Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Load lock device
- Patent Title (中): 加载锁定装置
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Application No.: US13992148Application Date: 2011-11-30
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Publication No.: US09228685B2Publication Date: 2016-01-05
- Inventor: Sensho Kobayashi , Keita Kumagai
- Applicant: Sensho Kobayashi , Keita Kumagai
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
- Current Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.
- Priority: JP2010-274691 20101209
- International Application: PCT/JP2011/077635 WO 20111130
- International Announcement: WO2012/077547 WO 20120614
- Main IPC: H01L21/67
- IPC: H01L21/67 ; F16L53/00 ; C23C16/44

Abstract:
A load lock device includes a vessel of which an internal pressure is variable between a pressure corresponding to a vacuum chamber and an atmospheric pressure; a purge gas supply source configured to supply a purge gas into the vessel; an exhaust device configured to evacuate an inside of the vessel; a pressure controller configured to adjust the internal pressure of the vessel to be the pressure corresponding to the vacuum chamber and the atmospheric pressure; a cooling member within the vessel configured to cool a substrate while the substrate is placed adjacent thereto; a first purge gas discharging member configured to discharge the purge gas to flow in parallel with the substrate while controlling a turbulent flow thereof; and a second purge gas discharging member formed of a porous material and configured to discharge the purge gas toward a bottom surface of the substrate from below the substrate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130248014A1 LOAD LOCK DEVICE Public/Granted day:2013-09-26
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