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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1994
Fumihiko Hasegawa, Fukushima, JP;
Tatsuo Ohtani, Fukushima, JP;
Yasuyoshi Kuroda, Fukushima, JP;
Koichiro Ichikawa, Nagano, JP;
Yasuo Inada, Nagano, JP;
Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Fujikoshi Machinery Corp., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for polishing the periphery portion of a wafer, by which improvement on the polishing velocity may be effected and besides a more efficient spatial usage of the working layer of an abrasive tape is capable, comprising a tape holding fixed abrasive grains thereon; a feed reel for feeding the tape stored by winding itself; a take-up reel for taking up the tape by winding itself; a rotary drum inside of which both of the reels are equipped in such a manner that they are mountable or demountable, where a portion of the tape in the way from the feed reel to the take-up reel is adaptive to wind the rotary drum around the outer cylindrical surface thereof in close contact in the shape of a helicoid and one of the main faces of the wafer is positioned to be in a plane intersecting the central axis of the rotary drum at an angle.