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7246424 Magnetic devices having magnetic features with CMP stop layers  
A magnetic device having a magnetic feature, the magnetic feature including a magnetic portion comprising a magnetic material, a region of non-magnetic material adjacent to the magnetic portion,...
7245459 Critically exposed lapping of magnetic sensors for target signal output  
Magnetic sensors are fabricated with an initial length that is slightly longer than their finished length. The sensors are then critically lapped and exposed for target signal output. The final...
7244314 Resin recycling system  
A system for recycling reusable resin mold products recovered from discarded apparatuses is disclosed. This recycling system includes a crushing system for crushing resin mold products one kind by...
7244170 Abrasive article and methods of making same  
An abrasive article with an integral dust collection system. The abrasive article comprises a porous abrasive layer with openings, a first filter media with channels, a second filter media, and an...
7244169 In-line contiguous resistive lapping guide for magnetic sensors  
An in-line lapping guide uses a contiguous resistor in a cavity to separate a lithographically-defined sensor from the in-line lapping guide. As lapping proceeds through the cavity toward the...
7244168 Methods for reducing delamination during chemical mechanical polishing  
Method and apparatus are provided for polishing substrates comprising conductive and low k dielectric materials with reduced or minimum substrate surface damage and delamination. In one aspect, a...
7243003 Substrate carrier handler that unloads substrate carriers directly from a moving conveyor  
In a first aspect, a substrate loading station is served by a conveyor which continuously transports substrate carriers. A substrate carrier handler that is part of the substrate loading station...
7241211 Guard for a moving tool  
Abrading and cutting devices such as saws include waste containment systems and methods to improve removal of slurry or other contaminants from a work area during operations, and separation of...
7241210 Floor treating machine comprising individually driven discs  
A floor treating machine includes a frame provided with a housing which is supported with respect to the frame in such a manner that it can rotate about a substantially vertical housing axis, at...
7241209 Orbiting polishing tool  
An orbiting polishing tool for at least one of polishing and material removal. The orbiting polishing tool may include a housing of a housing assembly rotatable about a first axis. The orbiting...
7241208 Micro-abrasion device  
A micro-abrasion device includes a base station, a handpiece configured to spray a powder onto skin, a flexible supply pipe configured to supply powder from the base station to the handpiece, a...
7241207 Grinding machine and method for grinding a workpiece  
Disclosed is a grinding machine comprising oscillating driving means ( 3, 4 ) for setting grinding means ( 1 ) into an oscillating grinding motion and an actuation device ( 7 ) that is provided...
7241206 Tools for polishing and associated methods  
Polishing tools and associated methods are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of polishing a work piece is provided. Such a method may include providing a polishing tool having asperities on a...
7241205 Method of processing a substrate  
A method of processing a substrate is disclosed, wherein a sidewall surface of a notch portion formed in a circumferential portion of a substrate to be processed is polished by using a cylindrical...
7241204 Polishing pad, method of producing same and method of polishing  
A polishing pad has a resin sheet having a flat surface and abrading particles fixed inside and on the surface of this resin sheet. Its tensile strength is in the range of 30 MPa or greater and 70...
7241203 Six headed carousel  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for polishing semiconductor substrates with improved throughput and reduced foot print. One embodiment of the present invention provides an...
7241202 Substrate polishing apparatus  
A substrate polishing apparatus for polishing a polishing surface of a substrate has a film thickness monitoring device for monitoring a state of a film thickness of a thin film on the polishing...
7241201 CMP pad analyzer  
An ultrasonic CMP polishing pad analyzer is disclosed. The analyzer provides a manufacturer or other user an ability to inspect a CMP polishing pad without removing the pad from the CMP machine by...
7241200 Control system and method for processing jewelry and the like  
A control system for controlling processing of workpieces such as jewelry has gantry and gimbal units having x, y, z translational and x, y, z rotational degrees of freedom, the units carrying a...
7240416 Process for manufacturing electrically conductive components  
A method of forming a device, such as an electrode array for a cochlear implant. The method comprises a step of forming a predetermined pattern of relatively electrically conductive regions and...
RE39714 Hand-holdable gas/abrasion apparatus  
A hand-holdable apparatus useful for abrading a surface is provided. The invention is particularly useful for dental applications using a stream of abrasive particles suspended in a gas stream to...
7238097 Polishing pad and method of producing same  
A transparent pad having a polishing surface with an average surface roughness of 5 μm or less is used as a polishing pad. An indentation is formed on the back surface of the transparent pad such...
7238096 Orbital rotary blade sharpener  
An orbital rotary blade sharpener for sharpening rotary cutter blades and other rotary blades includes a bottom blade holding portion having a center and a perimeter edge, a top blade holding...
7238095 Pneumatic grinder with improved muffling structure  
A pneumatic grinder with improved muffling structure primarily comprises a driving portion, a grinding wheel fixing portion provided at one end of the driving portion, a first housing connected to...
7238094 Belt oscillating apparatus of belt sander  
A belt oscillating apparatus of a belt sander, wherein the belt sander includes a machine frame, a driving wheel, a driven wheel, a sand belt mounted on the driving wheel and the driven wheel, and...
7238093 Polishing cloth for chemical mechanical polishing, and chemical mechanical polishing apparatus using said cloth  
A chemical mechanical polishing cloth for chemically mechanically polishing a workpiece. This chemical mechanical polishing cloth includes, on the opposite-to-workpiece face thereof: polishing...
7238092 Low-force electrochemical mechanical processing method and apparatus  
The present invention relates to semiconductor integrated circuit technology and discloses an electrochemical mechanical processing system for uniformly distributing an applied force to a workpiece...
7238091 Stone fabrication scheme  
Methods and systems of fabricating stone products are provided. The method comprises the steps of providing a stone piece, separating the stone piece into a plurality of sawed stone slabs by...
7238090 Polishing apparatus having a trough  
Methods and apparatus for chemical mechanical polishing are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a table top and a transfer station and multiple polishing stations are mounted on the...
7238089 Polishing method for inner surface of tubular brittle material and tubular brittle material obtained by polishing method  
An object of the present invention is to provide a polishing method for producing, in a relatively short period of time, a tubular brittle material having an inner surface of high surface precision...
7238088 Enhanced diamond polishing  
A grown single crystal diamond is polished using a non contact polishing technique, which leaves a residue on the diamond surface. In one embodiment, a wet chemical etch is performed to remove the...
7238087 Planarizing device and a planarization method for semiconductor substrates  
A substrate-planarizing device and method of using the device comprising a substrate storage stage outside a room, and on a base inside the room, a multi-joint transfer robot, a temporary alignment...
7238086 Surface finishing method for aluminum shapes by barrel polishing  
A surface finishing method for aluminum shapes by barrel polishing, wherein caps are mounted at both open ends of a hollow aluminum shape, and two aluminum shapes each mounted with the caps are set...
7238085 Method and apparatus to process substrates with megasonic energy  
A variety of techniques may be employed, alone or in combination, to enhance contact between a processed substrate and applied megasonic energy. In accordance with one embodiment of the new...
7238084 Chemical mechanical polishing apparatus and chemical mechanical polishing method using the same  
Polishing uniformity in a CMP process may be improved due to an improvement in the temperature uniformity of a polishing surface, when a wafer is polished by a CMP apparatus including a polishing...
7238083 Wafer carrier with pressurized membrane and retaining ring actuator  
A wafer carrier for controlling downward force and edge effect during chemical mechanical planarization. A retaining ring actuator is disposed within the retaining ring to control the height of the...
7238082 Workpiece headstock  
Workpiece headstock for a machine tool, especially for a grinding machine, with a spindle ( 6 ); with a clamping device ( 7 ), which is connected to the spindle ( 6 ) and which is used to...
7237323 Method for manufacturing a magnetic head  
A method of making a magnetic head having an air bearing surface (ABS) composed of a flat and smooth worked surface and having a reduced step produced between a rail portion on the ABS and an...
7237321 Method for fabricating a CPP magnetic transducer using CMP-assisted lift-off and a CMP-resistant metal layer  
A method is described which uses a CMP resistant metal layer to replace the upper dielectric layer in the track width definition phase of a TMR or CPP spin valve magnetic head. The metal which is...
7237315 Method for fabricating a resonator  
A method for fabricating a quartz nanoresonator which can be integrated on a substrate, along with other electronics is disclosed. In this method a quartz substrate is bonded to a base substrate....
7235296 Formulations for coated diamond abrasive slurries  
The present invention is directed to an abrasive article and methods of making the abrasive article. An abrasive coating on the abrasive article comprises at least 20% by weight of a superabrasive...
7235154 Devices and methods for optical endpoint detection during semiconductor wafer polishing  
A method of measuring a change in thickness of a layer of material disposed on a wafer while polishing the layer. Light is directed at the surface of the wafer from an optical sensor disposed...
7235114 Flexible abrasive article  
A resilient flexible abrasive article includes a continuous backing layer including a support layer coated with foam, the continuous backing layer having opposed major surfaces, at least one of the...
7235007 Divided grinding tool  
The invention relates to a grinding tool which comprises at least two detachable parts which are connected together. Both parts form a grinding disk-type body comprising a grinding surface which is...
7235006 Power tool with dust collection function  
A power tool with a dust collection function has a motor, a dust collection fan, and a cover member. The dust collection fan is driven by the motor for collecting a dust. The cover member covers...
7235005 Belt sander  
A sander comprised of a high voltage direct current motor for providing rotational torque to the sander is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a motor housing generally encompasses the motor for...
7235004 Precision means for sharpening and creation of microblades along cutting edges  
A knife-edge conditioning apparatus comprises at least one precision angled knife guide with one face of the knife blade maintained in sustained sliding or rolling contact and which guides the...
7235003 Method and apparatus for grinding of concrete floors  
A method for dry finishing of a floor surface consisting of concrete, stone, marble, terrazzo, densite or other hard materials is disclosed. The method comprises finishing of the floor surface...
7235002 Method and system for making glass sheets including grinding lateral edge(s) thereof  
A method and system for making glass sheets is provided. At least one grinding wheel is provided for grinding a lateral edge of a glass sheet. An airbag and corresponding air pressure regulator are...
7235001 Polishing apparatus  
The polishing apparatus is capable of transferring a work piece to a top ring without moving the work piece from the center and capable of precisely polishing the work piece. The polishing...