Patents by Inventor CHRISTOPHER A. LAURENT

CHRISTOPHER A. LAURENT 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: 11920234
    Abstract: Described herein is a protective coating composition that provides erosion and corrosion resistance to a coated article (such as a chamber component) upon the article's exposure to harsh chemical environment (such as hydrogen based and/or halogen based environment) and/or upon the article's exposure to high energy plasma. Also described herein is a method of coating an article with the protective coating using electronic beam ion assisted deposition, physical vapor deposition, or plasma spray. Also described herein is a method of processing wafer, which method exhibits, on average, less than about 5 yttrium based particle defects per wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Vahid Firouzdor, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Hyun-Ho Doh, Joseph Frederick Behnke, Joseph Frederick Sommers
  • Publication number: 20230348290
    Abstract: Described herein is a plasma resistant protective coating composition and bulk composition that provides enhanced erosion and corrosion resistance upon the coating composition's or the bulk composition's exposure to harsh chemical environment (such as hydrogen based and/or halogen based chemistries) and/or upon the coating composition's or the bulk composition's exposure to high energy plasma. Also described herein is a method of coating an article with a plasma resistant protective coating using electronic beam ion assisted deposition, physical vapor deposition, or plasma spray. Also described herein is a method of processing wafer, which method exhibits a reduced number of yttrium based particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Vahid Firouzdor, Joseph Frederick Sommers, Trevor Edward Wilantewicz, Hyun-Ho Doh, Joseph Frederick Behnke
  • Publication number: 20230323531
    Abstract: A method includes affixing a supply apparatus to inlets for one or more channels of a chamber component. The channels provide one or more gas flow paths between a first side of the chamber component that comprises the inlets and a second side of the chamber component comprising outlets of the one or more channels. The method further includes affixing an exhaust apparatus to the outlets of the one or more channels. The method further includes performing a plurality of atomic layer deposition cycles to deposit a corrosion resistant coating on interior surfaces of the one or more channels of the chamber component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph Frederick Behnke, Carlaton Wong, Albert Barrett Hicks, III, Steven Darrell Marcus, Joseph Frederick Sommers, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Timothy Joseph Franklin
  • Patent number: 11661650
    Abstract: Described herein is a protective coating composition that provides erosion and corrosion resistance to a coated article (such as a chamber component) upon the article's exposure to harsh chemical environment (such as hydrogen based and/or halogen based environment) and/or upon the article's exposure to high energy plasma. Also described herein is a method of coating an article with the protective coating using electronic beam ion assisted deposition, physical vapor deposition, or plasma spray. Also described herein is a method of processing wafer, which method exhibits, on average, less than about 5 yttrium based particle defects per wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Vahid Firouzdor, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Hyun-Ho Doh, Joseph Frederick Behnke, Joseph Frederick Sommers
  • Publication number: 20230160055
    Abstract: Described herein is a protective coating composition that provides erosion and corrosion resistance to a coated article (such as a chamber component) upon the article's exposure to harsh chemical environment (such as hydrogen based and/or halogen based environment) and/or upon the article's exposure to high energy plasma. Also described herein is a method of coating an article with the protective coating using electronic beam ion assisted deposition, physical vapor deposition, or plasma spray. Also described herein is a method of processing wafer, which method exhibits, on average, less than about 5 yttrium based particle defects per wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Vahid Firouzdor, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Hyun-Ho Doh, Joseph Frederick Behnke, Joseph Frederick Sommers
  • Publication number: 20220199455
    Abstract: Embodiments of packaged chamber components and methods of packaging chamber components are provided herein. In some embodiments, a packaged chamber component for use in a process chamber includes: an insert having an annular trench disposed about a raised inner portion, wherein the annular trench is disposed between the raised inner portion and an outer lip, wherein a ledge couples the raised inner portion to the outer lip, wherein the ledge includes a first portion and a second portion disposed radially outward of the first portion, and wherein the second portion includes a resting surface that extends upward and radially outward of an upper surface of the first portion; and a chamber component disposed in the annular trench of the insert and supported by the resting surface such that one or more critical surfaces of the chamber component are spaced apart from the insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Frederick BEHNKE, Trevor WILANTEWICZ, Christopher Laurent BEAUDRY, Timothy Douglas TOTH, Scott OSTERMAN
  • Publication number: 20220181124
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to articles, coated chamber components, methods of coating chamber components and systems with a metal fluoride coating that includes at least one metal fluoride having a formula of M1xFw, M1xM2yFw or M1xM2yM3zFw, where at least one of M1, M2, or M3 is nickel. The metal fluoride coating can be formed directly on a substrate or on a coating of a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Ren-Guan Duan, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Glen T. Mori
  • Publication number: 20210403337
    Abstract: Described herein is a plasma resistant protective coating composition and bulk composition that provides enhanced erosion and corrosion resistance upon the coating composition's or the bulk composition's exposure to harsh chemical environment (such as hydrogen based and/or halogen based chemistries) and/or upon the coating composition's or the bulk composition's exposure to high energy plasma. Also described herein is a method of coating an article with a plasma resistant protective coating using electronic beam ion assisted deposition, physical vapor deposition, or plasma spray. Also described herein is a method of processing wafer, which method exhibits a reduced number of yttrium based particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Vahid Firouzdor, Joseph Frederick Sommers, Trevor Edward Wilantewicz, Hyun-Ho Doh, Joseph Frederick Behnke
  • Publication number: 20210317564
    Abstract: Described herein is a protective coating composition that provides erosion and corrosion resistance to a coated article (such as a chamber component) upon the article's exposure to harsh chemical environment (such as hydrogen based and/or halogen based environment) and/or upon the article's exposure to high energy plasma. Also described herein is a method of coating an article with the protective coating using electronic beam ion assisted deposition, physical vapor deposition, or plasma spray. Also described herein is a method of processing wafer, which method exhibits, on average, less than about 5 yttrium based particle defects per wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Vahid Firouzdor, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Hyun-Ho Doh, Joseph Frederick Behnke, Joseph Frederick Sommers
  • Publication number: 20190084357
    Abstract: Tire for a two-wheeled motorized vehicle of the motorcycle type, comprising a tread (2), of width L, joined by two sidewalls (3) to two beads (4), said tread comprising first and second elastomer compositions, crown reinforcement (5), radially inside tread (2) comprising a crown layer comprising mutually parallel circumferential reinforcers coated with an elastomer composition and forming a substantially zero angle and at most equal to 5° to the circumferential direction, a carcass reinforcement (6), radially inside crown reinforcement (5), comprising turnup (61) and having thickness M. Carcass reinforcement (61) comprises mutually parallel reinforcers coated with an elastomer composition, and wrapped, in each bead (4), from the inside to the outside of the tire, about bead wire (7) in order to form turnup (8) comprising free end E2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Charles GUICHERD, Mickaël PRECIGOUT, Romain BOUCHET, Christopher LAURENT
  • Patent number: 8888639
    Abstract: A powertrain system includes an internal combustion engine, a first electric machine and an electro-mechanical transmission operative to transmit torque to a driveline. A method for controlling the powertrain system in the presence of a controlled neutral operation of the electro-mechanical transmission being selected includes monitoring vehicle speed, and only when the monitored vehicle speed is indicative of a low-speed zone restricting a transition from a current engine operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Syed Naqi, Lawrence A. Kaminsky, Jy-Jen F. Sah, Shaun C. Bowman, Christopher A. Laurent, George Robison, Silva Hiti, Jonathan M. Bolenbaugh, Ali K. Naqvi, Sasa Lucic
  • Publication number: 20140141915
    Abstract: A powertrain system includes an internal combustion engine, a first electric machine and an electro-mechanical transmission operative to transmit torque to a driveline. A method for controlling the powertrain system in the presence of a controlled neutral operation of the electro-mechanical transmission being selected includes monitoring vehicle speed, and only when the monitored vehicle speed is indicative of a low-speed zone restricting a transition from a current engine operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: SYED NAQI, LAWRENCE A. KAMINSKY, JY-JEN F. SAH, SHAUN C. BOWMAN, CHRISTOPHER A. LAURENT, GEORGE ROBISON, SILVA HITI, JONATHAN M. BOLENBAUGH, ALI K. NAQVI
  • Patent number: 7341065
    Abstract: Methods of preventing air-liquid interfaces on the surface of a wafer in order to prevent the formation of particle defects on a wafer are presented. The air-liquid interfaces may be prevented by covering the entire surface of the wafer with liquid at all times during a cleaning process while the surface of the wafer is hydrophobic. Methods of preventing the formation of silica agglomerates in a liquid during a pH transition from an alkaline pH to a neutral pH are also presented, including minimizing the turbulence in the liquid solution and reducing the temperature of the liquid solution during the transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Verhaverbeke, Christopher Laurent Beaudry
  • Patent number: 7163018
    Abstract: Methods of preventing air-liquid interfaces on the surface of a wafer in order to prevent the formation of particle defects on a wafer are presented. The air-liquid interfaces may be prevented by covering the entire surface of the wafer with liquid at all times during a cleaning process while the surface of the wafer is hydrophobic. Methods of preventing the formation of silica agglomerates in a liquid during a pH transition from an alkaline pH to a neutral pH are also presented, including minimizing the turbulence in the liquid solution and reducing the temperature of the liquid solution during the transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Verhaverbeke, Christopher Laurent Beaudry
  • Publication number: 20040127044
    Abstract: Methods of preventing air-liquid interfaces on the surface of a wafer in order to prevent the formation of particle defects on a wafer are presented. The air-liquid interfaces may be prevented by covering the entire surface of the wafer with liquid at all times during a cleaning process while the surface of the wafer is hydrophobic. Methods of preventing the formation of silica agglomerates in a liquid during a pH transition from an alkaline pH to a neutral pH are also presented, including minimizing the turbulence in the liquid solution and reducing the temperature of the liquid solution during the transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Verhaverbeke, Christopher Laurent Beaudry
  • Patent number: D984895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Frederick Behnke, Trevor Wilantewicz, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Timothy Douglas Toth, Scott Osterman