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Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2023
Applicant:

SK Siltron Co., Ltd., Gumi-si, KR;

Inventor:

Hyun Woo Park, Gumi-si, KR;

Assignee:

SK SILTRON CO., LTD., Gumi-si, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C30B 15/20 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C30B 15/206 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

An ingot growing apparatus is composed of a neck portion, a shoulder portion, a body portion, and a tail portion. The ingot growing apparatus comprises a memory configured to store an artificial neural network and a processor. The processor learns the artificial neural network to obtain a primary shoulder shape model corresponding to training data, updates the obtained primary shoulder shape model based on shoulder information obtained during the growth of a shoulder portion of a first ingot to obtain a secondary shoulder shape model, sets a target tail temperature for growth a tail portion of the first ingot based on the secondary shoulder shape model, and controls the growth of the tail portion of the first ingot according to the set target tail temperature.


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