IP Library Granted Patent US 12,506,027
Granted Patent B2
US 12,506,027 · App. 18/424,117 · Granted Dec 23, 2025

Substrate treatment apparatus having heating part

Inventors: Taek Youb Lee (Cheonan-si, KR); Hee Won Lee (Cheonan-si, KR)
Assignee: DEVICE CO., LTD.
H01L21/68728H01L21/67109H05B3/16H01L21/67051H01L21/67103H01L21/683H01L21/68785
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Patent No.
US 12,506,027
App. No.
18/424,117
Granted
Dec 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a substrate treatment apparatus including: a chuck base having a ring-shaped spin chuck with chuck pins disposed on top thereof to support a substrate and a chuck support part located on the lower portion of the inner peripheral surface of the spin chuck; a back nozzle assembly mounted through a hollow portion formed at the center of the chuck base to spray treatment liquid onto a lower surface of the substrate; cover glass disposed between top of the spin chuck and the back nozzle assembly; and a heating part located inside the inner peripheral surface of the spin chuck in a space between the cover glass and the chuck support part, wherein the spin chuck is separably coupled to the chuck support part in an up-down direction.

Claims (12)

1 . A substrate treatment apparatus having a heating part, comprising:

a chuck base having a ring-shaped spin chuck with chuck pins disposed on top thereof to support a substrate and a chuck support part located on a lower portion of an inner peripheral surface of the spin chuck;

a back nozzle assembly mounted through a hollow portion formed at a center of the chuck base to spray treatment liquid onto a lower surface of the substrate;

a cover glass disposed between a top of the spin chuck and the back nozzle assembly; and

a heating part located inside the inner peripheral surface of the spin chuck in a space between the cover glass and the chuck support part,

wherein the spin chuck is separably coupled to the chuck support part in an up-down direction.

2 . The substrate treatment apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the chuck support part has a plurality of locking groove supports spaced apart from one another along an outer peripheral surface thereof, and the spin chuck has a plurality of locking protrusions protruding from the inner peripheral surface thereof in such a way as to be separably lockedly inserted into the locking groove supports in the up-down direction by means of fastening members.

3 . The substrate treatment apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein each locking groove support is formed by a groove concavely formed toward an inside of an outer peripheral surface of an upper portion of the chuck support part and a shelf part formed on a bottom of the groove in a thickness direction of the chuck support part, and the locking protrusions have complementary side peripheral surfaces to the locking groove supports.

4 . The substrate treatment apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the fastening members are fixing bolts passing through the locking protrusions in up-down directions in such a way as to be fastened to the shelf part of the locking groove supports.

5 . The substrate treatment apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein tops of the locking protrusions are located on a same plane as tops of the chuck support part in a state where the locking protrusions and the locking groove supports are coupled to one another, and the fastening members are prevented from protruding from a top of the locking protrusions.

6 . The substrate treatment apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein an outer peripheral surface of the heating part has a shape corresponding to the inner peripheral surface of the spin chuck, and the heating part has a plurality of first grooves formed along the outer peripheral surface thereof to pass the locking protrusions therethrough.

7 . The substrate treatment apparatus according to claim 6 , further comprising a heat sink contacting a lower surface of the heating part, an outer peripheral surface of the heat sink having a shape that matches the outer peripheral surface of the heating part and having a plurality of second grooves formed along the outer peripheral surface of the heat sink to pass the locking protrusions therethrough.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 24, 2025
From: DEVICEENG CO., LTD.
To: DEVICE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 071723/0825 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 24, 2025
From: DEVICEENG CO., LTD.
To: DEVICEENG CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 071723/0220 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 29, 2024
From: LEE, TAEK YOUB; LEE, HEE WON
To: DEVICEENG CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066378/0657 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2023-0123253 · Sep 15, 2023 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20250096031A1 · Mar 20, 2025
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