| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100019059 | AIR-FRESHENING DISPENSING DEVICE - The invention relates to an air-freshening dispensing device, including a housing having a pair of mounts for mounting respective containers provided in outer sections of the housing; and a switchable shutter element arranged for selectively shutting access of an airflow to any of the outer sections. According to the invention, the shutter element is provided in a mid section between the outer sections and communicatively coupled to an air inlet. An air outlet provides throughput of the airflow through the mid section and the device further includes a clamp for clamping the unit onto an outlet channel to provide an airflow into the air inlet. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20110036922 | Air-Freshener For a Vehicle - An air-freshener for a vehicle, in particular a motorcar, provided with a housing into which a container for a volatile liquid or a liquid containing one or more volatile components can be inserted, in the opening of which container a wick extending into the housing is fitted, and with a movable covering cap which, when the container with wick has been inserted into the housing, can cover the wick entirely or partially, and with a control member for setting the position of the covering cap. According to the invention, the wick is covered by a sideways movable covering cap, thereby making the air-freshener more compact. | 02-17-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090073402 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE METHOD - A lithographic apparatus includes a control unit arranged to perform a first position measurement of the patterning device, apply an asymmetric acceleration profile to the support supporting the patterning device, perform a second position measurement of the patterning device, determine a slip characteristic of the pattering device based on the two position measurements and the applied acceleration profile, and perform a scanning exposure of a substrate taking into account the slip characteristic of the patterning device. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090086180 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, STAGE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lithographic apparatus is described, the apparatus comprising an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam; a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam; a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, a chuck constructed to hold the substrate table; a positioning device for, in use, displacing the chuck; a control unit configured to control the positioning device, wherein the control unit is arranged to drive the positioning device to excite the chuck by a substantially dynamic force to enable deformation of the chuck, prior to aligning the patterning device. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090147236 | Servo Control System, Lithographic Apparatus and Control Method - A servo control system to control a position of an object supported by a movable support includes a first measurement system to measure a position of the movable support, a comparative device to provide an error signal based on the comparison between a measured movable support position and a desired movable support position, a controller unit to provide a control signal based on the error signal, and an actuator configured to actuate the movable support based on the control signal. The servo control system further includes a slip compensation device to compensate a slip between the object and the movable support, the slip compensation device including a second measurement system to measure an object position with respect to the movable support, and an addition device to add a slip compensation signal to the measured movable support position or the error signal based on the measured object position. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090231567 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS HAVING A CHUCK WITH A VISCO-ELASTIC DAMPING LAYER - A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam, a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam, a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate, a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, a chuck configured to hold and position an object, for example, the patterning device onto the support or the substrate onto the substrate table, the chuck including a base and a constraining layer. A damping layer including a viscoelastic material is provided between the base and the constraining layer. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20100102413 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND POSITION CONTROL METHOD - A lithographic apparatus includes a support configured to support a patterning device, the patterning device configured to pattern a beam of radiation to form a patterned beam of radiation; a positioning device configured to move the support in a first direction; a measurement device configured to measure a relative position of the patterning device with respect to the support and to generate a measuring signal, the measurement device including a reference unit constructed and arranged to be coupled to the patterning device at a fixed relative position, and a position sensor configured to measure the position of the reference unit with respect to the support, wherein the positioning device is constructed and arranged to correct a position of the support based on the measuring signal. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100129741 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR COMPENSATING SUBSTRATE UNFLATNESS, DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF PATTERNING DEVICE UNFLATNESS, AND DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF THERMAL LOADS ON A PATTERNING DEVICE - A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam; a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam; a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, and a sensor configured to measure a height level, curvature and/or angle of a surface of a patterning device supported on the support. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100271611 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS HAVING A SUBSTRATE SUPPORT WITH OPEN CELL PLASTIC FOAM PARTS - A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam, a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam, a substrate support constructed to hold a substrate, and a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, wherein the substrate support includes parts that are made of an open cell plastic foam material. | 10-28-2010 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080296197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING, STORING AND/OR TRANSPORTING CURVED WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADES - A retaining apparatus for securing curved wind turbine rotor blades for at least one of storage and transport is described. The retaining apparatus comprises an end frame configured to be connected to a root of a first blade, a connecting frame having a first end and a second end, the first end of the connecting frame rotatably connected to the end frame, a portion of the retaining apparatus configured to be positioned at least partially around a tip of a second blade, the portion rotatably connected to the second end of the connecting frame, the a turnbuckle having a first end and a second end, the first end of the turnbuckle rotatably connected to the end frame, the second end of the turnbuckle rotatably connected to the second end of the connecting frame. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20100109309 | LIGHT WEIGHT BEAM AND TRAILER - A light weight trailer for carrying elongated goods, especially for carrying at least two rotor blades of a wind energy system, having a front support frame; a rear support frame, with said front support frame and said rear support frame being adapted for supporting an elongated good; and a beam connecting said front support frame with said rear support frame, wherein said beam consists substantially of a light weight material. Further, a telescopic beam for a light weight trailer for carrying elongated goods and a method of constructing a light weight trailer are provided. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110299995 | WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE JOINT - A blade joint for joining a first blade segment and a second blade segment, each having an aerodynamic profile, in a rotor blade is disclosed. The blade joint includes a first joint segment and a second joint segment each having an outer surface, an inner surface, and a thickness therebetween. The outer surface of each joint segment has an aerodynamic profile. The first joint segment and the second joint segment each further have a joint interface end, a blade interface end, and a length therebetween. The joint interface end of the first joint segment and the joint interface end of the second joint segment are configured to couple the first joint segment and second joint segment together. | 12-08-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080259726 | Mitigation of Noise in Marine Multicomponent Seismic Data through the Relationship between Wavefield Components at the Free Surface - A method and apparatus implementing a technique for mitigating noise in seismic data are presented. The technique includes estimating a noise component in a set of multicomponent seismic data representing a recorded wavefield from the relationship at the free surface of an upgoing component and a downgoing component decomposed from the recorded wavefield; and removing the estimated noise component from the seismic data. The noise component can be estimated by decomposing a recorded wavefield into an upgoing component and a downgoing component and isolating a noise component in the recorded wavefield from the relationship of the decomposed upgoing and downgoing components at the free surface. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090043545 | Processing Data Representing Energy Propagating Through A Medium - The present invention relates to a method of processing data representing energy propagating through a medium (e.g., acoustic, elastic or electromagnetic energy) and describes an efficient and flexible e approach to forward modeling and inversion of such energy for a given medium. The representation theorem for the wave-equation is used, in combination with time-reversal invariance and reciprocity, to express the Green's function between two points in the interior of the model as an integral over the response in those points due to sources regularly distributed on a surface surrounding the medium and the points. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090097357 | Seismic Data Acquisition and Source-Side Derivatives Generation and Application - The technologies described herein include systems and methods for encoding/decoding seismic sources and responses, generating and using of source-side derivatives while also generating and using the conventional source response. Sources in an array may be encoded such that activation of each source in the array constitutes a single spike in a sequence orthogonal to another sequence emitted by another source. The responses to these different sources that are in close spatial proximity can be decoded and separated. Source-side derivatives may be calculated and utilized in various applications in combination with the monopole response from the source location, including source-side deghosting, spatial (horizontal and vertical) interpolation and imaging. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20110110188 | Seismic Data Acquisition and Source-Side Derivatives Generation and Application - The technologies described herein include systems and methods for performing a first seismic survey and performing a second seismic survey after a predetermined amount of time has lapsed between the first seismic survey and the second seismic survey. The shot times and the shot positions of the second seismic survey may be substantially the same as the shot times and the shot positions of the first seismic survey. After performing the seismic surveys, seismic data generated by the first seismic survey may be processed to generate a first image, and seismic data generated by the second seismic survey may be processed to generate a second image. After generating the first and second images, a difference between the first image and the second image may be computed to generate a time lapse difference image. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110310700 | Seismic Data Acquisition and Source-Side Derivatives Generation and Application - The technologies described herein include systems and methods for performing a first seismic survey and performing a second seismic survey after a predetermined amount of time has lapsed between the first seismic survey and the second seismic survey. The shot times and the shot positions of the second seismic survey may be substantially the same as the shot times and the shot positions of the first seismic survey. After performing the seismic surveys, seismic data generated by the first seismic survey may be processed to generate a first image, and seismic data generated by the second seismic survey may be processed to generate a second image. After generating the first and second images, a difference between the first image and the second image may be computed to generate a time lapse difference image. | 12-22-2011 |