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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Curtis L. Shoemaker, Round Rock, TX (US);
Luis A. Aguirre, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 2/638 ; B23K 2/606 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 2/638 ; B23K 2/606 ;
Abstract
A Method and Apparatus for ablating features from a substrate, such as drilling holes in a polymer substrate for an ink jet printhead, by illuminating the substrate that has passed through a mask that is continuously orbited or moved in a two dimensional pattern. The mask is capable of following a trajectory perpendicular to the angle of the radiation.