Patents by Inventor Fumiya OKAZAKI

Fumiya OKAZAKI 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).

  • Publication number: 20230119979
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a product removal apparatus, a treatment system, and a product removal method that can sufficiently remove the products deposited inside a vacuum pump and also suppress corrosion of the base material of the vacuum pump. The product removal apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a sensor for measuring the temperature of the inside of a vacuum pump, the thickness of a film of a product in a flow path in the vacuum pump, or the vibration frequency of the vacuum pump; a gas supplier for supplying a gas containing hydrogen halide, fluorine, chlorine, chlorine trifluoride, or fluorine radicals to the vacuum pump; and a control device. The control device controls the gas supplier so that the supply of the gas to the vacuum pump is stopped depending on a rate of temperature increase calculated from the temperature measured by the sensor, the film thickness, or the vibration frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventor: Fumiya OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210249281
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure provides a substrate drying apparatus. The substrate drying apparatus includes: a gripping part, gripping an outer periphery part of a substrate that is square; a substrate nozzle, ejecting gas to the substrate gripped by the gripping part to dry the substrate; and a gripping part nozzle, ejecting gas to the gripping part to dry the substrate. The substrate nozzle is relatively movable with respect to the substrate in a first direction, and is able to eject the gas in the first direction toward the substrate. The gripping part nozzle is relatively movable with respect to the substrate in the first direction, and is able to eject the gas in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The gripping part nozzle is disposed behind the substrate nozzle in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: HIROTAKA OHASHI, TAKUYA TSUSHIMA, FUMIYA OKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10960426
    Abstract: A slit nozzle is moved by a nozzle lifting/lowering mechanism and a nozzle sliding mechanism relative to substrates held in a substantially horizontal attitude by spin chucks. A development liquid is discharged on each substrate from a discharge port of the slit nozzle such that development processing for the substrate is performed. After the development liquid is discharged, the slit nozzle is moved to a waiting position excluding positions over the substrates held by the spin chucks. In waiting pods provided at the waiting positions, cleaning processing for the slit nozzle is performed by a cleaning liquid with gas bubbles mixed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Inventors: Minoru Sugiyama, Mitsuru Asano, Fumiya Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20180164736
    Abstract: A slit nozzle is moved by a nozzle lifting/lowering mechanism and a nozzle sliding mechanism relative to substrates held in a substantially horizontal attitude by spin chucks. A development liquid is discharged on each substrate from a discharge port of the slit nozzle such that development processing for the substrate is performed. After the development liquid is discharged, the slit nozzle is moved to a waiting position excluding positions over the substrates held by the spin chucks. In waiting pods provided at the waiting positions, cleaning processing for the slit nozzle is performed by a cleaning liquid with gas bubbles mixed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Minoru SUGIYAMA, Mitsuru Asano, Fumiya Okazaki
  • Patent number: 9927760
    Abstract: A slit nozzle is moved by a nozzle lifting/lowering mechanism and a nozzle sliding mechanism relative to substrates held in a substantially horizontal attitude by spin chucks. A development liquid is discharged on each substrate from a discharge port of the slit nozzle such that development processing for the substrate is performed. After the development liquid is discharged, the slit nozzle is moved to a waiting position excluding positions over the substrates held by the spin chucks. In waiting pods provided at the waiting positions, cleaning processing for the slit nozzle is performed by a cleaning liquid with gas bubbles mixed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Sugiyama, Mitsuru Asano, Fumiya Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20130315627
    Abstract: A slit nozzle is moved by a nozzle lifting/lowering mechanism and a nozzle sliding mechanism relative to substrates held in a substantially horizontal attitude by spin chucks. A development liquid is discharged on each substrate from a discharge port of the slit nozzle such that development processing for the substrate is performed. After the development liquid is discharged, the slit nozzle is moved to a waiting position excluding positions over the substrates held by the spin chucks. In waiting pods provided at the waiting positions, cleaning processing for the slit nozzle is performed by a cleaning liquid with gas bubbles mixed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Minoru SUGIYAMA, Mitsuru ASANO, Fumiya OKAZAKI