Solid material comminution or disintegration – Processes – By operations other than force of contact with solid surface
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-05
2005-04-05
Rosenbaum, Mark (Department: 3725)
Solid material comminution or disintegration
Processes
By operations other than force of contact with solid surface
C209S002000, C209S235000, C209S288000, C241S023000, C241S024100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06874713
ABSTRACT:
A method for processing polycrystalline silicon workpieces to form size distributions of polycrystalline silicon pieces suitable for use in a Czochralski-type process includes: (1) preparing a polycrystalline silicon workpiece by a chemical vapor deposition process; (2) fracturing the polycrystalline silicon workpiece into a mixture of polycrystalline silicon pieces, where the polycrystalline silicon pieces have varying sizes; and (3) sorting the mixture of polycrystalline silicon pieces into at least two size distributions. Step (2) may be carried out by a thermal shock process. Step (3) may be carried out using a rotary indent classifier. A rotary indent classifier for performing the method includes: (i) a rotating cylinder having a circumferential edge with indents arrayed in increasing size from a first end of the cylinder to a second end of the cylinder, and (ii) a conveyor running longitudinally adjacent the cylinder, for conveying silicon pieces from the first end of the cylinder to the second end of the cylinder.
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Arvidson Arvid Neil
Graham Todd Stanley
Horstman Terence Lee
Messner Kathryn Elizabeth
Schmidt Chris Tim
Brown Catherine U.
Dow Corning Corporation
Rosenbaum Mark
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