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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:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Applicants:
Hidehito Saigusa, Nirasaki, JP;
Taira Takase, Nirasaki, JP;
Kouji Mitsuhashi, Nirasaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Nakayama, Nirasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Hidehito Saigusa, Nirasaki, JP;
Taira Takase, Nirasaki, JP;
Kouji Mitsuhashi, Nirasaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Nakayama, Nirasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention presents an improved deposition shield for surrounding a process space in a plasma processing system, wherein the design and fabrication of the deposition shield advantageously provides for a clean processing plasma in the process space with substantially minimal erosion of the deposition shield.