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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2016
Applicant:
Tdk Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TDK CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/673 (2006.01); H01L 21/677 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/67775 (2013.01); H01L 21/67393 (2013.01);
Abstract
A gas purge apparatus, a load port apparatus, and a gas purge method are capable of filling a container with a cleaning gas without leaning the container to be purged. The first and second purge nozzles are configured to be escalated so that the first purge nozzle-contacts with the first purge port-whose distance to the regulating distanceis near before the second purge nozzle-contacts with the second purge port-