Patents by Inventor Kaori Mashimo

Kaori Mashimo 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: 9603195
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a C-shaped susceptor including a first substrate placement portion capable of placing the substrate, and an opening portion, a substrate stage including a second substrate placement portion capable of placing the substrate, and a susceptor support portion configured to support the susceptor, and a complementary portion formed separately from the susceptor support portion, engaged with the susceptor support portion, and configured to complement an opening portion of the susceptor to form the susceptor into an annular shape in a state in which the susceptor support portion supports the susceptor. When the substrate is placed on the second substrate placement portion and the second substrate placement portion is located at a predetermined distant position with respect to the heat radiation surface, the susceptor forms the annular shape together with the complementary portion to surround the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Mashimo, Masami Shibagaki
  • Patent number: 9431281
    Abstract: The present invention provides a temperature control method for a substrate heat treatment apparatus that achieves high throughput while securing stability in rapid heating where a large-diameter silicon carbide (SiC) substrate having impurity ions implanted thereinto is subjected to an activation annealing treatment. A temperature control method for a substrate heat treatment apparatus (1) that includes a heating element includes: increasing the treatment temperature; continuing the temperature increase by reducing the value of power in a stepwise manner after the treatment temperature reaches a preset temperature (T1) before reaching the annealing temperature, the power being applied to heat the heating element; and maintaining the treatment temperature at a fixed value until an annealing treatment is completed after the treatment temperature reaches the annealing temperature (TA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Shibagaki, Kaori Mashimo
  • Publication number: 20140308028
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a C-shaped susceptor including a first substrate placement portion capable of placing the substrate, and an opening portion, a substrate stage including a second substrate placement portion capable of placing the substrate, and a susceptor support portion configured to support the susceptor, and a complementary portion formed separately from the susceptor support portion, engaged with the susceptor support portion, and configured to complement an opening portion of the susceptor to form the susceptor into an annular shape in a state in which the susceptor support portion supports the susceptor. When the substrate is placed on the second substrate placement portion and the second substrate placement portion is located at a predetermined distant position with respect to the heat radiation surface, the susceptor forms the annular shape together with the complementary portion to surround the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori MASHIMO, Masami Shibagaki
  • Patent number: 8691676
    Abstract: To provide a temperature control method capable of equivalently maintaining qualities of substrates even when treated substrates are continuously carried in a treatment container in the case in which activation annealing treatment is performed by an electron impact heating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Shibagaki, Kaori Mashimo
  • Publication number: 20130109109
    Abstract: To provide a temperature control method capable of equivalently maintaining qualities of substrates even when treated substrates are continuously carried in a treatment container in the case in which activation annealing treatment is performed by an electron impact heating method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Shibagaki, Kaori Mashimo
  • Publication number: 20120219921
    Abstract: The present invention provides a temperature control method for a substrate heat treatment apparatus that achieves high throughput while securing stability in rapid heating where a large-diameter silicon carbide (SiC) substrate having impurity ions implanted thereinto is subjected to an activation annealing treatment. A temperature control method for a substrate heat treatment apparatus (1) that includes a heating element includes: increasing the treatment temperature; continuing the temperature increase by reducing the value of power in a stepwise manner after the treatment temperature reaches a preset temperature (T1) before reaching the annealing temperature, the power being applied to heat the heating element; and maintaining the treatment temperature at a fixed value until an annealing treatment is completed after the treatment temperature reaches the annealing temperature (TA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Shibagaki, Kaori Mashimo
  • Publication number: 20100243618
    Abstract: A temperature control method for a heating apparatus including a chamber which can be evacuated and has a conductive portion, a filament which is positioned in the chamber, a first power supply which supplies a current to the filament, a second power supply which applies, to the filament, a voltage for acceleration to the chamber, an ammeter which measures a current of the filament, and a voltmeter which measures the acceleration voltage, the method comprises a first step of evacuating an interior of the chamber; a second step of supplying the filament current from the first power supply to the filament after the first step; a third step of applying the acceleration voltage to the filament after the second step; and a fourth step of controlling the acceleration voltage to keep a surface temperature of the chamber to be lower than a temperature of the filament after the third step while keeping constant the filament current from the first power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Shibagaki, Kaori Mashimo, Hiroshi Doi