltage having a polarity opposite that of the ionized gas is applied to the target material to attract ions theretoward. A second...

20060027452 - Substrate processing apparatus and substrate plating apparatus: A substrate processing apparatus fills a metal such as copper or the like in fine interconnection patterns or trenches defined in a semiconductor substrate. The substrate processing apparatus has a loading/unloading unit for placing a substrate cassette to allow a substrate to be loaded and unloaded, a substrate treating unit...

20060027453 - Low resistance reference junction: A reference half-cell and method includes a reference electrode and a reference electrolyte disposed in mutual electrolytic contact, and a reference junction including a porous member configured to provide controlled flow of the reference electrolyte therein to form a primary electrical pathway extending through the member. A secondary electrical pathway...

20060027454 - Procedure for the fractionation of proteins by using sequential ion exchange and hydrophobic interaction chromatography as prefractionation steps before analysis by two dimensional electrophoresis: After the sequencing of the human genome, great interest has developed in trying to discern the complementary proteome of humans and other species. The present disclosure provides devices, systems, and methods for proteomic fractionation that may increase the number of protein spots visualized by 2DE analysis, and may allow enrichment...

20060027455 - Selective detection of proteins that contain two or more alpha-helical transmembrane domains: Embodiments of the present invention provide a staining solution and of method of using the staining solution for selectively detecting proteins that contain two or more α-helical transmembrane domains. The staining solution comprises a lipophilic dyes and at least about a 30% hydrophobic solvent. The dyes of the present are...

20060027456 - Apparatus and method for trapping bead based reagents within microfluidic analysis systems: The present invention provides an on-chip packed reactor bed design that allows for an effective exchange of packing materials such as beads at a miniaturized level. The present invention extends the function of microfluidic analysis systems to new applications including on-chip solid phase extraction (SPE) and on-chip capillary electrochromatography (CEC)....

20060027457 - Apparatus for electrodeionization and method for operating the same: An electrodeionization apparatus and a method for operating the apparatus are provided. With this, concentration diffusion of boron from a concentrating chamber can be suppressed to obtain product water having a very low boron concentration. Raw water in introduced into a desalting chamber 16, and product water is discharged from...

20060027458 - Capillary electrophoresis devices and processes for manufacturing same: A capillary electrophoresis device as well as a process for fabrication of the device is disclosed. The capillary electrophoresis device comprises a device body structure having a plurality of reservoirs arrayed thereon for loading a sample, and a plurality of rows of grooves transversely defined to be connected with the...

20060021868 - Electrode for discharge surface treatment, a method of manufacturing the electrode for discharge surface treatment, and a discharge surface treatment method: cBN powder (11) which is an electrically insulating hard matter is mixed with Co-based alloy powder (12) which is a conductive matter, resultant powder mixture is put into a press mold and compression-molded to thereby form an electrode for discharge surface treatment (10). Electric discharge is generated between the electrode...

20060021867 - Method and apparatus for converting mixture of water and ethanol into fuel: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for converting the mixture of water and ethanol into fuel. The method comprises mixing water with ethanol in a ratio of 4:1 to 1:1 of water to ethanol by weight, heating and evaporating the obtained mixture to obtain a vapor mixture...

20060021869 - System for and method of ensuring accurate shadow mask-to-substrate registration in a deposition process: A deposition system uses the same low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) material, for example, a CTE of below 10 ppm/° C. in the temperature range of 0-200° C., for forming both a shadow mask and a substrate upon which depositions occur in order to overcome the heating effects of...

20060021870 - Profile detection and refurbishment of deposition targets: A method of refurbishing a deposition target having a surface with an eroded region involves measuring a depth profile of the eroded region. A target material is then provided to the eroded region in relation to the measured depth profile to refurbish the target by filling the eroded region with...

20060021871 - Method for fabricating l10 phase alloy film: A method for fabricating an L10 alloy film is provided. The method includes steps of (a) providing a substrate; (b) heating the substrate as a preheated substrate at a first temperature ranged from 100° C. to 600° C. for a time period ranged from 5 minutes to 120 minutes, and...

20060021872 - Chlorine dioxide solution generator: A chlorine dioxide solution generator, which injects a chlorine dioxide solution into a pressurized fluid system, including an absorption loop for effecting the dissolution of chlorine dioxide into a liquid stream. The chlorine dioxide gas source can include an anolyte loop and a catholyte loop. The generator avoids or eliminates...

20060021873 - Electrochemical gas sensor and process for manufacturing same: A planar electrochemical gas sensor is provided with at least one working electrode (4), at least one counterelectrode (4″), at least one electrolyte-filled planar electrolyte carrier (10), at least one planar housing upper part (3) and at least one planar housing lower part (2). The electrodes (4, 4″) are arranged...

20060021874 - Fabrication of ceramic interface electrochemical reference electrode: In this present invention it was fabricated to be relates to manufacturing a ceramic interface electrochemical reference electrode for use together with biomedical sensors. Most potentiometric biomedical sensors must have the need to be connected to a reference electrode to offer the readout circuit a stable voltage in the different...

20060021875 - Method, system, and program product for controlling chemical reactions in a digital microfluidic system: The present invention provides, in a first aspect, a method, system, and program product for controlling chemical reactions in a digital microfluidic system that include logically partitioning cells of a digital microfluidic system array into a plurality of virtual components wherein at least one of the virtual components is capable...

20060021876 - Protein resolution enhancement by using matrix containing dmso: An electrophoresis gel matrix is provided for conducting proteomics, in particular the steps of separating and/or identifying proteins. The matrix comprises at least one chemical reagent being at least one of a denaturing, buffering, disaggregating, reducing, staining or dissolving reagent, and a volume of dimethylsulfoxide. The use of such a...