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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2019
Applicant:

Lam Research Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);

Inventors:

Iqbal A. Shareef, Fremont, CA (US);

Dennis Smith, San Jose, CA (US);

John E. Daugherty, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION, Fremont, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/84 (2006.01); G01F 15/00 (2006.01); G01F 1/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/8445 (2013.01); G01F 1/48 (2013.01); G01F 1/845 (2013.01); G01F 1/8427 (2013.01); G01F 1/8431 (2013.01); G01F 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

A fluid delivery system includes N first valves. Inlets of the N first valves are fluidly connected to N gas sources, respectively, where N is an integer greater than zero. N mass flow controllers include a microelectromechanical (MEMS) Coriolis flow sensor having an inlet in fluid communication with an outlet of a corresponding one of the N first valves. A second valve has an inlet in fluid communication with an outlet of the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor and an outlet supplying fluid to treat a substrate arranged in a processing chamber. A controller in communication with the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor is configured to determine at least one of a mass flow rate and a density of fluid flowing through the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor.


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