Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
015100510 | ELECTROSTATIC CLEANING | 24 |
20080250582 | CLEANING MEMBER - The present invention provides a cleaning member which can be produced at low cost and which maintains excellent cleaning performance for a long period of time. The cleaning member includes a core member, a lower layer formed through winding a cord member around the core member at the surface thereof, and an upper layer provided on the outer surface of the lower layer. The upper layer is formed of at least one fiber layer made of woven fabric or knitted fabric. | 10-16-2008 |
20090158537 | Static electricity and dust removing apparatus - This static electricity and dust removing apparatus has a base box ( | 06-25-2009 |
20090183322 | ELECTROSTATIC SURFACE CLEANING - Embodiments of the present invention generally provide apparatus and methods for cleaning a substrate, such as a mask. One embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for cleaning a substrate comprising a substrate support configured to receive and support the substrate, a collecting tip connected with an electrostatic power source, wherein the collecting tip is configured to pickup particles on a surface of the substrate using electrostatic force, and an indexing mechanism configured to provide relative movement between the collecting tip and the substrate support. | 07-23-2009 |
20100017977 | Walk-Up Workstation Employing Ionizing Air Nozzles and Insulating Panels - A walk-up, user accessible cleaning workstation having a sensor and ionization nozzle arranged on a frame. The frame mounts the sensor in a fixed position to the nozzle in operative proximity to a cleaning area. The frame partially encloses the nozzle's electrode. The sensor detects manual workpiece placement into the cleaning area to open the gas valve and activate the power supply. The panel deflects dust flying off the workpiece from reaching the user's face. The workstation improves safety in the cleaning and destaticizing of ophthalmic lenses. | 01-28-2010 |
20100050349 | Cleaning apparatus and cleaning method - The invention provides a cleaning apparatus for removing particles attached to the fine roughness on the surface of an insulating body coated on the metal surface of a vacuum processing apparatus. The present cleaning apparatus comprises an adhesive sheet | 03-04-2010 |
20100088830 | DUST REMOVER FOR CONTAINER - A dust remover for container comprises a holder for holding a plurality of cup-like containers in a stacked state, and air blower for blowing air to the containers in the direction perpendicular to the axis of stacked containers. Furthermore, it is preferable that the air blown from the air blowing means includes ions. | 04-15-2010 |
20110005010 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PARTICLES IN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING - A system for semiconductor wafer manufacturing, comprises a chamber process path for processing the wafer, and a device operable to remove particles from the wafer by electrostatic and electromagnetic methodologies wherein the device is installed in the chamber process path. | 01-13-2011 |
20120110755 | Cleaning Device with Electrostatic Sheet Auto Rolling - A cleaning device with electrostatic sheet auto rolling, comprising: a frame; a power gear set; a roller set, having a first roller, a second roller, a paper feeder roller; and a paper collector roller, arranged axially parallel with each other; and a drive shaft; wherein, the paper feeder roller is coaxially received inside a roller of paper; the first, the second and the paper collector rollers are driven to rotate by the power gear set; the paper collector roller is disposed radial to the paper feeder roller at a side thereof while enabling the first and the second rollers to be arranged therebetween; the drive shaft is enabled to move relative to the frame and perpendicular to the axial direction of the drive shaft; the drive shaft is arranged protruding out of the frame; and the drive shaft, the first and the second rollers are arranged parallel to each other. | 05-10-2012 |
20120222223 | AUXILIARY CLEANING TOOL ASSEMBLY AND CLEANING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - Described is an auxiliary cleaning tool assembly of a cleaning apparatus, the auxiliary cleaning tool assembly including a body part connected to a house and having at least one passage, a brush unit rotatably provided on the body part, a nozzle part configured to remove dust attached on the brush unit, and a power transferring part configured to convert an air flow of air passing through the at least one passage of the body part to a rotary force of the brush unit. | 09-06-2012 |
20120304404 | Cleaning Device - Provided is a cleaning device having a compact structure. | 12-06-2012 |
20130263393 | SELF-CLEANING SOLAR PANELS AND CONCENTRATORS WITH TRANSPARENT ELECTRODYNAMIC SCREENS - A transparent electrodynamic screen (EDS) enables automatic removal of dust to protect and enhance performance of solar collectors and similar components. A pattern of transparent conductive electrodes are deposited over a glass or polymer outer surface of a solar collector, and embedded under a thin, transparent dielectric fluoropolymer film or silicon dioxide coating. When energized by three-phase voltages at frequencies in the range 5 to 20 Hz, the electrodes produce an oscillating electric field and a traveling electrodynamic wave that charges the particles on the surface and exerts coulomb and dielectrophoretic forces to lift the dust from the surface and transport it to an edge of the collector, thereby clearing the screen. The EDS can be incorporated in the collector in an integrated way during manufacture or retrofitted to existing conventional collectors. | 10-10-2013 |
20130269126 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING DEFECT IN OBJECT SURFACE - An aspect of the invention provides a defect inspection apparatus being able to accurately inspect a micro foreign matter or defect at a high speed for an inspection target substrate in which a repetitive pattern and a non-repetitive pattern are mixed. | 10-17-2013 |
20140082865 | STATIC ELIMINATING AND DUST REMOVING APPARATUS - The static eliminating and dust removing apparatus comprises a big container and a small container disposed within the big container. The big container opens at the top and bottom ends to suck the dust in upwardly and discharge the dust. The small container is of hollow cylindrical or truncated conical structure and of a construction that the cyclone and tornado are generated within the small container. Furthermore, the static eliminating and dust removing apparatus has an ion generator disposed in the small container for generating ions which is injected or introduced in the small container and a dried compressed air injection opening formed on the small container for injecting the dried compressed air into the small container to generate cyclone and tornado within the small container. | 03-27-2014 |
20140259468 | SYSTEM FOR ELECTROSTATIC REMOVAL OF DEBRIS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A debris removal device for electrostatically removing debris may include a sheet comprising a plurality of conductive traces and a driver circuit positioned in electrical communication with the conductive traces of the sheet. Each conductive trace may be spaced apart from adjacent conductive traces. Furthermore, the driver circuit may be configured to selectively energize subsets of the plurality of conductive trace. The driver circuit may be configured to energize the subsets of the plurality of conductive traces sequentially. | 09-18-2014 |
20140283316 | CLEANING SYSTEM - A cleaning system used for removing contaminant particles on a surface of an image sensor is provided. The cleaning system includes an gas blower, two plate electrodes parallel to each other, and a high frequency voltage source. The gas blower supplies a mixed gas to the two plate electrodes. The high frequency voltage source provides a high voltage for the two plate electrodes to ionize the mixed gas, thereby the ionized gas cause contaminant particles on the surface of the image sensor to be positively charged, and cause the surface of the image sensor to be positively charged. The vacuum pump device removes the positively charged particles, which are repelled by the positively charged surface of the image sensor. | 09-25-2014 |
20160059276 | DEDUSTING AND DESTATICIZING DEVICE - A dedusting and destaticizing device is disclosed and the dedusting and destaticizing device comprises an electrostatic eliminator, a worktable and a gas curtain generating element; the electrostatic eliminator comprises an ionic wind nozzle and is configured for spraying an ionic wind toward the worktable so as to remove static electricity and dust from an object to be cleaned on the worktable; the worktable is provided below the ionic wind nozzle of the electrostatic eliminator and configured for placement of the object to be cleaned and discharge of the dust; and the gas curtain generating element is provided above the worktable and configured for spraying a gas toward the worktable, so as to form a gas curtain around the object to be cleaned. The dedusting and destaticizing device can integrate a destaticizing function, a dedusting function, a dust collection function and the like, facilitate operations; and avoid polluting the surrounding environment. | 03-03-2016 |
20160150930 | VACUUM CLEANER | 06-02-2016 |
015100520 | Hand implement | 7 |
20090031509 | BROOM WITH PARTICLE CAPTURE SHEET - Applicant discloses a broom that comprises at least one particle capture sheet. In various embodiments, the particle capture sheet can comprise a nonwoven material, a woven material, a knitted material, or a synthetic polymeric membrane. The particle capture sheet can be air permeable or air impermeable, and can comprise an electret material and/or an adhesive. | 02-05-2009 |
20110258790 | FABRIC CARE DEVICE - A fabric care device comprising a body having first and second ends for attaching respective first and second fabric care attachments, wherein at least one of the first and second ends is adapted to detachably attach one of the first and second fabric care attachments. An attachment for a fabric care device selected from the group consisting of a depiller, a delinter, a fabric pile restorer, and a brush. | 10-27-2011 |
20120084929 | BILLIARDS CHALK DUST REMOVAL TOOL - The present invention relates to a billiards chalk dust removal tool. The billiards chalk dust tool is brushed across the baize on a billiard table for cleaning the chalk dust out of the baize periodically to preserve the level of playing conditions on the billiard table. | 04-12-2012 |
20120110756 | ELECTROSTATIC DUST COLLECTOR - Electrostatic dust collector comprising a first ( | 05-10-2012 |
20120255133 | Cleaning Device and System - This invention relates to a cleaning device ( | 10-11-2012 |
20150360264 | Active Electroadhesive Cleaning - An active electroadhesive cleaning device or system includes electrode(s) that produce electroadhesive forces from an input voltage to adhere dust or other foreign objects against an interactive surface, from which the foreign objects are removed when the forces are controllably altered. User inputs control the input voltage and/or designate the size of foreign objects to be cleaned. An active power source provides the input voltage, and the interactive surface can be a continuous track across one or more rollers to move the device across a dirty foreign surface. Electrodes can be arranged in an interdigitated pattern having differing pitches that can be actuated selectively to clean foreign objects of different sizes. Sensors can detect the amount of foreign particles adhered to the interactive surface, and reversed polarity pulses can help repel items away from the interactive surface in a timely and controlled manner. | 12-17-2015 |
20180020820 | ANTI-STATIC HAIR BRUSH | 01-25-2018 |