45th week of 2020 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20200350061 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A medical information processing system comprises: an input unit that receives input of electronic chart information for a patient being treated; a machine learning unit that refers to an electronic chart information group for each patient, the information group being obtained on the basis of an inpatient of an acute care facility, and performs machine learning about the discharge destination, from the acute care facility, of each patient; and a discharge-destination prediction unit that predicts the discharge destination of the patient being treated from the received electronic chart information of the patient being treated, on the basis of the learning results obtained from the machine learning unit. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350062 | SYSTEM FOR REFERRAL MANAGEMENT - A system for referral management is provided. The referral management system includes a multi-channel referral consolidator, an inbound referral queue, a communication engine, a workflow engine, an integration engine, a referral analytics module, a report engine, and a management module. The referral management system generates a virtual network between key actors of the referral ecosystem which includes a referral provider, a plurality of patients and a plurality specialist. The referral management system consolidates referrals from multiple sources, facilitates effective communication and exchange between key actors of a referral ecosystem and coordinates end to end referral process till referral closure. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350063 | CONTEXT AND STATE AWARE TREATMENT ROOM EFFICIENCY - A system and method are provided for performing operations comprising: receiving one or more images from an image capture device of a medical treatment location; applying a trained machine learning model to the one or more images to detect presence of a patient in the medical treatment location, the trained machine learning model being trained to establish a relationship between one or more features of images of the medical treatment location and patient presence; generating context assessment for the medical treatment location based on the detected presence of the patient; and transmitting, over a network, the context assessment for presentation on a user interface of a client device. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350064 | PHARMACY SIG CODES AUTO-POPULATING SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are configured to auto-populate pharmacy SIG codes based on pattern matching model in a pharmacy system. The prescriptions including one or more fields of prescription information in natural language are received in the system. The prescription information can be parsed according to rule-based pattern matching model. The parsed prescription information can be mapped to a token SIG using rule-based pattern matching model dictionaries. A prescription SIG code based on each of the token SIG can be generated. A confidence value of the prescription SIG code based on character coverage of the prescription can be calculated. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350065 | ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, ASSISTANCE METHOD, ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IS RECORDED - An assistance system capable of efficiently selecting a proper doctor from a plurality of doctors in accordance with physical conditions of the doctors and surgery difficulties on a scheduled surgery date. An assistance system includes an information acquisition unit that acquires disease information, lesion area information, and a scheduled surgery date of a scheduled surgery, a lesion area evaluation unit that uses surgery information on a past similar surgery having the lesion area information similar to that of the scheduled surgery, a doctor evaluation unit that uses surgery information on the same past disease surgery performed by each of the plurality of doctors and having at least disease information coinciding with that of the scheduled surgery, and a proposal unit that proposes the doctor whose doctor score falls within a range based on the lesion area score, as a surgeon-in-charge for the scheduled surgery. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350066 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Identifying Device Connections - A system, method, and computer program product for identifying device connections in a connection area includes receiving a plurality of physical parameters of a plurality of devices from a plurality of transmission sources in a connection area, wherein the plurality of physical parameters indicates physical states of the plurality of devices. At least one physical connection state is determined between the plurality of devices based on the plurality of physical parameters of the plurality of devices. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350067 | PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT PROCESSING - A method, apparatus, system and computer program in which customized event detection data are maintained for a person which include automatically: obtaining physiological measurement data indicative of physiological status of the person; receiving an annotation from the person; detecting an event that is temporally associated with the annotation using the physiological measurement data and the event detection data; and prioritizing the detected event using the temporally associated annotation. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350068 | Portable Medical Data Hub - A portable medical data hub comprises a battery, at least one network interface, and a processor. The portable medical data hub is configured to: receive medical data from one or more medical devices via the at least one network interface; perform initial processing on the medical data using the processor to provide processed medical data; and transmit the processed medical data via the at least one network interface to a data analysis system for medical data analysis. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350069 | METHODS FOR SELF-VALIDATION OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR SAFETY-CRITICAL MEDICAL DEVICES - Medical devices critical to patient health and safety that communicate with third party hardware and software, such as smart devices, require validation to ensure compatibility and correct performance. Disclosed are methods and systems to perform a self-validation of hardware and/or software components with a medical device to confirm that any combination of hardware and software are compatible and perform acceptably. If the self-validation passes then the user may safely use the system, and it may report to a cloud server that the particular configuration tested was successful. If the self-validation fails, the user will be prevented from using safety-critical aspects of the application and be notified of the incompatibility; and the results may also be reported to a cloud server. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION AND CONCURRENT DISPLAY OF MEDICAL EXPERT OPINION AND GUIDELINES - A method of determining and causing display of particularized medical information is disclosed. The method comprises operations of receiving user input corresponding to a set of parameters indicating a medical condition and parsing the set of parameters to determine one or more identifiers corresponding to the medical condition. Additional operations of the method include querying an expert opinion database according to the one or more identifiers to retrieve an expert opinion entry corresponding to the medical condition and querying a guideline excerpt database according to metadata of the expert opinion entry to retrieve a guideline excerpt corresponding to the expert opinion. Following the querying of the expert opinion database and the guideline excerpt database, the method includes the operation of transmitting instructions to a network device to cause rendering of a display illustrating the video file and one of the transcript of the video file or the guideline excerpt. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350071 | PINS: A Perturbation Clustering Approach for Data Integration and Disease Subtyping - Disease subtyping is accomplished by a computer-implemented algorithm that manipulates a first genetic dataset to construct a set of first connectivity matrices. To this set of matrices Gaussian noise is introduced to generate a perturbed dataset. The computer-implemented algorithm assesses which of the set of first connectivity matrices was least affected by introduction of noise and that matric is used to define the optimal clustering. Once the optimal clustering is determined, computer-implemented supervised classification is performed to determine, for a particular patient, with which disease subtype cluster that person's genetic data most closely aligns. Armed with this knowledge, the treatment regimen is specified with much higher likelihood of success. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350072 | DIAGNOSITIC AND TREATMETNT TOOL AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC RECORDING AND INDEXING PATIENT ENCOUNTERS FOR ALLOWING INSTANT SEARCH OF PATIENT HISTORY - Device and method for improved diagnosis and treatment of patients. Detailed coding protocols are instantly assigned to diagnoses and treatment plans created by clinicians based upon initial patient encounter. Past patient records (EHR) can be instantly searched using the assigned codes during the patient encounter, thereby allowing the clinician to make a more complete diagnosis and plan of treatment. The search of past patient records utilizes the assigned codes as a search index thereby filtering out unrelated-non relevant patient medical history. Clinician notations of symptoms and possible diagnosis can be utilized for an expanded correlation to codes of medical code protocols relevant to treatment or tests. This expanded listing of codes can be displayed to the clinician during the patient encounter for evaluation in determining a diagnosis. Correlated medical codes can be disclosed with calculated or past recorded reimbursement information. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350073 | Methods and Systems for Providing Personalised Medicine to a Patient - The present disclosure relates to methods and systems suitable for use in identifying and providing personalised medicine to a patient. In some aspects, systems and method generate a co-therapy regimen for a patient suffering from a disease or condition. An identification of a co-therapy suitable to treat the disease or condition is received. A desired patient endpoint and a patient position are received, wherein the patient position is defined relative to the desired patient endpoint. A dataset relating to the patient is stored. The dataset comprises one or more patient data based on patient-related measurements. The dataset, the patient position and the desired patient endpoint are processed to generate a regimen for the co-therapy. The regimen is stored in a database. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350074 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF EMOTIONAL STATE - The present invention is directed to an electronic system for the assessment of emotional state. The system allows individual employees to specify their emotions using a set of emojis. The system provides a graphical user interface that displays a list of different emotions and associated emojis that the user can select. The system allows the user to write an entry about his thoughts and emotions in conjunction with the selected emojis and send the message with the emojis to individuals with whom he chooses to share. The system provides a list of company-wide employees from which the user can select. The system receives the messages and implements data structures to process the received messages and produce individual and company-wide emotional state information. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350075 | Method and Apparatus for Mobile Stroke Self-Detection - Disclosed herein are implementations of a method and apparatus for stroke self-detection. The method and apparatus may include a mobile platform for stroke detection. The method may include receiving sensor data. The method may include comparing the sensor data with a baseline test result to determine a test score. The method may include determining a passing test result based on a threshold. The method may include transmitting the results or an alert to one or more of an emergency contact, emergency medical services, a physician, or a telemedicine provider. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350076 | Systems and Methods for Clinical Curation of Crowdsourced Data - A method comprises obtaining input data from a patient device associated with a patient, the input data including free text data generated by the patient. The input data is analyzed to determine whether the input data meets predetermined relevancy criteria. The input data is compared to clinical data in a clinically curated database to generate comparison data. Based on the comparison data, the method comprises performing at least one of the following curation operations: (i) adding the input data to the clinically curated database when the input data meets predetermined relevancy criteria and when the comparison data indicates that the input data is sufficiently different from the clinical data; (ii) merging the input data with the clinical data when the input data meets predetermined relevancy criteria and when the comparison data indicates that the input data is sufficiently similar to the clinical data; and (iii) taking no action when it is determined that the input data does not meet predetermined relevancy criteria. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350077 | ELDERLY MORTALITY AFTER TRAUMA PREDICTION SYSTEM WITH MULTI-STAGE MODELLING AND REPORTING - An elderly-mortality prediction system includes a computing system configured to apply a first analytical model to a subset of a set of patient data parameters for computing a quick elderly mortality after trauma (qEMAT) score indicative of a likelihood of mortality of the patient, wherein the subset of the data parameters includes patient data available at admission of the patient, and further configured to apply a second analytical model to compute a full elderly mortality after trauma (fEMAT) score as an updated score indicative of a likelihood of mortality of the patient, using a full set of patient demographic data parameters including the subset of the data parameters available at admission of the patient and additional data parameters based upon diagnostic results and medical history of the patient. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350078 | LIBRARY SCREENING FOR CANCER PROBABILITY - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for generating a predictive model. A processor(s) obtains a raw data set (peptide libraries) of patients designated as diagnosed/pre-diagnosed with a condition or not diagnosed with the condition. The processor(s) segments the raw data set into a pre-defined number of groups and separates out a holdout group. The processor(s) performs a principal component analysis on the remaining groups to identify, based on a frequency of features in the remaining groups, common features (principal components) in the remaining groups and weighs the common features based on frequency of occurrence. The processor(s) determines a smallest number of the principal components that yields a pre-defined level of validation accuracy. The processor(s) generates a predictive model, by utilizing the smallest number for a best fit in a logistic regression model. The predictive model provides binary outcomes. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350079 | Epidemic Alert System - The present disclosure provides a method for providing vaccination information. The method includes the steps of receiving vaccination records about a person, receiving travel information about the person including a destination of travel, receiving infectious outbreak information about the destination, determining vaccination need and/or timing information based on the travel information and the vaccination records of the person, and transmitting the vaccination need and/or timing information to the person. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350080 | AUTOMATED INTRAOCULAR LENS SELECTION PROCESS - A surgery planning system obtains data from a doctor's questionnaire, patients questionnaire, EMR, and biometry unit. The data is weight-mapped to a plurality of electives in a plurality of options (categories). A surgery plan is generated based on the weights of the patients answers, EMR data, and biometry unit data. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350081 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING BIOLOGICAL PREDICTIONS USING A TRAINED MULTI-MODAL STATISTICAL MODEL - Methods and apparatus for predicting an association between input data in a first modality and data in a second modality using a statistical model trained to represent interactions between data having a plurality of modalities including the first modality and the second modality, the statistical model comprising a plurality of encoders and decoders, each of which is trained to process data for one of the plurality of modalities, and a joint-modality representation coupling the plurality of encoders and decoders. The method comprises selecting, based on the first modality and the second modality, an encoder/decoder pair or a pair of encoders, from among the plurality of encoders and decoders, and processing the input data with the joint-modality representation and the selected encoder/decoder pair or pair of encoders to predict the association between the input data and the data in the second modality. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350082 | INTER-FACILITY EXCHANGE OF MEDICAL INFORMATION USING DEDICATED PATIENT COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - Systems and methods for inter-facility communication include establishing a dedicated communication channel for a patient over which multiple healthcare entities exchange medical information, initiating, at a first healthcare entity, a request to share medical information for the patient with a second healthcare entity, sharing a portion of an aggregate healthcare record for the patient with the second healthcare entity including creating an entity-specific copy, initiating, at the first healthcare entity, a request to share medical information for the patient with a third healthcare entity, and sharing a portion of the aggregate healthcare record with the third healthcare entity including creating an entity-specific copy. The portions shared with the second and third healthcare entities are dependent on medical information sharing rules defining shared information, linked information, and entity-specific information that is neither synchronized nor visible at healthcare entities other than the healthcare entity that owns the information. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350083 | Cryogenic Radiation Enhancement Of Superconductors - Disclosed are a superconductor having improved critical current density when exposed to high-energy neutron radiation and high magnetic fields, such as found in a compact nuclear fusion reactor, and a method of making the same. The method includes, prior to deployment in the exposure environment, irradiating a polycrystalline (e.g. cuprate) superconductor with ionic matter or neutrons at a cryogenic temperature to create “weak” magnetic flux pinning sites, such as point defects or small defect clusters. Irradiation temperature is chosen, for example as a function of the superconducting material, so that irradiation creates the beneficial flux pinning sites while avoiding detrimental widening of the boundaries of the crystalline grains caused by diffusion of the displaced atoms. Such a superconductor in a coated-conductor tape is expected to be beneficial when used, for example, as a toroidal field coil in a fusion reactor when cooled well below its critical temperature. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350084 | PASSIVE TECHNIQUES FOR LONG-TERM REACTOR COOLING - In a pressurized water reactor (PWR), emergency core cooling (ECC) responds to depressurization due to a vessel penetration break at the top of the pressure vessel by draining water from a body of water through an injection line into the pressure vessel. A barrier operates concurrently with the ECC to suppress flow of liquid water from the pressure vessel out the vessel penetration break. The barrier may comprise one or more of: (1) an injection line extension passing through the central riser to drain water into the central riser; (2) openings in a lower portion of a central riser to shunt some upward flow from the central riser into a lower portion of the downcomer annulus; and (3) a surge line providing fluid communication between a pressurizer volume at the top of the pressure vessel and the remainder of the pressure vessel which directs water outboard toward the downcomer annulus. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350085 | Alternating Offset U-Bend Support Arrangement - Arrangement for supporting U-bend tube sections in the high heat environment of steam generators using flat bars. The invention uses a combination of thicker and thinner flat bars to impart a serpentine path to the arc of the normally curvilinear U-tubes. The support system accommodates the dilation and contraction of coolant tubes and other elements caused by the extreme and varying conditions inside a steam generator, and which can cause gaps between coolant tubes and prior art tube support bars. Bars of alternating thickness provide alternating offsets to tensionally push and support each tube on multiple sides and in multiple locations, and this tension keeps the tubes in contact with at least some flat bars on multiple sides regardless of size and shape changes. Support arrangement includes a set of fan bars, each fan bar including thick and thin flat bars projecting up and out from a collector bar. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350086 | INSPECTION TOOL - A tool is receivable into an interior region of a core shroud of a Boiling Water Reactor. The tool includes an elongated frame, an elevator apparatus situated on the frame, and a manipulator apparatus situated on the elevator apparatus. The tool further includes a reciprocation apparatus that is situated on the manipulator apparatus and that has a mount that is structured to carry a device thereon. The reciprocation apparatus includes an elongated rack of an arcuate profile. The elevator apparatus is operable to move the reciprocation apparatus along the longitudinal extent of the frame. The tool further includes a foot apparatus that is situated at an end of the frame and that is receivable on a core plate to enable the frame to be pivoted about an axis of elongation of the frame with respect to the core plate. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350087 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO REMOTELY INSPECT PIPING AND PIPING ATTACHMENT WELDS - An apparatus and method to remotely perform automated piping and piping attachment weld inspections. The apparatus has two spaced positioning arms that rotate out from one side of a frame structure and a kicker arm that rotates out from an opposite side of the frame structure at a location between the two positioning arms. The positioning arms and the kicker arm wedge the frame structure between an object to be scanned and an opposing structure. A scanning subassembly supported on the frame structure is configured to pivot and move in an appropriate direction and to pilot a transducer around the surface of the object to be scanned. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350088 | PELLET HANDLING APPARATUS AND FUEL ROD LOADING METHOD - A pellet magazine includes a plurality of pellet bores sized to receive pellets for loading into a fuel rod. A fuel rod loading system includes a plurality of pellet loading stations each designated to load a single pellet type into one or more pellet bores of the pellet magazine, a rod loading station configured to unload pellets from the pellet bores of the pellet magazine into a fuel rod, and a conveyance system configured to transport the pellet magazine to the loading stations and then to the rod loading station in a defined sequence. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350089 | STORAGE BASKET FOR RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, HAVING AN OPTIMISED SPACE REQUIREMENT AND HOUSINGS WITH MORE ACCURATE GEOMETRY - A storage basket for radioactive materials, defining housings parallel to each other and each extending along a housing axis parallel to a longitudinal central axis of the basket, the latter including: a plurality of transverse plates, traversed by a plurality of openings; a plurality of housing tubes arranged parallel to the longitudinal central axis of the basket. The housing tubes are arranged in alternation with the transverse plates along the axis, such that the inner lateral surface of each housing is defined, successively along this axis, at least by the inner surface of a first housing tube, the inner surface of one of the openings of a first transverse plate, and the inner surface of a second housing tube. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350090 | CONSTRUCTIONS OF X-RAY LENSES FOR CONVERGING X-RAYS - An X-ray system for providing a converging X-rays comprises: (a) an X-ray source having an optical axis thereof; and an X-ray lens comprising at least one ring having a Bragg reflecting surface formed by a plurality of single-crystal tiles. Each tile individually comprises an adjusting arrangement enabling a tridimensional individual displacement thereof in angular and translational manner. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350091 | METHODS TO INCORPORATE SILVER NANOWIRE-BASED TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS IN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Disclosed herein are optical stacks that are stable to light exposure by incorporating light-stabilizers. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350092 | COMPOSITION FOR PRODUCING AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE LAYER, IN PARTICULAR FOR AN ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE - A composition for producing an electrically conductive layer according to a slotted-nozzle method includes 2-30 wt. % of a protective colloid mixture which is soluble or dispersible in water, 1-15 wt. % of a conductive carbon modification, 5-50 wt. % of metal-coated particles, 50-90 wt. % of an aqueous solvent, the dynamic viscosity of the conductive composition being less than 400 mPa·s, wherein the composition comprises 0.1-10 wt. % of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer. The electrically conductive layer being one or both of a pair of conductive layers having a luminous layer with electroluminescent pigments arranged therebetween in an electroluminescense device or related method for producing an electroluminescense device. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350093 | ELECTRODEPOSITABLE COMPOSITIONS AND ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATES PREPARED THEREWITH - The present invention is directed to electrodepositable compositions comprising: (a) an aqueous medium; (b) an ionic resin; and (c) solid particles comprising: (i) lithium-containing particles, and (ii) electrically conductive particles, wherein the composition has a weight ratio of the solid particles to the ionic resin of at least 17:1, and wherein the weight ratio of the lithium-containing particles to the electrically conductive particles is at least 3:1. The present invention is additionally directed to a battery electrode comprising a substrate and a coating applied to a surface of the substrate. The coating is deposited from the electrodepositable composition described above. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350094 | Use of a Silicone Rubber Composition for The Manufacture of an Insulator for High Voltage Direct Current Applications - The invention relates to a silicone rubber composition having specific dielectric properties which can be used as insulator material in high voltage direct current applications and a method for the manufacture of cable accessories like cable joints. The invention comprises as well a method for the determination of the optimum dielectric properties and the related amount of dielectric active additives. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350095 | POWER CABLE - Provided is a power cable, and particularly, to an ultra-high-voltage power cable of 45 kV to 600 kV. Specifically, the present invention relates to a power cable which is eco-friendly and includes an insulating layer formed of an insulating material having not only high heat resistance and mechanical strength but also high flexibility, bendability, impact resistance, cold resistance, installability, workability, etc., which are in trade-off with heat resistance and mechanical strength, and of which the lifespan, flexibility and installability can be additionally improved through precise control of a thickness of the insulating layer according to characteristics of the insulating material, thereby enhancing workability. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350096 | SMART HOME CABLE - The present disclosure is directed to a hybrid cable comprising an outermost sheath; an inner aluminum foil adjacent the outermost sheath, the inner aluminum foil defining an annular space; a plurality of cable lines that extend within the annular space; and a filler configured to fill an empty space within the annular space, wherein, the plurality of cable lines comprises at least four optical fiber lines each connected to an optical connector, at least one optical fiber line connected to a Toslink connector; and at least one aux cable. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350097 | SHIELD CONDUCTION PATH - A shield conduction path that includes a wire; and a pipe with a circular cross-section that accommodates the wire, wherein: the pipe is formed by combining a first divided body and a second divided body that are divided in a diameter direction using, as boundaries, divided surfaces that extend in an axial direction of the pipe, the first divided body and the second divided body include a metal material that can be held in a combined state through welding, and a circumferential length of the first divided body is set to be longer than a circumferential length of the second divided body. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350098 | CABLE ASSEMBLY - A cable assembly includes a cable provided with at least two separate power conductors and at least one earth conductor. Systems and methods are also provided for charging an electrical energy storage on basis of such a cable assembly. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350099 | ELECTROCONDUCTIVE PATH AND WIRE HARNESS - This wire harness comprises an electroconductive path | 2020-11-05 |
20200350100 | Methods and Systems for Fabricating High Quality Superconducting Tapes - An MOCVD system fabricates high quality superconductor tapes with variable thicknesses. The MOCVD system can include a gas flow chamber between two parallel channels in a housing. A substrate tape is heated and then passed through the MOCVD housing such that the gas flow is perpendicular to the tape's surface. Precursors are injected into the gas flow for deposition on the substrate tape. In this way, superconductor tapes can be fabricated with variable thicknesses, uniform precursor deposition, and high critical current densities. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350101 | HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING WIRES HAVING INCREASED ENGINEERING CURRENT DENSITIES - A superconductor wire having a first HTS layer with a first cap layer in direct contact with a first surface of the first HTS layer and a second cap layer in direct contact with a second surface of the first HTS layer. There is a first lamination layer affixed to the first cap layer and a stabilizer layer having a first surface affixed to the second cap layer. There is a second HTS layer and a third cap layer in direct contact with a first surface of the second HTS layer and a fourth cap layer in direct contact with a second surface of the second HTS layer. There is a second lamination layer affixed to the fourth cap layer. The second surface of the stabilizer layer is affixed to the third cap layer and there are first and second fillets disposed along a edge of the laminated superconductor. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350102 | Traceable and Theft Deterrent Reclaimable Product - A theft deterrent product may be provided. First, a plurality of unique codes may be created. Then a plurality of indicia may be placed periodically and longitudinally on the product. The plurality of indicia may respectively correspond to the plurality of unique codes. The product may have an outer layer and into an portion. Placing the plurality of indicia may comprise etching through the outer layer and into the inner portion. In a database, the plurality of unique codes may be assigned to an organizational entity. The organizational entity may comprise a first enterprise. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350103 | PTC THERMISTOR SWITCH FOR ELECTRIC MOTORS - A PTC thermistor switch for electric motors includes an insulating casing and a PTC thermistor housed in a housing seat made in the insulating casing. The PTC thermistor has a first face and a second face opposite the first face. A first electric terminal is housed in the insulating casing and has two protrusions in direct contact with the first face of the PTC thermistor in two opposite contact points with respect to the center of the first face. The switch also includes a second electric terminal housed in the insulating casing and an elastic arm portion in direct contact with the second face of the PTC thermistor in an intermediate contact point between the contact points of the protrusions. The second electric terminal is arranged so that the elastic arm portion presses against the second face of the PTC thermistor. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350104 | NON-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING NON-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET - A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one embodiment of the invention has a chemical composition represented by C: 0.0030% or less, Si: 2.00% or less, Al: 1.00% or less, Mn: 0.10% to 2.00%, S: 0.0030% or less, one or more selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Nd, Pr, La, Ce, Zn, and Cd: greater than 0.0100% and not greater than 0.0250% in total, a parameter Q represented by Q=[Si]+2×[Al]−[Mn]: 2.00 or less; Sn: 0.00% to 0.40%, Cu: 0.00% to 1.00%, and a remainder: Fe and impurities, and a parameter R represented by R=(I | 2020-11-05 |
20200350105 | Common-Mode Current Suppression Device Utilizing A Nanocrystalline Core(s) - A common-mode current suppression device, such as a balun and line isolator, includes a core formed of nanocrystalline material. The core may be formed in any desired configuration, such as a toroidal core, a sleeve core, a drum core, a rod core, or a binocular core. The use of nanocrystalline material allows the core to achieve increased common-mode impedance (CMI) that exceeds that achievable by cores formed of traditional ferromagnetic materials. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350106 | MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATOR FOR A MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A magnetic field generator includes a plurality of conductive windings comprising a first conductive winding arranged in a first plane and a second conductive winding arranged in a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane. The plurality of conductive windings are configured to generate, when supplied with a drive current, a first component of a compensation magnetic field. The first component of the compensation magnetic field is configured to actively shield a magnetic field sensing region located between the first conductive winding and the second conductive winding from ambient background magnetic fields along a first axis that is substantially orthogonal to the first plane and the second plane. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350107 | LAMINATED ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A laminated electronic component includes an element body and a pair of conductors. The element body is formed by laminating a plurality of element-body layers in a first direction. The pair of conductors is formed by laminating a plurality of conductor layers in the first direction. The pair of conductors is provided to the element body in such a way as to be separated from each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. At a cross section orthogonal to the first direction, the pair of conductors has an uneven portion and the element body has an uneven portion engaged with the uneven portion of the pair of conductors. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350108 | MULTI-CORE COMMON-MODE CURRENT SUPPRESSION DEVICE - A multi-core common-mode current suppression device (CMD), such as a balun and line isolator, includes at a pair of spaced cores. The cores may be separated by a spacer, such that in the case of a pair of toroidal cores, the axial centers of the cores may be arranged parallel to each other or coaxial with each other. Such a configuration allows the multi-core (CMD) to achieve higher levels of overall common-mode impedance (CMI) as compared to that of existing CMDs that utilize a stacked core configuration. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350109 | INDUCTIVE FILTERING DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTING THE INDUCTIVE FILTERING DEVICE - An inductive filtering device includes a plurality of grouped electrical conductors and at least two toric magnetic cores, each formed around a central void, the two magnetic cores having different magnetic lengths, the electrical conductor being wound together around both magnetic cores by passing through the central voids of both magnetic cores. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350110 | ELECTRONIC PASSIVE COMPONENT HAVING MARKING AREA FOR TRACING PRODUCTION HISTORY - An electronic component includes a member with marking having at least one marking area to be processed digitally, as well as a member other than the member with marking. The marking allows for tracing the production history of individual electronic components. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350111 | System and Method for Reducing Power Losses for Magnetics Integrated in a Printed Circuit Board - A system and method for integrating a magnetic component within a power converter includes a coil integrated on a PCB. The PCB includes multiple layers and traces on each layer to form a single coil or to form multiple coils on the magnetic component. The PCB further includes at least one opening in the PCB through which a core component may pass, such that the magnetic component is defined by the coils and the core material. To reduce eddy currents built up within the traces, the dimensions of traces on a layer are varied and the position of traces between layers of the PCB are varied. The widths and locations of individual traces are selected to reduce coupling of the trace to leakage fluxes within the magnetic component. A floating conductive layer may also be provided to still further reduce the magnitude of eddy currents induced within the coil. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350112 | Winding Assembly - A winding assembly for a transformer, in particular with a medium operating voltage of Um≥79.5 kV, wherein the winding assembly includes at least one winding, which ends in a winding conductor, where the winding conductor is connected to a switching line, which is configured to interconnect the winding to other windings, and where the connection of the switching line to the winding conductor is arranged inside the winding so as to reduce the danger of partial discharges and flashovers in the high-voltage end-line region for high-temperature applications. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350113 | Coil module - A coil module is provided, including a second coil mechanism. The second coil mechanism includes a third coil assembly and a second base corresponding to the third coil assembly. The second base has a positioning assembly corresponding to a first coil mechanism. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350114 | FLUID COOLED MAGNETIC ELEMENT - A fluid-cooled magnetic element. Coils are formed with small gaps between the turns of the coils. Coolant flow through the gaps cools the coils. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350115 | COIL ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A coil electronic component includes a body having one surface and the other surface, opposing each other, and a plurality of wall surfaces respectively connecting the one surface and the other surface of the body, first and second recesses, respectively formed in both end surfaces of the body opposing each other among the plurality of wall surfaces of the body, extending to the one surface of the body, a wound coil, embedded in the body, including first and second lead-out portions, a first external electrode disposed along an internal wall of the first recess and the one surface of the body and connected to the first lead-out portion, and a second external electrode disposed along an internal wall of the second recess and the one surface of the body and connected to the first lead-out portion. The first and second external electrodes are spaced apart from each other. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350116 | TRANSFORMER AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - A transformer includes: a base that is a plate-like member and has a first surface and a second surface, a core attached to the first surface of the base, coils wound around the core, coil terminals attached to the second surface of the base, and a cooling unit that is thermally connected to the core and is to release heat transferred from the core. The coil terminals are disposed on the second surface of the base opposite to the first surface of the base to which the core is attached. The cooling unit is disposed on a side of the core opposite to the base. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350117 | MAGNETIC INTEGRATION OF MATRIX TRANSFORMER WITH CONTROLLABLE LEAKAGE INDUCTANCE - Various examples of magnetic integration of matrix transformers with controllable leakage inductance are described. In one example, a transformer includes a magnetic core comprising a plurality of core legs and a leakage core leg. The leakage core leg is positioned among the plurality of core legs to control a leakage inductance of the transformer. The transformer also includes a planar winding structure. The planar winding structure includes a primary winding and a plurality of secondary windings. The primary winding and the plurality of secondary windings extend in a number of turns around the plurality of core legs, without a turn around the leakage core leg, to further control the leakage inductance of the matrix transformer. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350118 | BAND FEEDING PROCESS AND SYSTEM AS WELL AS PLANT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LAMINATED CORES FOR TRANSFORMERS - A band feeding process, a band feeding system and a plant for the production of cores with stacked grain-oriented laminations for transformers; the plant having a processing unit to cut a band made of a ferromagnetic metal material, in particular made of magnetic silicon steel, so as to obtain one or more laminations; said processing unit having an input; the plant having a feeding system, which has a plurality of feeding stations, each configured to feed a respective band to said input; wherein there is provided the step of selectively feeding to said input a band coming from one of said plurality of feeding stations. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350119 | Method of manufacturing visually stereoscopic print film and visually stereoscopic print film manufactured using the method - Disclosed are a stereoscopic magnetic print film formed using magnetic particles and a method of manufacturing the stereoscopic magnetic print film. The method includes preparing magnetic ink including magnetic particles, forming a printing layer on a base layer using the prepared magnetic ink, and forming a stereoscopic pattern by applying a magnetic field to the printing layer. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350120 | METHOD AND A MECHANISM CAPABLE OF ANNEALING A GMR SENSOR - A MR structure that comprises ferromagnetic layers separated by a spacer layer is formed on a substrate. One of the ferromagnetic layer is a pinned layer whose magnetic orientation is substantially fixed during operation. An insulating layer is deposited on the MR structure followed by deposition of a metallic layer. The metallic layer is patterned in to heat resistor. The MR structure is annealed by use of the heat resistor and an external magnetic field. After annealing, the insulating layer and the heat resistor are removed. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350121 | FILM CAPACITOR MANUFACTURING METHOD AND CASE - A method for producing a film capacitor, the method including a sealing material supplying step of supplying a curable sealing material | 2020-11-05 |
20200350122 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes alternately exposed to first and second outer surfaces with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the first and second outer surfaces of the ceramic body so as to be connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The ceramic body further includes a protective layer including a protective layer dummy electrode disposed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the first and second internal electrodes, and the protective layer dummy electrode has a thickness ranging from greater than to 1.2 times or less a thickness of each of the first and second internal electrodes. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350123 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes stacked to be alternately exposed to first and second outer surfaces with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the first and second outer surfaces of the ceramic body to be electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The ceramic body further includes a protective layer disposed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the first and second internal electrodes, the protective layer includes a plurality of dummy electrode cells each having the plurality of dummy electrodes stacked thereon, and a thickness from the uppermost dummy electrode to the lowermost dummy electrode of each of the plurality of dummy electrode cells is greater than a length of each of the plurality of dummy electrode cells. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350124 | PASSIVE ON GLASS PLANARIZATION - Planarization of the M1 metal layer reduces surface roughness and fills in pin-holes for a more reliable capacitor. For example, a MIM capacitor on a glass substrate may begin with patterning of the M1 layer, deposition of a planarization material, etch back the planarization material to planarize the M1 surface and fill in any pits/pin-holes. In addition, multiple-cycles of deposit and etch back further reduce M1 surface roughness and fill in possible pin-holes to acceptable level. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350125 | ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID SOLAR CELL - An organic-inorganic hybrid solar cell and method for manufacturing the same wherein the solar cell includes a first electrode, a first common layer provided on the first electrode, a light absorption layer including a perovskite material provided on the first common layer, a second common layer provided on the light absorption layer, and a conductive adhesive layer provided on the second common layer. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350126 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC ACTIVE INK COMPOSITIONS - The present disclosure relates to an electrophotographic active ink composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer comprising a copolymer of an olefin and acrylic acid and/or metacrylic acid; active photovoltaic material comprising electron donor material and electron acceptor material; a charge adjuvant, and a liquid carrier. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350127 | GRAPHENE AND GLASSY CARBON META-MATERIAL, MICROFABRICATION METHOD, AND ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE - A meta-material is disclosed that includes a first layer composed of graphene, and one or more additional layers, each composed of glassy carbon or graphene. A method of producing an engineered material includes depositing a graphene precursor on a substrate, pyrolyzing the graphene precursor to allow the formation of graphene, depositing a glassy carbon precursor the graphene, pyrolyzing to allow the formation of glassy carbon from the glassy carbon precursor, depositing a graphene precursor on the glassy carbon, and pyrolyzing the graphene precursor to allow the formation of graphene. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350128 | KEY STRUCTURE - A key structure including a keycap, a bottom plate, a supporting element disposed on the bottom plate a backlight module, and a thin film circuit board is provided. The bottom plate includes a body and a plurality of protrusions, wherein the body has a plurality of openings, and the protrusions protrude from a first surface of the body and are disposed around the openings. At least two of the protrusions have different heights. The backlight module is disposed on a second surface of the body, wherein the first surface and the second surface are opposite surfaces. The thin film circuit board and the keycap are disposed on the first surface of the body, and the thin film circuit board is located between the keycap and the bottom plate, and the protrusions are located within an orthographic projection range of the keycap and do not contact the supporting element. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350129 | JOG DIAL TYPE OPERATION SWITCH AND SINK CABINET DEVICE COMPRISING SAME - A dial type operation switch comprises: an upper assembly including a display device; a lower assembly including an encoder; and a wheel assembly which rotates while surrounding the sides of the upper assembly and the lower assembly. Further, a knob switch comprises a push switch which is operated by pressing the display device in multiple directions, whereby a structure capable of various settings and operations is provided by combining the push switch with the rotation of the wheel assembly. In addition, a sink cabinet device comprises a bath sink and a functional module, wherein a bath sink lamp is provided and operation states of the sink cabinet device can be displayed using the bath sink lamp. Therefore, there is provided a structure in which the bath sink lamp can be used as a mood lamp for improving the beauty of a bathroom. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350130 | UNIVERSAL VACUUM INTERRUPTER FOR AIR DISCONNECT SWITCHES - The invention relates to a universal vacuum interrupter (UVI) ( | 2020-11-05 |
20200350131 | HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRIC LINE CUTTER DEVICE - An electric line cutter device for high voltage busbars has a two-part housing, a piston, an igniter and a busbar. The upper housing includes a cylinder, cuboid or prism chamber. The lower housing also includes a cylinder, cuboid or prism chamber. The piston is contained inside one of either the upper housing chamber or the lower housing chamber. Upon igniting the igniter, the piston breaks a portion of the busbar moving the piston and the portion of the busbar into the opposite chamber thereby stopping the electric current flow. The piston is at least partially formed as an insulator to prevent electric discharge. The piston design together with chamber design includes integrated “squeeze areas” and “blow channels” for the appearing arc. A channel system outside or from inside the piston allow the pyro gases to push the arc plasma into a filter system to cool down the gases. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350132 | ELECTROMECHANICAL RELAY CONSTRUCTIONS - Electromechanical relay constructions comprise an external housing, a pair of switchable electrical contacts disposed within the housing, an element for activating the pair of electrical contacts, and a temperature sensing element disposed within the housing adjacent the electrical contracts. The temperature sensing element provides a signal for determining the temperature within the relay housing. The relay may comprise two or more temperature sensing elements disposed within the housing a desired distance from one another. The temperature sensing element may be attached to a member or substrate disposed within the housing, may be attached to an existing internal structure of the housing, or may be attached to one of the contacts. The temperature sensing element may be selected from the group consisting of resistance temperature detectors, negative temperature coefficient thermistors, thermopile sensors, thermocouples, and combinations thereof. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350133 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - A displaceable portion of a moving contactor is connected to, and electrically conductive with, a pair of moving contacts. An armature actuates the moving contactor. The armature has an adhering portion to be adhered onto an electromagnet. A space inside an opening that exposes a part (an exposed part) of the displaceable portion crosses a predetermined plane. The predetermined plane intersects at right angles with an arrangement direction (a first direction) in which the pair of moving contacts is arranged side by side. The predetermined plane passes through a center between both ends in the arrangement direction of the adhering portion. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350134 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay includes a movable element, a movable yoke, a fixed yoke, a movable section, and a stopper. The movable element includes a movable contact point. The movable yoke is connected to the movable element to move together with the movable element. The movable section includes a movable core made of an inorganic magnetic material and a shaft made of an inorganic material. The fixed yoke is made of an inorganic magnetic material and disposed between the movable core and the movable yoke. The stopper protrudes from either one of the fixed yoke or the movable section toward the other to contact with the other when the movable section moves toward the fixed yoke. The stopper is integrally formed with the either one of the fixed yoke or the movable section. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350135 | Clapper-type Electromagnetic Release for Miniature Circuit Breaker - A clapper-type electromagnetic release for a miniature circuit breaker is characterized by including an armature, a magnet yoke, a coil, an iron core, a shaft, and an armature torsion spring. The iron core is mounted on the magnet yoke. The coil is sleeved on the iron core. The armature is mounted on the shaft and can rotate around the shaft. The armature torsion spring is mounted on the shaft. The armature torsion spring presses against the armature, so that the armature can be reset. In the clapper-type electromagnetic release for a miniature circuit breaker, by the rotation of the armature, the armature is not closed in absorption and the circuit breaker mechanism is not tripped within a specified current range; and when the specified current range is exceeded, the armature is closed in absorption and the armature claps a lock, so that the circuit breaker mechanism is tripped. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350136 | Vertical Vacuum Channel Transistor - A vertical vacuum transistor with a sharp tip structure, and associated fabrication process, is provided that is compatible with current vertical CMOS fabrication processing. The resulting vertical vacuum channel transistor advantageously provides improved operational characteristics including a higher operating frequency, a higher power output, and a higher operating temperature while at the same time providing a higher density of vertical transistor devices during the manufacturing process. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350137 | X-RAY TUBE AND CATHODE CUP WITH DEPOSITION SHIELD - An x-ray tube includes an electron emitter and a cathode cup having a recess that holds the electron emitter. The recess has a bottom surface, and a shield is positioned in the recess between the electron emitter and the bottom surface. The shield is configured to receive deposited sublimated emitter material and to maintain the sublimated emitter material away from the electron emitter. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350138 | HIGH BRIGHTNESS X-RAY REFLECTION SOURCE - An x-ray target, x-ray source, and x-ray system are provided. The x-ray target includes a thermally conductive substrate comprising a surface and at least one structure on or embedded in at least a portion of the surface. The at least one structure includes a thermally conductive first material in thermal communication with the substrate. The first material has a length along a first direction parallel to the portion of the surface in a range greater than 1 millimeter and a width along a second direction parallel to the portion of the surface and perpendicular to the first direction. The width is in a range of 0.2 millimeter to 3 millimeters. The at least one structure further includes at least one layer over the first material. The at least one layer includes at least one second material different from the first material. The at least one layer has a thickness in a range of 2 microns to 50 microns. The at least one second material is configured to generate x-rays upon irradiation by electrons. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350139 | HIGH POWER WAFER COOLING - A gas generation system for an ion implantation system has a hydrogen generator configured to generate hydrogen gas within an enclosure. A chuck, such as an electrostatic chuck, supports a workpiece in an end station of the ion implantation system, and a delivery system provides the hydrogen gas to the chuck. The hydrogen gas can be provided through the chuck to a backside of the workpiece. Sensors can detect a presence of the hydrogen gas within the enclosure. A controller can control the hydrogen generator. An exhaust system can pass air through the enclosure to prevent a build-up of the hydrogen gas within the enclosure. A purge gas system provides a dilutant gas to the enclosure. An interlock system can control the hydrogen generator, delivery system, purge gas system, and exhaust system to mitigate hydrogen release based on a signal from the one or more sensors. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350140 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MODULATED PLASMA SYSTEMS - Plasma processing systems and methods are disclosed. The plasma processing system includes a high-frequency generator configured to deliver power to a plasma chamber and a low-frequency generator configured to deliver power to the plasma chamber. A filter is coupled between the plasma chamber and the high-frequency generator, and the filter suppresses mixing products of high frequencies produced by the high-frequency generator and low frequencies produced by the low-frequency generator. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350141 | HIGH-POWER SOLID-STATE MICROWAVE GENERATOR FOR RF ENERGY APPLICATIONS - A microwave generating system includes a modular architecture which is configurable to provide power output from under 1-kilowatt to over 100-kilowatts. The various power levels are achieved by combining the RF outputs of multiple RF power amplifiers in a corporate structure. The system can be used on any ISM band. Each system component incorporates a dedicated embedded microcontroller for high performance real-time control response. The components are connected to a high speed digital data bus, and are commanded and supervised by a control program running on a host computer. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350142 | LOW-TEMPERATURE IONIZATION OF METASTABLE ATOMS EMITTED BY AN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ION SOURCE - The present disclosure combines inductively coupled plasma (ICP) ion-source technology together with laser-cooling and photoionization techniques to create a new ion source that has improved performance. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350143 | BATCH TYPE SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes a tube configured to provide a processing space, a partition wall configured to provide a discharge space in which plasma is generated, a gas supply pipe configured to supply a process gas to the discharge space, and a plurality of electrodes disposed outside the tube to generate the plasma in the discharge space. The tube has a plurality of recesses recessed inward from the outermost circumferential surface of the tube, and the plurality of electrodes are accommodated in the plurality of recesses, respectively. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350144 | PLASMA SOURCE UTILIZING A MACRO-PARTICLE REDUCTION COATING AND METHOD OF USING A PLASMA SOURCE UTILIZING A MACRO-PARTICLE REDUCTION COATING FOR DEPOSITION OF THIN FILM COATINGS AND MODIFICATION OF SURFACES - The present invention relates generally to a plasma source utilizing a macro-particle reduction coating and method of using a plasma source utilizing a macro-particle reduction for deposition of thin film coatings and modification of surfaces. More particularly, the present invention relates to a plasma source comprising one or more plasma-generating electrodes, wherein a macro-particle reduction coating is deposited on at least a portion of the plasma-generating surfaces of the one or more electrodes to shield the plasma-generating surfaces of the electrodes from erosion by the produced plasma and to resist the formation of particulate matter, thus enhancing the performance and extending the service life of the plasma source. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350145 | BATCH TYPE SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes a tube configured to provide a processing space, a partition wall configured to provide a discharge space in which plasma is generated, a gas supply pipe configured to supply a process gas to the discharge space, and a plurality of electrodes configured to generate plasma in the discharge space. At least one of the plurality of electrodes is disposed outside the partition wall, and at least one of the plurality of electrodes is disposed inside the partition wall. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350146 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING CONTAMINANT PARTICLES IN A PLASMA PROCESS - A method and apparatus for operating a plasma processing chamber includes performing a plasma process at a process pressure and a pressure power to generate a plasma. A first ramping-down stage starts in which the process power and the process pressure are ramped down substantially simultaneously to an intermediate power level and an intermediate pressure level, respectively. The intermediate power level and intermediate pressure level are preselected so as to raise a plasma sheath boundary above a threshold height from a surface of a substrate. A purge gas is flowed from a showerhead assembly at a sufficiently high rate to sweep away contaminant particles trapped in the plasma such that one or more contaminant particles move outwardly of an edge of the substrate. A second ramping-down stage starts where the intermediate power level and the intermediate pressure level decline to a zero level and a base pressure, respectively. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350147 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The inventive concept relates to an apparatus for processing a substrate. The substrate processing apparatus includes a scatter that is disposed over a baffle and that separates plasma and impurities. The scatter includes a plate having a first opening formed in a central area thereof when viewed from above and a collision block that is disposed over the first opening to face the first opening and that collides with plasma supplied from a plasma generation unit and impurities. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350148 | WASTAGE DETERMINATION METHOD AND PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provision of a plasma processing apparatus including a chamber; a gas inlet for supplying a first gas containing fluorine and supplying a second gas into the chamber; a plasma generator configured to generate a plasma from the first gas and the second gas supplied into the chamber; an optical emission spectrometer (OES) configured to measure light emission intensities of first radicals and second radicals in the plasma, the first radicals originating from the first gas, the second radicals originating from the second gas; an expendable part disposed in the chamber; and a processor configured to determine a wastage rate of the expendable part based on the measured light emission intensities of the first radicals and the second radicals. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350149 | COMPACT MASS SPECTROMETER - A miniature mass spectrometer includes an atmospheric pressure ionisation source and a first vacuum chamber having an atmospheric pressure sampling orifice or capillary, a second vacuum chamber downstream of the first vacuum chamber, and a third vacuum chamber downstream of the second vacuum chamber. An ion detector is located in the third vacuum chamber. A first RF ion guide is located within the first vacuum chamber and a second RF ion guide is located within the second vacuum chamber. The ion path length from the atmospheric pressure sampling orifice or capillary to an ion detecting surface of the ion detector is ≤400 mm. The mass spectrometer also includes a tandem quadrupole mass analyser, 3D ion trap mass analyser, 2D or linear ion trap mass analyser, Time of Flight mass analyser, quadrupole-Time of Flight mass analyser, or electrostatic mass analyser arranged in the third vacuum chamber. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350150 | MULTIPLE ANALYTE ION SOURCE - A device for providing analyte to an analyzer is described. In some examples, the device comprises a substrate comprising a plurality of wells formed therein at predetermined locations. Each of the wells can be capable of containing an analyte without mixing with analytes in other of the wells. Each of the wells can also have a well exit to allow analyte to exit therefrom. A channel can be in flow communication with at least one of the well exits, and can guide analyte ions exiting therefrom to the mass analyzer. The wells may be filled prior to use in association with the mass analyzer. The substrate may be used as part of a fraction collector if desired. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350151 | RAPID ONLINE ANALYZER FOR 14C-AMS - A rapid online analyzer for a | 2020-11-05 |
20200350152 | MALDI-TOF MASS SPECTROMETERS WITH DELAY TIME VARIATIONS AND RELATED METHODS - MALDI-TOF MS systems have solid state lasers and successive and varied delay times between ionization and acceleration (e.g. extraction) to change focus masses during a single sample signal acquisition without requiring tuning of the MS by a user. The (successive) different delay times can change by 1 ns to about 500 ns, and can be in a range that is between 1-2500 nanoseconds. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350153 | MASS SPECTROMETER - Conversion dynodes (CDs) | 2020-11-05 |
20200350154 | METHODS OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERED SUBSTRATE STRUCTURES FOR POWER AND RF APPLICATIONS - A method of manufacturing a substrate includes forming a support structure by providing a polycrystalline ceramic core, encapsulating the polycrystalline ceramic core in a first adhesion shell, encapsulating the first adhesion shell in a conductive shell, encapsulating the conductive shell in a second adhesion shell, and encapsulating the second adhesion shell in a barrier shell. The method also includes joining a bonding layer to the support structure, joining a substantially single crystalline silicon layer to the bonding layer, forming an epitaxial silicon layer by epitaxial growth on the substantially single crystalline silicon layer, and forming one or more epitaxial layers by epitaxial growth on the epitaxial silicon layer. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350155 | Anti-Reflective Gap Filling Materials and Methods - In accordance with an embodiment a bottom anti-reflective layer comprises a surface energy modification group which modifies the surface energy of the polymer resin to more closely match a surface energy of an underlying material in order to help fill gaps between structures. The surface energy of the polymer resin may be modified by either using a surface energy modifying group or else by using an inorganic structure. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350156 | SUBSTRATE TREATING METHOD, SUBSTRATE TREATING APPARATUS, AND SUBSTRATE TREATING SYSTEM - A method for treating a substrate includes a first treating operation for treating an edge region of the substrate by irradiating a first laser beam having a first wavelength to the edge region of a rotating substrate, and a second treating operation for treating the edge region by irradiating a second laser beam of a second wavelength to the edge region of the rotating substrate, wherein the first wavelength and the second wavelength are different from each other. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350157 | TREATMENTS TO ENHANCE MATERIAL STRUCTURES - Processing methods may be performed to produce semiconductor structures that may include a high-k dielectric material. The methods may include delivering a nitrogen-containing precursor or an oxygen-containing precursor to a substrate contained in a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include forming reactive ligands on an exposed surface of the substrate with the nitrogen-containing precursor or the oxygen-containing precursor. The methods may also include forming a high-k dielectric material overlying the substrate. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350158 | Hydrogen Assisted Atmospheric Radical Oxidation - Apparatus, systems, and methods for processing workpieces are provided. In one example implementation, a hydrogen gas mixed with an inert gas can be reacted with an oxygen gas to oxidize a workpiece at atmospheric pressure. A chemical reaction of a hydrogen gas with an oxygen gas facilitated by a hot workpiece surface can positively affect an oxidation process. A reaction speed of the chemical reaction can be slowed down by mixing the hydrogen gas with an inert gas. Such mixture can effectively reduce a partial pressure of the hydrogen gas. As such, the oxidation process can be carried out at atmospheric pressure, thereby, in an atmospheric thermal processing chamber. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350159 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING A FEATURE DISPOSED IN A SUBSTRATE - Methods and apparatus for method for filling a feature with copper. In some embodiments, the methods include: (a) depositing a first cobalt layer via a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process atop a substrate field and atop a sidewall and a bottom surface of a feature disposed in a substrate to form a first cobalt portion atop the substrate field and a second cobalt portion atop the sidewall; (b) depositing copper atop the first cobalt portion atop the substrate field; and (c) flowing the copper disposed atop the first cobalt portion atop the substrate field over the second cobalt portion and into the feature, wherein the first cobalt portion atop the substrate field reduces the mobility of copper compared to the mobility of copper over the second cobalt portion. | 2020-11-05 |
20200350160 | METHOD AND CHAMBER FOR BACKSIDE PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION - Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for backside stress engineering of substrates to combat film stresses and bowing issues. In one embodiment, a method of depositing a film layer on a backside of a substrate is provided. The method includes flipping a substrate at a factory interface so that the backside of the substrate is facing up, and transferring the flipped substrate from the factory interface to a physical vapor deposition chamber to deposit a film layer on the backside of the substrate. In another embodiment, an apparatus for depositing a backside film layer on a backside of a substrate, which includes a substrate supporting surface configured to support the substrate at or near the periphery of the substrate supporting surface without contacting an active region on a front side of the substrate. | 2020-11-05 |