Electrolysis: processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions inventions 02/08

20080047837 - Method for anodizing aluminum-copper alloy: An anodization method includes steps of providing an object formed of an aluminum-copper alloy, providing an anodizing bath comprising a basic silicate solution, providing an AC power supply including a first electrode and a second electrode, placing the first electrode in contact with the anodizing bath, connecting the second electrode... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080047838 - Process for the recovery of acids: The invention is directed to a process for recovering acids from mixtures containing them, in particular organic acids and amino acids, such as acids produced by fermentation in a fermentation broth. The process of the invention comprises contacting a loaded extractant with a solution containing hydroxide ions in the presence... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080047839 - Method and apparatus for electrowinning copper using the ferrous/ferric anode reaction and a flow-through anode: The present invention relates, generally, to a method and apparatus for electrowinning metals, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for copper electrowinning using the ferrous/ferric anode reaction and a flow-through anode, such as, for example, a dimensionally stable carbon, carbon composite, metal-graphite, or stainless steel anode. In general,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080047840 - Fuel cell system: An apparatus for producing oxygen and hydrogen that uses only simplified electronic functions is shown in FIG. 1 and is described herein. The apparatus includes a container holding a solution such as water and multiple, closely-spaced, flat-plate electrodes arranged sequentially within the container and submerged in the solution. A power... Agent: Charles R Stockdale

20080047841 - Electroprocessing profile control: Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for electrochemically processing a substrate. The apparatus comprises a processing layer having a surface adapted for processing a substrate thereon, a polishing head for retaining a substrate against the processing surface, a retaining ring a terminal adapted for coupling to a power... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080047842 - Control for galvanic corrosion inhibiting coupling: A pipe coupling for joining two electrolyte-conveying pipes of electrochemically dissimilar metals and inhibiting galvanic corrosion resulting from the dissimilarity. A tubular pipe coupling has a pair of axially spaced protection electrodes mounted to its interior wall in electrical contact with the electrolyte. A control electrode is also mounted to... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20080047843 - Sacrificial anode assembly: A sacrificial anode assembly for cathodically protecting and/or passivating a metal section, comprising: (a) a cell, which has an anode and a cathode arranged so as to not be in electronic contact with each other but so as to be in ionic contact with each other such that current can... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080047844 - Method of generating electrolyzed water and electrolyzed water generation apparatus therefor: A method and apparatus for generating electrolyzed water easy to carry out or handle even in ordinary homes. An electrolyte aqueous solution is circuited through a first electrolysis chamber 3a of two electrolysis chambers placed on opposite sides of an ion-permeable membrane 2, and raw water is supplied only to... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080047845 - Electrochemical reduction of metal oxides: A process for electrochemically reducing a metal oxide feed material in a solid state in an electrolytic cell is disclosed. The cell includes a molten bath of electrolyte, an anode, a cathode, and a means for applying a potential across the anode and the cathode. The process is characterised by... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080047846 - Electrochemical chlorine sensor: A sensor for measurement of free chlorine and of total chlorine in aqueous solution including a working electrode having a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) formed on the surface thereof, producing a barrier which reduces the generation of background currents when electrical potentials are applied to the electrode, and blocks the reduction... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20080047847 - Sensor element for particle sensors and method for operating the sensor element: A sensor element for gas sensors for determining the concentration of particulates in gas mixtures, in particular soot sensors having at least one first measuring electrode applied to an electrically insulating substrate and at least one second measuring electrode, a voltage being applicable to the first and second measuring electrodes.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080041726 - Metal plating apparatus and process: In order to make plating thickness uniform in a metal plating apparatus, a metal plating apparatus capable of performing metal plating to a uniform thickness is provided by aligning lines of electric force uniformly and in parallel by disposing a pair of conductive perforated plates 20a and 20b, which are... Agent: Robert A. WalshIPLaw Department, 972e

20080041727 - Method and system for depositing alloy composition: Electric potential, current density, and deposition rate are controlled to deposit metal alloys, such as tin based solder alloys or magnetic alloys, with minimal variations in the weight ratios of alloying metals at different locations within the deposited metal alloy feature. Alternative embodiments include processes that form metal alloy features... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080041728 - Electrolytic looping for forming layering in the deposit of a coating: A method for depositing a metal onto a substrate including the steps of providing a plating bath including ions of the metal, positioning the substrate in the plating bath, positioning at least one counter electrode in the plating bath, performing a first electrolytic process for a predetermined first period of... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20080041729 - Aluminium electrowinning with enhanced electrolyte circulation: A method of operating an aluminium electrowinning cell that has one or more metal-based anodes (5). The anodes (5) comprise metal-based foraminate anode bodies (10) which are suspended by metal-based anode stems (20) in a molten electrolyte (50) and which are spaced above a cathode (30). The method comprises electrolysing... Agent: Jayadeep R. Deshmukh

20080041730 - Electrochemical gas generator for carbon monoxide: An electrochemical gas generator is provided including an electrolysis cell (1) with a gas-impermeable housing, which is closed by a gas-permeable membrane (2) for the discharge of the test gas or calibrating gas CO. A chemically inert cathode (5) formed of a noble metal, a mixture of noble metals or... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080041731 - Process for regenerating electrolytes in electrochemical polishing applications: A process for regenerating electrolytes containing high sodium chloride concentrations for reuse in the production of an electrochemical polishing process of aluminum surfaces.... Agent: Kennametal Inc.

20080041732 - Portable in-situ oxygenation and hydrogenation remedial system: Methods and systems are presented for in-situ remediation of contaminated groundwater utilizing a body deployed in a groundwater well in communication with groundwater to be treated. At least two electrodes positioned are within the body and are supplied with DC current for electrolyzing groundwater to produce a beneficial gas, to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080041733 - Controlled translocation of a polymer in an electrolytic sensing system: An electrolytic sensing system for measuring a blocking signal allows for controlled translocation of a molecule, such as DNA, through a fluid channel. A substantially constant electric field supplied by a DC source is applied across the fluid channel and induces translocation of the molecule within the system. An oscillating... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20080035485 - Apparatus for manufacturing biochip and method for manufacturing biochip tip array module: An apparatus of manufacturing a biochip and manufacture method of biochip tip array. The invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing a biochip from a substrate. The apparatus comprises a tip array, a reservoir tank and a conduit connecting the tip array and the reservoir tank. When the substrate is placed... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080035486 - Method for production of a coating and anode used in such a method: The invention relates to a method for production of a corrosion resistant and/or oxidation resistant coating, whereby at least one metal of the platinum group, in particular platinum and/or palladium, or an alloy based on at least one metal of the platinum group, is deposited by galvanizing onto a surface... Agent: Fasse Patent Attorneys, P.A.

20080035487 - Probe and method of making same: Disclosed herein are a probe and a method of making the same, and more particularly to a probe having a minute pitch, with which a probe card corresponding to arrangement of pads formed with a massed shape or other various shapes on a wafer is made, and a method of... Agent: Paul D. Durkee Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080035488 - Manufacturing process to produce litho sheet: The present invention provides an aluminum alloy for lithographic sheet including about 0.05 wt % to about 0.25 wt % Si; about 0.25 wt % to about 0.4 wt % Fe; less than or equal to about 0.04 wt % Cu; less than or equal to about 0.25 wt %... Agent: Intellectual Property

20080035489 - Plating process: Methods of plating electrical contacts on a photosensitive device are provided. Also provided are methods of plating electrical contacts on solar cells.... Agent: John J. Piskorski Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials LLC

20080035490 - Thermotoga maritima mannitol dehydrogenase: Nucleic acids encoding Thermotoga maritima mannitol dehydrogenase and the Thermotoga maritima mannitol dehydrogenase polypeptide are disclosed. Further provided are an electrochemical bioreactor system and a bioreactor electrode that can be used to convert glucose or fructose to mannitol.... Agent: Ian C. Mcleod Ian C. Mcleod, P.C.

20080035491 - Electrode for electrolysis and method for producing aqueous solution of quaternary ammonium hydroxide using the same: Provided is an electrode for electrolysis with excellent corrosion resistance and durability which can be used sustainably in the production of a high-purity quaternary ammonium hydroxide by the electrolysis of a quaternary ammonium inorganic acid salt in an electrolytic cell partitioned by a cation exchange membrane on a commercial scale... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080035492 - Oxygen transport structure: An oxide-based electrolytic structure and process is disclosed, which is particularly useful for use as an oxygen separation device. The disclosed structures utilize thin film layers to provide the oxygen separation in conjunction with polymer substrate materials. The disclosed devices operate at relatively low temperatures to provide a relatively low... Agent: Donald Hilliard

20080035493 - Electrochemical sensor having a mediator compound with a solid: An electrochemical sensor is provided especially for gases. The electrochemical sensor has a mediator compound, which is both dissolved in an electrolyte (9) in a saturated form and is present as an excess solid (10) in the electrolyte (9).... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080035494 - Apparatus for microarray binding sensors having biological probe materials using carbon nanotube transistors: A microarray apparatus is provided which contains at least one chip having source and drain electrodes positioned on an array of carbon nanotube transistors which allows for electronic detection of nucleic acid hybridizations, thereby affording both increased sensitivity and the capability of miniaturization.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080029397 - Hot embossing tooling with integrated heating/cooling fluid channels and method: An electroformed tool has an integrated base with channels contacting the tool with heating and cooling fluids flowing through the channels during injection molding or hot embossing. A blank base is machined with a network of interconnected open channels on a top surface and end flow through passageways communicating with... Agent: Donald W. Meeker Patent Agent

20080029396 - Electrode for hydrogen generation, method for manufacturing the same and electrolysis method using the same: The present invention provides an electrode for hydrogen generation of which the hydrogen overvoltage is sufficiently low and which is not affected by poisoning due to iron ions, and furthermore, of which the durability is superior because during operations and stop-and-start control, the hydrogen overvoltage does not rise and exfoliation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080029398 - Electroplating apparatus and electroplating method: An electroplating apparatus can form a plated film having a more uniform thickness and good film quality over an entire surface of a substrate having a conductive layer (seed layer) whose resistivity is equal to or higher than that of copper. The electroplating apparatus includes: a substrate holder for holding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080029399 - Method of manufacturing nanostructures: A method of manufacturing structures includes a stripping step in which an aluminum member that includes an aluminum substrate and an anodized layer present on a surface of the aluminum substrate and that serves as a cathode is electrolyzed to strip the anodized layer from the aluminum substrate to obtain... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080029400 - Selective electroplating onto recessed surfaces: Processes for electroplating recessed features on a substrate are provided. The processes are useful in applications such as creating Cu interconnects on integrated circuits.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080029401 - Process for forming anticorrosive coating: A steel caisson 1 is used as a cathode, an undersea member 3 arranged in seawater and opposed to the steel caisson 1 is used as anode. Direct current is passed between the electrodes so that anticorrosive coating 8 is formed on the steel caisson 1 through electrolytic reaction of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080029402 - Electrochemical processing apparatus and method of processing a semiconductor device: An electrochemical processing apparatus is provided, in which a substrate and an anode placed in a chamber are partitioned into a cathode region including the substrate and an anode region including the anode by placing a multi-layered structure of a filtration film and a cation exchange film so that the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080029403 - Aluminum reduction cell fuse technology: A method of taking inoperative pot online using fuse in an aluminium manufacturing plant operating on electrolysis process is disclosed. The manufacturing plant comprises of plurality of electrolysis cells or pots connected in series. Some of the pots are kept off line during start up of the plant by shorting... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080029404 - Processes for the production of chlorine from hydrogen chloride and oxygen: Processes for the production of chlorine by multi-stage oxidation, for example, by thermal reaction of hydrogen chloride with oxygen using catalysts or by non-thermal activated reaction of hydrogen chloride with oxygen, in which the gas mixture formed in the reaction, comprising the target products chlorine and water, unreacted hydrogen chloride... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080029405 - Voltage switchable dielectric material having conductive or semi-conductive organic material: One or more embodiments provide for a composition that includes (i) organic material that is conductive or semi-conductive, and (ii) conductor and/or semiconductor particles other than the organic material. The organic material and the conductor and/or semiconductor particles are combined to provide the composition with a characteristic of being (i)... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080029406 - Monolithic supported oxygen generator: An oxygen generator includes a monolithic body having first and second channels extending longitudinally therein. An electrode is operatively disposed in the first channels and a counter-electrode is operatively disposed in the second channels. The second channels are formed in the monolithic body so each second channel is electrically isolated... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080029407 - Method and electrode for the electrochemical removal of a coating from a component: A method for electrochemically stripping components, especially gas turbine components, is provided. According to the method, the component from which a coating is to be removed is connected to a positive terminal of a voltage source or current source while an electrode is connected to a negative terminal thereof. An... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC