Patents Assigned to Semes Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240153792
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing a substrate can reduce the concentration of process by-products in a chemical solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: SEMES CO., LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Jung KIM, Jin Ah HAN, Hee Hwan KIM, Yong Hoon HONG, Kyoung Suk KIM, Jong Hyeok PARK, Jin Hyung PARK, Dae Hyuk CHUNG, Ji Hoon CHA
  • Publication number: 20240153747
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a substrate treating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae-Won SHIN
  • Publication number: 20240152056
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a substrate treating method. The substrate treating method includes supplying a liquid to a substrate; and heating the substrate after the supplying the liquid, and wherein the supplying the liquid includes: supplying a first liquid to the substrate; and supplying a second liquid which is different from the first liquid to a substrate to which the first liquid is supplied, and wherein the second liquid is supplied as a test to the substrate and a contact angle between the second liquid which is supplied and the substrate is measured to determine a degree of hydrophilization of the substrate, and a supply mechanism of the second liquid supplied to the substrate is determined based on the degree of hydrophilization of the substrate which is determined, before the supplying the second liquid is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Gun LEE, Ki Hoon CHOI, Hyun YOON, Seung Un OH, Jin Yeong SUNG, Jang Jin LEE, Tae Shin KIM
  • Publication number: 20240153135
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept provide a substrate treating apparatus and a substrate treating method for allowing a position of a substrate to be known with only an analysis of an image with respect to a light source irradiated to a surrounding of the substrate. The inventive concept provides a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a support unit configured to seat a substrate; a first light irradiation unit configured to irradiate a first light source to the substrate; an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image information with respect to the first light source irradiated to the substrate; and an image analysis unit configured to detect a position of the substrate by inputting the image information and analyzing the first light source irradiated to the substrate within the image information which is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Hun LEE, Yong Seok JANG
  • Publication number: 20240149308
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid chemical supply module and a substrate processing apparatus including the same, the liquid chemical supply module including a main supplier for supplying a liquid chemical from a liquid chemical tank to at least one substrate processing apparatus, and at least one distribution supplier for connecting between the main supplier and any one substrate processing apparatus to distribute the liquid chemical supplied through the main supplier to the any one substrate processing apparatus, wherein the distribution supplier includes a distribution line branched from a main line of the main supplier, a first circulation line branched from the distribution line and connecting between the distribution line and the main line, and a second circulation line branched from the distribution line connecting between the distribution line and the main line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungtae YANG, Sangwoo PARK, Youngjoon HAN, Seonghyeon KIM, Gi Hun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240153791
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a substrate treating method for etching a specific region on a substrate. The substrate treating method includes supplying a treating liquid to the substrate; and irradiating a laser to the specific region to locally heat the specific region; and wherein at the irradiating the laser, the laser is irradiated a plurality of times within the specific region, and the laser is irradiated to a region which does not overlap on the substrate, but which overlaps within the specific region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Yeong SUNG, Ki Hoon CHOI, Hyun YOON, Sang Hyeon RYU, Young Ho PARK
  • Publication number: 20240149311
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for cleaning a part of a substrate processing apparatus, the apparatus including a chemical solution storage tank for storing a chemical solution, a filter configured to filter the chemical solution supplied from the chemical solution storage tank, a heater configured to heat the filtered chemical solution, and a vibrator arranged adjacent to the filter and configured to provide vibration to the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seongsoo LEE
  • Publication number: 20240152131
    Abstract: Provided is an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and semiconductor manufacturing equipment including the same, the AMR including an autonomous mobile module capable of autonomously moving along a certain autonomous motion path between a plurality of semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses disposed in semiconductor manufacturing equipment for manufacturing semiconductor devices, to supply materials to or perform maintenance on any one of the plurality of semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and a loading module provided as a transferable structure including a manipulator for supplying materials to or performing maintenance on any one of the plurality of semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses, and docked to and transferred by the autonomous mobile module, wherein, in the autonomous mobile module, a male coupler rotatably protruding from a docking surface of the autonomous mobile module so as to be inserted into a female coupler of the loading module is flexibly supp
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyoung LEE, Seungchan LEE, Sang Ok PARK
  • Publication number: 20240149927
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for measuring a railroad of a transfer vehicle to check the installation status of the railroad to ensure that the railroad of the transfer vehicle is installed in accordance with specifications. The apparatus may include a body formed in correspondence with a railroad of the transfer vehicle, a detector provided to the body and arranged in contact with the railroad, and a displacement measurer configured to measure a displacement of the detector in contact with the railroad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Ik CHO, Chungil CHO, Chul Hyung LEE
  • Patent number: 11975349
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying chemical liquid may include a chemical liquid supply member for supplying a chemical liquid onto a substrate, a chemical liquid storing member for storing the chemical liquid, a chemical liquid receiving assembly for receiving the chemical liquid provided from the chemical liquid storing member and for providing the chemical liquid into the chemical liquid supply member, a first chemical liquid supply line for supplying the chemical liquid from the chemical liquid storing member to the chemical liquid receiving assembly, and a second chemical liquid supply line for supplying the chemical liquid from the chemical liquid receiving assembly to the chemical liquid supply member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Semes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinwoo Yang, Bongman Choi, Dongyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11977332
    Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus and a substrate treating method are provided. The substrate treating apparatus includes a first process chamber to apply an organic solvent to a substrate applied with a developer and introduced, and a second process chamber to treat the substrate applied with the organic solvent and introduced, through a supercritical fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: SEMES CO., LTD., Research & Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hae-Won Choi, Yerim Yeon, Anton Koriakin, Kihoon Choi, Youngran Ko, Jeong Ho Cho, Hyungseok Kang, Hong Gi Min
  • Patent number: 11978654
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate processing apparatus capable of shortening a process time, and the substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises an index chamber having a transfer robot loading/unloading a substrate; a process chamber having a heating means heating the substrate and processing the substrate; a loadlock chamber disposed between the index chamber and the process chamber; and a conveying chamber having a conveying robot conveying the substrate between the process chamber and the loadlock chamber, wherein a pre-heating means is provided in the conveying robot to pre-heat the substrate in a state before processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Sung Han, Wan Jae Park, Yoon Jong Ju, Jaehoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20240139934
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a teaching method for teaching a transfer position of a transfer robot. The teaching method includes: searching for an object on which a target object to be transferred by the transfer robot is placed, based on a 3D position information acquired by a first sensor; and acquiring coordinates of a second direction and coordinates of a third direction of the object based on a data acquired from a second sensor which is a different type from the first sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Min Lee, Kwang Sup Kim, Myeong Jun Lim, Young Ho Park, Yeon Chul Song, Sang Hyun Son, Jun Ho Oh, Ji Hoon Yoo, Joong Chol Shin
  • Publication number: 20240145261
    Abstract: The apparatus includes a support unit to support the substrate in a treatment space of a process chamber, a first fluid supply unit to supply a supercritical fluid having an organic solvent dissolved in the supercritical fluid, to the treatment space, a second fluid supply unit to supply the supercritical fluid having no organic solvent dissolved in the supercritical fluid, to the treatment space, an exhaust unit to exhaust the treatment space, a controller to control the first fluid supply unit, the second fluid supply unit, and the exhaust unit. The controller controls the first and second fluid supply units such that the supercritical fluid having no organic solvent dissolved in the supercritical fluid is supplied to the treatment space through the second fluid supply unit, after the supercritical fluid mixed with the organic solvent is supplied to the treatment space through the first fluid supply unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eui Sang LIM, Young Hun LEE, Jinwoo JUNG, Miso PARK, Byongwook AHN, Yong Hee LEE
  • Publication number: 20240139966
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate transfer system and method enabling a direction of a substrate or the order of substrates to be maintained even when the substrate is swing-moved and transferred by a robot transportation device, in particularly, the substrate transfer system may include: a robot transportation device that transfers at least one substrate using at least one swing-movable transport arm; and a compensatory rotation device that is mounted on the transport arm of the robot transportation device and selectively supports the substrate to thus enable compensatory rotation thereof so that, even when the transport arm has a swing motion while the substrate is transferred by the robot transportation device, a direction of the substrate or the order of the substrates can be maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myeong Gyu SHIN
  • Publication number: 20240145264
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing a substrate may include a drying chamber configured to dry at least two divided substrates from an original substrate, the drying chamber may have a drying space where the at least two divided substrates disposed therein. The apparatus for processing a substrate may include a dryness compensation part configured to compensate a difference of drynesses of chemical liquids coated on the at least two divided substrates such that the chemical liquids coated on the at least two divided substrates has a substantially same dryness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungho KIM, Jungsoo LEE, Hyekyoung KIM
  • Publication number: 20240146103
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept provide a wireless power apparatus for a substrate treating apparatus and a manufacturing method for the wireless power apparatus for the substrate treating apparatus for preventing a heat generation by preventing a generation of an eddy current in a coupling element, if the coupling element is used around an outer housing at which an induced magnetic field is formed. The inventive concept provides a wireless power apparatus for a substrate treating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chan Young Choi, Ki Won Han, Wan Hee Jeong, Kyo Bong Kim, Hee Chan Kim, Doo Hyun Baek, Sang-Oh Kim, Hee Jae Byun
  • Publication number: 20240145265
    Abstract: Proposed are a process fluid treatment apparatus capable of decomposing ozone in a process fluid more effectively, and a wafer cleaning apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing equipment including the same. The process fluid treatment apparatus treats the process fluid used for cleaning a wafer in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and includes a housing having an inner space configured to contain the process fluid, a spray nozzle configured to spray the process fluid containing ozone into the inner space in the form of mist, and a nozzle heater configured to heat the process fluid passing through the spray nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Seop CHOI, Myung A JEON, Dong Uk LEE, Boo Seok YANG, Bok Kyu LEE
  • Patent number: 11972939
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a method for treating a substrate. The method includes removing a film on the substrate by applying a pulsed laser to the rotating substrate, in which thickness of the film to be removed is measured and pulse energy of the pulsed laser is selected based on the measured thickness of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohyeol Kwon, Jun Keon Ahn, Soo Young Park, Jung Hwan Lee
  • Publication number: 20240131852
    Abstract: Provided is a chemical storage apparatus including a reservoir including a chemical tank configured to store a chemical, a first fixing member disposed on an upper surface of the chemical tank, and a second fixing member disposed on a lower surface of the chemical tank, a sensor configured to measure a specific parameter of the chemical stored in the reservoir, a receptacle having a space in which the sensor is accommodated, and coupling members for attaching or detaching the receptacle to or from the first fixing member and the second fixing member, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghwa Lee, Daigeon Yoon, Soohong Lee, Bongman Choi, Daesung Kim