US20020124894A1 - Fluid control device - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16K—VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING
- F16K11/00—Multiple-way valves, e.g. mixing valves; Pipe fittings incorporating such valves
- F16K11/10—Multiple-way valves, e.g. mixing valves; Pipe fittings incorporating such valves with two or more closure members not moving as a unit
- F16K11/20—Multiple-way valves, e.g. mixing valves; Pipe fittings incorporating such valves with two or more closure members not moving as a unit operated by separate actuating members
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16K—VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING
- F16K27/00—Construction of housing; Use of materials therefor
- F16K27/003—Housing formed from a plurality of the same valve elements
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- H01L21/00—Processes or apparatus adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof
- H01L21/02—Manufacture or treatment of semiconductor devices or of parts thereof
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- H01L21/00—Processes or apparatus adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof
- H01L21/67—Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof; Apparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components ; Apparatus not specifically provided for elsewhere
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- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
- Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
- Y10T137/8593—Systems
- Y10T137/87571—Multiple inlet with single outlet
- Y10T137/87676—With flow control
- Y10T137/87684—Valve in each inlet
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Abstract
A fluid control device comprises a first passageway, and a second passageway communicating therewith and having a terminating end closed with a fluid control unit or instrument. The first passageway is adapted to pass a fluid therethrough with a different fluid remaining in the second passageway. The first passageway comprises an upstream portion and a downstream portion communicating with the upstream portion at an approximate right angle therewith. The second passageway extends from a terminating end of the upstream portion of the first passageway in alignment with the upstream portion.
Description
- The present invention relates to fluid control devices which are adapted, for example, for use in apparatus for manufacturing semiconductors and which require passage of a first fluid therethrough and subsequent replacement of this fluid by a second fluid.
- Fluid control devices comprise various components, such as filters, pressure regulators, various kinds of valves, massflow controllers, pressure gauges and pressure sensors, which are connected together. For example as shown in FIG. 5, a
pressure gauge 40 is provided generally at the terminating end of abranch channel 42 extending from amain passageway 41 at right angles therewith. - With this conventional fluid control device, the branch channel having its terminating end closed with the pressure gauge provides a so-called dead volume, and with a fluid remaining in this portion of dead volume, another fluid is subsequently passed through the passageway. It is an important problem to reduce the replacement time involved in this procedure and taken for the purity of the subsequent fluid to reach a required value. Consideration is therefore given to how to diminish the dead volume. However, no consideration whatever has been given to the relation between the main passageway and the branch channel relative to each other.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a fluid control device wherein consideration is given to the position of passageways relative to each other so that one fluid can be replaced by another within a shortened period of time.
- The present invention provides a fluid control device comprising a first passageway, and a second passageway communicating therewith and having a terminating end closed with fluid control means, the first passageway being adapted to pass a fluid therethrough with a different fluid remaining in the second passageway, the fluid control device being characterized in that the first passageway comprises an upstream portion and a downstream portion communicating with the upstream portion at an approximate right angle therewith, the second passageway extending from a terminating end of the upstream portion of the first passageway in alignment with the upstream portion.
- Useful fluid control means include a measuring instrument, such as a pressure gauge or pressure sensor, closing the terminating end of the second passageway at all times, and a channel opening-closing device, such as a valve, for temporarily closing the terminating end of the second passageway.
- The fluid control device of the present invention has the feature that the second passageway providing a dead volume in replacing one fluid by another extends from the terminating end of upstream portion of the first passageway in alignment with the upstream portion, whereby the time required for the replacement of fluid can be shortened without diminishing the dead volume.
- FIG. 1 is a view in vertical section showing a fluid control device embodying the invention;
- FIG. 2 is a view in vertical section showing a fluid control device for comparison;
- FIG. 3 is a graph showing replacement characteristics of the fluid control devices shown in FIGS. 1 and 2;
- FIG. 4 is a piping diagram showing another embodiment of fluid control device of the invention; and
- FIG. 5 is a piping diagram showing a prior-art device corresponding to the device shown in FIG. 4.
- Embodiments of the invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
- FIG. 1 shows a fluid control device embodying the invention. The device includes two on-off
valves valve 2 and the lower on-offvalve 3 have theirbodies 4, 5 joined to each other. Theupper valve 2 has anactuator 6 mounted on the top side of the valve body 4, while thelower valve 3 has anactuator 7 attached to the bottom side of thevalve body 5. Thebody 5 of thelower valve 3 is joined to achannel block 8 provided at the inlet side of the massflow controller 1. The upper andlower valve bodies 4, 5 are provided with respective inletpipe connecting couplings shaped inflow channel 11 and an I-shaped outflow channel 12. Theoutflow channel 12 is open downward. Thelower valve body 5 is formed with an inverted L-shaped inflow channel 13 symmetric with the L-shaped inflow channel 11 of the upper valve body 4, an inverted L-shaped outflow channel 14 generally symmetric with thisinflow channel 11, and abypass channel 15 holding theoutflow channel 14 in communication with theoutflow channel 12 of the upper valve body 4. The inverted L-shaped outflow channel 14 of thelower valve body 5 comprises a main passageway (downstream portion) 16 communicating with the massflow controller 1, and a first fluid subpassageway (upstream portion) 17 communicating with themain passageway 16 at an approximate right angle therewith. Themain passageway 16 is used not only for the outflow of a fluid flowing, in through the lowerinlet pipe coupling 10 but also for the outflow of a fluid flowing in through the upperinlet pipe coupling 9. The combination of theoutflow channel 12 of the upper valve body 4 and thebypass channel 15 of thelower valve body 5 provides asecond fluid subpassageway 18. - FIG. 2 shows a fluid control device used for comparison with the fluid control device shown in FIG. 1. The
body 22 of a lower on-offvalve 21 has a fluid passage different from the corresponding passage of FIG. 1. More specifically stated, thevalve body 22 has an inletpipe connecting coupling 10′ attached to the bottom side thereof and anactuator 7′ mounted on the left side thereof. Anoutflow channel 23 is I-shaped and comprises a main passageway (downstream portion) 16 having the same size as the corresponding passageway of FIG. 1 and communicating with a massflow controller 1, and a first fluid subpassageway (upstream portion) 24 substantially in alignment with themain passageway 16. Theoutflow channel 23 is held in communication with anoutflow channel 12 in an upper valve body 4 by abypass channel 15, which has the same size as that of FIG. 1. - FIG. 3 shows variations in the purity of a process gas after the start of passage of the process gas through the fluid control devices shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The purity of the process gas was measured by checking the concentration of N2 serving as a purge gag. The dead volume was 0.7 cc. FIG. 3 reveals that with the device shown in FIG. 1, the concentration of nitrogen gas decreases to less than 1 ppb upon lapse of 250 seconds, and that with the device shown in FIG. 2, the nitrogen gas concentration is higher than 1 ppm 250 seconds later, failing to decrease to not higher than 1 ppb despite the lapse of 500 seconds.
- Although the two devices are the same in the size of the
second fluid subpassageway 18 providing a dead volume, the device wherein thesubpassageway 18 closed by theactuator 6 and thefirst fluid subpassageway 17 are generally aligned with each other and communicate with themain passageway 16 nearly at a right angle therewith (see FIG. 1) exhibits higher replacement characteristics than the other device wherein thesecond fluid subpassageway 18 communicates with thefirst fluid subpassageway 24 nearly at a right angle therewith (see FIG. 2). - The above result is usable as a criterion in evaluating passages formed not only in fluid control devices of the type shown in FIG. 1 and also in any other fluid control devices.
- FIG. 4 shows an optimum passageway for use with a pressure gauge or other measuring instrument. A
main passageway 31 comprises anupstream portion 32 and adownstream portion 33 communicating therewith nearly at a right angle therewith. Abranch channel 34 having a terminating end closed with apressure gauge 40 extends from the terminating end of theupstream portion 32 of themain passageway 31 in alignment with thisportion 32. This arrangement produces the same effect as is shown in the graph of FIG. 3, when compared with a conventional arrangement shown in FIG. 5, consequently shortening the replacement time although the two arrangements havebranch channels - Although the foregoing devices have been described for use with gases useful for producing semiconductors, the same advantage as described above can be obtained with devices of similar construction for other uses or for use with liquids instead of gases.
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1. A fluid control device comprising a first passageway, and a second passageway communicating therewith and having a terminating end closed with fluid control means, the first passageway being adapted to pass a fluid therethrough with a different fluid remaining in the second passageway, the fluid control device being characterized in that the first passageway comprises an upstream portion and a downstream portion communicating with the upstream portion at an approximate right angle therewith, the second passageway extending from a terminating end of the upstream portion of the first passageway in alignment with the upstream portion.
2. A fluid control device according to claim 1 wherein the fluid control means is a pressure measuring instrument closing the terminating end of the second passageway at all times.
3. A fluid control device according to claim 1 wherein the fluid control means is a channel opening-closing device for temporarily closing the terminating end of the second passageway.
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