Patents by Inventor Kyoung-Hwan Chin

Kyoung-Hwan Chin 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: 9233334
    Abstract: A byproducts treating device includes a transfer unit, a cleaning unit, and a controller. The transfer unit forcibly transfers byproducts from a byproduct source. The cleaning unit is combined with the transfer unit and separates the byproducts into at least one of a power or a byproduct gas. The controller is connected to the cleaning unit and selects at least one selection line for discharging byproduct gas. The byproducts flow from the transfer unit to the cleaning unit without flow lines, and the controller selects the at least one selection line based on a flux of the byproduct gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyoung-Hwan Chin
  • Publication number: 20140238244
    Abstract: A byproducts treating device includes a transfer unit, a cleaning unit, and a controller. The transfer unit forcibly transfers byproducts from a byproduct source. The cleaning unit is combined with the transfer unit and separates the byproducts into at least one of a power or a byproduct gas. The controller is connected to the cleaning unit and selects at least one selection line for discharging byproduct gas. The byproducts flow from the transfer unit to the cleaning unit without flow lines, and the controller selects the at least one selection line based on a flux of the byproduct gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Kyoung-Hwan CHIN
  • Patent number: 8025736
    Abstract: Semiconductor device fabrication equipment performs a PEOX (physical enhanced oxidation) process, and includes a remote plasma generator for cleaning a process chamber of the equipment. After a PEOX process has been preformed, a purging gas is supplied into the process chamber to purge the process chamber, and the remote plasma generator produces plasma using a first cleaning gas. Accordingly, a reactor of the remote plasma generator is cleaned by the first cleaning gas plasma. Subsequently, the purging gas is supplied to purge the process chamber, and the remote plasma generator produces plasma using a second cleaning gas to remove the first cleaning gas plasma from the remote plasma generator and the process chamber. Finally, full flush operations are performed to remove any gases remaining in the process chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Hwan Chin, Kyoung-In Kim, Hak-Su Jung, Kyoung-Min An
  • Publication number: 20080115801
    Abstract: Semiconductor device fabrication equipment performs a PEOX (physical enhanced oxidation) process, and includes a remote plasma generator for cleaning a process chamber of the equipment. After a PEOX process has been preformed, a purging gas is supplied into the process chamber to purge the process chamber, and the remote plasma generator produces plasma using a first cleaning gas. Accordingly, a reactor of the remote plasma generator is cleaned by the first cleaning gas plasma. Subsequently, the purging gas is supplied to purge the process chamber, and the remote plasma generator produces plasma using a second cleaning gas to remove the first cleaning gas plasma from the remote plasma generator and the process chamber. Finally, full flush operations are performed to remove any gases remaining in the process chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Hwan CHIN, Kyoung-In KIM, Hak-Su JUNG, Kyoung-Min AN
  • Publication number: 20070281447
    Abstract: In a method of unloading and/or loading a wafer in a semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus, pumping and/or purge operations are performed in a process chamber while the wafer is separated from a susceptor by a desired distance using a plurality of lift pins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Hyung-Goo Lee, Ki-Tae Ki, Eui-Hwan Kim, Young-Il Shin, Kwang-Han Lee, Chang-Sik Jun, Kyoung-Hwan Chin, Byung-Chul Choi
  • Patent number: 7165443
    Abstract: A vacuum leakage detecting device includes a process chamber for performing processes, a fluid valve, and a dry pump. The device further includes a helium gas sensor to detect helium gas in order to check vacuum leaks in potential external leak points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyoung-Hwan Chin
  • Publication number: 20050081605
    Abstract: A vacuum leakage detecting device includes a process chamber for performing processes, a fluid valve, and a dry pump. The device further includes a helium gas sensor to detect helium gas in order to check vacuum leaks in potential external leak points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventor: Kyoung-Hwan Chin
  • Publication number: 20020195124
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus of a high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition chamber, and a cleaning method thereof, uniformly and sufficiently supplies a cleaning gas into a chamber to uniformly clean the chamber. The cleaning apparatus includes a chamber, an upper electrode provided in an upper portion of the chamber and applied with radio frequency energy, a lower electrode provided below the upper electrode and applied with radio frequency energy, a chuck provided below the upper electrode and formed thereon with the lower electrode to fix a wafer thereon, and three or more cleaning gas nozzles provided at regular intervals on the sidewall of the chamber around the chuck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Kyoung Hwan Chin, Sung Joon Hwang