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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2007

Filed:

Apr. 22, 2003
Applicants:

Andrew Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);

Wing Lau Cheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Hiroji Hanawa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Semyon L. Kats, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kartik Ramaswamy, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Yan YE, Saratoga, CA (US);

Kwok Manus Wong, San Jose, CA (US);

Daniel J. Hoffman, Saratoga, CA (US);

Tetsuya Ishikawa, Saratoga, CA (US);

Brian C. Lue, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);

Wing Lau Cheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Hiroji Hanawa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Semyon L. Kats, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kartik Ramaswamy, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Yan Ye, Saratoga, CA (US);

Kwok Manus Wong, San Jose, CA (US);

Daniel J. Hoffman, Saratoga, CA (US);

Tetsuya Ishikawa, Saratoga, CA (US);

Brian C. Lue, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A support for a substrate processing chamber has upper and lower walls that are joined by a peripheral sidewall to define a reservoir. A fluid inlet supplies a heat transfer fluid to the reservoir. In one version, a plurality of protrusions extends into the reservoir to perturb the flow of the heat transfer fluid through the reservoir. In another version, the reservoir is an elongated channel having one or more of (i) serpentine convolutions, (ii) integral fins extending into the channel, (iii) a roughened internal surface, or (iv) a changing cross-section. A fluid outlet discharges the heat transfer fluid from the reservoir.


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