Patent ID: 8066815
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for processing workpieces in a treatment process, said apparatus comprising: a multi-workpiece chamber including at least two processing stations, each of which is configured for exposing one of the workpieces to the treatment process and said chamber includes a chamber bowl that is configured for receiving a chamber lid in a closed position to seal a chamber interior when so received and said chamber bowl includes at least a first pair of opposing chamber sidewalls extending from a chamber base and each one of the first pair of the chamber sidewalls defines a slot that is transverse with respect to the chamber base to form a pair of opposing chamber slots; and a partition that is configured to cooperate with said chamber such that the partition is disengagably removable from the chamber and, thereafter, re-engagable with the chamber for selectively dividing the processing stations from one another with the chamber supporting the partition and said partition cooperates with said chamber in a way that serves to equilibrate a process pressure between the first and second processing stations, said partition including a pair of opposing side margins such that that the partition is supportable in the chamber bowl, at least in part, having each one of the pair of opposing side margins at least partially received in each one of the pair of opposing chamber slots and in a spaced apart relationship from each respective one of the first pair of chamber sidewalls.