EFEM
    21.
    发明申请
    EFEM 有权

    公开(公告)号:US20150170945A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-06-18

    申请号:US14569293

    申请日:2014-12-12

    Abstract: An EFEM includes a housing 3 that constitutes a wafer transport chamber 9 that is substantially closed by connecting load ports 4 to an opening 31a provided on a wall 31, and connecting a processing apparatus 6; a wafer transport apparatus 2, and transports a wafer between the processing apparatus 6 and the FOUPs 7 mounted on the load ports 4; a gas delivery port 11; a gas suction port 12; a gas feedback path 10; and a FFU 13 that includes a filter 13b that is provided in the gas delivery port 11, and eliminates particles contained in the delivered gas, wherein the gas in the wafer transport chamber 9 is circulated by generating a downward gasflow in the wafer transport chamber 9 and feeding back the gas through the gas feedback path 10.

    Abstract translation: EFEM包括壳体3,其构成通过将负载端口4连接到设置在壁31上的开口31a而基本上闭合的晶片运送室9,并且连接处理装置6; 晶片传送装置2,并且在处理装置6和安装在装载端口4上的FOUP 7之间传送晶片; 气体输送口11; 气体吸入口12; 气体反馈路径10; 以及FFU13,其包括设置在气体输送口11中的过滤器13b,并且消除了包含在输送气体中的颗粒,其中晶片输送室9中的气体通过在晶片输送室9中产生向下的气流而循环 并且通过气体反馈路径10反馈气体。

    CONVEYANCE SYSTEM
    24.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230033168A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17788647

    申请日:2020-09-23

    Abstract: A conveyance system discriminates the front and back of a frame wafer without human intervention. A frame is partially formed asymmetrically with respect to a predetermined center line when viewed in a direction orthogonal to a surface of a wafer. The conveyance system includes a hand configured to hold the frame so that the frame extends in a predetermined virtual plane, a first sensor configured to detect a portion of the frame held on the hand and located in a predetermined first region in the virtual plane, a second sensor configured to detect a portion of the frame held on the hand and located in a second region opposite to the first region across the center line, and a controller configured to determine the front and back of the frame wafer based on a detection result obtained by the first sensor and a detection result obtained by the second sensor.

    Gas supply device, method for controlling gas supply device, load port, and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11139188B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-05

    申请号:US15961395

    申请日:2018-04-24

    Abstract: A purging nozzle unit of a gas supply device according to the present invention including: a housing that is capable of passing a predetermined gas so as to replace the internal atmosphere of a FOUP with the predetermined gas; a nozzle coming into intimate contact with the proximity of a port that is provided on one face of the FOUP, the nozzle being pressed to thereby open the port; an operation adjustment space configured to increase or decrease so as to operate the nozzle between a use posture in which the predetermined gas can be supplied into the target container via the port and a standby posture in which the predetermined gas cannot be supplied into the target container via the port; and a gas introducing part configured to export or import compression air relative to the operation adjustment space to thereby control an operation of the nozzle.

    Load port
    27.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10947063B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-16

    申请号:US16678661

    申请日:2019-11-08

    Abstract: A load port including: a base as part of a wall partitioning a transportation space from an external space; an opening provided to the base; a door configured to open and close the opening and securing a lid to, and releasing a lid from, a container containing contents; and a first seal member for sealing the space between the base and the container. At least some of the container-side end surface of the door is located nearer to the transportation space than the container-side end part of the first seal member. The load port can keep a surrounding space clean when a FOUP is connected to a casing.

    EXHAUST NOZZLE UNIT, LOAD PORT, AND EFEM
    29.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190326134A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-24

    申请号:US16387792

    申请日:2019-04-18

    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust nozzle unit capable of discharging a gas atmosphere in a substrate storage container having a loading/unloading opening from the container to an outside of the container through a port formed on a bottom surface of the container. The exhausted nozzle includes a nozzle capable of switching the port from a closed state to an open state by pressing a valve of the port; and a housing configured to hold the nozzle so as to be movable up and down between a use posture in which the port is in the open state and a standby posture in which the port is in the closed state.

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