Surface Technology, Coating

Citations to U.S. patents by U.S. patents granted in 2020

Top 10   [Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]

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[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Examiners

  1. 6 5453124    Programmable multizone gas injector for single-wafer semiconductor processing equipment
  Inventors: Mehrdad M. Moslehi; Cecil J. Davis; Robert T. Matthews

  1. 6 9995047    Construction board installation robot
  Inventors: Sreenivas Raman; Elie Cherbaka; Ryan J. Giovacchini; Brian Jennings; Thomas C. Slater

  3. 5 10076876    Three dimensional printing
  Inventors: Gregory Thomas Mark; Antoni S. Gozdz

  3. 5 5558717    CVD Processing chamber
  Inventors: Jun Zhao; Tom K. Cho; Charles Dornfest; Stefan Wolff; Kevin Fairbairn; Xin Sheng Guo; Alex Schreiber; John M. White

  3. 5 5812332    Windshield for head-up display system
  Inventors: Glenn Freeman

  3. 5 5851294    Gas injection system for semiconductor processing
  Inventors: Lydia J. Young; Richard H. Matthiesen; Simon Selitser; Ron van Os

  3. 5 5964742    Nonwoven bonding patterns producing fabrics with improved strength and abrasion resistance
  Inventors: Ann Louise McCormack; David Lee Fuqua; Kevin Edward Smith

  8. 4 10390575    Medical glove for use when taking a pulse
  Inventors: James L. Hull

  8. 4 4838346    Reusable high-temperature heat pipes and heat pipe panels
  Inventors: Charles J. Camarda; Philip O. Ransone

  8. 4 5478634    Ultra-thin film laminate
  Inventors: Makoto Setoyama; Motoyuki Tanaka; Akira Nakayama; Takashi Yoshida; Yasuhisa Hashimoto; Kazuo Yamagata; Mitsunori Kobayashi

  8. 4 5884009    Substrate treatment system
  Inventors: Wataru Okase

  8. 4 5935337    Thin-film vapor deposition apparatus
  Inventors: Noriyuki Takeuchi; Takeshi Murakami; Hiroyuki Shinozaki; Kiwamu Tsukamoto; Masaru Nakaniwa; Naoki Matsuda

  8. 4 5950925    Reactant gas ejector head
  Inventors: Yukio Fukunaga; Hiroyuki Shinozaki; Kiwamu Tsukamoto; Masao Saitoh

  8. 4 6513221    Garment side panel conveyor system and method
  Inventors: Brian R. Vogt; Jack L. Couillard; Jason Gene Csida; Patricia Katherine Eng; Richard Mark Konetzke; Michael Lee Lohoff; Charles Robert Tomsovic

  8. 4 6815070    Polymer-coated thin glass film substrates
  Inventors: Roland Bürkle; Silke Deutschbein; Reiner Mauch; Karl-Heinz Sossenheimer; Andreas Weber

  8. 4 7093638    Apparatus and method for manufacture and use of composite fiber components
  Inventors: Michael Bonaventura

  8. 4 7811669    Gas barrier laminated film and process for producing the same
  Inventors: Hitoshi Fujii; Norio Akita; Ayumi Shibata; Daidou Chiba; Koichi Mikami; Hisashi Sakamoto

  8. 4 8322656    Wing-fuselage section of an aircraft
  Inventors: Günter Pahl

  8. 4 8623770    Method for sidewall spacer line doubling using atomic layer deposition of a titanium oxide
  Inventors: He Gao; Jeffrey S. Lille; Kanaiyalal C. Patel

  8. 4 8647722    Method of forming insulation film using plasma treatment cycles
  Inventors: Akiko Kobayashi; Akira Shimizu; Kuo-wei Hong; Nobuyoshi Kobayashi; Atsuki Fukazawa

  8. 4 9523148    Process for deposition of titanium oxynitride for use in integrated circuit fabrication
  Inventors: Viljami Pore; Seiji Okura; Hidemi Suemori

  8. 4 9694381    Combination nozzle and device for applying a viscous material to a component edge
  Inventors: Frank Mohr

  8. 4 9981421    Adaptive composite structure using shape memory alloys
  Inventors: Jeffery Lee Marcoe; Sahrudine Apdalhaliem; Moushumi Shome

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Most Cited by Applicants

  1. 63 7651959    Method for forming silazane-based dielectric film
  Inventors: Atsuki Fukazawa; Jeongseok Ha; Nobuo Matsuki

  2. 60 7754621    Process for producing zirconium oxide thin films
  Inventors: Matti Putkonen

  3. 57 6475276    Production of elemental thin films using a boron-containing reducing agent
  Inventors: Kai-Erik Elers; Ville Antero Saanila; Sari Johanna Kaipio; Pekka Soininen

  3. 57 8728956    Plasma activated conformal film deposition
  Inventors: Adrien LaVoie; Shankar Swaminathan; Hu Kang; Ramesh Chandrasekharan; Tom Dorsh; Dennis M. Hausmann; Jon Henri; Thomas G. Jewell; Ming Li; Bryan Schlief; Antonio Xavier; Thomas W. Mountsier; Bart J. van Schravendijk; Easwar Srinivasan; Mandyam Sriram

  5. 56 5916365    Sequential chemical vapor deposition
  Inventors: Arthur Sherman

  5. 56 6086677    Dual gas faceplate for a showerhead in a semiconductor wafer processing system
  Inventors: Salvador P. Umotoy; Lawrence Chung-Lai Lei; Anh N. Nguyen; Steve H. Chiao

  5. 56 6302964    One-piece dual gas faceplate for a showerhead in a semiconductor wafer processing system
  Inventors: Salvador P. Umotoy; Lawrence Chung-Lai Lei; Anh N. Nguyen; Steve H. Chiao

  5. 56 6391803    Method of forming silicon containing thin films by atomic layer deposition utilizing trisdimethylaminosilane
  Inventors: Yeong-kwan Kim; Young-Wook Park; Seung Hwan Lee

  5. 56 6534395    Method of forming graded thin films using alternating pulses of vapor phase reactants
  Inventors: Christiaan J. Werkhoven; Ivo Raaijmakers; Suvi Haukka

  5. 56 6730614    Method of forming a thin film in a semiconductor device
  Inventors: Jung Wook Lim; Sun Jin YUN; Jin Ho Lee

  5. 56 7541297    Method and system for improving dielectric film quality for void free gap fill
  Inventors: Abhijit Basu Mallick; Jeffrey C. Munro; Linlin Wang; Srinivas D. Nemani; Yi Zheng; Zheng Yuan; Dimitry Lubomirsky; Ellie Yieh

  5. 56 8557712    PECVD flowable dielectric gap fill
  Inventors: George Andrew Antonelli; Bart J. van Schravendijk

 
 
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