Author: claimsbot

1. A method for fabricating a side shield for a magnetic transducer having a nonmagnetic layer, a pole, a gap layer, and a hard mask having a hard mask aperture therein, the pole having sidewalls and an air-bearing surface location (ABS location) corresponding to an air-bearing surface (ABS), the pole, the gap layer residing between the sidewalls of the pole and a portion of the nonmagnetic layer, a first portion of the hard mask residing on the pole, a second portion of the hard mask residing on a portion of nonmagnetic layer, the hard mask aperture residing between the first portion and the second portion of the hard mask, the method comprising:
providing a removal mask having a removal aperture therein, the removal aperture exposing a portion of the pole proximate to the ABS location and a first portion of the aperture, the removal mask covering a second portion of the aperture in a track width direction from the ABS location of the pole and covering the second portion of the hard mask;
removing a first portion of the nonmagnetic layer exposed by the removal aperture, forming a side shield trench in the nonmagnetic layer;
depositing a seed layer for the side shield;
providing a side shield deposition mask having a deposition aperture therein, the deposition aperture exposing a first portion of the side shield trench and a portion of the nonmagnetic layer in the track width direction from the ABS location of the pole, the side shield deposition mask covering a second portion of the side shield trench;
depositing at least one side shield material, a portion of the side shield material residing in the deposition aperture;
planarizing the transducer to remove a portion of the side shield material external to the side shield trench, a remaining portion of the side shield material forming the side shield.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the removal aperture of the removal mask has a back edge extending at least one depth in a stripe height direction perpendicular to the ABS and wherein step of providing the side shield deposition mask further includes:
providing the side shield deposition mask including the deposition aperture having a depositing aperture back edge extending from the ABS in the stripe height direction at least one throat height that is less than the at least one depth.
3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:
removing the deposition mask before the step of planarizing the transducer.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of providing the removal mask further includes:
providing the removal mask having the removal aperture, the removal aperture including a canted region being canted at an angle from the ABS, the side shield having a side shield canted region corresponding to the canted region of the removal mask.
5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:
removing the removal mask before the step of depositing the seed layer.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of removing the first portion of the nonmagnetic layer further includes:
wet etching the nonmagnetic layer.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
depositing an additional nonmagnetic layer after the step of depositing the at least one side shield material and before the step of planarizing the transducer.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of providing the removal mask further includes:
depositing a bottom antireflective coating layer;
providing a photoresist layer on the bottom antireflective coating layer;
patterning the photoresist layer to form the removal mask having the removal aperture therein, a portion of the bottom antireflective coating layer forming an undercut for the removal mask adjoining the removal aperture.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of providing the side shield deposition mask further includes:
depositing a bottom antireflective coating layer;
providing a photoresist layer on the bottom antireflective coating layer;
patterning the photoresist layer to form the side shield deposition mask having the deposition aperture therein, a portion of the bottom antireflective coating layer forming an undercut for the deposition mask adjoining the deposition aperture.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the side shield deposition mask defines a throat height of the side shield in a stripe height direction perpendicular to the ABS and wherein the removal mask defines a canted angle of the side shield from the ABS.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein the deposition aperture has a front edge extending at least one deposition mask distance in a direction opposite to the stripe height direction and wherein the removal aperture has a removal aperture front edge extending at least one distance in the direction opposite to the stripe height direction, the at least one deposition mask distance being less than the at least one distance.
12. The method of claim 10 wherein the deposition aperture has a back edge extending at least one throat height distance in the stripe height direction and wherein the removal mask extends at least one removal mask distance in the stripe height direction, the at least one throat height distance being less than the removal mask distance.
13. A method for fabricating a side shield for a magnetic transducer having a nonmagnetic layer, a pole, a gap layer, and a hard mask having a hard mask aperture therein, the pole having sidewalls and an air-bearing surface location (ABS location) corresponding to an air-bearing surface (ABS), the gap layer residing between the sidewalls of the pole and a portion of the nonmagnetic layer, a first portion of the hard mask residing on the pole, a second portion of the hard mask residing on a portion of nonmagnetic layer, the hard mask aperture residing between the first portion and the second portion of the hard mask, the method comprising the sequential steps of:
providing a removal mask having a removal aperture therein, the removal aperture exposing a portion of the pole proximate to the ABS location and a first portion of the aperture, the removal mask covering a second portion of the aperture in a track width direction from the ABS location of the pole and covering the second portion of the hard mask, the removal aperture having a back edge and a front edge, the front edge of the removal aperture forming a canted region having an angle canted from the ABS;
wet etching a first portion of the nonmagnetic layer exposed by the removal aperture, forming a side shield trench in the nonmagnetic layer, the side shield trench including a canted trench region corresponding to the canted region of the removal mask;
removing the removal mask;
depositing a seed layer for the side shield;
providing a side shield deposition mask having a deposition aperture therein, the deposition aperture exposing a portion of the side shield trench and a portion of the nonmagnetic layer in the track width direction from the ABS location of the pole, the deposition aperture having a deposition aperture front edge and a deposition aperture back edge, at least a portion of the deposition aperture front edge being further from the ABS than the front edge of the removal mask, at least a portion of the deposition aperture back edge being closer to the ABS than the back edge of the removal aperture, the deposition aperture back edge of the deposition mask defining a side shield throat height;
depositing at least one side shield material, a portion of the side shield material residing in the deposition aperture;
removing the side shield deposition mask;
depositing an additional nonmagnetic layer; and
planarizing the transducer to remove a portion of the side shield material external to the side shield trench, a remaining portion of the side shield material forming the side shield having a canted region defined by the removal mask and a throat height defined by the side shield deposition mask.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein the step of providing the removal mask further includes:
depositing a bottom antireflective coating layer;
providing a photoresist layer on the bottom antireflective coating layer;
patterning the photoresist layer to form the removal mask having the removal aperture therein, a portion of the bottom antireflective coating layer forming an undercut for the removal mask adjoining the removal aperture.
15. The method of claim 13 wherein the step of providing the side shield deposition mask further includes:
depositing a bottom antireflective coating layer;
providing a photoresist layer on the bottom antireflective coating layer;
patterning the photoresist layer to form the side shield deposition mask having the deposition aperture therein, a portion of the bottom antireflective coating layer forming an undercut for the deposition mask adjoining the deposition aperture.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An automatic clothes receiving and retrieving system for laundry, comprising:
a clothes receiving unit having a main controller connected with a central monitoring and controlling system, a verification equipment and an identification tag printing and attaching device connected with the main controller, and a clothes receiving entrance is disposed thereof; wherein when a consumer verifies information on the main controller, clothes are automatically received from the clothes receiving entrance and packed in clothes containers after confirmation, and identification tags are attached to the clothes containers with the identification tag printing and attaching device;
a clothes retrieving unit including at least a first storage area for hanging clothes, and a second storage area for storing cleaned, folded and packed clothes, and a third storage area for storing cleaned, folded and packed larger-sized bedding articles such as bed sheets and bedspreads; wherein after the consumer inputs a verification information, according to data of the consumer cleaned clothes for the consumer are automatically transferred from the storage area via a conveyor to the clothes retrieving exit for the consumer to retrieve.
2. The automatic clothes receiving and retrieving system for laundry of claim 1, wherein the verification equipments of the main controller include a keyboard, a card reader and a palm print identification device that are connected to the main controller.
3. The automatic clothes receiving and retrieving system for laundry of claim 1, wherein the clothes receiving entrance of the clothes receiving unit has a gate activated by the main controller and the gate is opened for receiving clothes only after confirmation of the verification information of the consumer.

1. A coupling and separating device comprising:
a block which engages an installation member of a launch vehicle and a structure installed on said installation member;
a clamp band which has a strap which holds said block from outside; and
a coupling section which couples or separates end sections of said strap,
wherein said strap comprises shape memory alloy and comprises a stretching section which stretches through heating.
2. The coupling and separating device according to claim 1, wherein said strap comprises a plurality of stretching sections which contain said stretching section.
3. The coupling and separating device according to claim 1, wherein said shape memory alloy comprises TiNi.
4. The coupling and separating device according to claim 1, wherein said end sections of said strap have openings, respectively,
wherein said coupling section comprises:
a pin; and
a driving unit which insets and pulls out said pin into and from said openings, and
wherein said end sections of said strap are coupled by inserting said pin into said openings and said end sections of said strap are separated by pulling out said pin from said openings.
5. The coupling and separating device according to claim 1, further comprising:
a heating section which heats said stretching section.
6. A coupling and separating system comprising:
an installation member which is installed in a launch vehicle and on which a structure is installed;
a coupling and separating device; and
a heating unit which heats a stretching section of said coupling and separating device,
wherein said coupling and separating device comprises:
a block which engages an installation member of a launch vehicle and a structure installed on said installation member;
a clamp band which has a strap which holds said block from outside; and
a coupling section which couples or separates end sections of said strap,
wherein said strap comprises shape memory alloy and comprises a stretching section which stretches through heating.
7. The coupling and separating system according to claim 6, further comprising:
a first sensor which detects a temperature of said stretching section,
wherein said heating unit stops the heating based on a detection result of said first sensor.
8. The coupling and separating system according to claim 6, further comprising:
a second sensor which detects a length of said stretching section,
wherein said heating unit stops the heating based on a detection result of said second sensor.
9. A coupling and separating method which uses a coupling and separating system which couples or separates a structure with or from a launch vehicle, wherein said coupling and separating system comprises:
an installation member which is installed in a launch vehicle and on which said structure is installed;
a coupling and separating device which couples or separates said structure with or from said installation member; and
a heating unit,
wherein said coupling and separating device comprises:
a block which engages said installation member of said launch vehicle and said structure installed in said installation member;
a strap which holds said block from outside; and
a coupling section which couples or separates end sections of said strap,
wherein said strap comprises shape memory alloy and comprises a stretching section which stretches through heating,
wherein said coupling and separating method comprises:
heating said stretching section of said strap by said heating unit to stretch said stretching section, wherein said end sections are coupled in said coupling section; and
separating said end sections in said coupling section after the stretch.
10. The coupling and separating method according to claim 9, wherein said strap comprises a plurality of stretching sections which contain said stretching section,
wherein said heating comprises:
heating said plurality of stretching sections one by one at different timings by said heating unit.
11. The coupling and separating method according to claim 10, wherein said heating said plurality of stretching sections one by one comprises:
heating one of said plurality of stretching sections by said heating unit; and
heating another of said plurality of stretching sections which has not been heated, after the heating of said one stretching section.
12. The coupling and separating system according to claim 6, wherein said strap comprises a plurality of stretching sections which contain said stretching section.
13. The coupling and separating system according to claim 6, wherein said shape memory alloy comprises TiNi.
14. The coupling and separating system according to claim 6, wherein said end sections of said strap have openings, respectively,
wherein said coupling section comprises:
a pin; and
a driving unit which insets and pulls out said pin into and from said openings, and
wherein said end sections of said strap are coupled by inserting said pin into said openings and said end sections of said strap are separated by pulling out said pin from said openings.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A measurement method for injection molding machines which comprises performing a main measurement by rotating in a forward direction a screw with a back-flow prevention valve installed on its tip and rotating said screw in a reverse direction to perform a post-measurement processing after the main measurement process is finished, wherein in said post-measurement process the screw is put in a free-rotation state and moved forward after said main measurement process is finished, the rotational state of said screw during this forward movement being monitored, so that if the rotation of said screw comes to a halt, said screw is rotated in a reverse direction by a specified amount of rotation and wherein said post-measurement process includes a suck-back processing step which moves the screw in the backward direction by a specified stroke after rotating said screw in reverse.
2. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein the screw position after completing said main measurement process and the screw position after rotating said screw in a reverse direction are detected, an amount of correction is obtained from the deviation between said measurement end position and said reverse rotation end position, and the position setting values in at least the injection process are corrected with this amount of correction.
3. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein said halt state is detected by an encoder pulse obtained from a rotary encoder installed with a servo motor for screw rotation which rotates said screw.
4. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein if said halt state is not detected, even when a preset time is reached while monitoring said screw rotation state, specified error processing is performed.
5. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein if said halt state is not detected, even when a preset number of rotations is reached while monitoring said screw rotation state, specified error processing is performed.
6. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein if said halt state is not detected, even when a preset resin pressure is reached while monitoring said screw rotation state, specified error processing is performed.
7. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein when rotating said screw in reverse, control is exercised to fix the fore-and-aft position of said screw.
8. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein when rotating said screw in reverse, control is exercised to fix the pressure of said screw.
9. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein the amount of rotation to rotate said screw in reverse is preset according to the number of rotations of said screw.
10. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein the number of rotations in rotating said screw in reverse is shown on a display.
11. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein the amount of rotation in rotating said screw in reverse is preset according to time.
12. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 1, wherein the rotation speed in rotating said screw in reverse is shown on a display.
13. The measurement method for molding machines according to claim 9, wherein the number of rotations in rotating said screw in reverse is shown on a display.