Patents by Inventor OHYEOL KWON

OHYEOL KWON 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: 11972939
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a method for treating a substrate. The method includes removing a film on the substrate by applying a pulsed laser to the rotating substrate, in which thickness of the film to be removed is measured and pulse energy of the pulsed laser is selected based on the measured thickness of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohyeol Kwon, Jun Keon Ahn, Soo Young Park, Jung Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11869763
    Abstract: An apparatus and system for treating a substrate includes a chamber having an inner space, a support unit in the inner space and configured to support and rotate the substrate, and first and second laser irradiation unit configured to irradiate first and second laser beams onto the substrate. The first laser irradiation unit includes a first laser light source configured to generate the first laser beam, and a first wavelength adjusting member configured to adjust a range of a wavelength of the first laser beam received from the first laser light source. The second laser beam, and a second wavelength adjusting member configured to adjust a range of a wavelength of the second laser beam received from the second laser light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Keon Ahn, Soo Young Park, Ohyeol Kwon, Jung Hwan Lee, Seungtae Yang
  • Publication number: 20230330768
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for removing a film from a substrate by irradiating a plurality of unit pulse laser beams to an edge region of the substrate. The method includes a first irradiation operation for irradiating a plurality of unit pulse laser beams onto the substrate while the substrate is rotating, and a second irradiation operation for irradiating a plurality of unit pulse laser beams to regions of the substrate onto which the unit pulse laser beams are not irradiated in the first irradiation operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo Young PARK, Ohyeol KWON, Jun Keon AHN, Jung Hwan LEE, Seong Soo LEE
  • Patent number: 11745291
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a support unit supporting a substrate including a film, a laser generation unit that generates a laser beam to process the film, a beam splitter that splits the laser beam into a first laser beam travelling along a first path toward an upper edge of the substrate and a second laser beam travelling along a second path toward a lower edge of the substrate, a first beam shaping unit on the first path shaping the first laser beam, a second beam shaping unit on the second path shaping the second laser beam, a first beam scanning unit downstream of the first beam shaping unit that applies the first laser beam to the upper edge in the manner of scanning, and a second beam scanning unit downstream of the second beam shaping unit that applies the second laser beam to the lower edge in the manner of scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohyeol Kwon, Jun Keon Ahn, Byungsun Bang
  • Patent number: 11679447
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a chamber providing a space in which a substrate is treated, a support unit supporting the substrate inside the chamber, a laser unit irradiating laser to an edge region of the substrate, a vision unit capturing the edge region of the substrate to measure an offset value of the substrate, and an adjustment unit adjusting an irradiation location of the laser based on the offset value of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo Young Park, Ohyeol Kwon, Jun Keon Ahn, Jung Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11387127
    Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus includes a plurality of load ports on which carriers having substrates received therein are placed, a plurality of process chambers that perform processes on the substrates, and a transfer robot that transfers the substrates between the load ports and the process chambers. The transfer robot is movable along a transfer passage having a lengthwise direction formed along a first direction, the load ports and the process chambers are arranged along the first direction on one side and an opposite side of the transfer passage, and the transfer robot transfers the substrates between the carriers placed on the load ports and the process chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohyeol Kwon, Jung Hwan Lee, Soo Young Park
  • Patent number: 11367634
    Abstract: The inventive concept relates to a substrate treating apparatus and method for removing various types of treating liquid or cleaning solution films on an edge region of a substrate without damage to a treated surface even though the substrate is rotated in an eccentric state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohyeol Kwon, Jihyun Lee, Young Ho Choo
  • Publication number: 20220093430
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a method to determine whether a substrate treatment process is normal using a deep learning model. The method comprising receiving input on a substrate treatment process video, preprocessing the inputted video, using the deep learning model to study a preprocessed video, and determining whether the substrate treatment process is normal by comparing the trained model and a real time substrate treatment process video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohyeol KWON, Soo Yeon SHIN, Hyun Hoo KIM, Myung Chan CHO
  • Publication number: 20220067905
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes an imaging unit that photographs loci of the one or more discharge liquids discharged from the plurality of nozzles, and an inspection unit that calculates impact points of the one or more discharge liquids discharged from the plurality of nozzles and determines whether the impact points of the one or more discharge liquids discharged from the plurality of nozzles are normal. The inspection unit includes an image synthesizing unit that synthesizes a plurality of images captured by the imaging unit, a pre-processing unit that pre-processes image data generated through the image synthesizing unit, and a calculation unit that calculates whether the impact points of the one or more discharge liquids discharged from the plurality of nozzles are normal by comparing the image data pre-processed by the pre-processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: OHYEOL KWON, SOO YEON SHIN, JIHYUN LEE, CHANG YUL CHO
  • Patent number: 11158079
    Abstract: Disclosed are a substrate treating apparatus, an eccentricity inspection apparatus, an eccentricity inspection method, and a recording medium for measuring the amount of eccentricity of a spin chuck. The substrate treating apparatus includes a process chamber, a support unit that supports a substrate and rotates the substrate about a support shaft of a spin chuck, and an eccentricity inspection device that inspects eccentricity of the support shaft. The eccentricity inspection device includes an image acquisition unit that obtains an image of the substrate supported on the support unit and an eccentricity measurement unit that obtains edge data of the substrate from the image of the substrate and measures an amount of eccentricity of the support shaft, based on the edge data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Semes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ohyeol Kwon, Soo Young Park, Jihyun Lee, Young Ho Choo
  • Publication number: 20210020485
    Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus includes a plurality of load ports on which carriers having substrates received therein are placed, a plurality of process chambers that perform processes on the substrates, and a transfer robot that transfers the substrates between the load ports and the process chambers. The transfer robot is movable along a transfer passage having a lengthwise direction formed along a first direction, the load ports and the process chambers are arranged along the first direction on one side and an opposite side of the transfer passage, and the transfer robot transfers the substrates between the carriers placed on the load ports and the process chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohyeol KWON, Jung Hwan LEE, Soo Young PARK
  • Publication number: 20200411322
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a substrate includes a housing having a treatment space therein, a support unit that supports the substrate in the housing, a liquid dispensing unit that dispenses a liquid onto the substrate supported on the support unit, a laser irradiation unit that irradiates a laser to an edge region of the substrate, and a controller that controls the liquid dispensing unit and the laser irradiation unit. The laser irradiation unit includes a plate provided on the liquid so as to be brought into contact with a surface of the liquid dispensed onto the substrate and a laser irradiation member that irradiates the laser to the edge region of the substrate, which is supported on the support unit, through the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Soo LEE, Junkeon AHN, Junghwan LEE, Ohyeol KWON, Soo Young PARK
  • Publication number: 20200395210
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a method for treating a substrate. The method includes removing a film on the substrate by applying a pulsed laser to the rotating substrate, in which thickness of the film to be removed is measured and pulse energy of the pulsed laser is selected based on the measured thickness of the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Ohyeol KWON, Jun Keon AHN, Soo Young PARK, Jung Hwan LEE
  • Publication number: 20200346300
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for removing a film from a substrate by irradiating a plurality of unit pulse laser beams to an edge region of the substrate. The method includes a first irradiation operation for irradiating a plurality of unit pulse laser beams onto the substrate while the substrate is rotating, and a second irradiation operation for irradiating a plurality of unit pulse laser beams to regions of the substrate onto which the unit pulse laser beams are not irradiated in the first irradiation operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo Young PARK, Ohyeol KWON, Jun Keon AHN, Jung Hwan LEE, Seong Soo LEE
  • Publication number: 20200346304
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a support unit supporting a substrate including a film, a laser generation unit that generates a laser beam to process the film, a beam splitter that splits the laser beam into a first laser beam travelling along a first path toward an upper edge of the substrate and a second laser beam travelling along a second path toward a lower edge of the substrate, a first beam shaping unit on the first path shaping the first laser beam, a second beam shaping unit on the second path shaping the second laser beam, a first beam scanning unit downstream of the first beam shaping unit that applies the first laser beam to the upper edge in the manner of scanning, and a second beam scanning unit downstream of the second beam shaping unit that applies the second laser beam to the lower edge in the manner of scanning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Ohyeol KWON, Jun Keon AHN, Byungsun BANG
  • Publication number: 20200350156
    Abstract: A method for treating a substrate includes a first treating operation for treating an edge region of the substrate by irradiating a first laser beam having a first wavelength to the edge region of a rotating substrate, and a second treating operation for treating the edge region by irradiating a second laser beam of a second wavelength to the edge region of the rotating substrate, wherein the first wavelength and the second wavelength are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Keon AHN, Soo Young PARK, Ohyeol KWON, Jung Hwan LEE, Seungtae YANG
  • Publication number: 20200346299
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a chamber providing a space in which a substrate is treated, a support unit supporting the substrate inside the chamber, a laser unit irradiating laser to an edge region of the substrate, a vision unit capturing the edge region of the substrate to measure an offset value of the substrate, and an adjustment unit adjusting an irradiation location of the laser based on the offset value of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Soo Young PARK, Ohyeol KWON, Jun Keon AHN, Jung Hwan LEE
  • Patent number: 10757331
    Abstract: A method for estimating a posture of a camera installed in a substrate processing apparatus to obliquely photograph an object includes removing the remaining background other than a substrate and performing ellipse fitting, adjusting a yaw direction of the camera by using a difference between the center of a camera image and the center of an elliptical substrate image obtained by performing the ellipse fitting, adjusting a roll direction of the camera by using a tilt angle of an ellipse in the elliptical substrate image obtained by performing the ellipse fitting, and adjusting a pitch direction of the camera by using a ratio of a minor axis to a major axis of the ellipse in the elliptical substrate image obtained by performing the ellipse fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungyong Chun, Ohyeol Kwon, Sung Wook Bae
  • Publication number: 20200167946
    Abstract: Disclosed are a substrate treating apparatus, an eccentricity inspection apparatus, an eccentricity inspection method, and a recording medium for measuring the amount of eccentricity of a spin chuck. The substrate treating apparatus includes a process chamber, a support unit that supports a substrate and rotates the substrate about a support shaft of a spin chuck, and an eccentricity inspection device that inspects eccentricity of the support shaft. The eccentricity inspection device includes an image acquisition unit that obtains an image of the substrate supported on the support unit and an eccentricity measurement unit that obtains edge data of the substrate from the image of the substrate and measures an amount of eccentricity of the support shaft, based on the edge data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Semes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ohyeol KWON, Soo Young Park, Jihyun Lee, Young Ho Choo
  • Publication number: 20200075362
    Abstract: The inventive concept relates to a substrate treating apparatus and method for removing various types of treating liquid or cleaning solution films on an edge region of a substrate without damage to a treated surface even though the substrate is rotated in an eccentric state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: OHYEOL KWON, JIHYUN LEE, YOUNG HO CHOO