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Real-time component monitoring and replenishment system for multicomponent fluids

US7153690B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 23, 2002
Grant dateDec 26, 2006
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Expiry dateNov 18, 2023

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T436/116664
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A multicomponent fluid composition monitoring and compositional control system, in which a component analysis is effected by titration or other analytical procedure, for one or more components of interest, and a computational means then is employed to determine and responsively adjust the relative amount or proportion of the one or more components in the multicomponent fluid composition, to maintain a predetermined compositional character of the multicomponent fluid composition. The system is usefully employed in semiconductor manufacturing photoresist and post-etch residue removal, in which the cleaning medium is a semi-aqueous solvent composition, and water is the monitored and responsively adjusted component.

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