Electrolysis: processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions inventions 06/07

20070144912 - Linearly translating agitators for processing microfeature workpieces, and associated methods: Systems and methods for processing microfeature workpieces with agitators are disclosed. A system in accordance with one embodiment includes a vessel configured to receive a processing fluid at a process location, a fluid inlet positioned to direct the processing fluid into the vessel, a weir positioned above the process location... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070144913 - Method of preparing printed or daubed image and printed or daubed image element by it.: A method for creating a print or coating image, characterized by including a first step of printing or coating a surface of a to-be-printed or to-be-coated product with a predetermined print or coating image using a mixture fluid in which predetermined powder has been mixed into printing ink or paint,... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070144914 - Electrochemically produced layers for corrosion protection or as a primer: Use of a layer on an electrically conductive surface as a corrosion protection layer and/or as a primer for an organic coating, which may be obtained in a stage (a), in which a layer of at least one inorganic compound of at least one metal A having a weight per... Agent: Henkel Corporation

20070144915 - Process and composition for passivating a substrate during electrochemical mechanical polishing: Compositions and methods for processing a substrate having a conductive material layer disposed thereon are provided. In one embodiment, a method of electrochemically processing a substrate using a conductive polishing article is provided. The method includes disposing a substrate having a conductive material layer formed thereon in a process apparatus... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070144917 - Electrode tool for electrochemical machining and method for manufacturing same: An electrode tool for electrochemical machining includes a machining electrode surface (1a). The machining electrode surface (1a) includes a conductive pattern defined by lands (3) and grooves (3a) that are formed by groove machining the electrode surface (1a). The machining electrode surface (1a) is then molded with a hard insulating... Agent: Adduci Mastriani & Schaumberg

20070144916 - Method for structuring the aerodynamics of components in aircraft gas turbines: A method is disclosed for manufacturing blades arranged on the outside circumference of an impeller in a BLISK technology by contouring by means of an electrochemical machining method using molded cathodes. The surface of the blades in contouring is equipped with a negative structure in relation to the molded cathode... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070144918 - Electrochemical test strip: An electrochemical test system comprising an electrochemical test strip capable of initiating an instrument, determining if it is inserted into a correct position of the instrument, a sample is injected into a reaction region of the electrochemical test strip, and the sample covers the reaction region properly. The electrochemical test... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070144919 - Ion selective electrode: An ion selective electrode (ISE) includes an electrode body or housing having an ion selective membrane located at one end thereof and an indicator electrode formed at or adjacent to the ion selective membrane. A sealed vessel is disposed inside the electrode body, the sealed vessel holding an electrically conductive... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070131557 - Method for electroplating metal wire: A method for electroplating low-resistance metal wire for resolving the problem to fabricate the metal wire on large-area substrate through the technology of photolithographing and etching in the prior art. Then the invention improves the RC-delay characteristic of circuit on large-area substrate and reduces the number of masks for processing... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070131558 - Process for deposition of crack-free and corrosion-resistant hard chromium and chromium alloy layers: An electrolytic plating composition and related plating process where the composition comprises chromium ions, a mineral acid, halogen oxoanion, alkylsulfonic acid, and a source of sulfoacetic acid for electrolytically coating a surface of a substrate with a chromium layer or a chromium alloy layer.... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070131559 - Tin plating electrolyte composition and method for electroplating surfaces with tin: The invention refers to a composition and method of electrolytic tinning in continuous a steel strip or plate with an electrolyte composition comprising the following components (g/l): Tin (in a form of tin sulfamate) 50-90, Sulfamic acid, free 40-100, Sulfates, in a form of SO42.0-15, Nitrogen-bearing block polymer 1-6, said... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070131560 - Electrochemical reduction of metal oxides: A process for electrochemically reducing metal oxide feed material in a solid state is disclosed. The process includes the steps of agitating an electrolyte and metal oxide powders in the electrolyte and applying an electrical potential across a cathode in contact with the electrolyte and an anode and electrochemically reducing... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070131561 - Controlling removal rate uniformity of an electropolishing process in integrated circuit fabrication: An electropolishing process in integrated circuit fabrication on a wafer includes applying a stream of electrolyte to the wafer using a nozzle positioned adjacent to the wafer with a gap between the nozzle and the wafer. The removal rate uniformity of the electropolishing process is controlled by adjusting the gap... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070131562 - Method and apparatus for planarizing a substrate with low fluid consumption: The embodiments of the invention generally relate to a method and apparatus for processing a substrate with reduced fluid consumption. Embodiments of the invention may be beneficially utilized in chemical mechanical and electrochemical mechanical polishing processes, among other processes where conservation of a processing fluid disposed on a rotating pad... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070131563 - Means to improve center to edge uniformity of electrochemical mechanical processing of workpiece surface: An electrochemical mechanical process for electroplating or electropolishing a conductive surface of a wafer is provided. The conductive surface of the wafer is touched by a polishing surface of a compressible pad while a process solution flows through the pad and a potential difference is maintained between the conductive surface... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070131564 - Electro-chemical mechanical planarization pad with uniform polish performance: A polishing pad includes at least one conductive polishing element supported by a compressible under layer having conductive patterning therein, the conductive patterning adapted to permit coupling of a potential to the conductive polishing element; a guide plate above the compressible under layer, the guide plate having a hole through... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070131565 - Method of measuring blood component, sensor used in the method, and measuring device: The present invention provides a method of measuring a component in blood, by which an amount of the component can be corrected accurately by measuring a hematocrit (Hct) value of the blood with high accuracy and high reliability and also provides a sensor used in the method. The sensor for... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070131566 - Electrochemical method and system for detection of trace explosives: An electrochemical system and method for electrochemical detection of both nitro-aromatic and cyclic nitro-amine compounds in a single sample, the system having an electrochemical cell including: (a) a modified working electrode having a surface modified by a chemical modifier; wherein the chemical modifier includes a heterocyclic organic compound in which... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20070131567 - High temperature and pressure sensor: An assembly and method for gas analysis. The assembly comprises a catalyst compartment for catalytically reacting a component of a gas sample, producing one or more gas species as products. A product compartment receives the gas species, and a sensing element within the compartment senses the amount of one or... Agent: Robert Berliner Berliner & Associates

20070125651 - Electroform, methods of making electroforms, and products made from electroforms: In one embodiment, the method for making a product comprises: contacting a surface of the electroform with a solution having a pH of less than or equal to 6, applying a cathodic current to the electroform, applying a product material to the electroform, curing the product material, and removing the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070125652 - Electroform, methods of making electroforms, and products made from electroforms: In one embodiment, a method for making an electroform, comprises passivating a sub-master to form a passivation layer. The passivation comprises contacting at least a surface of the sub-master with a solution comprising an oxidizing agent and applying an anodic current to the sub-master. The surface of the sub-master can... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070125654 - Electroform, methods of making electroforms, and products made from electroforms: In one embodiment, the method for making the electroform comprises: attaching a sub-master to a first side of a stiffener plate to form a mounted sub-master, masking sides and a second side of the stiffener plate with polyester tape, passivating the surface to form a passivation layer, plating the surface... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070125653 - Multilayer electroform, methods of making multilayer electroforms, and products made therefrom: In one embodiment, the method for making an electroform comprises: passivating a sub-master to form a passivation layer, disposing the passivated sub-master into an initial electroplating solution, applying a first current, depositing a first metal onto the passivated sub-master to form an initial coating on the sub-master, moving the initially... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070125655 - Electroform, methods of making electroforms, and products made from electroforms: In one embodiment, the method for making an electroform comprises: attaching a sub-master to a first side of a stiffener plate to form a mounted sub-master, wherein the stiffener plate is longer and/or wider than the sub-master such that, when the sub-master is attached to the stiffener plate, the stiffener... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070125656 - Controlling the thickness of wafers during the electroplating process: Embodiments of the present invention pertain to controlling thickness of wafers during electroplating process. Information pertaining to an old current used during an electroplating process of a previous wafer is received. Information pertaining to the thickness of the previous wafer is received. A new current is automatically determined. The new... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070125657 - Method of direct plating of copper on a substrate structure: The present invention teaches a method for depositing a copper seed layer onto a substrate surface, generally onto a barrier layer. The barrier layer may include a refractory metal and/or a group 8, 9 or 10 metal. The method includes cathodically pre-treating the substrate in an acid-containing solution. The substrate... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070125658 - Method of forming valve metal anode pellets for capacitors using forced convection of liquid electrolyte during anodization: A method and apparatus for anodizing a porous valve metal pellet in a flowing liquid electrolyte is described. The apparatus comprises an insulative container comprised of a lower region, a central region including a cavity for holding the pellet, an upper region, and a continuous passageway extending through the lower,... Agent: Greatbatch Ltd

20070125659 - Process for optimizing the process of copper electro-winning and electro-refining by superimposing a sinussoidal current over a continuous current: This invention discloses a process of the electro-winning of metals, in particular copper, is done in a strongly acidic aqueous solution (˜180 gpl H2SO4), with permanent cathodes of stainless steel or Cu starting sheets, and Pb—Ca—Sn anodes, in tradition electrolysis cells to obtain copper cathodes wherein in the electrolytic cells,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070125660 - Closed end slotted carbon anodes for aluminum electrolysis cells: An electrolysis cell (10) contains a number of carbon anodes (12) having top, bottom and side surfaces, operating in molten electrolyte (17) in an aluminum electrolysis cell (10), where gas bubbles (28) are generated at the anode surfaces and where alumina particles (20) are added to the top of the... Agent: Intellectual Property

20070125661 - Controlling removal rate uniformity of an electropolishing process in integrated circuit fabrication: A metal layer formed on a wafer, the wafer having a center portion and an edge portion, is electropolished by aligning a nozzle and the wafer to position the nozzle adjacent to the center portion of the wafer. The wafer is rotated. As the wafer is rotated, a stream of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070125662 - Device for treating a biological tissue volume by localise hyperthermy: The inventive device for treating a biological tissue volume by a localised hyperthermy comprises a plurality of active percutaneous electrodes (1-N), at least one return electrode (120) and a high-frequency (100) electric generator for applying an alternating voltage between said active electrodes and return electrode. Said invention is characterised in... Agent: Eric S Hyman Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070125663 - Liquid-condition detection element and detection sensor: A liquid-condition detection element is provided which exhibits good sensitivity while having appropriate strength. The detector element forms part of a liquid-condition detection sensor in which breakage of the detection element is combated and which can accurately detect the condition of liquid. The detection element includes first and second ceramic... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070125664 - Gas sensor element and methods of making and using the same: In one embodiment, a gas sensor element comprises: an electrolyte disposed between and in ionic communication with a first electrode and a second electrode; and a protective layer disposed adjacent to the first electrode. The protective layer comprises a catalytic coating comprising a reducible support material, a catalyst, and a... Agent: Paul L. Marshall Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070125665 - System and method for updating a baseline output of a gas sensor: A method of operating a gas sensor is disclosed, wherein the sensor includes a pumping electrode configuration and a measuring electrode configuration, and wherein the method includes operating the sensor in a first mode in which a first, lower pumping potential sufficient to electrochemically remove an interfering compound from the... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP