Patents Represented by Law Firm Blakely Sokoloff & Zafman
  • Patent number: 5916369
    Abstract: A system of supplying processing fluid to a substrate processing apparatus having walls, the inner surfaces of which define a processing chamber in which a substrate supporting susceptor is located. The system consists of a number of fluid storages, each which stores a separate processing fluid, at least two fluid conduits along which processing fluid flows from the fluid storages to the processing apparatus and a fluid inlet which connects the fluid conduits to the processing chamber. The inlet has a separate fluid passage, corresponding to each of the fluid conduits, formed along it. Each fluid passage opens at or near an inner surface of a wall to together define a fluid mixing zone, so that fluid moving along one fluid passage is prevented from mixing with fluid moving along any other passage until reaching the mixing zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger N. Anderson, Peter W. Hey, David K. Carlson, Mahalingam Venkatesan, Norma Riley