Patents by Inventor Seiya SHIGEMATSU

Seiya SHIGEMATSU 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: 20230257883
    Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: a reaction tube where a process chamber configured to process a substrate is formed; a heater structure including a heater heating the substrate; a cooler including a cooling valve supplying a cooling medium; an exhaust fan supplying the cooling medium to the cooler; and a cooling controller configured to: acquire a prediction model that includes information of the exhaust fan, final target temperature, and opening state of the cooling valve and estimates a predicted temperature predicting at least one selected from the group of a temperature of the heater and a temperature of the process chamber; acquire the at least one selected from the group of the temperature of the heater and the temperature of the process chamber, the opening state of the cooling valve, and the information of the exhaust fan; and regulate the opening state of the cooling valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Kokusai Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto YAMAGUCHI, Seiya Shigematsu, Masaaki Ueno, Masashi Sugishita, Shuhei Maeda, Tetsuya Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20230221700
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the technique of the present disclosure, there is provided a temperature control method including: (a) controlling a current heater supply power such that a predicted temperature column calculated according to a prediction model stored in advance approaches a future target temperature column, wherein the future target temperature column is updated in accordance with a current temperature, a final target temperature and one of a temperature convergence ramp rate and a designated temperature convergence time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Hideto YAMAGUCHI, Masaaki UENO, Seiya SHIGEMATSU, Masashi SUGISHITA, Shuhei MAEDA