Patents by Inventor Charles T. Carlson

Charles T. Carlson 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).

  • Patent number: 11574826
    Abstract: Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a factory interface and a load lock coupled with the factory interface. The systems may include a transfer chamber coupled with the load lock. The transfer chamber may include a robot configured to retrieve substrates from the load lock. The systems may include a chamber system positioned adjacent and coupled with the transfer chamber. The chamber system may include a transfer region laterally accessible to the robot. The transfer region may include a plurality of substrate supports disposed about the transfer region. Each substrate support of the plurality of substrate supports may be vertically translatable. The transfer region may also include a transfer apparatus rotatable about a central axis and configured to engage substrates and transfer substrates among the plurality of substrate supports. The chamber system may also include a plurality of processing regions vertically offset and axially aligned with an associated substrate support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. Schaller, Steve Hongkham, Charles T. Carlson, Tuan A. Nguyen, Swaminathan T. Srinivasan, Khokan Chandra Paul
  • Publication number: 20230032854
    Abstract: Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a transfer region housing defining an internal volume. A sidewall of the transfer region housing may define a sealable access for providing and receiving substrates. The systems may include a plurality of substrate supports disposed within the transfer region. The systems may also include a transfer apparatus having a central hub including a first shaft and a second shaft concentric with and counter-rotatable to the first shaft. The transfer apparatus may include a first end effector coupled with the first shaft. The first end effector may include a plurality of first arms. The transfer apparatus may also include a second end effector coupled with the second shaft. The second end effector may include a plurality of second arms having a number of second arms equal to the number of first arms of the first end effector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles T. Carlson, Jason M. Schaller, Luke Bonecutter, David Blahnik
  • Publication number: 20230005783
    Abstract: Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a transfer region housing defining a transfer region fluidly coupled with a plurality of processing regions. A sidewall of the transfer region housing may define a sealable access for providing and receiving substrates. The systems may include a plurality of substrate supports disposed within the transfer region. The systems may also include a transfer apparatus having a central hub including a first shaft and a second shaft counter-rotatable with the first shaft. The transfer apparatus may include an eccentric hub extending at least partially through the central hub, and which is radially offset from a central axis of the central hub. The transfer apparatus may also include an end effector coupled with the eccentric hub. The end effector may include a plurality of arms having a number of arms equal to the number of substrate supports of the plurality of substrate supports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. Schaller, Luke Bonecutter, Charles T. Carlson, Rajkumar Thanu, Karuppasamy Muthukamatchi, Jeff Hudgens, Benjamin Riordon
  • Patent number: 11476135
    Abstract: Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a transfer region housing defining an internal volume. A sidewall of the transfer region housing may define a sealable access for providing and receiving substrates. The systems may include a plurality of substrate supports disposed within the transfer region. The systems may also include a transfer apparatus having a central hub including a first shaft and a second shaft concentric with and counter-rotatable to the first shaft. The transfer apparatus may include a first end effector coupled with the first shaft. The first end effector may include a plurality of first arms. The transfer apparatus may also include a second end effector coupled with the second shaft. The second end effector may include a plurality of second arms having a number of second arms equal to the number of first arms of the first end effector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles T. Carlson, Jason M. Schaller, Luke Bonecutter, David Blahnik
  • Patent number: 11443973
    Abstract: Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a transfer region housing defining a transfer region fluidly coupled with a plurality of processing regions. A sidewall of the transfer region housing may define a sealable access for providing and receiving substrates. The systems may include a plurality of substrate supports disposed within the transfer region. The systems may also include a transfer apparatus having a central hub including a first shaft and a second shaft counter-rotatable with the first shaft. The transfer apparatus may include an eccentric hub extending at least partially through the central hub, and which is radially offset from a central axis of the central hub. The transfer apparatus may also include an end effector coupled with the eccentric hub. The end effector may include a plurality of arms having a number of arms equal to the number of substrate supports of the plurality of substrate supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. Schaller, Luke Bonecutter, Charles T. Carlson, Rajkumar Thanu, Karuppasamy Muthukamatchi, Jeff Hudgens, Benjamin Riordon
  • Publication number: 20220183137
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a linear accelerator assembly for an ion implanter. In some embodiments, the linear accelerator assembly may include a central support within a chamber, and a plurality of modules coupled to the central support, at least one module of the plurality of modules including an electrode having an aperture for receiving and delivering an ion beam along a beamline axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Sinclair, Paul J. Murphy, Michael Honan, Charles T. Carlson
  • Patent number: 11355367
    Abstract: Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a transfer region housing defining a transfer region, and including substrate supports and a transfer apparatus. The transfer apparatus may include a central hub having a housing, and including a first shaft and a second shaft. The housing may be coupled with the second shaft, and may define an internal housing volume. The transfer apparatus may include a plurality of arms equal to a number of substrate supports of the plurality of substrate supports. Each arm of the plurality of arms may be coupled about an exterior of the housing. The transfer apparatus may include a plurality of arm hubs disposed within the internal housing volume. Each arm hub of the plurality of arm hubs may be coupled with an arm of the plurality of arms through the housing. The arm hubs may be coupled with the first shaft of the central hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. Schaller, Charles T. Carlson, Luke Bonecutter, David Blahnik, Karuppasamy Muthukamatchi, Jeff Hudgens, Benjamin Riordon
  • Publication number: 20220174810
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a drift tube assembly, arranged to transmit an ion beam. The drift tube assembly may include a first ground electrode; an RF drift tube assembly, disposed downstream of the first ground electrode; and a second ground electrode, disposed downstream of the RF drift tube assembly. The RF drift tube assembly may define a triple gap configuration. The apparatus may include a resonator, where the resonator comprises a toroidal coil, having a first end, connected to a first RF drift tube of the RF drift tube assembly, and a second end, connected to a second RF drift tube of the RF drift tube assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Costel Biloiu, Charles T. Carlson, Frank Sinclair, Paul J. Murphy, David T. Blahnik
  • Patent number: 11306824
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to an isolation device for use in processing systems. The isolation device has a body with an inlet opening disposed at a first end coupled to a processing system component such as a remote plasma source and outlet openings, for example two, disposed at a second end which are coupled to a processing system component such as a process chamber. Flaps disposed within the body are actuatable to an open position from a closed position or to a closed position from an open position, to selectively allow or prevent passage of a fluid from the processing system component coupled to the isolation device to the other processing system component coupled thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin B. Riordon, Charles T. Carlson, Aaron Webb, Gary Wyka
  • Patent number: 11232930
    Abstract: A carrier proximity mask and methods of assembling and using the carrier proximity mask may include providing a first carrier body, second carrier body, and set of one or more clamps. The first carrier body may have one or more openings formed as proximity masks to form structures on a first side of a substrate. The first and second carrier bodies may have one or more contact areas to align with one or more contact areas on a first and second sides of the substrate. The set of one or more clamps may clamp the substrate between the first carrier body and the second carrier body at contact areas to suspend work areas of the substrate between the first and second carrier bodies. The openings to define edges to convolve beams to form structures on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: APPLIED Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Morgan Evans, Charles T. Carlson, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Ross Bandy, Ryan Magee
  • Publication number: 20220009106
    Abstract: Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a transfer region housing defining a transfer region fluidly coupled with a plurality of processing regions. A sidewall of the transfer region housing may define a sealable access for providing and receiving substrates. The systems may include a transfer apparatus having a central hub including a shaft extending at a distal end through the transfer region housing into the transfer region. The transfer apparatus may include a lateral translation apparatus coupled with an exterior surface of the transfer region housing, and configured to provide at least one direction of lateral movement of the shaft. The systems may also include an end effector coupled with the shaft within the transfer region. The end effector may include a plurality of arms having a number of arms equal to a number of substrate supports of the plurality of substrate supports in the transfer region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Z. Wirth, Charles T. Carlson, Jason M. Schaller
  • Patent number: 11189460
    Abstract: An apparatus may include an RF power assembly, arranged to output an RF signal, and a drift tube assembly, arranged to transmit an ion beam, and coupled to the RF power assembly. The drift tube assembly may include a first ground electrode; an AC drift tube assembly, disposed downstream of the first ground electrode; and a second ground electrode, disposed downstream of the AC drift tube assembly, where the AC drift tube assembly comprises at least one variable length AC drift tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles T. Carlson, Paul J. Murphy, Frank Sinclair, William Davis Lee
  • Publication number: 20210343500
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a resonator for an ion implanter. In some embodiments, a resonator may include a housing, and a first coil and a second coil partially disposed within the housing. Each of the first and second coils may include a first end including an opening for receiving an ion beam, and a central section extending helically about a central axis, wherein the central axis is parallel to a beamline of the ion beam, and wherein an inner side of the central section has a flattened surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: APPLIED Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Costel Biloiu, Michael Honan, Robert B. Vopat, David Blahnik, Charles T. Carlson, Frank Sinclair, Paul Murphy
  • Patent number: 11117265
    Abstract: Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a transfer region housing defining a transfer region fluidly coupled with a plurality of processing regions. A sidewall of the transfer region housing may define a sealable access for providing and receiving substrates. The systems may include a transfer apparatus having a central hub including a shaft extending at a distal end through the transfer region housing into the transfer region. The transfer apparatus may include a lateral translation apparatus coupled with an exterior surface of the transfer region housing, and configured to provide at least one direction of lateral movement of the shaft. The systems may also include an end effector coupled with the shaft within the transfer region. The end effector may include a plurality of arms having a number of arms equal to a number of substrate supports of the plurality of substrate supports in the transfer region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Z. Wirth, Charles T. Carlson, Jason M. Schaller
  • Patent number: 11094504
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a resonator for an ion implanter. In some embodiments, a resonator may include a housing, and a first coil and a second coil partially disposed within the housing. Each of the first and second coils may include a first end including an opening for receiving an ion beam, and a central section extending helically about a central axis, wherein the central axis is parallel to a beamline of the ion beam, and wherein an inner side of the central section has a flattened surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: APPLIED Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Costel Biloiu, Michael Honan, Robert B Vopat, David Blahnik, Charles T. Carlson, Frank Sinclair, Paul Murphy
  • Publication number: 20210210307
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a resonator for an ion implanter. In some embodiments, a resonator may include a housing, and a first coil and a second coil partially disposed within the housing. Each of the first and second coils may include a first end including an opening for receiving an ion beam, and a central section extending helically about a central axis, wherein the central axis is parallel to a beamline of the ion beam, and wherein an inner side of the central section has a flattened surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: APPLIED Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Costel Biloiu, Michael Honan, Robert B. Vopat, David Blahnik, Charles T. Carlson, Frank Sinclair, Paul Murphy
  • Publication number: 20210210308
    Abstract: A carrier proximity mask and methods of assembling and using the carrier proximity mask may include providing a first carrier body, second carrier body, and set of one or more clamps. The first carrier body may have one or more openings formed as proximity masks to form structures on a first side of a substrate. The first and second carrier bodies may have one or more contact areas to align with one or more contact areas on a first and second sides of the substrate. The set of one or more clamps may clamp the substrate between the first carrier body and the second carrier body at contact areas to suspend work areas of the substrate between the first and second carrier bodies. The openings to define edges to convolve beams to form structures on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: APPLIED Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Morgan Evans, Charles T. Carlson, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Ross Bandy, Ryan Magee
  • Patent number: 10991547
    Abstract: A carrier proximity mask and methods of assembling and using the carrier proximity mask may include providing a first carrier body, second carrier body, and set of one or more clamps. The first carrier body may have one or more openings formed as proximity masks to form structures on a first side of a substrate. The first and second carrier bodies may have one or more contact areas to align with one or more contact areas on a first and second sides of the substrate. The set of one or more clamps may clamp the substrate between the first carrier body and the second carrier body at contact areas to suspend work areas of the substrate between the first and second carrier bodies. The openings to define edges to convolve beams to form structures on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Morgan Evans, Charles T. Carlson, Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Ross Bandy, Ryan Magee
  • Patent number: 10969029
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to a flapper valve. The flapper valve may be used with processing chambers, such as semiconductor substrate processing chambers. In one embodiment, a flapper valve includes a housing having a first opening at a first end thereof and a second opening at a second end thereof, a first flapper pivotably disposed in the housing, and a second flapper pivotably disposed in the housing. The first and second flappers are movable to selectively open and close at least one of the first opening and the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles T. Carlson, Tammy Jo Pride, Benjamin B. Riordon, Aaron Webb
  • Patent number: D938373
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. Schaller, Benjamin Riordon, Mitchell DiSanto, Paul Forderhase, Gary Wyka, Jeffrey Hudgens, Paul Z. Wirth, Charles T. Carlson, Siva Chandrasekar, Michael Carrell, Venkata Raghavaiah Chowdhary Kode, Dmitry A. Dzilno, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez