First Light Technology, Inc.

Brian C Rossignol

Arthur R LeBlanc, Iii

Donald G Parent

Joseph W Paulus

Scott R Parent

Elangovan Ramanathan

Donald W MacMillan

A system and method dispense resin between substrates. A top substrate device holds a top substrate concave up. A bottom substrate device holds a bottom substrate concave down. A resin dispensing device has a needle and dispenses a trajectory of resin defined by an arc having a tangent that touches a tangent of a concave-up-shaped top substrate. The top substrate device may be arranged to include a dampening mechanism to cause a dampened release of the top substrate. Moreover, the top substrate device may be arranged to hold a top substrate so that the top substrate has a continuous concave-up shape extending from a center portion of the top substrate to its outer diameter, and the bottom substrate device may be arranged to hold a bottom substrate so that the bottom substrate has a continuous concave-down shape extending from a center portion of the bottom substrate to its outer diameter.

System and method for dispensing a resin between substrates of a bonded

A vacuum-metallizing machine including a metal platter base (17) having an obverse side and a face side. A substrate-receiving platter (2) is resiliently disposed (3, 3b) in a recess on the face side of the platter base (17). The platter (2) receives a substrate to be metallized. A circumferentially-arranged rigid ring (27) of predetermined dimensions and location is disposed on the face side and mates with a ring (29) around a port (11) on the wall of the vacuum chamber which surrounds an opening in the wall. Engagement of these rings aligns the platter base (17) relative to the port (11, 12, 13 and 14). A compliant ring (42) is disposed between the wall and the platter base (17). The obverse side of the platter base (17) and the chamber are resiliently forced (37a, 37b, 37c) into contact with each other with a toggling action (24, 22b, 22) whereby to align the platter base (17) relative to the port, to force the outer diameter of the platter base (17) into metal-to-metal contact with the periphery of the port (11), to align the substrate relative to the port (11) and also to force the compliant ring into sealing engagement with the wall, thus, to form a vacuum tight seal.

Metallizing machine

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Freeport, ME, United States of America

Brian C Rossignol