Patents by Inventor Katsuro WAKASUGI

Katsuro WAKASUGI 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: 20240128095
    Abstract: A wafer container cleaner includes a cleaning bath capable of accommodating a housing jig that houses a wafer container including a container body and a cover, liquid-supply nozzles for supplying cleaning liquid or the like into the cleaning bath, and a liquid-discharge nozzle for discharging to-be-discharged fluid out of the cleaning bath. The container body has a depth wall at a side opposite a container opening. In an accommodating state where the container body mounted on the storage fixture with the container opening facing downward is accommodated in the cleaning bath, the liquid-supply nozzles are provided so that respective liquid-supply openings through which the cleaning liquid or the like is discharged face an inner side of the depth wall and the liquid-discharge nozzle is provided so that a discharge opening through which the to-be-discharged fluid is sucked in faces a center of the inner side of the depth wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumitoshi IWASAKI, Katsuro WAKASUGI
  • Publication number: 20230271229
    Abstract: A method and a system for cleaning a work, the sum A of the areas (mm2), the sum B of the areas (mm2) and the determined supply flow rate Q (L/min) or the supply flow rate Q (L/min) and one or both of the determined sum A of the areas (mm2) and the determined sum B of the areas (mm2) satisfy the predetermined relations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaito NODA, Katsuro WAKASUGI, Yuki KANEKO, Fumitoshi IWASAKI, Yoshihiro JAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11114317
    Abstract: Provided is a method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer which can effectively reduce deposits on a main surface of a wafer. A method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer of the present disclosure includes supplying ozone water into a cleaning tank from a lower part of the cleaning tank with the ozone water overflowing from the upper part of the cleaning tank to outside the cleaning tank (first step), subsequently, stopping a supply of the ozone water (second step), subsequently, immersing a semiconductor wafer into the ozone water in the cleaning tank (third step), and subsequently, resupplying the ozone water into the cleaning tank from the lower part of the cleaning tank with the ozone water overflowing again from the upper part of the cleaning tank to outside the cleaning tank (fourth step).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuro Wakasugi
  • Publication number: 20200020552
    Abstract: Provided is a method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer which can effectively reduce deposits on a main surface of a wafer. A method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer of the present disclosure includes supplying ozone water into a cleaning tank from a lower part of the cleaning tank with the ozone water overflowing from the upper part of the cleaning tank to outside the cleaning tank (first step), subsequently, stopping a supply of the ozone water (second step), subsequently, immersing a semiconductor wafer into the ozone water in the cleaning tank (third step), and subsequently, resupplying the ozone water into the cleaning tank from the lower part of the cleaning tank with the ozone water overflowing again from the upper part of the cleaning tank to outside the cleaning tank (fourth step).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuro WAKASUGI