发明名称 Sensors for dynamically detecting substrate breakage and misalignment of a moving substrate
摘要 An apparatus and method incorporating at least two sensors that detect the presence of a substrate is provided. In one embodiment, a method for transferring a substrate in a processing system is described. The method includes positioning a substrate on an end effector in a first chamber, moving the substrate through an opening between the first chamber and a second chamber along a substrate travel path, and sensing opposing sides of the substrate travel path using at least two sensors positioned proximate to the opening, each of the at least two sensors defining a beam path that is directed through opposing edge regions of the substrate when at least a portion of an edge region traverses the beam path.
申请公布号 US7834994(B2) 申请公布日期 2010.11.16
申请号 US20080255629 申请日期 2008.10.21
申请人 APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 发明人 BAGLEY WILLIAM A.;LEE PAOHUEI;KIM KYUNG-TAE;KIM SAM-KYUNG;KIYOTAKE TOSHIO;KIM SAM;MATSUMOTO TAKAYUKI;LARSON JONATHAN ERIK;INAGAWA MAKOTO;HOFFMAN JAMES;LEUNG BILLY C.
分类号 G01N21/00 主分类号 G01N21/00
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