Patent ID: 11901215
Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B | IPC B  H

Claim 6:
7. A method for handling a semiconductor substrate, comprising:
providing a substrate holder;
providing a substrate displacing assembly for displacing the semiconductor substrate on the substrate holder in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate holder;
displacing the semiconductor substrate using the substrate displacing assembly in a first direction; and
performing a semiconductor manufacturing process on the semiconductor substrate,
wherein the substrate displacing assembly comprises, a pair of load forks, a coupler, and a driving shaft,
wherein the pair of load forks comprises a fork region and a base region, wherein the coupler comprises a flange region and a tube region,
wherein the coupler is mechanically coupled to the base region, and the driving shaft is mechanically coupled to the coupler, and
wherein a clearance distance in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, between an inner wall of the tube region of the coupler to a side wall of the driving shaft is greater than 0.1 millimeters.