Low-friction moving interfaces in micromachines and nanomachines

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Drawing from US Patent 6802646

Low-friction moving interfaces in micromachines and nanomachines

Inventor

Kley; Victor B. (Berkeley, CA)

Owner/Assignee

General Nanotechnology LLC (Berkeley, CA)
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Publication Date

October 12, 2004

Application Number

10/094,149

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Filing Date

March 7, 2002

US Classification

384/42 74/89.43 384/26 384/29 384/129 384/297 384/907.1 977/DIG.1

Int'l Classification

F16C 017/00

Examiner

Footland; Lenard A.

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Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
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CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application claims priority from the following provisional application, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes: U.S. application Ser. No. 60/287,677, filed Apr. 30, 2001 by Victor B. Kley for "Scanning Probe Microscopy and Nanomachining." The following six U.S. patent applications, including this one, are being filed concurrently and the disclosure of each other application is incorporated by reference in this application in its entirety for all purposes: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/094,148, filed Mar. 07, 2002 by Victor B. Kley for "Method and Apparatus for Scanning in Scanning Probe Microscopy and Presenting Results"; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/093,842, filed Mar. 7, 2002 by Victor B. Kley for "Nanomachining Method and Apparatus"; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/094,408, filed Mar. 7, 2002 by Victor B. Kley for "Active Cantilever for Nanomachining and Metrology"; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/094,411, filed Mar. 7, 2002 by Victor B. Kley for "Methods and Apparatus for Nanolapping"; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/094,149, filed Mar. 7, 2002 by Victor B. Kley for "Low Friction Moving Interfaces in Micromachines and Nanomachines"; and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/093,947, filed Mar. 7, 2002 by Victor B. Kley and Robert T. LoBianco for "Method and Apparatus for Tool and Tip Design for Nanomachining and Measurement". The following U.S. patents are incorporated by reference in their entirety for all purposes: U.S. Pat. No. 6,144,028, issued Nov. 7, 2000 to Victor B. Kley for "Scanning Probe Microscope Assembly and Method for Making Confocal, Spectrophotometric, Near-Field, and Scanning Probe Measurements and Associated Images;" U.S. Pat. No. 6,252,226, issued Jun. 26, 2001 to Victor B. Kley for "Nanometer Scale Data Storage Device and Associated Positioning System;" U.S. Pat. No. 6,337,479, issued Jan. 8, 2002 to Victor B. Kley for "Object Inspection and/or Modification System and Method;" and U.S. Pat. No. 6,339,217, issued Jan. 5, 2002 to Victor B. Kley for "Scanning Probe Microscope Assembly and Method for Making Confocal, Spectrophotometric, Near-Field, and Scanning Probe Measurements and Associated Images." The disclosure of the following published PCT application is incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes: WO 01/03157 (International Publication Date: Jan. 11, 2001) based on PCT Application No. PCT/US00/18041, filed Jun. 30, 2000 by Victor B. Kley for "Object Inspection and/or Modification System and Method."

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