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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. 14, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
118715 ; 118724 ; 414935 ; 414937 ;
Abstract
An air current guiding apparatus includes a plurality of dampers installed on a filter unit on an inner wall of air supply unit for blowing clean air over wafers loaded in a boat for transfer to a reaction chamber for chemical vapor deposition. Each of the dampers has a certain length and angular orientation to force the air in a designated direction so that the air current in a wafer loading chamber maintains an appropriate velocity and is free from air turbulence, thereby minimizing the number of contaminating particles in the wafer loading chamber.