Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Apparatus – With plural means for supplying or applying different fluids...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-07-20
2011-11-08
Kornakov, Michael (Department: 1714)
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Apparatus
With plural means for supplying or applying different fluids...
C134S137000, C134S157000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08051862
ABSTRACT:
A liquid treatment device having a rotatable substrate holding section (2) for horizontally holding a wafer (W), an annular-shaped rotation cup (4) which surrounds the wafer (W) which rotates with the wafer (W), a rotation mechanism (3) for integrally rotating the rotation cup (4) and the substrate holding section (2), a nozzle (5) for supplying a treatment liquid for the wafer (W) at a treatment position and a cleaning liquid for the rotation cup (4) at its external surface, a liquid supply section (85) for the nozzle (5), and a nozzle movement mechanism for moving the nozzle (5) between the wafer treatment position and the external portion of the rotation cup (4).
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Ito Norihiro
Kaneko Satoshi
Nanba Hiromitsu
Golightly Eric
Kornakov Michael
Smith , Gambrell & Russell, LLP
Tokyo Electron Limited
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