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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Monsour Moinpour, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ilan Berman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Young C Park, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B24B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
451 41 ; 451 44 ; 451 63 ; 15 883 ; 15 77 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for cleaning the side-edge and top-edge of a semiconductor wafer. The present invention provides an edge cleaning mechanism that cleans both the side-edge and top-edge of a wafer based on friction and/or a difference in tangential velocity at a point of contact between the wafer and the cleaning mechanism.