Patents by Inventor Ellis G. Harvey

Ellis G. Harvey 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: 7597574
    Abstract: A heat lamp which has captured fasteners that can attach the lamp inside a radiantly heated semiconductor processing reactor. The fasteners are captured within eyelet terminals on each end of the lamp, thereby rotatably securing the fasteners to the lamp. The eyelet terminals may have threaded apertures which screw into the threaded portion of the fasteners. Alternatively, the terminals may be adapted with tabs, conductor extensions or housing assemblies which fold over the top of a fastener inserted through the terminal. In another embodiment, the terminals may be adapted with notched projections which engage a circular dovetail in a fastener inserted through the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: ASM America, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Haro, Ellis G. Harvey
  • Publication number: 20080129064
    Abstract: A Bernoulli wand for transporting semiconductor wafers. The wand has a head portion having a plurality of gas outlets configured to produce a flow of gas along an upper surface of a wafer to create a pressure differential between the upper surface of the wafer and the lower surface of the wafer. The pressure differential generates a lift force that supports the wafer below the head portion of the wand in a substantially non-contacting manner, employing the Bernoulli principle. The wand has independently controllable gas channels configured to provide flow to different sets of gas outlet holes. The gas outlet holes and gas channels are configured to support a wafer using the Bernoulli principle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: ASM AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Ellis G. Harvey
  • Publication number: 20080038950
    Abstract: A heat lamp which has captured fasteners that can attach the lamp inside a radiantly heated semiconductor processing reactor. The fasteners are captured within eyelet terminals on each end of the lamp, thereby rotatably securing the fasteners to the lamp. The eyelet terminals may have threaded apertures which screw into the threaded portion of the fasteners. Alternatively, the terminals may be adapted with tabs, conductor extensions or housing assemblies which fold over the top of a fastener inserted through the terminal. In another embodiment, the terminals may be adapted with notched projections which engage a circular dovetail in a fastener inserted through the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Robert C. Haro, Ellis G. Harvey