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20080274136 | Polyvalent Attenuated Live Vaccine For Preventing and Curing Vibriosis of Cultivated Fish - A novel polyvalent attenuated live bacterial vaccine for preventing and curing vibriosis of cultivated fish is provided. The vaccine mainly comprises attenuated deletion strain of | 11-06-2008 |
20090107846 | Method and apparatus to prewet wafer surface for metallization from electrolyte solutions - The present invention improves the wetting between electrolyte and the wafer surface when they are put into contact by pre-implementing an adsorbed liquid layer on the entire front surface of the wafer just prior to the plating process. The pre-implementing adsorbed liquid layer is realized by transporting vaporized liquid molecules from vapor phase at elevated temperature (relative to wafer) and condensing them onto wafer surface. | 04-30-2009 |
20100139710 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS - An apparatus for cleaning a surface of wafer or substrate includes a plate being positioned with a gap to surface of the wafer or substrate, and the plate being rotated around an axis vertical to surface of wafer or substrate. The rotating plate surface facing surface of the wafer or substrate has grooves, regular patterns, and irregular patterns to enhance the cleaning efficiency. Another embodiment further includes an ultra sonic or mega sonic transducer vibrating the rotating plate during cleaning process. | 06-10-2010 |
20100240226 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THERMAL TREATMENT OF SEMICONDUCTOR WORKPIECES - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for rapid and uniform thermal treatment of semiconductor workpieces in two closely arranged thermal treatment chambers with a retractable door between them. The retractable door moves in between two thermal treatment chambers during heating or cooling process, and additional heating and cooling sources are provided for double-side thermal treatment of the semiconductor workpiece. | 09-23-2010 |
20100307913 | PLATING APPARATUS FOR METALLIZATION ON SEMICONDUCTOR WORKPIECE - The present invention provides a plating apparatus with multiple anode zones and cathode zones. The electrolyte flow field within each zone is controlled individually with independent flow control devices. A gas bubble collector whose surface is made into pleated channels is implemented for gas removal by collecting small bubbles, coalescing them, and releasing the residual gas. A buffer zone built within the gas bubble collector further allows unstable microscopic bubbles to dissolve. | 12-09-2010 |
20110073469 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION SYSTEM - A electrochemical deposition system which has a 3-D stacked architecture comprises a factory interface for receiving semiconductor wafers, a mainframe comprising a mainframe transfer robot and a plurality of wafer holder assemblies which disposed on the top thereof, a plurality of electroplating cells disposed within the mainframe, a plurality of cleaning cells disposed within the mainframe and located below the electroplating cells, a plurality of thermal treatment chambers disposed in between the mainframe and the factory interface, and a fluid distribution system fluidly connected to the electroplating cells and the cleaning cells, wherein the mainframe transfer robot transfers the semiconductor wafer from the factory interface and within the electroplating cells, the cleaning cells, and the thermal treatment chambers. As a result, the system of the present invention is expandable to accommodate newly-added processing units without overmuch increased footprint. | 03-31-2011 |
20110079247 | SOLUTION PREPARATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING INDIVIDUAL SEMICONDUCTOR WORKPIECE - The invention discloses a low-cost apparatus for chemical solution preparation with controlled process parameters such as chemical age, temperature, yield of active ingredients at the point of use. In addition, this apparatus provides chamber-to-chamber consistency on these parameters across multiple processing chambers on a single wafer wet-clean system. The invention also discloses a method to use chemical solution mixture resident time to achieve optimal combined effect of temperature, reactivity and yield of active ingredients of chemical solution mixture for best wafer treatment results. | 04-07-2011 |
20110114120 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS - An apparatus for cleaning and conditioning the surface of a semiconductor substrate such as wafer includes a rotatable chuck, a chamber, a rotatable tray for collecting cleaning solution with one or more drain outlets, multiple receptors for collecting multiple cleaning solutions, a first motor to drive chuck, and a second motor to drive the tray. The drain outlet in the tray can be positioned directly above its designated receptor located under the drain outlet. The cleaning solution collected by the tray can be guided into designated receptor. One characteristic of the apparatus is having a robust and precisely controlled cleaning solution recycle with minimum cross contamination. | 05-19-2011 |
20110259752 | METHOD FOR SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM COPPER DEPOSITION ONTO SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER - The methods practiced in an electrochemical deposition apparatus with two or more electrodes, described in earlier inventions, are disclosed. The methods produce uniform copper films with WFNU less than 2.5% on semiconductor wafers bearing a resistive copper seed layer with a thickness ranging from 50 to 9O0 A in a copper sulfate based electrolyte whose conductivity is between 0.02 to 0.8 S/cm. | 10-27-2011 |
20120097195 | Methods and Apparatus for Cleaning Semiconductor Wafers - A method for cleaning semiconductor substrate using ultra/mega sonic device comprising holding a semiconductor substrate by using a chuck, positioning a ultra/mega sonic device adjacent to the semiconductor substrate, injecting chemical liquid on the semiconductor substrate and gap between the semiconductor substrate and the ultra/mega sonic device, changing gap between the semiconductor substrate and the ultra/mega sonic device for each rotation of the chuck during the cleaning process by turn the semiconductor substrate or the ultra/mega sonic device clockwise or count clockwise. | 04-26-2012 |
20140034094 | Methods and Apparatus for Cleaning Semiconductor Wafers - An apparatus for cleaning and conditioning the surface of a semiconductor substrate such as wafer includes a rotatable chuck, a chamber, a rotatable tray for collecting cleaning solution with one or more drain outlets, multiple receptors for collecting multiple cleaning solutions, a first motor to drive chuck, and a second motor to drive the tray. The drain outlet in the tray can be positioned directly above its designated receptor located under the drain outlet. The cleaning solution collected by the tray can be guided into designated receptor. One characteristic of the apparatus is having a robust and precisely controlled cleaning solution recycle with minimum cross contamination. | 02-06-2014 |
20140154405 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PREWET WAFER SURFACE - The present invention improves the wetting between process solution and the wafer surface when they are put into contact by pre-implementing an adsorbed liquid layer on the entire front surface of the wafer just prior to the process. The pre-implementing adsorbed liquid layer is realized by transporting vaporized liquid molecules from vapor phase at elevated temperature (relative to wafer) and condensing them onto wafer surface. The pre-implementing adsorbed liquid is fully filled in the patterned structures formed on the wafer by multilayer absorption of the vaporized liquid molecules and the temperature of the wafer surface is above dew point of the vaporized liquid while condensing, which avoids generating bubbles inside the patterned structures. | 06-05-2014 |
20140216940 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR UNIFORMLY METALLIZATION ON SUBSTRATES - An apparatus for substrate metallization from electrolyte is provided. The apparatus comprises: an immersion cell containing metal salt electrolyte; at least one electrode connecting to at least one power supply; an electrically conductive substrate holder holding at least one substrate to expose a conductive side of the substrate to face the at least one electrode; an oscillating actuator for oscillating the substrate holder with an amplitude and a frequency; at least one ultrasonic device with an operating frequency and an intensity, disposed in the metallization apparatus; at least one ultrasonic power generator connecting to the ultrasonic device; at least one inlet for metal slat electrolyte feeding; and at least one outlet for metal salt electrolyte draining. | 08-07-2014 |
20150294856 | Methods and Apparatus for Cleaning Semiconductor Wafers - An apparatus for cleaning a surface of wafer or substrate includes a plate being positioned with a gap to surface of the wafer or substrate, and the plate being rotated around an axis vertical to surface of wafer or substrate. The rotating plate surface facing surface of the wafer or substrate has grooves, regular patterns, and irregular patterns to enhance the cleaning efficiency. Another embodiment further includes an ultra sonic or mega sonic transducer vibrating the rotating plate during cleaning process. | 10-15-2015 |
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20120106853 | IMAGE SEARCH - Image search techniques are described. In one or more implementations, images in a search result are ordered based at least in part on similarity of the images, one to another. The search result having the ordered images is provided in response to a search request. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110453 | Display of Image Search Results - Techniques involving display of image search results are described. In one or more implementations, an image search result is displayed having a plurality of images. Responsive to selection of a particular one of the images, a filmstrip is displayed having a contiguous series of representations of at least a portion of the plurality of images, at least one of which is of the particular image, the particular image is displayed as disposed proximal to metadata associated with the image, and at least a portion of a webpage from which the particular image was obtained is displayed. | 05-03-2012 |
20120113148 | DYNAMIC IMAGE RESULT STITCHING - Methods and systems for compiling image results into compilation images so that multiple image results may be downloaded via a single browser-download connection are provided. An image search request is received and a plurality of image results that satisfy the image search request are determined. At least a portion of the image results determined to satisfy the search request are dynamically stitched together to create a compilation image. Upon receiving an image download request for a satisfying image result, the compilation image is returned to the user's browser rather than a single thumbnail image. In this way, a plurality of image results is returned via a single browser-download connection and the latency in returning a large number of request-satisfying image results is decreased. | 05-10-2012 |
20120155717 | IMAGE SEARCH INCLUDING FACIAL IMAGE - A method and apparatus is provided for performing image matching. The method includes comparing a face in a first image to a face in each of a set of stored images to identify one or more face-matching images that include similar facial features to the face in the first image. Next, the first image is compared to each of the face-matching images to identify one or more resulting images that are spatially similar to the first image. Accordingly, the resulting image or images have similar facial features and similar overall or background features to those in the first image. For example, if the query image is of a playground with a child swinging on a swing, the image matching technique can find other images of the same child in a setting that appears similar. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162244 | IMAGE SEARCH COLOR SKETCH FILTERING - Visual features of images are translated into visual words defined by a dictionary. The visual words are indexed and the images are stored in an image store. A sketched imaged, translated into visual words, is utilized to search for similar images in the image store. The visual words are compared to visual words in the index to identify matches associated with stored images. The stored images are displayed and ranked according to the highest number of matches. Textual searches are used to supplement or refine the search results. | 06-28-2012 |
20130054572 | ACCURATE SEARCH RESULTS WHILE HONORING CONTENT LIMITATIONS - Accurate search results are provided while still honoring content limitations. Content responsive to search, whose presentation is prevented by content limitations is presented in an obscured manner, notifying the user of the existence of the content, while not enabling discerning of details, thereby honoring the content limitations. Attempted user interaction with obscured content acts as an entry point to changing the content limitations, including presenting user notifications of the content limitations and presenting an option to change the content limitations to allow for the unobscured presentation of the obscured content. Graphical content can be obscured by applying graphical modifications to generate new, obscured content that provides only a vague resemblance to the original, including jittering pixels, or other subcomponents, the applying of Gaussian blurs, and pixelization. | 02-28-2013 |
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20120266679 | ULTRASONIC COUPLER ASSEMBLY - An ultrasonic coupler assembly for coupling an ultrasonic transducer to a pipe wall is disclosed, wherein the ultrasonic coupler is configured using three quadrilateral sections to reduce the temperature extreme to which the ultrasonic transducer is exposed and to improve the quality of the ultrasonic signal passing through the ultrasonic coupler. | 10-25-2012 |
20140020478 | ULTRASONIC WEDGE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE SPEED OF SOUND IN SAME - A wedge and a method for determining the speed of sound in the wedge is disclosed. The wedge includes a reflecting wall and is configured such that a portion of the main ultrasonic signal transmitted by an ultrasonic transducer is reflected and travels through the wedge back to the ultrasonic transducer. The speed of sound can be determined based on the distance traveled by, and the time of flight of, the main ultrasonic signal and reflected ultrasonic signal in the wedge. | 01-23-2014 |
20140123767 | ULTRASONIC SIGNAL COUPLER - An ultrasonic signal coupling assembly including ultrasonic transducers attached to one or more ultrasonic couplers configured to be coupled to an exterior surface of a pipe. A height of the ultrasonic coupler or couplers is greater than a thickness of the pipe by a factor of about five or more, and a length of the ultrasonic coupler or couplers is greater than the height of the ultrasonic coupler or couplers. | 05-08-2014 |
20140123768 | ULTRASONIC SIGNAL COUPLER - An ultrasonic signal coupler includes a pipe having a first ultrasonic waveguide and a second ultrasonic waveguide penetrating the pipe so that ultrasonic transducers attached to ends of the ultrasonic waveguides communicate ultrasonic signals through the ultrasonic waveguides directly through a fluid traveling through the pipe. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136126 | MULTI-PHASE ULTRASONIC PIPE FLOW METER - A system for determining densities and proportions of phases in a multi-phase fluid flow (MFF) that can include an oil phase, a water phase, and a gas phase from a well. The system includes a first density sensor that senses the MFF at locations where the phases of the MFF are often separated, a second density sensor senses the MFF from the output of a phase mixer-homogenizer, and a third density sensor that senses, in real time, the MFF where the gas phase starts to separate or has separated from the liquid phase but where the liquid phases have not separated. The system also includes one or more processors for executing one or more programs to determine a density of the oil phase, a density of the water phase, a density of the gas phase, and proportions of phases including a water cut and a gas volume fraction based on readings from the first, second, and third density sensors. | 05-15-2014 |