Abstract: A vaporizer 10 comprises: a vaporization chamber 12 for storing a liquid; a bottom heater 14B provided in the vaporization chamber 12 which includes a winding portion 141, acting as a heat source, to contact with the liquid stored in the vaporization chamber and an upright portion 142 erected from the winding portion and having an end portion with a heater terminal 143; and a relief valve 16 connected to the vaporization chamber 12. The vaporizer 10 is configured to be able to appropriately vaporize and supply ultrapure water.

Abstract: Provided is a closing plug capable of easily closing an open end of a flow passage without concern of scale. The closing plug includes: a gasket configured to come into contact with an annular projection formed in a step portion inside the open end of the flow passage of a flow passage block; a columnar pressing member formed by cutting out an inner side of a pressing surface so as to press a peripheral edge portion of the gasket; and a closing plug screw configured to be screwed into a female screw formed in an inner peripheral surface on an open end side from the step portion and press the pressing member toward the gasket by movement caused by screwing.

Abstract: A fluid supply device and a fluid supply method capable of stably supplying a supercritical fluid includes a fluid supply device for supplying a fluid in a liquid state before being changed to a supercritical fluid toward a processing chamber. The fluid supply device comprises a condenser that condenses and liquefies a fluid in a gas state, a tank that stores the fluid condensed and liquefied by the condenser, a pump that pressure-feeds the liquefied fluid stored in the tank toward the processing chamber, and a heating means provided to a flow path communicating with a discharge side of the pump and for partially changing the liquid in the flow path to a supercritical fluid.

Abstract: In order to appropriately control temperatures of fluid heating sections that are maintained at different temperatures, the fluid control device (100) comprises a plurality of fluid heating sections (1) connected to each other and each having a flow path or a fluid accommodating portion inside, heaters (10) configured to heat each of the plurality of fluid heating sections to different temperatures, and heat insulating members (13, 13?) disposed between adjacent fluid heating sections.

Abstract: A fluid supply device includes a condenser, a tank that stores the fluid, a pump that pressure-feeds the fluid toward a processing chamber, a main pipe connecting the tank and the pump and transferring the liquid stored in the tank to the pump using a weight of the liquid, and a discharging pipe that is connected to the main pipe at a lowest position of the main pipe at one end, is opened to the atmosphere at the other end, and vaporizes and discharges the liquid in the tank and the main pipe to the outside. The discharging pipe is formed so that, after the liquid in the tank and the main pipe is fully discharged, a liquid pool that separates a space on the atmosphere side and a space on the main pipe side of the discharging pipe is temporarily produced in the discharging pipe.

Abstract: A fluid supply device and a fluid supply method capable of stably supplying a supercritical fluid includes a fluid supply device for supplying a fluid in a liquid state before being changed to a supercritical fluid toward a processing chamber. The fluid supply device comprises a condenser that condenses and liquefies carbon dioxide in a gas state, a tank that stores the fluid condensed and liquefied by the condenser, a pump that pressure-feeds the liquefied carbon dioxide stored in the tank toward the processing chamber, and a damper part that is provided to a flow path communicating with a discharge side of the pump and suppresses periodic pressure fluctuations of the liquid discharged from the pump. The damper part includes a spiral tube formed into a spiral shape that is fixed at both end portions in predetermined positions, and allows the liquid discharged from the pump to flow therethrough.

Abstract: A fluid supply device and a fluid supply method capable of stably supplying a supercritical fluid includes a fluid supply device for supplying a fluid in a liquid state before being changed to a supercritical fluid toward a processing chamber. The fluid supply device comprises a condenser that condenses and liquefies a fluid in a gas state, a tank that stores the fluid condensed and liquefied by the condenser, a pump that pressure-feeds the liquefied fluid stored in the tank toward the processing chamber, and a heating means provided to a flow path communicating with a discharge side of the pump and for partially changing the liquid in the flow path to a supercritical fluid.

Abstract: In order to appropriately control temperatures of fluid heating sections that are maintained at different temperatures, the fluid control device (100) comprises a plurality of fluid heating sections (1) connected to each other and each having a flow path or a fluid accommodating portion inside, heaters (10) configured to heat each of the plurality of fluid heating sections to different temperatures, and heat insulating members (13, 13?) disposed between adjacent fluid heating sections.

Abstract: A fluid supply device includes a condenser, a tank that stores the fluid, a pump that pressure-feeds the fluid toward a processing chamber, a main pipe connecting the tank and the pump and transferring the liquid stored in the tank to the pump using a weight of the liquid, and a discharging pipe that is connected to the main pipe at a lowest position of the main pipe at one end, is opened to the atmosphere at the other end, and vaporizes and discharges the liquid in the tank and the main pipe to the outside. The discharging pipe is formed so that, after the liquid in the tank and the main pipe is fully discharged, a liquid pool that separates a space on the atmosphere side and a space on the main pipe side of the discharging pipe is temporarily produced in the discharging pipe.

Abstract: In order to optimally supply a raw material by using a heater, the fluid control device (100) includes a fluid heating section (1) provided with a flow path or a fluid accommodation portion inside, and a heater (10) for heating the fluid heating section, the heater having a heating element (10a) and a metallic heat transfer member (10b) thermally connected to the heating element and arranged so as to surround the fluid heating section, and the surface of the heat transfer member facing the fluid heating section includes a surface (S1) subjected to surface treatment for improving heat dissipation.

Abstract: The method for parallel operation of moisture generating reactors according to the present invention operates so that an orifice, provided with an orifice hole having a predetermined opening diameter, is disposed on a mixed-gas inlet side of each of a plurality of moisture generating reactors connected in parallel with each other, and mixed gas G consisting of hydrogen and oxygen is supplied from a mixer to each of the moisture generating reactors through each orifice, and the flows of moisture generated by the moisture generating reactors are combined, and the resulting combined moisture is supplied to an apparatus that uses high-purity water. Thus, a need to increase the amount of high-purity water supply is met by allowing a plurality of moisture generating reactors to perform a parallel water generating operation by branching off a mixed gas consisting of H2 and O2 by using a simple orifice construction.

Abstract: A reactor for moisture generation generates high-purity moisture at a catalytic reaction temperature that is lower than an ignition point of hydrogen gas and oxygen gas so hydrogen and oxygen gas are supplied into the reactor having a platinum catalyst layer to catalyze the reaction of the gases without combustion, wherein the reactor maintains high adhesion strength for a long time of the platinum catalyst layer to a barrier layer provided between the base material and the platinum catalyst layer. The reactor includes a reactor main body that has a gas inlet and a moisture outlet, and the Y2O3 barrier layer is formed on at least a part of an internal wall surface of the reactor main body, and the platinum catalyst layer is formed on at least a part of the Y2O3 barrier layer. A film thickness of the Y2O3 barrier layer is preferably 50 nm to 5 ?m.

Abstract: A reactor for generating moisture, with which hydrogen and oxygen fed into the reactor contact with a platinum coating catalyst layer to activate reactivity so that hydrogen and oxygen react under conditions of non-combustion, wherein the reactor includes a cooler comprising a heat dissipation body substrate in which a heater insertion hole is made in the center to fix to the outer surface of the reactor structural component on the outlet side and a cooler on the outlet side made up of a plural number of heat dissipation bodies installed vertically in parallel on the part excluding the area where the afore-mentioned heater insertion hole of the heat dissipation body substrate exists, and a part of the heater to heat the reactor is inserted in the heater insertion hole so as to fix to the outer surface of the reactor structural component on the outlet side.

Abstract: The method for parallel operation of moisture generating reactors according to the present invention operates so that an orifice, provided with an orifice hole having a predetermined opening diameter, is disposed on a mixed-gas inlet side of each of a plurality of moisture generating reactors connected in parallel with each other, and mixed gas G consisting of hydrogen and oxygen is supplied from a mixer to each of the moisture generating reactors through each orifice, and the flows of moisture generated by the moisture generating reactors are combined, and the resulting combined moisture is supplied to an apparatus that uses high-purity water. Thus, a need to increase the amount of high-purity water supply is met by allowing a plurality of moisture generating reactors to perform a parallel water generating operation by branching off a mixed gas consisting of H2 and O2 by using a simple orifice construction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vacuum thermal insulating valve that may be used at high temperature in gas supply systems or gas exhaust systems, and also may be made substantially small and compact in size owing to its excellent thermal insulating performance. With a vacuum thermal insulating valve comprising a valve equipped with a valve body and an actuator, and a vacuum thermal insulating box that houses the valve, the afore-mentioned vacuum thermal insulating box S is formed by a square-shaped lower vacuum jacket S5 having a cylinder-shaped vacuum thermal insulating pipe receiving part J on a side and with its upper face made open, and the square-shaped upper vacuum jackets S4, which is hermetically fitted to the lower vacuum jacket S5 and with its lower face made open.

Abstract: A barrier film which has uniform thickness and excellent adhesiveness to the base material and superbly functions to protect a platinum film can be formed on the inner wall surface of a moisture-generating reactor at ease and at a low cost. The moisture-generating reactor in which hydrogen and oxygen are reacted to generate moisture without high temperature combustion is made of an alloy containing aluminum. A principally aluminum oxide (Al2O3)-composed barrier film is formed by applying an aluminum selective oxidation treatment on the inner wall surface of the moisture-generating reactor, and thereafter a platinum film is stacked on and stuck to the barrier film so that a platinum coating catalyst layer is formed.

Abstract: A safe, reduced pressure apparatus for generating water vapor from hydrogen and oxygen and feeding high purity moisture to processes such as semiconductor production. The apparatus eliminates the possibility of the gas igniting by maintaining the internal pressure of the catalytic reactor for generating moisture at a high level while supplying moisture gas from the reactor under reduced pressure. A heat dissipation reactor improvement substantially increases moisture generation without being an enlargement in size by efficient cooling of the reactor alumite-treated fins.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vacuum thermal insulating valve that may be used at high temperature in gas supply systems or gas exhaust systems, and also may be made substantially small and compact in size owing to its excellent thermal insulating performance. With a vacuum thermal insulating valve comprising a valve equipped with a valve body and an actuator, and a vacuum thermal insulating box that houses the valve, the afore-mentioned vacuum thermal insulating box S is formed by a square-shaped lower vacuum jacket S5 having a cylinder-shaped vacuum thermal insulating pipe receiving part J on a side and with its upper face made open, and the square-shaped upper vacuum jackets S4, which is hermetically fitted to the lower vacuum jacket S5 and with its lower face made open.

Abstract: A reactor for generating moisture, with which hydrogen and oxygen fed into the reactor contact with a platinum coating catalyst layer to activate reactivity so that hydrogen and oxygen react under conditions of non-combustion, wherein the reactor includes a cooler comprising a heat dissipation body substrate in which a heater insertion hole is made in the center to fix to the outer surface of the reactor structural component on the outlet side and a cooler on the outlet side made up of a plural number of heat dissipation bodies installed vertically in parallel on the part excluding the area where the afore-mentioned heater insertion hole of the heat dissipation body substrate exists, and a part of the heater to heat the reactor is inserted in the heater insertion hole so as to fix to the outer surface of the reactor structural component on the outlet side.

Abstract: A safe, reduced pressure apparatus for generating water vapor from hydrogen and oxygen and feeding high purity moisture to processes such as semiconductor production. The apparatus eliminates the possibility of the gas igniting by maintaining the internal pressure of the catalytic reactor for generating moisture at a high level while supplying moisture gas from the reactor under reduced pressure. A heat dissipation reactor improvement substantially increases moisture generation without being an enlargement in size by efficient cooling of the reactor alumite-treated fins.