Patents by Inventor Kazunori Ishimura
Kazunori Ishimura 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).
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Patent number: 11348819Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: an electrostatic chuck part having, as a main surface, a mounting surface on which a plate-shaped sample is mounted, an electrostatic attraction electrode; a base part configured to cool the electrostatic chuck part; a heater disposed in a layered manner between the electrostatic chuck part and the base part; and an adhesion layer which bonds and integrates the electrostatic chuck part and the base part together, in which the electrostatic chuck part is provided with a first through-hole, the base part is provided with a second through-hole communicating with the first through-hole, the adhesion layer is provided with a third through-hole communicating with the first through-hole and the second through-hole, a tubular insulator is fixed in the second through-hole, and an end of the insulator located on the electrostatic chuck part side is separated from the electrostatic chuck part with a space interposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuuki Kinpara, Ryuuji Hayahara, Kazunori Ishimura, Hitoshi Kouno
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Patent number: 10923381Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: an electrostatic chuck part which incorporates an internal electrode for electrostatic attraction and has a placing surface on which a plate-like sample is placed; a base part which cools the electrostatic chuck part; and an adhesion layer which bonds the electrostatic chuck part and the base part to integrate the parts together, in which a first through-hole is provided in the electrostatic chuck part, a second through-hole that communicates with the first through-hole is provided in the base part, a tubular insulator is fixed in the second through-hole, an annular sealing member is sandwiched between the electrostatic chuck part and a distal end surface of the insulator, wherein the distal end surface is located on the electrostatic chuck part side of the insulator, and a tubular insulating wall member is located at the inner side of the sealing member in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Mamoru Kosakai, Yukio Miura, Kazunori Ishimura, Keisuke Maeda, Hitoshi Kouno, Yuuki Kinpara, Shinichi Maeta, Tomomi Ito
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Publication number: 20200343125Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: an electrostatic chuck part having, as a main surface, a mounting surface on which a plate-shaped sample is mounted, and provided with an electrostatic attraction electrode; a base part which is disposed on a side opposite to the mounting surface with respect to the electrostatic chuck part and is configured to cool the electrostatic chuck part; a heater which is disposed in a layered manner between the electrostatic chuck part and the base part or in an interior of the electrostatic chuck part; and an adhesion layer which bonds and integrates the electrostatic chuck part and the base part together, in which the electrostatic chuck part is provided with a first through-hole, the base part is provided with a second through-hole communicating with the first through-hole, the adhesion layer is provided with a third through-hole communicating with the first through-hole and the second through-hole, a tubular insulator is fixed in the second through-hole, and an end of the iType: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuuki KINPARA, Ryuuji HAYAHARA, Kazunori ISHIMURA, Hitoshi KOUNO
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Patent number: 10502639Abstract: A plate-shaped body for temperature measurement which, simply by being mounted on a mounting surface of an electrostatic chuck apparatus and without using a semiconductor wafer itself, is able to easily optimize the in-plane temperature distribution of the mounting surface of the electrostatic chuck apparatus, the temperature rising characteristics, and the cooling characteristics during decreases in temperature. In such plate-shaped body for temperature measurement (1), an insulating adhesive (3) is bonded to the entirety of a surface (2a) of a wafer (2), a heater element (4) is provided on the insulating adhesive (3), a temperature measurement region (5) is provided used to measure the temperature of the surface (2a) of the wafer (2) in a region excluding the heater element (4) on the surface (3a) of the insulating adhesive (3), and the heater element (4) and the temperature measurement region (5) are coated with an insulating film (6).Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Mamoru Kosakai, Kazunori Ishimura, Takeshi Watanabe, Hitoshi Kouno, Ryuuji Hayahara
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Patent number: 10475688Abstract: An electrostatic chuck part of an electrostatic chuck device has an electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface surrounding an opening of a chuck part through-hole, and an electrostatic chuck part outer peripheral surface surrounding the electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface. An insulator has an insulator main body in which an insulator through-hole having an opening on the electrostatic chuck part side is formed, an insulator inner end face, and an insulator outer end face which faces the electrostatic chuck part outer peripheral surface. The insulator inner end face and the electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface are in contact with each other, or an adhesion layer or a plasma-resistant adhesive layer extends in a gap between the insulator inner end face and the electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface. The plasma-resistant adhesive layer is formed between the electrostatic chuck part outer peripheral surface and the insulator outer end face.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Ishimura, Kazuto Ando, Kentaro Takahashi, Yuhki Kinpara, Shinichi Maeta, Mamoru Kosakai
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Publication number: 20190019714Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: an electrostatic chuck part which incorporates an internal electrode for electrostatic attraction and has a placing surface on which a plate-like sample is placed; a base part which cools the electrostatic chuck part; and an adhesion layer which bonds the electrostatic chuck part and the base part to integrate the parts together, in which a first through-hole is provided in the electrostatic chuck part, a second through-hole that communicates with the first through-hole is provided in the base part, a tubular insulator is fixed in the second through-hole, an annular sealing member is sandwiched between the electrostatic chuck part and a distal end surface of the insulator, wherein the distal end surface is located on the electrostatic chuck part side of the insulator, and a tubular insulating wall member is located at the inner side of the sealing member in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Mamoru KOSAKAI, Yukio MIURA, Kazunori ISHIMURA, Keisuke MAEDA, Hitoshi KOUNO, Yuuki KINPARA, Shinichi MAETA, Tomomi ITO
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Publication number: 20180025933Abstract: An electrostatic chuck part of an electrostatic chuck device has an electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface surrounding an opening of a chuck part through-hole, and an electrostatic chuck part outer peripheral surface surrounding the electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface. An insulator has an insulator main body in which an insulator through-hole having an opening on the electrostatic chuck part side is formed, an insulator inner end face, and an insulator outer end face which faces the electrostatic chuck part outer peripheral surface. The insulator inner end face and the electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface are in contact with each other, or an adhesion layer or a plasma-resistant adhesive layer extends in a gap between the insulator inner end face and the electrostatic chuck part inner peripheral surface. The plasma-resistant adhesive layer is formed between the electrostatic chuck part outer peripheral surface and the insulator outer end face.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunori ISHIMURA, Kazuto ANDO, Kentaro TAKAHASHI, Yuhki KINPARA, Shinichi MAETA, Mamoru KOSAKAI
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Patent number: 9721822Abstract: Disclosed is an electrostatic chuck apparatus which is configured of: an electrostatic chuck section; an annular focus ring section provided to surround the electrostatic chuck section; and a cooling base section which cools the electrostatic chuck section and the focus ring section. The focus ring section is provided with an annular focus ring, an annular heat conducting sheet, an annular ceramic ring, a nonmagnetic heater, and an electrode section that supplies power to the heater.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuharu Sasaki, Kenji Masuzawa, Toshiyuki Makabe, Mamoru Kosakai, Takashi Satou, Kazunori Ishimura, Ryuuji Hayahara, Hitoshi Kouno
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Patent number: 9343346Abstract: An electrostatic chuck apparatus including: an electrostatic chuck section having one main surface that is a mounting surface on which a plate specimen is mounted, and being equipped with an electrostatic adsorbing internal electrode; and a temperature adjusting base section that adjusts the electrostatic chuck section to a desired temperature, wherein a heating member is bonded to a main surface of the electrostatic chuck section, which is opposite to the mounting surface, via an adhesive material, the whole or a part of the main surface of the temperature adjusting base section, which is on the side of the electrostatic chuck section, is covered with a sheet or film of insulating material, and the electrostatic chuck section bonded with the heating member and the temperature adjusting base section covered with the insulating material are bonded and integrated via an insulating organic adhesive layer formed by curing a liquid adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Kosakai, Kazunori Ishimura, Takashi Satou, Ryuuji Hayahara, Takeshi Watanabe, Yoshiaki Moriya, Kei Furuuchi
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Patent number: 9269600Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes an electrostatic chuck section (2), which has a principal surface that is a mounting surface on which a plate-like sample (W) is placed, and has an internal electrode for electrostatic adsorption (13) incorporated in the section, and a temperature adjustment base section (3) which adjusts the temperature of the electrostatic chuck section (2); wherein a part or all of a surface of the temperature adjustment base section (3) is covered by a sheet-like or film-like insulating material (4) wherein the surface faces the side where the electrostatic chuck section is located; a thin plate-like heater element (5) is bonded on the insulating material (4); and the electrostatic chuck section (2) and the temperature adjustment base section (3) are integrated with each other via an organic insulating adhesive layer (6) formed by curing a liquid adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Miura, Kazunori Ishimura, Mamoru Kosakai
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Patent number: 9209061Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device is provided in which it is possible to uniformize an in-plane temperature distribution in a placement surface on which a plate-shaped sample such as a wafer is placed and it is possible to improve in-plane uniformity of plasma etching of the plate-shaped sample by uniformizing plasma density on the plate-shaped sample.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuuji Hayahara, Kazunori Ishimura, Mamoru Kosakai
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Publication number: 20150179492Abstract: Disclosed is an electrostatic chuck apparatus which is configured of: an electrostatic chuck section; an annular focus ring section provided to surround the electrostatic chuck section; and a cooling base section which cools the electrostatic chuck section and the focus ring section. The focus ring section is provided with an annular focus ring, an annular heat conducting sheet, an annular ceramic ring, a nonmagnetic heater, and an electrode section that supplies power to the heater.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Yasuharu Sasaki, Kenji Masuzawa, Toshiyuki Makabe, Mamoru Kosakai, Takashi Satou, Kazunori Ishimura, Ryuuji Hayahara, Hitoshi Kouno
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Patent number: 8981263Abstract: Disclosed is an electrostatic chuck apparatus which is configured of: an electrostatic chuck section; an annular focus ring section provided to surround the electrostatic chuck section; and a cooling base section which cools the electrostatic chuck section and the focus ring section. The focus ring section is provided with an annular focus ring, an annular heat conducting sheet, an annular ceramic ring, a nonmagnetic heater, and an electrode section that supplies power to the heater.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuharu Sasaki, Kenji Masuzawa, Toshiyuki Makabe, Mamoru Kosakai, Takashi Satou, Kazunori Ishimura, Ryuuji Hayahara, Hitoshi Kouno
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Publication number: 20140301010Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device is provided in which it is possible to uniformize an in-plane temperature distribution in a placement surface on which a plate-shaped sample such as a wafer is placed and it is possible to improve in-plane uniformity of plasma etching of the plate-shaped sample by uniformizing plasma density on the plate-shaped sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuuji Hayahara, Kazunori Ishimura, Mamoru Kosakai
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Publication number: 20140204975Abstract: There are provided a plate-shaped body for temperature measurement which, simply by being mounted on a mounting surface of an electrostatic chuck apparatus and without using a semiconductor wafer itself which is a product, is able to easily optimize the in-plane temperature distribution of the mounting surface of the electrostatic chuck apparatus, the temperature rising characteristics, and the cooling characteristics during decreases in temperature, and a temperature measuring apparatus provided with the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Kosakai, Kazunori Ishimura, Takeshi Watanabe, Hitoshi Kouno, Ryuuji Hayahara
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Publication number: 20140042716Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes an electrostatic chuck section (2), which has a principal surface that is a mounting surface on which a plate-like sample (W) is placed, and has an internal electrode for electrostatic adsorption (13) incorporated in the section, and a temperature adjustment base section (3) which adjusts the temperature of the electrostatic chuck section (2); wherein a part or all of a surface of the temperature adjustment base section (3) is covered by a sheet-like or film-like insulating material (4) wherein the surface faces the side where the electrostatic chuck section is located; a thin plate-like heater element (5) is bonded on the insulating material (4); and the electrostatic chuck section (2) and the temperature adjustment base section (3) are integrated with each other via an organic insulating adhesive layer (6) formed by curing a liquid adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Miura, Kazunori Ishimura, Mamoru Kosakai
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Publication number: 20120299253Abstract: The present invention provides an electrostatic chuck apparatus including: an electrostatic chuck section having one main surface that is a mounting surface on which a plate specimen is mounted, and being equipped with an electrostatic adsorbing internal electrode; and a temperature adjusting base section that adjusts the electrostatic chuck section to a desired temperature, wherein a heating member is bonded to a main surface of the electrostatic chuck section, which is opposite to the mounting surface, via an adhesive material, the whole or a part of the main surface of the temperature adjusting base section, which is on the side of the electrostatic chuck section, is covered with a sheet-like or film-like insulating material, and the electrostatic chuck section bonded with the heating member and the temperature adjusting base section covered with the sheet-like or the film-like insulating material are bonded and integrated via an insulating organic adhesive layer formed by curing a liquid adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Mamoru Kosakai, Kazunori Ishimura, Takashi Satou, Ryuuji Hayahara, Takeshi Watanabe, Yoshiaki Moriya, Kei Furuuchi
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Publication number: 20120281334Abstract: Disclosed is an electrostatic chuck apparatus which is configured of: an electrostatic chuck section; an annular focus ring section provided to surround the electrostatic chuck section; and a cooling base section which cools the electrostatic chuck section and the focus ring section. The focus ring section is provided with an annular focus ring, an annular heat conducting sheet, an annular ceramic ring, a nonmagnetic heater, and an electrode section that supplies power to the heater.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicants: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD., TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yasuharu Sasaki, Kenji Masuzawa, Toshiyuki Makabe, Mamoru Kosakai, Takashi Satou, Kazunori Ishimura, Ryuuji Hayahara, Hitoshi Kouno
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Patent number: 6730276Abstract: The plastic film electrostatic adsorption apparatus of the present invention comprises an electrostatic adsorption electrode, an insulated dielectric layer that covers the electrostatic adsorption electrode and has a center line average roughness of an adsorption surface on which a plastic film is placed of 0.5 micrometers or less, and a power supply electrode that applies a voltage to the electrostatic adsorption electrode. According to this plastic film electrostatic adsorption apparatus, surface treatment can be performed even in a vacuum without requiring tedious work such as application or removal of adhesive. In addition, even if the plastic film expands and deforms due to heat treatment and plasma treatment performed during surface treatment, there is no occurrence of wrinkling, deformation or separation in the plastic film due to the difference in thermal expansion between the electrostatic adsorption surface and plastic film.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2001Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Kosakai, Kazunori Ishimura, Teruyasu Fujita
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Publication number: 20020008015Abstract: The plastic film electrostatic adsorption apparatus and electrostatic adsorption method of the present invention disclose a plastic film electrostatic adsorption apparatus comprising an electrostatic adsorption electrode, an insulated dielectric layer that covers the electrostatic adsorption electrode and has a center line average roughness of the adsorption surface on which the plastic film is placed of 0.5 &mgr;m or less, and a power supply electrode that applies a voltage to the electrostatic adsorption electrode. According to this plastic film electrostatic adsorption apparatus and electrostatic adsorption method, surface treatment can be performed even in a vacuum without requiring tedious work such as application or removal of adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Inventors: Mamoru Kosakai, Kazunori Ishimura, Teruyasu Fujita