Method

This is a knitting machine latch needle. The latch pivot is formed by displacing portions of the walls of the slot so that the displaced portions extend into the pivot hole of the latch. The displaced portions of the walls are fused together by a high energy heat source emitting sufficient energy to...     

A method for welding copper or a copper base alloy and iron or an iron base alloy characterized in that an element for enhancing the mutual miscibility of copper and iron and an element for refining the crystal grains of the weld metal is added to weld metal in a total amount of 1 to 25 percent by weight...     

An improved hose construction and method of forming the same wherein a reinforcement layer is bonded to a thermoplastic core by a solventless bonding layer defining an inner thermal weld portion substantially autogenous with the outer surface portion of the core tube and an outer portion mechanically...     

A laser-radio frequency system for generating a high temperature beam and for directing and modulating the combined beam at a workpiece or target. The system includes a hollow circular electrode mounted within a circular nozzle and spaced apart from the nozzle to define an annular gap. A radio frequency...     

A laser-trimmed film resistor wherein the laser kerf terminates in an area outside the electrical current path across the resistor. FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to film resistors. More particularly, this invention relates to laser-trimmed thin and thick film resistors containing a laser...     

This disclosure relates to a method of fabricating tubular bodies having at least one closed end by advancing material along a predetermined path of travel in a predetermined direction, forming the material into a tube during its advancement, placing a closure in-line with the advancement of the tube,...     

A method of welding galvanized steel with a high energy density beam is disclosed. The high energy density can be created by an electron or laser beam with a power density of at least 4.times.10.sup.6 watts per square inch. A flux material, such as iron oxide, is disposed adjacent the welding zone, preferably...     

A method of welding high reflectivity materials by laser radiation comprising cladding material in the area to be welded with a low reflectivity material and subsequently directing a coherent beam of laser radiation, pulsed or continuous, onto the clad material to form in the weld area a molten alloy...     

In a method of preparing a screened reproduction, a laser beam modulated in an on-off manner scans a film or plate comprising a substrate resistant to the laser beam and a two-layer coating which is removed by the laser beam, after which correction is carried out by subjecting the image-defining coating...     

Metallic sheets, wires, bars or other products are descaled by sweeping their surfaces with one or more laser beams to detach an adhering oxide film along lines traced by the beam sweep. The film fragments, still loosely adhering at locations between the sweep lines, are then removed mechanically, chemically...     

The invention provides an improvement for an apparatus which produces engraved printing forms via an electron beam device which is located in a vacuum chamber having an open side facing a peripheral surface of a printing form cylinder and defining therewith an air gap, and an arrangement for effecting...     

This invention relates to an apparatus and method for adjusting the resistance value of an elongated resistance film of typically inconsistent density which has been deposited on an insulative substrate. The resistance incremental of this film is measured between a start point and a wiper point. This...     

A continuous seam weldment is established between two strips of sheet material while the strips are moving by forming a converging Vee geometry between the moving strips, applying a pressure at the point of convergence and focusing a laser beam into the converging Vee.

A laser beam of a pulse width 10 to 20 nanoseconds is irradiated and scanned relatively and two-dimensionally on a metal thin film formed on a transparent substrate from the transparent substrate side and through the transparent substrate with a superposition number of laser beam spots set up to at most...     

A capacitor suitable for integration into a monolithic integrated circuit is fabricated in two parallel connected sections. One section, using a thin oxide, constitutes most of the capacitance. A second section fabricated on a thick oxide constitutes a smaller capacitance per unit area but can be laser...     

A method for laser trimming of resistors which includes sputter depositing or vaporizing resistor material in a limited area but the resistor geometry and trimming location is designed to achieve a maximum resistor trimming range with a minimum substrate area occupied by the resistor. A cermet resistor...     

There is disclosed a method of converting a thin glass body, such as a glass fiber or coating, to a corresponding glass-ceramic body by a heat treatment comprising a plurality of heating-cooling cycles.

A laser welding system is disclosed having a housing formed with an opening through which workpieces may be passed, and a laser for generating and directing a laser beam into a welding station within the housing. The system further includes a light trap for inhibiting light from passing from the welding...     

A device for use primarily in medical applications to locate, analyze, illuminate and destroy obstructions in a tube. The device includes a fiberoptics bundle for insertion to the tube in a flexible conduit. The conduit includes a connection to a suction source at one of its ends, a valved means of controlling...     

A laser beam is used to provide rapid, clear and permanent marking of plastic lenses.

Copper and aluminum conductors are butt welded or corner welded by a two-part process involving heating and melting the Cu-Al interface with energy from a pulse laser and simultaneously generating a contact pressure. The laser wavelength is 1.06 micrometers or less and a single 8 millisecond pulse is...     

A flexible, microporous, non-water soluble, non-skin-toxic film is provided for use in protective garments such as diver's suits, foul weather suits and the like. The film is of a thickness in the range of about 12.5.mu. to 12.5 mm and possesses about 100 to 1000 pores of a diameter in the range of about...     

An apparatus and method are provided for welding portions of members disposed in edgewise abutment or overlapping relationship by means of a high intensity beam of radiation such as a laser beam or an electron beam generated by an electron gun. In one form, the two members are sheets of weldable material...     

An LSI fabrication process employs pulsed laser energy to selectively tailor individual logic elements of which the building blocks of an LSI array may be configured and to selectively interconnect these laser-configured building blocks. On an LSI chip, an array of universal logic devices or building...     

Polycrystalline alumina tubing is scribed by means of laser pulses which are reiteratively focused on the same spots at spaced time intervals. By drilling small holes, the laser need be on for a very short period of time only, and only the surface layers are vaporized, thereby minimizing heat shock....     

The sharp features that appear on metallization patterns defined by conventional etching processes can be eliminated by instantaneous melting with short laser pulses. Flow is minimized due to the brevity of the lifetime of the molten state but surface tension removes the sharp corners. With polysilicon...     

Repair of opens and shorts in semiconductor packages and chip metallurgy by initial conversion of shorts into opens by severing of lines about the shorts, followed by interconnection of conductor patch lines to the good circuit portions through an insulating layer.

The invention is an electrical component with a body element comprising an organic substrate portion and a laser formed, resistor portion carburized thereon. A first electrical conductor is electrically connected to one location on the resistor portion so as to form one terminal for connection to an...     

This invention is a method of making a flanged half-bearing in which a semi-cylindrical journal bearing shell and two semi-annular end flanges are held in a jig with one flange in contact with each axial end of the shell over a part only of the thickness of the shell, and are welded together by a laser...     

A method and apparatus are disclosed utilizing a laser for heat treating a transformation hardenable workpiece. Sufficiently high laser power densities are provided at the workpiece surface to cause an incandescent reaction with the workpiece, but incandescent reaction is limited to a sufficiently short...     

In double conductor micro-electronic structures, prior to the low temperature deposition or growth of an insulating layer over a polycrystalline or amorphous surface, the surface is annealed using a beam of radiant energy, which causes it to become very smooth, thereby removing any surface spikes. The...     

A laser device particularly suitable for use in surgery includes a housing and a laser beam oscillation device elastically mounted within the housing. The laser beam oscillation device includes an elongated support stand which extends substantially vertically within the housing and through an opening...     

An electrical exceptance heater or igniter characterized by having a core bonded by regrowth of silicon carbide is produced by heating particulate silicon carbide which may be mixed with a minor amount of modifying agent, by means of an uncharged beam of energy, to a temperature above 3000.degree. F....     

An apparatus adapted for rotating a beam of radiation to obtain azimuthal and radial time averaging of the intensity distribution incident onto a workpiece is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing adapted for rotation about a centerline axis, an entrance port and an exit port adapted for transmitting...     

Two concave spherical metal mirrors are used to scan a continuous wave laser beam for heat treating of metals. The mirrors are rotated in opposite directions and each is tilted at a small angle with respect to its axis of rotation. The frequencies of rotation of the mirrors are made constant by a precision...     

A method for patterning layers of material on a substrate without photoresist by using a selective sublimation process. Differences in thermal conductivity of materials underneath a layer of material to be patterned cause patterning by sublimation over areas of low thermal conductivity, initiated by...     

This invention relates to the correction of the orientation angle or angle of cut of quartz crystal blanks which substantially eliminates the initial formation of mesas and the subsequent lapping operation, as heretofore required, by providing a controlled linear etching gradient across opposing faces...     

A method and apparatus for vacuum evaporating magnetic material onto a base. Cylindrical cans are disposed parallel to one another and rotated either in the same or opposite directions. A tape-shaped base is wound around the cans passing from an upper vacuum chamber to a lower vacuum chamber. A vacuum...     

An electrical resistance heater or igniter characterized by having a core bonded by regrowth of silicon carbide is produced by heating particulate silicon carbide which may be mixed with a minor amount of modifying agent, by means of an uncharged beam of energy, to a temperature above 3000.degree. F....     

Surface acoustic wave devices with precisely set frequencies are produced by laser trimming metallization strips on the device while monitoring the device frequency and/or phase shift. The trimming strips may be metallizations added during device manufacture or after device manufacture, or they may include...     

A method for selective removal of metallization in integrated circuits. A uniform metal film is applied over a patterned resist layer. A short pulse of radiant energy is then applied to the whole surface of the metal film. The resist underneath the metal film is locally heated enough to cause outgassing,...     

A process is taught for improving the core loss of magnetic materials of the type having a plurality of magnetic domains and an insulative coating thereon. The insulative coating may be a mill glass, an applied coating, or both. The magnetic material is scanned by the beam of a laser across its rolling...     

The electrical resistor of the present invention comprises a flat metal plate having a thickness from 8 mils to 50 mils. A pair of electrical leads are operatively attached to the ends of the metal plate, and the side edges of the metal plate are provided with a plurality of notches extending inwardly...     

A semiconductor resistor device comprising a resistor region diffused in the surface area of a semiconductor substrate, resistor electrodes respectively ohmically contacted to the surface of the resistor region, and a protective layer coated on the surfaces of the resistor electrodes. A trimming electrode...     

A solid catalyst material is evaporated from a coating on a transparent solid substrate and is condensed onto a solid polymeric organic catalyst carrier or into a liquid, by passing a laser beam through said solid transparent substrate and onto the back of said coating and contacting said catalyst carrier...     

This invention provides a method for laser drilling small diameter, closely-spaced, and accurately located holes in a body of material which is transparent or substantially transparent to the laser radiation employed whereby the holes are drilled through the thickness of the body from the surface opposite...     

A very thin gold coating (e.g., 270 to 3,500 Angstroms) is vapor deposited on the surface of a nickel substrate. A short radiant energy pulse from a laser having a pulse length of about 130 nanoseconds is directed at the coated surface to melt portions of the gold coating and the nickel substrate therebelow....     

A thick film resistor includes a ceramic substrate 10, a pair of spaced apart electrical connections 30 affixed to the substrate 10, a region of electrically resistive material 21 coated onto the ceramic 10 and not in contact with either of the electrical connections 30, the electrically resistive material...     

The electrical resistor of the present invention comprises a flat metal plate having a thickness from 1 mil to 50 mils. A pair of electrical leads are operatively attached to the ends of the metal plate, and the side edges of the metal plate are provided with a plurality of notches extending inwardly...     

A method of soldering electrical lead strands (of a width at least 0.3 inch) to a printed electrical path is disclosed. The path is planted on an alumina ceramic substrate and a solder pad is attached to a portion of the path. A flat surface portion of each lead strand is forced into full interengagement...     

Apparatus and method for bonding surfaces together. A laser beam is applied to the opening in a bonding tip. The bonding tip includes a central cavity forming a black body tapered from the opening to a second tip end. The heated tip end is applied to the fuseable surfaces in either a thermocompression...     

An integrated circuit comprises a substrate having a plurality of components electrically isolated by regions of amorphous material formed by laser irradiation. Typically the laser radiation has a wavelength less than 400 nm a pulse length between 0.1 and 10 .mu.sec, and a power density between 0.1 and...     

An argon-fluorine (ArF) excimer laser is used to selectively heat various Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 materials used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices to elevated temperatures while maintaining active device regions and electrical interconnects at relatively low temperatures, to, for example, anneal the...     

An aiming beam coincident with a laser beam is provided in a modified slit-lamp apparatus. The aiming beam is resolved into a number of images displaced with respect to the axis of the slit lamp imaging rays bracketing the intersection of the laser beam and the axis of slit lamp rays, which intersection...     

A method for trimming precision resistors which includes forming a helical groove in a conductive film coating on a cylindrical core. Final trimming includes forming discrete circular depressions in the film coating by using a pulsed laser. This method enables the manufacture of precision resistors having...     

Selective incision of metallic layers overlying semiconductors by laser ablation (evaporation) of selected regions of a dye sensitized coating on each such metallic layer, followed by etching of the metallic layer to avoid objectionable alloying by laser scribing of the metallic layer to provide the...     

An automated program controlled discrete soldering system for plated holes of a printed wiring board, having a crucible for holding a discrete amount of solder and operable to travel in a substantial vertical path to a soldering position beneath the board. The solder is metered and deposited in the crucible...     

A process for the modification of substrate surfaces is described, wherein etching or deposition at a surface occurs only in the presence of both reactive species and a directed beam of coherent light.

An improved method is disclosed for producing a welded joint between galvanized steel sheet members utilizing a laser beam or the like. Surface regions of the galvanized member in the weld zone are selectively pretreated to remove the zinc coating and apply a nickel-base coating. The nickel coating avoids...     

A dry etching method according to the present invention is composed of the steps of evacuating the reaction chamber in which a substrate to be etched is set, introducing etching gas into the reaction chamber, causing the substrate to adsorb the introduced etching gas and thereafter evacuate the etching...     

A method of producing a cast iron camshaft including the steps of applying a high-density energy source, such as a TIG arc, a laser beam, and an electron beam over the entire sliding surface of a cam to melt the surface portion and cooling the cam by dissipating the localized heat through the camshaft...     

A method of coalescing two or more laser beams employs an optical merging element such as a polarization beam splitter to make the laser beams substantially merged into a single laser beam of multiplied power. In the merged laser beam, however, the original laser beams cannot easily be perfectly aligned...     

A method and apparatus of for producing vapor from a liquid using laser energy are disclosed. Liquid within a container is vaporized by directing at least one laser beam into the liquid in the container and retaining at least essentially all of the energy of the at least one laser beam in the container...     

A method of laser-machining IC carrier bodies from a sheet ceramic blank, and the IC carrier products produced from such laser-machining. The ceramic blank, preferably of alumina or beryllia, is high temperature fired to permanently fix its size and shape prior to the laser-machining, permitting a matrix...     

Electrically conductive paths are produced on a polymeric substrate by laser writing, i.e., by tracing desired paths on the substrate by a laser beam. The resulting paths comprise electrically conductive carbon as produced by thermal decomposition of substrate surface material; the paths can serve; e.g.,...     

A conductor path is formed by providing an insulating substrate having a surface region which is formed of an insulating composition. The insulating composition contains an organic polymeric material and at least one metal source. The metal source is a metallic powder and/or an organic compound chemically...     

Materials whose elemental constituents are selected from groups III and V of the Periodic Table are photochemically etched in a reducing environment. Etching is carried out by illuminating a halogenated hydrocarbon gas, e.g. methyl iodide, with ultra-violet light in the vicinity of the material. The...     

A fused silica glass optical fiber 10 is machined by a pulsed infrared laser beam 20 from a carbon dioxide laser 22 focussed by a germanium lens 24. The beam has a power density of about 70,000 watts per square centimeter at the focussed machining region b and is pulsed at about one pulse per second...     

In a method of making an electronic device having at least a transparent conductive layer, which includes at least a step of forming a transparent conductive layer member and a step of forming a transparent conductive layer by patterning the transparent conductive layer member using a spot-shaped or...     

An additive that absorbs light at a given wavelength is added to a solder flux composition for use in laser soldering wherein the laser emits light of said given wavelength. The additive reduces the power required to melt the solder-flux combination and thereby improves soldering efficiency.

An improved squeegee roller particularly suited for use in an instant camera has a texture formed by stud-like bumps. A complex contour is provided to the roller by varying the heights of the bumps along the roller surface. In a method and apparatus for producing the roller a pulsed laser beam is used...     

A laser welding method and apparatus for welding stacked coated members in which voids in the welds are positively eliminated. A spacer is disposed between the two members to be welded. This provides a path for discharging gas formed by heating the coating material. The method and apparatus of the invention...     

A method and device are provided to accomplish laser driven pyrolytic, photolytic and photoactivativation process requiring controlled atmosphere without the use of gas tight cells. A method and device are provided to correct clear faults on a photo-lithographic mask by metallic deposition on the mask...     

A scanner for industrial laser machines, which comprises a housing (1) acmodating a movable scanning element (4) a means (12) for inducing mechanical oscillations of the scanning element (4), which is mechanically connected to the housing (1), and a measuring transducer (19) responding to the mechanical...     

A laser scribing system and method is described. In the system, a film formed on a substrate is irradiated with laser beam which is focused on a limited portion of the film in order to remove the portion and produce a groove. Laser beam used for eliminating the portion of film formed on a substrate is...     

An apparatus and method for reacting on material by means of intense radiation employed to change the physical and, in certain instances, the chemical characteristics of such material. In one form, an intense radiation beam is directed into a cavity of a die or support for a small quantity of material...     

In a method of making an electronic device having at least a transparent conductive layer, which includes at least a step of forming a transparent conductive layer member and a step of forming a transparent conductive layer by patterning the transparent conductive layer member using a spot-shaped or...     

A laser scribing method is described. A laser beam is deprived of its tail which appears along a groove which is engraved by scribing. The scribing can be performed without forming protrusion along the edge of grooves engraved by the scribing. The depriving of the tail is accomplished by coating the...     

A method for producing full-surface or partial metal films on a substrate includes placing a coating on a substrate. The coating is irradiated sheetwise with a laser to form the metal films.

A system to remove ice formed on a surface, such as an airplane wing. Heat generative laser beam is directed upon a snow or ice-covered surface, thereby vaporizing the ice and snow formed thereupon. By translating the laser light generator along the frozen surface, vaporization of the snow and ice formed...     

A laser machining apparatus includes a laser resonator capable of producing a laser beam having a filled-in intensity distribution pattern and a condensing device for converting the beam into a suitable beam to perform an intended machining. A device is provided for regulating phase of the laser beam...     

A technique for generating high resolution resistor or conductor patterns on uneven surfaces by focusing a CO.sub.2 laser beam to locally render insoluable suitable thick film resistor or conductor material that has been uniformly coated onto a substrate and oven-dried to remove organic coating solvents....     

A device is disclosed for use in a chromatographic system wherein a component of a mixture is partitioned between a liquid phase and an immobile phase. The device comprises at least one strip of a bibulous material. In the chromatographic system the component traverses at least a portion of the strip....     

An assist gas control method is provided for a CNC laser machining device including a combination of a laser beam machine and a numerical control apparatus (CNC). The kind, mixing ratio, pressure, and flow rate of a assist gas are controlled by instructions from a machining program, and a numerical control...     

A spraying material is fed to and melted in a high energy density zone formed by converging a laser beam therein with a converging lens or a mirror, and the molten spraying material is rendered into particles by jetting a carrier gas stream such that the axis thereof crosses the axis of the laser beam...     

This invention relates to a method for manufacturing a highly reliable stress detector. Conventionally, a step of bonding and securing magnetic elements (4) to a driven shaft (1) receiving a stress was needed, so that a high technique was needed to secure the magnetic elements (4) uniformly at the entire...     

A method for processing a work, which is running in a direction, by making reciprocal scanning of laser beams and by repeatedly processing substantially parallel processing lines. By determining the scanning velocity vector of the laser beam by operation of the running velocity vector of the work and...     

A feed material is melted by a focussed laser beam in a partially confined interaction volume, and ejected from the interaction volume in a direction different from the axis of the laser beam. The feed material, preferably in the form of a finely divided powder fluidized by a gas stream, is fed to the...     

In a method of making an electronic device having at least a transparent conductive layer, which includes at least a step of forming a transparent conductive layer member and a step of forming a transparent conductive layer by patterning the transparent conductive layer member using a spot-shaped or...     

In a method of making an electronic device having at least a transparent conductive layer, which includes at least a step of forming a transparent conductive layer member and a step of forming a transparent conductive layer by patterning the transparent conductive layer member using a spot-shaped or...     

A three dimensional electrical component having a first side and a second side formed from an electrically insulating polymer matrix capable of heat conversion to an electrically conducting polymer matrix has at least one passageway from the first side to the second side having a tapered wall slope configuration...     

A method of modifying the reflectivity and emissivity of a surface of a material comprises the steps of irradiating the surface with a beam of coherent pulsed radiation at a power sufficient to generate a surface plasma and scanning said beam across said surface. Successive pulses of radiation are caused...     

A laser system and masking apparatus for reprofiling surfaces, such as corneal surfaces. The system includes a laser and a mask disposed between the laser and the surface to be reprofiled, the mask providing a pre-defined profile of resistance to laser radiation, such that upon irradiation, part of the...     

A vision system for automating a machine process. The system includes a conventional CCD camera and a vision processor which automatically determines process parameters from a workpiece surface by generating an image of the workpiece surface, transducing the workpiece image into electrical signals, and...     

A method of forming a metallization pattern on a solar cell substrate having an outer layer of a selected dielectric such as silicon nitride, silicon dioxide, or glass, by removing selected portions of the dielectric layer with a laser beam. This laser exposure drives portions of the P/N junction positioned...     

A method of machining a diamond workpiece by a laser beam in which a metallic membrane or layer is formed on at least one surface of the workpiece before the workpiece is subjected to the machining operation. The metallic membrane or layer is preferably formed on both side surfaces of a plate-like diamond...     

To alter feedstock material, the material is exposed to laser radiation applied at a selected angle of incidence, intensity and wavelength related to the refractive index of the feedstock material. Fine uniform particles may be formed through vapor explosion and/or plasma formation and used by this method...     

Techniques for adjusting the surface acousic wave velocity of a packaged SAW device are described. A first technique involves depositing a film from a cover of the device onto a surface wave propagating surface thereby providing a localized region on said surface where the acoustic properties and, hence,...     

Methods and apparatus for improving properties of a solid material in a target (11) by providing shock waves therein. There are directed to the surface of the material (11) pulses of coherent radiation (12) having average energy fluence of at least about 10 Joules per square centimeter and rise time...     

A procedure is described for the repair of gas turbine engine turbine components which involves the repair of cracks and other defects and the replacement of worn or eroded material followed by the laser melting of a thin layer of metal on the surface of the component in those areas requiring reconfiguration...