Heating – Accessory means for holding – shielding or supporting work...
Patent
1996-02-27
1998-02-17
Bennett, Henry A.
Heating
Accessory means for holding, shielding or supporting work...
432258, 432259, 432241, 432 5, 432 6, 269296, F27D 500
Patent
active
057185743
ABSTRACT:
A substrate holding assembly for horizontally holding a substrate to be treated is provided in a heat treatment chamber of a heat treatment apparatus. The substrate holding assembly has an annular base, and a plurality of fixed support projections provided on the annular base, for holding the underside of the substrate to be treated. A flexible beam portion is fixed to the annular base, or to a vertical support rod, and a flexible support projection is provided on the beam portion, for flexibly supporting a portion of the substrate to be treated which tends to flex downward under its own weight. Flexure caused by the own weight of the substrate to be treated held in the substrate holding assembly is thus corrected by the flexible holding portions. Accordingly, stresses caused in the substrates to be treated can be decreased or removed, and occurrence of slips in the substrate to be treated can be precluded in a high-temperature heat treatment. Accordingly, high yields can be obtained.
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Bennett Henry A.
Lu Jiping
Tokyo Electron Limited
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