Patents Assigned to SMIT THERMAL SOLUTIONS B.V.
  • Patent number: 11162173
    Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus for atomic layer deposition including a frame, an injector head with longitudinal slots supplying gases to deposition spaces confined by the longitudinal slots and a substrate. The slots are transverse to a movement in a first direction of the substrate, a subframe suspending the injector head; a movable carrier supporting the substrate for movement in the first direction; and gas pads at the subframe outside the injector head between the subframe and the moveable carrier, bearing the subframe on the carrier for the movement in the first direction. Actuators suspend the injector head from the subframe, and a control device connected to the actuators controls the actuators to adjust a working distance between a reference plane of the injector head and the surface of the substrate corresponding to a predetermined distance and to adjust an orientation of the injector head corresponding to an orientation of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SMIT THERMAL SOLUTIONS B.V.
    Inventors: Wiro Rudolf Zijlmans, Martin Dinant Bijker, Ernst Dullemeijer, Guido Lijster
  • Patent number: 10092854
    Abstract: Device for heating a substrate includes a process chamber having a first and a second sealable opening for a substrate to pass through, a first inlet for receiving a process gas and a first outlet for discharging an off-gas; an evaporator for evaporating the material, which evaporator device is connected to the chamber for supplying the process gas; a first condensation device connected to the chamber for receiving the off-gas and condensing the material in the vapour phase in the off-gas to form a solid phase and a second condensation device for condensing part of the material in vapour phase in the off-gas to form a liquid phase, which second condensation device connects the first condensation device to the discharge duct and a connecting duct between the evaporator device and the second condensation device for transporting material in the liquid phase between the second condensation device and the evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SMIT THERMAL SOLUTIONS B.V.
    Inventors: Gerard Kaper, Petrus Johannes Franciscus Diepens
  • Patent number: 10014433
    Abstract: A device for heating a substrate according to a predetermined temperature profile for crystallizing a material on the substrate includes: a housing, at least a process chamber situated inside the housing and provided with a first and second opening for passing through a substrate, an inlet for introducing a process gas which includes the material in vapor phase into the chamber, at least two transport rollers attached to the housing for transporting the substrate into the chamber. The device further includes passage spaces for preventing the escape of process gas from the chamber to a space between the chamber and housing, which are situated near respective ends of the transport rollers in the chamber, the respective passage spaces having a first passage opening on an inner wall of the chamber, a second passage opening on an outer wall of the chamber and a first flange fixed around the transport roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SMIT THERMAL SOLUTIONS B.V.
    Inventors: Gerard Kaper, Wiro Rudolf Zijlmans
  • Publication number: 20170362707
    Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus for atomic layer deposition including a frame, an injector head with longitudinal slots supplying gases to deposition spaces confined by the longitudinal slots and a substrate. The slots are transverse to a movement in a first direction of the substrate, a subframe suspending the injector head; a movable carrier supporting the substrate for movement in the first direction; and gas pads at the subframe outside the injector head between the subframe and the moveable carrier, bearing the subframe on the carrier for the movement in the first direction. Actuators suspend the injector head from the subframe, and a control device connected to the actuators controls the actuators to adjust a working distance between a reference plane of the injector head and the surface of the substrate corresponding to a predetermined distance and to adjust an orientation of the injector head corresponding to an orientation of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: SMIT THERMAL SOLUTIONS B.V.
    Inventors: Wiro Rudolf ZIJLMANS, Martin Dinant BIJKER, Ernst DULLEMEIJER, Guido LIJSTER