Abstract:
To provide a vacuum valve with an improved endurance of a bellows, a vacuum valve comprises: a valve section including a first port, a second port, a valve seat provided between the first and second ports, and a valve element movable into or out of contact with the valve seat; an actuator section including an orifice through which an operating fluid is supplied to the actuator section, and a piston coupled to the valve element, the piston being allowed to operate according to changes of pressure of the operating fluid to apply a driving force to the valve section; and a bellows which can be contracted and elongated as the valve element vertically moves upward and downward. The orifice is designed to have an effective sectional area determined so that an operating speed of the valve element and the piston is controlled to a predetermined speed for preventing damage of the bellows.
Abstract:
A liquid raw material supply unit for a vaporizer is adapted to supply a liquid raw material to the vaporizer that vaporizes the liquid raw material. The unit comprises: a manifold internally formed with a flow passage; and a plurality of fluid control valves mounted on the manifold, wherein the plurality of fluid control valves includes: a liquid raw material control valve for controlling supply of the liquid raw material to the flow passage; a cleaning solution control valve for controlling supply of a cleaning solution to the flow passage; a purge gas control valve for controlling supply of a purge gas to the flow passage; and a first introducing control valve connectable to the vaporizer for controlling supply of a fluid from the flow passage to the vaporizer, the purge gas control valve, the cleaning solution control valve, the liquid raw material control valve, and the first introducing control valve being mounted on the manifold in this order from an upstream side of the manifold, wherein the flow passage is connected to valve ports of the plurality of control valves respectively, the valve ports communicating with valve openings of the respective control valves, and the flow passage is configured to allow the purge gas supplied from the purge gas control valve to directly flow in the valve ports of the cleaning solution control valve and the liquid raw material control valve placed downstream from the purge gas control valve.
Abstract:
A liquid chemical supply system includes a liquid chemical pump having a pump chamber for supplying a liquid chemical and a volume variation member that will vary the volume of the pump chamber, and will intake or discharge the liquid chemical based upon a change in the volume of the pump chamber in accordance with the volume variation member. The system also comprises an operation means for causing the volume variation member to operate, an operation amount detection means for detecting the operation amount of the volume variation member, a displacement control means for performing displacement control so that the volume variation member will be displaced by the operation means when liquid chemical ports that lead to the pump chamber are in the closed state, and a determination means for determining the presence or absence of gas inside the pump chamber based upon the operation amount detection results from the operation amount detection means during displacement control.
Abstract:
A chemical liquid control valve is provided with a barrier on an outer circumferential end portion of a protruding part (an outer circumferential bottom portion of a valve seat). The barrier is placed so that an angle between the center line of an outlet passage and the line extending between the center of a valve port and each end of the barrier. The barrier is designed to have a height relative to a contact surface of the valve seat with a valve element is substantially half of the travel distance of a diaphragm valve element.
Abstract:
A flow controller and a flow controlling method are adapted to be released from conventional restrictions by using a novel type called a pulse shot type. A pulse shot (opening/closing operation of a first cutoff valve (12) and, after that, opening/closing operation of a second cutoff valve (17)) is repeated. Simultaneously, a volume flow Q of process gas exhausted from the second cutoff valve (17) per unit time on the basis of after-filling pressure and after-exhaust pressure of the process gas in a gas filling capacity (13) measure by a pressure sensor (14). Furthermore, a mode of the pulse shot is changed to control the volume flow Q of the process gas exhausted from the second cutoff valve (17) per unit time.
Abstract:
According to the present invention, electrorheological fluid is deaerated after it is sealed in a closed device which is operated by the electrorheological fluid. Thus, it is possible to control the operation of the closed device in accordance with an electric field. Additionally, the control of viscosity is not affected by repetitive operations of the closed device, thereby obtaining a closed device having a smooth operation and good repeatability. The deaeration is achieved under a predetermined reduced pressure, for example, of not more than 100 torr. In addition thereto, a suitable heating process is carried out as required.
Abstract:
A diaphragm valve capable of increasing durability of a diaphragm comprises a valve body internally formed with a valve chamber having an open upper end and a suck-back chamber having an open lower end, between an inlet passage and an outlet passage, and a through hole which provides communication between the valve chamber and the suck-back chamber. The open end of the valve chamber is closed by a first diaphragm which is brought into and out of contact with a valve seat. The open end of the suck-back chamber is closed by a second diaphragm. The first and second diaphragms are substantially identical in shape. Each circumferential edge portion of the first and second diaphragms is tightly retained by a retaining member mountable to the valve body so that the diaphragms are curved outwardly with respect to the valve chamber and the suck-back chamber respectively. The first and second diaphragms are connected by a connecting rod passing through the through hole so that the diaphragms are deformed synchronously by operation of an actuator.
Abstract:
A board mounting thereon a measuring chip is fixed to a body in close contact relation to form a main passage and a sensor passage inside of the body, while a hot wire for a temp. sensor and a hot wire for a flow velocity sensor, both being provided on the measuring chip, are bridged across the sensor passage, to measure the flow rate of a gas flowing in the inside of the body by means of an electric circuit on the back side of the board. In a state where an electrode for a hot wire on the measuring chip is joined to an electrode for the electric circuit on the board, the temp. sensor hot wire and the flow velocity sensor hot wire both provided on the measuring chip are connected to the electric circuit on the back side of the board.
Abstract:
A process gas supply unit without conventional pipes. The process gas supply unit may include the components of a mass flow controller, an input valve, an output valve, a purge valve, a vacuum valve, a check valve, a regulator, and a filter. Module blocks are attached to at least one of the components with bolts from a predetermined direction. The module blocks are mounted on base plates with bolts from the same predetermined direction, and the base plates are mounted on a mounting panel with bolts from the same predetermined direction.