Appeal No. 2002-1223
Application 09/435,455
catching at least some of said liquid metal droplets
for preventing said at least some of said liquid metal droplets
from contacting said stationary substrate.
10. A method for applying a stream of liquid metal droplets
to portions of a stationary substrate comprising:
producing a continuous stream of liquid metal droplets; and
selectively directing said stream of liquid metal droplets in one
of a first dimension, a second dimension, and a first
dimension and a second dimension using a raster
scanning process comprising:
electrically charging said liquid metal droplets;
deflecting at least a portion of said electrically
charged liquid metal droplets in said one
of a first dimension, a second dimension, and
a first dimension and a second dimension for
deposition on portions of said substrate; and
catching at least some of said liquid metal droplets
for use as a continuous stream of liquid metal droplets for
deposition on portions of said substrate.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence
of obviousness are:
Oeftering 5,520,715 May 28, 1996
Sterett et al. (Sterett) 5,746,844 May 5, 1998
Smith et al. (Smith) 5,810,988 Sep. 22, 1998
Muntz et al. (Muntz) 5,938,102 Aug. 17, 1999
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