Wafer boat
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Salients are formed on the bottom board of a wafer boat to get into reentrants of a heat insulating cylinder for manufacturing a semiconductor wafer, and prevent it from falling down in a setting condition. The portion shown in solid lines is my claimed design. The broken line showing in the figures is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.
Claims
The ornamental design for a wafer boat, as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 26, 2008
Date of Patent: Sep 15, 2009
Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited (Tokyo)
Inventor: Izumi Sato (Oshu)
Primary Examiner: Selina Sikder
Attorney: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
Application Number: 29/309,699