Patents by Inventor Ryotaro SHINOHARA

Ryotaro SHINOHARA 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).

  • Publication number: 20230302477
    Abstract: In processing a peripheral edge part of a substrate by a processing liquid, upward scattered liquid droplets may be produced. Accordingly, in the invention, the processing liquid is caused to land on the peripheral edge part of the substrate from a discharge port while the discharge port is positioned to a bevel processing position lower than an eaves part of a cup in a vertical direction with the peripheral edge part of the substrate covered vertically from above by the eaves part. Thus, the eaves part collects upward scattered liquid droplets. As a result, the re-adhesion of the upward scattered liquid droplets to the substrate and the scattering thereof to a surrounding atmosphere are suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Shuhei NEMOTO, Kazuhiro SHOJI, Ryotaro SHINOHARA, Itsuki KAJINO
  • Publication number: 20230302478
    Abstract: The invention includes a gas supplier for discharging a gas into a space sandwiched between a substrate and a shielding plate by supplying the gas to a gas discharge nozzle provided in the shielding plate to form a flow of the gas from a central part toward a radially outer side of the substrate. This gas supplier is controlled such that a flow velocity of the gas into a discharge space at a peripheral edge part of the substrate becomes larger than zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Shuhei NEMOTO, Kazuhiro SHOJI, Ryotaro SHINOHARA, Akira ITO, Itsuki KAJINO