Patents by Inventor Steven Lane

Steven Lane 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: 9472379
    Abstract: Implementations described herein inject feedstock gases into multiple zones of an inductively coupled plasma processing reactor with minimal or no effect on process skew. In one embodiment, an integrated gas and coil assembly is provided that includes an upper surface and a lower surface, a first RF field applicator coil bounded at the upper surface and the lower surface, a second RF field applicator coil circumscribed by the first RF field applicator coil and bounded at the upper surface and the lower surface and an RF shield disposed between the first and second RF field generator wherein the RF shield extends from the lower surface and past the upper surface. The RF shield may have at least one gas channel disposed therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Lane, Yang Yang, Kartik Ramaswamy, Lawrence Wong
  • Publication number: 20160288458
    Abstract: A particle removal device including a particle removal sticker. The particle removal sticker including a top side and a bottom side. The bottom side of the particle removal sticker includes an adhesive configured to removably adhere to a screen of an electronic device. The particle removal device also includes a sticker release liner. The sticker release liner includes a top side removably attached to the bottom side of the particle removal sticker. The sticker release liner is configured to be removed from the bottom side of the particle removal sticker to expose the adhesive and to adhere the particle removal sticker to the screen. The particle removal sticker is configured to remove particles as the particle removal sticker is removed from the screen. Other embodiments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Belkin International, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Lane
  • Patent number: 9454183
    Abstract: A docking stand for an electronic device. The docking stand can include a bottom support surface configured to support a bottom side of the electronic device. The docking stand also can include a back support surface configured to support a side of the electronic device. The back support surface can be substantially upright when a base of the docking stand is placed on a substantially horizontal surface. The docking stand further can include a docking connector configured to removably attach to a docking port of the electronic device. The docking port can be proximate to the bottom side of the electronic device. The docking stand also can include an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a height of the docking connector relative to the bottom support surface. Other embodiments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Belkin International, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell Suckle, Eric Beaupre, Eric A. McDonald, Avery Holleman, Steven Lane
  • Patent number: 9449794
    Abstract: A plasma reactor has an overhead multiple coil antennas including a parallel spiral coil antenna and symmetric and radial RF feeds and cylindrical RF shielding around the symmetric and radial RF feeds. The radial RF feeds are symmetrically fed to the plasma source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Nguyen, Kartik Ramaswamy, Jason A. Kenney, Shahid Rauf, Kenneth S. Collins, Yang Yang, Steven Lane, Yogananda Sarode Vishwanath
  • Patent number: 9443700
    Abstract: A plasma reactor that generates plasma in a workpiece processing chamber by an electron beam, has an electron beam source and segmented suppression electrode with individually biased segments to control electron beam density distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Leonid Dorf, Shahid Rauf, Kenneth S. Collins, Nipun Misra, Kartik Ramaswamy, James D. Carducci, Steven Lane
  • Patent number: 9412563
    Abstract: An RF plasma source has a resonator with its shorted end joined to the processing chamber ceiling and inductively coupled to two arrays of radial toroidal channels in the ceiling, the resonator having two radial zones and the two arrays of toroidal channels lying in respective ones of the radial zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kartik Ramaswamy, Kenneth S. Collins, Shahid Rauf, Steven Lane, Yang Yang, Lawrence Wong
  • Publication number: 20160225466
    Abstract: An external magnetic filter to trap electrons surrounds a reactor chamber and has multiple magnets arranged in a circle, the magnetic orientation of each individual magnet being rotated relative to the orientation of the adjacent individual magnet by a difference angle that is a function of the arc subtended by the individual magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Kartik Ramaswamy, Kenneth S. Collins, Steven Lane, Yang Yang, Lawrence Wong
  • Publication number: 20160225590
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to plasma process apparatus. In one embodiment, the plasma process apparatus includes a plasma source assembly. The plasma source assembly may include a first coil, a second coil surrounding the first coil, and a magnetic device disposed outside the first and inside the second coil. The magnet enables additional tuning which improves uniformity control of the processes on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph F. Aubuchon, Tza-Jing Gung, Travis Lee Koh, Nattaworn Nuntaworanuch, Sheng-Chin Kung, Steven Lane, Kartik Ramaswamy, Yang Yang
  • Publication number: 20160048111
    Abstract: Plural sensors on an interior surface of a reactor chamber are linked by respective RF communication channels to a hub inside the reactor chamber, which in turn is linked to a process controller outside of the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Lawrence Wong, Kartik Ramaswamy, Yang Yang, Steven Lane, Richard Fovell
  • Patent number: 9255144
    Abstract: The present invention provides human, humanized and/or chimeric antibodies as well as fragments, derivatives/conjugates and compositions thereof with a specific binding affinity for interleukin-18. The invention includes the use of these antibodies for diagnosing and treating diseases associated with increased IL-18 activity, the latter in the form of a pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: MedImmune Limited
    Inventors: Claire Dobson, Steven Lane, Philip Newton, Martin Schwickart, Ann-Charlott Steffen
  • Publication number: 20160027616
    Abstract: Spatial distribution of RF power delivered to plasma in a processing chamber is controlled using an arrangement of primary and secondary inductors, wherein the current through the secondary inductors affects the spatial distribution of the plasma. The secondary inductors are configured to resonate at respectively different frequencies. A first secondary inductor is selectively excited to resonance, during a first time period within a duty cycle, by delivering power to a primary inductor at the resonant frequency of the first secondary inductor. A second secondary inductor is selectively excited to resonance, during a second time period within a duty cycle, by delivering power to a primary inductor at the resonant frequency of the second secondary inductor. The secondary inductors are isolated from one another and terminated such that substantially all current that passes through them and into the plasma results from mutual inductance with a primary inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: KARTIK RAMASWAMY, YANG YANG, STEVEN LANE, LAWRENCE WONG, JOSEPH F. AUBUCHON, TRAVIS KOH
  • Publication number: 20160027613
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling a magnetic field in a plasma chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a process chamber liner may include a cylindrical body, an inner electromagnetic cosine-theta (cos ?) coil ring including a first plurality of inner coils embedded in the body and configured to generate a magnetic field in a first direction, and an outer electromagnetic cosine-theta (cos ?) coil ring including a second plurality of outer coils embedded in the body and configured to generate a magnetic field in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, wherein the outer electromagnetic cos ? coil ring is disposed concentrically about the inner electromagnetic cos ? coil ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: STEVEN LANE, TZA-JING GUNG, KARTIK RAMASWAMY, TRAVIS KOH, JOSEPH F. AUBUCHON, YANG YANG
  • Publication number: 20150371824
    Abstract: Implementations described herein inject feedstock gases into multiple zones of an inductively coupled plasma processing reactor with minimal or no effect on process skew. In one embodiment, an integrated gas and coil assembly is provided that includes an upper surface and a lower surface, a first RF field applicator coil bounded at the upper surface and the lower surface, a second RF field applicator coil circumscribed by the first RF field applicator coil and bounded at the upper surface and the lower surface and an RF shield disposed between the first and second RF field generator wherein the RF shield extends from the lower surface and past the upper surface. The RF shield may have at least one gas channel disposed therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Steven LANE, Yang YANG, Kartik RAMASWAMY, Lawrence WONG
  • Patent number: 9111722
    Abstract: An inductively coupled plasma reactor has three concentric RF coil antennas and a current divider circuit individually controlling currents in each of the three coil antennas by varying only two reactive elements in the current divider circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Leonid Dorf, Shahid Rauf, Jonathan Liu, Jason A. Kenney, Andrew Nguyen, Kenneth S. Collins, Kartik Ramaswamy, Steven Lane
  • Patent number: 9082591
    Abstract: An inductively coupled plasma reactor has three concentric coil antennas and a current divider circuit individually controlling currents in each of the three coil antennas by varying two variable impedance elements in the current divider circuit in response to a desired current apportionment among the coil antennas received from a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Leonid Dorf, Shahid Rauf, Jonathan Liu, Jason A. Kenney, Andrew Nguyen, Kenneth S. Collins, Kartik Ramaswamy, Steven Lane
  • Publication number: 20150107767
    Abstract: An overlay applicator can include an overlay with a top side and a bottom side. The bottom side can include an adhesive agent configured to adhere to a screen of an electronic device. The overlay applicator can include an adhesive release liner. The adhesive release liner can include a top side and a bottom side. The top side of the adhesive release liner can be removably attached to the bottom side of the overlay. The adhesive release liner can be configured to protect the adhesive agent at the bottom side of the overlay from contaminants. The overlay applicator can include a protective film removably attached to the top side of the overlay. The overlay applicator can include an alignment tab. The alignment tab can include an alignment mechanism. The overlay applicator further can include a pull tab. The pull can include a wiper. Other embodiments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: BELKIN INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: John F. Wadsworth, William P. Conley, Vijendra Nalwad, Justin Jakobson, Steven Lane, Eric Beaupre, David A. Kleeman
  • Publication number: 20150075716
    Abstract: An RF plasma source has a resonator with its shorted end joined to the processing chamber ceiling and inductively coupled to two arrays of radial toroidal channels in the ceiling, the resonator having two radial zones and the two arrays of toroidal channels lying in respective ones of the radial zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kartik Ramaswamy, Kenneth S. Collins, Shahid Rauf, Steven Lane, Yang Yang, Lawrence Wong
  • Publication number: 20150075717
    Abstract: An RF plasma source has a resonator with its shorted end joined to the processing chamber ceiling and inductively coupled to an array of radial toroidal channels in the ceiling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kartik Ramaswamy, Kenneth S. Collins, Shahid Rauf, Steven Lane, Yang Yang, Lawrence Wong
  • Publication number: 20150047773
    Abstract: An overlay applicator can include an overlay with a top side and a bottom side. The bottom side can include an adhesive agent configured to adhere to a screen of an electronic device. The overlay applicator can include an adhesive release liner. The adhesive release liner can include a top side and a bottom side. The top side of the adhesive release liner can be removably attached to the bottom side of the overlay. The adhesive release liner can be configured to protect the adhesive agent at the bottom side of the overlay from contaminants. The overlay applicator can include a protective film removably attached to the top side of the overlay. The overlay applicator can include an alignment tab. The alignment tab can include an alignment mechanism. The overlay applicator further can include a pull tab. The pull can include a wiper. Other embodiments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: BELKIN INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: John F. Wadsworth, William P. Conley, Vijendra Nalwad, Justin Jakobson, Steven Lane, Eric Beaupre, David A. Kleeman
  • Patent number: D751557
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Belkin International, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Lane