Patents by Inventor Clayton Daniel Brandenburg

Clayton Daniel Brandenburg has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6378538
    Abstract: The invention, in a first aspect is a multi-piece rotor for use in a chemical spray cleaner. The rotor comprises a top plate, a bottom plate, a plurality of struts, and a pair of retainer bars. The top plate defining an aperture keyed to a wafer cassette. The bottom plate includes an interior surface on which the wafer cassette may bottom and an exterior surface defining an aperture for receiving a rotating shaft. The struts separate the top and bottom plates, each strut fastened at a top end thereof to the top plate and at a bottom end to the bottom plate. The retaining bars fasten to adjacent ones of the struts on the radially proximal surface thereof. In a second aspect, the invention is a rotor constructed from polyphenelyne sulfide for use in a chemical spray cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Clayton Daniel Brandenburg, Mark Allen Campbell