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5303671 System for continuously washing and film-forming a semiconductor wafer  
A system for cleaning and film-forming a semiconductor wafer continuously comprises a washing section for removing native oxide from the surface of the wafer while applying hydrofluoric acid to the...
5295522 Gas purge system for isolation enclosure for contamination sensitive items  
A reusable isolation enclosure has a closure member adapted for purging gases from the enclosure. The closure member includes filters and vapor and moisture drains. Replacement of ambient...
5295777 Wafer transport module with rotatable and horizontally extendable wafer holder  
A wafer transport module interconnects a horizontal wafer handler with a vertical wafer processor and includes an evacuatable housing with a first port in communication with the horizontal wafer...
5292393 Multichamber integrated process system  
An integrated modular multiple chamber vacuum processing system is disclosed. The system includes a load lock, may include an external cassette elevator, and an internal load lock wafer elevator,...
5291925 Equipment for forming temporary connections for the transfer of objects between discontinuous confined volumes  
An isolating chamber (1) with an annular connector (5) defines an access opening with one dimension greater than that perpendicular thereto and with an internal wall (5A) of constant section to...
5291923 Door opening system and method  
A reusable isolation structure features an easily cleanable shell. The opening of the shell includes a groove formed around the periphery thereof and is preferably not more than slightly smaller...
5288379 Multi-chamber integrated process system  
A vacuum processing apparatus capable of quickly replacing a substrate without opening the two gate valves simultaneously by using two waiting stages and a single transferring robot. The...
5286296 Multi-chamber wafer process equipment having plural, physically communicating transfer means  
In a multi-chamber process equipment in which a plurality of process chambers for processing a single wafer are connected with a wafer transfer chamber in parallel through respective gate valves,...
5284411 Conveyor for conveying workpieces in a vacuum chamber  
A conveyor for conveying a workpiece in a vacuum chamber includes a floating body having a conveying rod, a pair of magnetic bearing portions disposed in a moving direction of the floating body and...
5281320 Wafer coating system  
Semiconductor wafers having patterns of steps and grooves defining microcircuit elements thereon are coated with metallic film by supporting the wafers individually adjacent a respective...
5280983 Semiconductor processing system with robotic autoloader and load lock  
A wafer processing system includes an autoloader mounted within a load lock for providing batch, cassette-to-cassette automatic wafer transfer between the semiconductor processing chamber and...
5277579 Wafers transferring method in vertical type heat treatment apparatus and the vertical type heat treatment apparatus provided with a wafers transferring system  
A wafers transferring method in the heat treatment apparatus of the vertical type comprising providing a boat loading/unloading chamber under a process tube, providing an elevator in the boat...
5275709 Apparatus for coating substrates, preferably flat, more or less plate-like substrates  
Apparatus for coating substrates by a vacuum coating process. The apparatus includes a plurality of closed processing chambers, each provided with an entrance/exit closable opening. The individual...
5273423 Heat treatment apparatus  
A heat treatment apparatus includes a process tube for heat treatment of an object to be heat treated, and a load lock chamber linked to the process tube and for housing the object to be heat...
5271702 Robotic substrate manipulator  
A robotic substrate manipulator constructed for substrate handling during thin film deposition in the vacuum of outer space. The robotic substrate manipulator includes a cassette holding a...
5261935 Clean air apparatus  
A clean air apparatus includes a housing having an opening through which a carrier housing semiconductor wafers is supplied into the housing and an I/O port for supporting the carrier and a furnace...
5261776 Vacuum operated wafer transfer apparatus  
The apparatus transfers a quantity of wafers from a first wafer boat to a second wafer boat. A wafer platform positioned beneath a wafer boat rises and transports the wafers to a pair of wafer...
5259942 Device for transferring a workpiece into and out from a vacuum chamber  
A device for transferring a workpiece into and out from a vacuum chamber including a first device for receiving and holding the workpiece in a disk-shaped conveyor within the chamber and a second...
5234303 In-vacuum conveyance robot  
In a robot for conveying a workpiece or the like 21 in vacuum chambers (16, 24); a conveyance robot for use in a high vacuum, in which magnetic floatation and magnetic drive are applied to a...
RE34311 Semiconductor slice cassette transport unit  
A transport mechanism (40) for transporting a semiconductor slice cassette between a clean carrier (10) and a process machine comprises a housing (41) having a forward portion (42) positioned in...
5226781 Process and installation for transferring products from a contaminated enclosure into a second enclosure without contaminating the latter  
For transferring products from a contaminated enclosure (12) into a second enclosure (16) without contaminating the latter, it is proposed to engage on the contaminated enclosure a transportation...
5223001 Vacuum processing apparatus  
The present invention is a vacuum processing apparatus provided with a vacuum processing chamber which implements a required processing to an object of processing, and a pre-vacuum chamber...
5217053 Vented vacuum semiconductor wafer cassette  
A vacuum storage cassette for semiconductor wafers has one or more valves to allow the cassette to be evacuated, backfilled, and opened to the surround atmosphere and resealed without the need for...
5202716 Resist process system  
A resist process system of the present invention includes at least two robots for conveying a wafer, a passage through which the robots can move, plural process units arranged along the passage,...
5192188 Lock for the loading and/or discharging of bulk materials  
A lock for the loading and/or discharging of, in particular, not easily flowing, adhering bulk materials into or out of a pressurized or vacuum chamber through a discharge opening of a discharge...
5183547 Sputtering apparatus and system for sputtering employing same  
The present invention provides a sputtering apparatus employed for producing an optical disc, for example, wherein a material to be processed by sputtering, such as a disc base plate, is placed in...
5181819 Apparatus for processing semiconductors  
A semiconductor processing apparatus comprises a main body having an air passage, a plurality of filter units connected in series with the air passage in the main body, each filter unit having an...
5176493 High speed wafer handling method  
The present invention describes a loading system for high speed loading of wafers, such as semiconductor wafers, into vacuum chambers for various applications such as inspection or processing...
5174067 Automatic wafer lapping apparatus  
An automatic wafer lapping apparatus in which a pair of turntable stages are provided which each have a vertical central shaft and a pin on which the wafer carriers are spitted and piled up;...
5171541 Fluidized bed discharge process  
Process for discharging solid particulate products present in a fluidized bed reactor in which the polymerization or copolymerization of alpha-olefins is carried out, in a system consisting of a...
5156521 Method for loading a substrate into a GVD apparatus  
A method for loading a substrate into a receiving chamber upon a positionable platform, which platform is in sealed relationship with the receiving chamber, permits purging of the receiving chamber...
5147168 Loading and unloading airlock apparatus for a vacuum treatment chamber  
A loading and unloading airlock apparatus for a vacuum treatment chamber which includes an airlock chamber, a transport mechanism inside the chamber to transport a substrate holder arranged to have...
5145303 Method and apparatus for reducing particulate contamination in processing chambers  
A load lock removes particulate contamination during microelectronic manufacturing. The load lock may have a single door or two doors, or a single door and a funnel valve. A passageway is defined...
5143254 Device for the metering of granular or powdered products and method of mixing raw rubbers using this device  
The material to be metered drops onto a plate 21 which is driven in rotation. This plate 21 is provided on its edge with a cylindrical wall 22 pierced by recesses 24. The plate 21 turns in a...
5139459 Clean transfer method and system therefor  
A clean transfer method capable of safely transferring a semiconductor or the like to various apparatus for treating the semiconductor while keeping the environment clean. In the method, the...
5135635 Sputtering apparatus  
The sputtering apparatus for the present invention is used for manufacturing optical discs. On loading and unloading of disc substrates to and from a vacuum chamber, a disc entrance and exit...
5135608 Method of producing semiconductor devices  
A process and apparatus for producing semiconductor integrated circuit devices wherein the dry processing and the wet processing are continuously effected for the wafers to be processed, and the...
5133285 Apparatus for transporting substrates  
Apparatus for transporting substrates 22, 23 in vacuum deposition systems with several stations, comprising plate-like substrate holders 16 which are moved across the stations in a vertical...
5133400 Apparatus for rotating and moving an ingot mold table in a vacuum melting and casting unit  
A mold table is linearly moved into a pouring position or a resting position in a vacuum casting unit and rotates around its vertical axis so that the ingot molds disposed on the mold table can be...
5125781 Air lock for transfer of product into and out of vacuum or pressurized chamber  
An air lock transfer device allows the transfer of substances between environments at different pressures, without disrupting the integrity of the pressure differential therebetween and which...
5121705 Loading lock for chemical vapor deposition apparatus  
A loading lock for a chemical vapor deposition apparatus comprises three chambers: an outer chamber for introduction and removal of substrates, a reaction chamber for forming thin films on the...
5112469 Apparatus for the inward and outward transfer of a workpiece in a vacuum chamber  
An apparatus for the inward and outward transfer of a workpiece, particularly of a disk-shaped substrate in a vacuum chamber having a coating system comprising a cathode station. A conveyor means...
5112185 Method for replacing a deposit shield in an evacuated film forming chamber  
A film forming apparatus for forming a film on a substrate set inside a film forming chamber capable of being evacuated comprises; a film forming chamber in which a film is formed on a substrate; a...
5112277 Blowing door for ultra-clean confinement container  
The blowing door permits the passage of an object (6) from the interior of a first container (5) to a second container (4) without the respective atmospheres of the interior of these two containers...
5110248 Vertical heat-treatment apparatus having a wafer transfer mechanism  
A vertical heat-treatment apparatus is provided with a mechanism for automatically transferring semiconductor wafers from carriers to a boat for a vertical type furnace. The automatic transferring...
5110249 Transport system for inline vacuum processing  
An inline processing system for processing a batch of pallets, including a first magazine for supporting a predetermined number of unprocessed pallets. A load chamber for receiving and supporting...
5102279 Continuous vacuum processing apparatus  
A continuous vacuum processing apparatus has at least one preliminary vacuum chamber respectively disposed in front of and rear of a vacuum processing chamber. The preliminary vacuum chamber is...
5100287 Method of transferring wafers using vacuum  
The apparatus transfers a quantity of wafers from a first wafer boat to a second wafer boat. A wafer platform positioned beneath a wafer boat rises and transports the wafers to a pair of wafer...
5098245 High speed wafer handler  
The present invention describes a loading system for high speed loading of wafers, such as semiconductor wafers, into vacuum chambers for various applications such as inspection or processing...
5096364 Wafer arm handler mechanism  
A wafer handler arm conveys a wafer from a horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation for wafer processing. The arm includes a wafer holding member which is rigidly attached to a first shaft....