FERROTEC (USA) CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140311541 | Integrated thermoelectric-powered fluid heat exchanger - A fluid heat exchanger has an impeller assembly with first and second impeller bodies mated together, each having a substantially circular shape and at least one opening therethrough. Impeller vanes extend transversely from the first impeller body and away from the second impeller body. Impeller vanes extend transversely from the second impeller body away from the first impeller body. A thermoelectric module is disposed between the first impeller body and the second impeller body. Heat sinks are connected to each side of the thermoelectric module and extend through at least one opening in the first and second impeller bodies, where the impeller vanes are configured to move a fluid through the heat sinks during rotation of the first and second impeller bodies. Electrically-conductive windings disposed in the impeller assembly are configured to deliver induced electric current to the one or more thermoelectric modules. | 10-23-2014 |
20130234525 | Electrical breakdown limiter for a high voltage power supply - An electrical breakdown limiter circuit and method for a high voltage power supply includes an inductor having an inductor input and an inductor output wherein the inductor is electrically coupled in series between a high voltage output of the high voltage power supply and a load, and a controllable switch electrically coupled in series with the inductor between the high voltage output of the high voltage power supply and the inductor input wherein the controllable switch is opened when an electrical breakdown event at the load is detected downstream from the inductor output that causes a high voltage at the inductor output to decrease, the controllable switch returning to a normally closed position upon clearing of the electrical breakdown. | 09-12-2013 |
20130174980 | HIGH STRENGTH BONDING AND COATING MIXTURE AND METHOD - A method of using a high-strength bonding and coating mixture is disclosed. The mixture includes a silicon compound having a polycarbosilane backbone and a powder having a plurality of individual powder grains. Each of the powder grains has a diameter substantially between 0.05 micrometers and 50 micrometers. The mixture is applied to one or more work pieces and the work piece(s) is (are) heated in either an inert or reduction environment to a temperature sufficient to decompose the silicon compound into gaseous atoms and radicals of silicon and carbon. | 07-11-2013 |
20130095973 | Non-contact magnetic drive assembly with mechanical stop elements - A non-contact magnetic drive assembly with mechanical stop elements for a vacuum deposition system employing a lift-off process having a HULA configuration featuring a plurality of magnets coupled in an annular orientation to a central ring and an orbital ring, each magnet of the orbital ring becomes superposed with a magnet of the central ring as the orbital ring rotates, and a central drive component driving either the central ring, the orbital ring around the central ring or both simultaneously, the central drive component provides a rotational speed allowing non-contact, magnetic drive rotation of the orbital ring around the central ring until a difference between a magnetic drive torque of the superposed magnets and the rotational speed of the central drive component causes the superposed magnets to decouple enabling mechanical drive rotation by interactive contact between a plurality of central ring teeth and a plurality of orbital ring. | 04-18-2013 |
20130019951 | Multi-vane throttle valve - A multi-vane throttling valve for a vacuum process chamber includes a throttle chamber body having an inside exposed to the vacuum process chamber and an outside exposed to atmospheric pressure, the chamber body defining a through-opening for controlling vacuum within the vacuum process chamber, a plurality of rotatable vanes mounted within the through-opening for controlling a flow of gases through the through-opening where each rotatable vane includes a cooling flow pathway in fluid communication with and disposed longitudinally along each rotatable vane, and a drive mechanism disposed on and connected to an outside of the throttle chamber body for rotating the plurality of rotatable vanes to vary the flow of process gases. | 01-24-2013 |
20120060889 | Thermoelectric modules and assemblies with stress reducing structure - A thermoelectric module capable of minimizing thermally and physically induced stress includes a pair of substrates having a plurality of electrically conductive contacts disposed on opposing faces, a plurality of P-type and N-type thermoelectric elements interposed between the pair of substrates forming a thermoelectric element circuit, and one or more of a stress minimizing structural element interposed between the pair of substrates where the stress minimizing structural element has a first surface fixed to one of the pair of substrates and a second surface fixed to the other of the pair of substrates in locations between the pair of substrates that minimize the effects of physical and thermal stresses on the plurality of P-type and N-type thermoelectric elements. | 03-15-2012 |
20110232568 | HYBRID GAS INJECTOR - A gas injector for use in injecting process gas into a space in a vertical furnace between a tower supporting multiple wafers and a tubular liner includes a tubular straw having an open distal end and a first bore extending along a first axis and composed of a first single material selected from the group consisting of silicon, quartz, and silicon carbide, and a connector detachably connected to the straw section, composed of a second material other than the first material and including a supply tube having a second bore extending along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis and in fluid communication with the first bore and having a distal end connectable to a gas supply line. | 09-29-2011 |
20110073236 | HIGH STRENGTH BONDING AND COATING MIXTURE - A mixture includes a silicon compound having a polycarbosilane backbone, and a powder having a plurality of individual powder grains, wherein each of the plurality of powder grains has a diameter substantially between 0.05 micrometers and 50 micrometers. | 03-31-2011 |
20100272893 | Lift-off deposition system featuring a density optimized HULA substrate holder in a conical deposition chamber - A vapor deposition device using a lift-off process includes an evaporation source, a space frame mounted for rotation about a first axis that passes through the evaporation source, a central dome-shaped wafer holder mounted to the space frame wherein a centerpoint of the central dome-shaped wafer holder is aligned with the first axis, a orbital dome-shaped wafer holder mounted to the space frame in a position offset from the first axis and rotatable about a second axis that passes through a centerpoint of the orbital dome-shaped wafer holder and the evaporation source, and a plurality of wafer positions on the central dome-shaped wafer holder and the orbital dome-shaped wafer holder where each of the wafer positions are offset from the first axis and the second axis. Each of the plurality of wafer positions are configured to orient a substrate surface of a wafer mounted therein substantially orthogonal to a radial axis extending from the wafer position to the evaporation source during rotation about the first axis and the second axis. | 10-28-2010 |
20090038317 | Thermoelectric temperature-controlled container holder and method - A Thermoelectric-based container holder has a receptacle with a recess for receiving a container to be heated or cooled, a variable interface surface disposed within the holder and configured to flexibly contact an outside surface of the container to be heated or cooled where the variable surface interface is in thermal contact with the surface of the receptacle, and a thermoelectric assembly thermally connected to at least the variable surface interface. | 02-12-2009 |
20080211193 | Self-cooling ferrofluid seal - A method of cooling a ferrofluid seal that includes moving air from an atmospheric side of the ferrofluid seal over one or more heat dissipating surfaces within the ferrofluid seal through an air path formed in the ferrofluid seal by incorporating one or more vent openings in a housing case and one or more fan blades on a surface selected from the group consisting of an outside surface of a shaft and an inside surface of the housing case where the space surrounding the shaft communicates with the one or more vent openings and where the moving air is caused by the rotation of the surface having the one or more fan blades. | 09-04-2008 |