3148 results about "Surface preparation" patented technology

A robotic surface treating device that can perform carpet sweeping, hard-surface dry sweeping/wiping, and hard-surface sweeping/mopping is disclosed. The robotic surface treating device includes a sweeper brush, a dust bin for collecting debris from the brush, a reel-to-reel sheet of cleaning material, and a fluid delivery system for delivering fluid from a fluid reservoir onto the sheet of cleaning material and/or onto the surface to be treated. The dust bin, reel-to-reel sheet of cleaning material, and the fluid reservoir are separately installed from the top of the device, and may be separately removed for replacement.

A method for selectively depositing a metallic film on a substrate comprising a first dielectric surface and a second metallic surface is disclosed. The method may include, exposing the substrate to a passivating agent, performing a surface treatment on the second metallic surface, and selectively depositing the metallic film on the first dielectric surface relative to the second metallic surface. Semiconductor device structures including a metallic film selectively deposited by the methods of the disclosure are also disclosed.

This invention is directed toward surface treatment of a device. The surface treatment comprises the attachment of terminal functionalized surfactants to the surface of the substrate by means of reactive functionalities of the terminal functionalized surfactant material reacting with complementary surface reactive functionalities in monomeric units along the polymer substrate. The present invention is also directed to a surface modified medical device, examples of which include contact lenses, intraocular lenses, vascular stents, phakic intraocular lenses, aphakic intraocular lenses, corneal implants, catheters, implants, and the like, comprising a surface made by such a method.

A method and system for treating tissue with a combined therapy profile is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, ultrasound energy is used to treat numerous depths of tissue within a region of interest and the spatial and temporal properties of the ultrasound energy are varied for more effective treatment. The method and system of the present invention are configured to treat all of the tissue from the surface on down and not spare intervening tissue.

A tissue surface treatment apparatus includes a housing having a proximal end, a distal end including a tissue contacting surface, an interior defined by the housing and a handpiece coupled to the housing. The contactinc surface has a plurality of apertures. An energy delivery device including an electrode is positionable in the housing interior. The electrode includes a tissue penetrating distal end in substantial alignment with an aperture. The electrode is configured to be advanced from the housing interior through the aperture and into a target tissue site to define an ablation volume at least partly bounded by a tissue surface. An advancement device is coupled to the energy delivery device and is at least partly positionable within at least one of the housing or the handpiece. The advancement device is configured to advance the electrode from the housing interior into the target tissue site and withdrawal the electrode into the housing interior. A cable is coupled to the housing or the energy delivery device and is configured to be coupled to an energy source.

The invention belongs to the field of surface treatment, and relates to a stainless steel cleaner. The cleaner comprises a nonionic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, a complexing agent, a degreasing agent and deionized water, wherein the degreasing agent is one of amide, and a mixture of amide and hydramine. An environmentally-friendly cleaner comprising the amide or the hydramine, a composite surfactant and the like removes grease under the alkalescent condition, and has good cleaning effect due to the permeation effect of the composite surfactant on the grease and an oxide layer. The invention also relates to a stainless steel cleaning method. The stainless steel cleaner and the stainless steel cleaning method are widely applied to the treatment of various stainless steel surfaces.

The present invention provides a surface preparation process using adsorbed halogen. The halogen is applied in a gas phase with UV light. The adsorbed halogen is subsequently modified in another gas phase reaction. The halogen may be reacted with water to form a hydroxyl-bearing Si—O monolayer that forms a layer for subsequent metal deposition. In one aspect the halogen layer is reacted with an alkyl or alkoxy of the formula R-OH to form a passivation layer. By replacing hydrogen atom termination with alkoxy (e.g.methoxy termination, —OCH₃). The selective deposition process can be used for passivating and depositing thin metal films on material surfaces composed of any combination of the group consisting of semiconductors, conductors, insulators, and the like.

Compositions useful in semiconductor manufacturing for surface preparation and/or cleaning of wafer substrates such as semiconductor device precursor structures. The compositions can be employed for processing of wafers that have, or are intended to be further processed to include, copper metallization, e.g., in operations such as surface preparation, pre-plating cleaning, post-etching cleaning, and post-chemical mechanical polishing cleaning of semiconductor wafers. The compositions contain (i) alkanolamine, (ii) quaternary ammonium hydroxide and (iii) a complexing agent, and are storage-stable, as well as non-darkening and degradation-resistant in exposure to oxygen.

The invention discloses super-hydrophobic and super-oleophobic surface preparation technology. In the preparation technology, aluminum or aluminum alloy sheets are subjected to two-step electrochemical treatment, and then are modified by using perfluorinated octadecyl trichlorosilane or perfluorinated polymethacrylate to prepare the super-hydrophobic and super-oleophobic surface. The surface has super-hydrophobic property on aqueous solution of which the pH value is between 1 and 14 and super-oleophobic property on various oil drops, wherein a contact angle of the surface on water is 171 degrees, and a rolling angle is less than 1 degree; the surface expresses the super-oleophobic property on various oil drops except for perfluorinated polymer liquid, and all contact angles between the oil drops and the surface are more than 150 degrees, and rolling angles are generally less than 10 degrees; and the surface can also be put in air for a long time and can still maintain the super-hydrophobic property and super-oleophobic property.

The invention relates to the technical field of micro-structural surface preparation and laser micro-processing, and in particular provides a method for preparing a micro-nano composite texturing cutting tool by using femtosecond laser. In the method, micro-nano texturing and micro/nano composite texturing preparation is performed on the cutting tool surface by utilizing the unique interaction property between femtosecond laser and materials, the operation is simple, and the accuracy can be controlled. The preparation of micro/nano composite texture can be performed on a coated cutting tool by adopting a coated surface direct texturing method or a two-step composite texturing method. The method overcomes the defect of singleness of texturing only in micron scale in the conventional cutting tool texturing technology, and can further improve the abrasion resistance of the cutting tool, and prolong the service life of the cutting tool.

Functional particulate carrier materials with enhanced retention capabilities are described. The materials comprise at least one functional particulate carrier material subjected to at least one surface treatment, and at least one active ingredient. The at least one surface treatment may be at least one physical surface treatment and/or at least one chemical surface treatment with at least one surface treating agent. The at least one active ingredient may be a biocide, a fungicide, a mildewcide, an antibiotic, an insecticide, a preservative, or an antimicrobial agent. Methods for enhancing the performance of plastics and liquid-based media, for example, coatings and paints, are also described by increasing the retention factors of active ingredients in those plastics and media through surface treatment of functional particulate carrier materials.

Fabrication of AlN substrates suitable for epitaxial deposition of high-quality nitride-based compounds thereon having at least one single-crystal and substantially planarized useful area exceeding about 1 cm² with a peak-to-valley surface topography in the useful area being less than about 50 nm is accomplished by, for example, employing an active solution that reacts non-selectively with the substrate material.

The invention belongs to the technical field of surface treatment, and relates to a nano superhydrophobic surface used for airplane antifreezing and deicing and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: making a hydrophobic microstructure on a substrate by non-silicon surface micromachining technology or microreplication method; coating a nano decorative film on the surface of the hydrophobic microstructure; and baking the prepared hydrophobic microstructure and the substrate coated with the nano decorative film to obtain the dry and clean superhydrophobic surface. The nano superhydrophobic surface improves the contact properties between the surface of an airplane and waterdrops and greatly reduces the degree that a fuselage is infiltrated by the waterdrops; and the nano decorative film can also further reduce the viscous force of the waterdrops when the waterdrops slip the surface of the fuselage, the number of the waterdrops condensed on the surface of the fuselage is reduced, the icing degree on the surface of the airplane is effectively reduced, and the aim of high-efficiency, clean and low-cost airplane ice prevention/removal is achieved.

An absorbent material formed at least in part of a cross-linked polymer. The absorbent material has a centrifuge retention capacity as determined by a Centrifuge Retention Capacity Test of at least about 20 g/g and a gel bed permeability under load as determined by a Gel Bed Permeability Under Load Test of at least about 200×10⁻⁹ cm² or a free swell gel bed permeability as determined by a Free Swell Gel Bed Permeability Test of at least about 2,500×10⁻⁹ cm. The cross-linked polymer may comprise either at least about 75 weight percent anionic polymer or at least about 75 weight percent cationic polymer. In one embodiment, the cross-linked polymer is surface treated with a water soluble non-cross-linked polymer having a potential for becoming charged opposite that of the cross-linked polymer.