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Micron Technology Incorporated

Mark L Jones

Gregory A Barnett

Robert Bruce Kleve

Robert MacRury

An apparatus, system, and method to flash print an image. The apparatus includes an energy source that delivers energy. The apparatus includes an energy pulse width modulator coupled to the energy source. The energy pulse width modulator may receive energy from the energy source and modulate the energy received from the energy source. The energy pulse width modulator may be driven by a logic module. The apparatus also includes a plurality of imaging pixels modulated by the energy pulse width modulator and conveying modulated energy to a host material. The host material may be in close proximity to a receiving medium and the modulated energy may release dye from the host material into the receiving medium.

Apparatus, system, and method for flash printing

A joint fitting for thermoplastic pipes. The fitting member has a receptor and an insert. The receptor fits snugly over the thermoplastic pipe, and the end of the pipe abuts against the fitting member. These respective contact surfaces are fused together by thermal welding, thus forming a socket seal and an abutting seal to strengthen the joint and to protect any glass fiber reinforcing layer of the pipe. One embodiment of the fitting also comprises a glass fiber reinforcing member that provides structural strength to the fitting member. In another embodiment, the fitting comprises an inner rim that fits inside the end of the thermoplastic pipe, thereby forming a double socket, abutted seal between the fitting and the pipe. Other embodiments comprise a valve for releasing gas and molten thermoplastic material during the thermal welding process.

Connection fitting for connecting thermoplastic pipes

A method for continuous, non lot-based manufacturing of integrated circuit (IC) devices of the type to each have a unique fuse identification (ID) includes: reading the fuse ID of each of the IC devices; advancing multiple lots of the IC devices through, for example, a test step in the manufacturing process in a substantially continuous manner; generating data, such as test data, related to the advancement of each of the IC devices through the step in the process; and associating the data generated for each of the IC devices with the fuse ID of its associated IC device.

Methods for non-lot-based manufacturing of articles

Methods for non lot-based integrated circuit manufacturing

Process and method for continuous, non lot-based integrated circuit manufacturing

The recreational vehicle bumper device is an elongated tube having an outside, cross-sectional shape sized smaller than the inside cross-sectional shape of a recreational vehicle's bumper where the elongated tube fits inside the recreational vehicle bumper, and having an inside diameter sized large enough to receive and store a recreational vehicle's waste disposal hose.

Recreational vehicle bumper device

The invention comprises a log supporting apparatus for a fireplace having three supporting legs converging upward at an angle toward one another to form a tripod. The apparatus has an upper and lower bracket fitted within the confines of the legs with the legs at 120 degree intervals about a circle and with the brackets having pins projecting outward into bores in the legs to support the legs and brackets with the legs at their inclined angle. The lower bracket is spaced above the bottom of the legs and acts to support the bottoms of the logs with the upper portions of the logs resting at an inclined angle toward one another against the upper bracket whereby ignitable material may be placed beneath the logs and the logs may be easily burned.

Log supporting apparatus

Method for continuous, non lot-based integrated circuit manufacturing

A reflective bead dispensing apparatus which works in conjunction with any prior art airless walk behind striping equipment. This reflective bead dispensing and paint dispensing apparatus is attachable to the rear of a vehicle. Compressed air and the vehicle's electrical system control all operations. The bead dispensing apparatus has an telescoping boom capable of pivoting around the point of attachment and extends outwardly from the point of attachment. At the end of the telescoping boom is the wheeled paint carriage which contains an air compressor, air tank, warning light, flood lights, the brake/hazard/turn signal lights, paint spray gun mounts, and reflective bead hoppers and dispensers. The carriage can pivot around the attachment point to the boom. The reflective beads are applied onto the wet paint already applied to the surface. The carriage pivots between a lowered position during striping operations and a locked upright position during relocation. The carriage mounts to a detachable trailer behind the vehicle during transport or can be placed into the back of a vehicle. The vehicle contains paint and a prior art pump which pushes the paint through hoses to the prior art spray guns on the carriage. A jack with an elongated wheeled foot can be lowered for ground support during mounting and removal of the apparatus from the vehicle, and also during transformation from a towing configuration into a striping configuration. A line guide is detachably mountable to the vehicle's front bumper. A remote control box enables operation of all functions of the apparatus by the vehicle's driver.

Striping apparatus for vehicle travel surfaces

A reflective bead dispensing apparatus which works in conjunction with any prior art airless walk behind striping equipment. This reflective bead dispensing and paint dispensing apparatus is attachable to the rear of a vehicle. Compressed air and the vehicle's electrical system control all operations. The bead dispensing apparatus has an telescoping boom capable of pivoting around the point of attachment and extends outwardly from the point of attachment. At the end of the telescoping boom is the wheeled paint carriage which contains an air compressor, air tank, warning light, flood lights, the brake/hazard/turn signal lights, paint spray gun mounts, and reflective glass bead hoppers and dispensers. The carriage can pivot around the attachment point to the boom. The glass beads are applied onto the wet paint already applied to the surface. The carriage pivots between a lowered position during striping operations and a locked upright position during relocation. The carriage mounts to a detachable trailer behind the vehicle during transport or can be placed into the back of a vehicle. The vehicle contains paint and a prior art pump which pushes the paint through hoses to the prior art spray guns on the carriage. A jack with an elongated wheeled foot can be lowered for ground support during mounting and removal of the apparatus from the vehicle, and also during transformation from a towing configuration into a striping configuration. A line guide is detachably mountable to the vehicle's front bumper. A remote control box enables operation of all functions of the apparatus by the vehicle's driver.

An inventive method for continuous, non lot-based manufacturing of integrated circuit (IC) devices of the type to each have a unique fuse identification (ID) includes: reading the fuse ID of each of the IC devices; advancing multiple lots of the IC devices through, for example, a test step in the manufacturing process in a substantially continuous manner; generating data, such as test data, related to the advancement of each of the IC devices through the step in the process; and associating the data generated for each of the IC devices with the fuse ID of its associated IC device. By associating the data with the fuse ID's, the inventive method allows the IC devices to be tracked through the step in the process. Further, because multiple lots of the IC devices can advance through the step in the process continuously, manufacturing resources are used more efficiently. In addition, because the fuse ID's and associated data read and generated using the inventive method need not physically accompany IC devices as they progress through the manufacturing process, the inventive method is more reliable than conventional tracking procedures.

A masking device is provided for use with projectors, such as an overhead projector, to selectively block the projection beam that carries an image disposed on a substrate, such as a transparency, for projection onto a viewing screen. The masking device has a framework having preferably guide rails that form slideways receiving a shutter panel. A transparency is aligned by the guide rails and the shutter panel has a leading edge that extends transversely across the aligned transparency so that only the image portion forward of the leading edge is projected. The shutter panel is constructed of a material that inhibits the projectiton beam, but allows the projection to read or view the image portion that is blocked. A base plate of transparent material supports the guide rails and provides a stage on which the transparency may be positioned for projection of the image disposed thereon. Adjustably mounts to retro-fit the masking device on various projectors is described, but the device could be made integrally with the projector.

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Boise, ID, United States of America

Mark L Jones