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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:
Jul. 09, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 16, 2022
Applicant:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Haosheng Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Jianshe Tang, San Jose, CA (US);

Hari Soundararajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shou-Sung Chang, Mountain View, CA (US);

Hui Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Chih Chung Chou, San Jose, CA (US);

Alexander John Fisher, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Paul D. Butterfield, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 3/10 (2006.01); B24B 37/34 (2012.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 3/106 (2013.01); B24B 37/34 (2013.01); H01L 21/67051 (2013.01); H01L 21/67248 (2013.01); B08B 2203/007 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for steam treatment of a conditioner head and/or conditioner disk in a chemical mechanical polishing system includes a conditioner cleaning cup, a boiler to generate steam, one or more nozzles positioned to direct steam inwardly into a cavity defined by the load cup, and a supply line running from the boiler to the one or more nozzles to supply steam to the one or more nozzles.


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