Invention Grant
- Patent Title: EFEM
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Application No.: US17959247Application Date: 2022-10-03
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Publication No.: US12002693B2Publication Date: 2024-06-04
- Inventor: Toshihiro Kawai , Gengoro Ogura
- Applicant: Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Priority: JP 18048467 2018.03.15
- Main IPC: H01L21/67
- IPC: H01L21/67 ; B01D46/00 ; B01D46/10

Abstract:
Particles in an accommodation chamber are also easily discharged while facilitating replacement of an atmosphere in the accommodation chamber with an inert gas. An EFEM includes a load port 4, a housing configured to define, in the housing, a transfer chamber closed by connecting the load port 4 to an opening provided in a partition wall, a supply pipe for supplying nitrogen to a transfer chamber, and a discharge pipe 49 for discharging a gas in the transfer chamber. The load port 4 includes an opening/closing mechanism 54 capable of opening and closing a lid 101 of a mounted FOUP 100, and an accommodation chamber 60 kept in communication with the transfer chamber via a slit 51b and configured to accommodate a part of the opening/closing mechanism 54. The discharge pipe 49 is connected to the accommodation chamber 60 to discharge the gas in the transfer chamber via the accommodation chamber 60.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230077810A1 EFEM Public/Granted day:2023-03-16
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