Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Apparatus – With heating – cooling or heat exchange means
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-27
2011-11-29
Kornakov, Michael (Department: 1714)
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Apparatus
With heating, cooling or heat exchange means
C134S110000, C134S111000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08066020
ABSTRACT:
A substrate cleaning apparatus, comprises a process tank that holds a mixture containing a hydrogen peroxide solution and sulfuric acid and is used for cleaning a substrate immersed in said mixture; circulation piping that extends between a primary side of said process tank on which said mixture is injected into said process tank and a secondary side of said process tank on which said mixture is discharged from said process tank and has a pump for causing circulation of said mixture; a heater disposed in said circulation piping configured to heat said mixture to a predetermined temperature; a chemical injection pipe configured to inject a hydrogen peroxide solution into said circulation piping at a position between the primary side of said process tank and a secondary side, which is a downstream side, of said heater; and a filter disposed in said circulation piping configured to remove particles in said mixture.
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Miyazaki Kunihiro
Onoda Hajime
Tomita Hiroshi
Yamada Hiroaki
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.
Golightly Eric
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Kornakov Michael
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