Purging apparatus and purging method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7654291
APP PUB NO 20060272169A1
SERIAL NO

10554504

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It is an object of the present invention to easily and securely perform the removal operation of contaminant or the like from a wafer housed in a FOUP. To achieve the object, a purging apparatus of the present invention removes contaminant or the like from a wafer by moving a gas supply nozzle along a direction in which wafers are superimposed at the front of an opening while a lid of the FOUP is separated from a body and spraying clean gas on each wafer from the gas supply nozzle.

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  • TDK CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Igarashi, Hiroshi Tokyo, JP 200 3073
Miyajima, Toshihiko Tokyo, JP 55 799
Suzuki, Hitoshi Tokyo, JP 442 9303

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