Patent ID: 8544482
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: B08B,H01L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for drying at least one workpiece, said workpiece having a substantially circumferential opening at a center location defining an inner diameter of said workpiece, the apparatus comprising: a liquid bath for immersing said workpiece within a liquid, wherein the liquid comprises deionized water; a partially enclosed volume of heated inert gas located above said liquid bath; a heated inert gas supply for supplying heated inert gas to said partially enclosed volume; a first holder for holding said workpiece in said liquid bath with a vertical orientation between the first holder and said liquid bath, and a second holder, said second holder comprising a horizontal member, said horizontal member being structured to hold at least one workpiece in such a way as to substantially prevent said workpiece from sliding along said horizontal member, wherein said second holder is moveable laterally to cause said horizontal member to penetrate the circumferential opening of said workpiece and is moveable to cause said horizontal member to attach to said-circumferential opening of said workpiece.