U.S. patents available from 1976 to present.
U.S. patent applications available from 2005 to present.

Process flow preparation system and method

Patent 6415192 Issued on July 2, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject February 16, 2019. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

Real world modeling and control process
Patent #: 4796194
Issued on: 01/03/1989
Inventor: Atherton

System for managing production of semiconductor devices
Patent #: 4901242
Issued on: 02/13/1990
Inventor: Kotan

System for automatically producing different semiconductor products in different quantities through a plurality of processes along a production line
Patent #: 5495417
Issued on: 02/27/1996
Inventor: Fuduka, et al.

Non-volatile ferroelectric memory device equipped with reference voltage generator for exactly regulating reference voltage to the mid point between two logic level and method of reading out data bit therefrom
Patent #: 5694353
Issued on: 12/02/1997
Inventor: Koike

System for preparing production process flow
Patent #: 5862050
Issued on: 01/19/1999
Inventor: Toyota

Method and apparatus for integrated control of a sensor in a manufacturing processing station
Patent #: 5886896
Issued on: 03/23/1999
Inventor: Lantz, et al.

Sequencing of the recipe steps for the optimal low-k HDP-CVD processing
Patent #: 5937323
Issued on: 08/10/1999
Inventor: Orczyk, et al.

Automatic recipe adjust and download based on process control window
Patent #: 6041270
Issued on: 03/21/2000
Inventor: Steffan, et al.

Semiconductor product manufacturing execution system and semiconductor product manufacturing method Patent #: 6112130
Issued on: 08/29/2000
Inventor: Fukuda, et al.

Inventor

Application

No. 249851 filed on 02/16/1999

US Classes:

700/96, Integrated system (Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)700/121Integrated circuit production or semiconductor fabrication

Examiners

Primary: Picard, Leo P.
Assistant: Rapp, Chad

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 019/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1998-02-17 JP

Abstract

A process flow preparation system including a condition receiving unit for receiving and storing at least one process condition, a recipe storing unit for storing recipe names and corresponding process conditions, a recipe searching unit for searching and retrieving from the recipe storing unit at least one recipe meeting the at least one process condition. Also included is a process sequence receiving unit for receiving and storing a process sequence of the at least one retrieved recipe, and a process flow output unit for outputting a process flow including the at least one retrieved recipe and the process sequence of the at least one retrieved recipe. Further, the recipe searching unit searches for one or more recipes meeting the at least one process condition from the recipe storing unit, determines whether or not the search has retrieved a single result, and prompts an operator to input at least one of a process condition name and a process condition value for specifying results of the search.

Other References

  • Bastiaan,"Process model and recipe structure, the conceptual design for a flexible batch plant", 1998,Elsiver Science Ltd., vol. 36 No. 4, pp. 249-25
PatentsPlus Images
Enhanced PDF formats
loading...
PatentsPlus: add to cart
PatentsPlus: add to cartSearch-enhanced full patent PDF image
$9.95more info
PatentsPlus: add to cart
PatentsPlus: add to cartIntelligent turbocharged patent PDFs with marked up images
$18.95more info
 
Sign InRegister
Username  
Password   
forgot password?