Patent ID: 7108750
Filing Date: 2006-09-19
Classification: B67D,H01L

Abstract:
1. For use with a spin coating machine, a thinning agent supplying system for supplying thinning agent for cleaning a wafer, the system comprising: an input terminal; first and second tanks to receive the thinning agent from the input terminal; sensors associated with the first tank and the second tank to detect if more than a predetermined level of the thinning agent is in the first and second tanks and to detect if less than the predetermined level is in the first and second tanks; first and second valves to control discharge of the thinning agent from respective ones of the first and second tanks; a pressure-exerting unit to apply pressurized gas directly to the thinning agent in at least one of the first and second tanks to discharge the thinning agent from the at least one of the first and second tanks; and a de-gas unit to remove bubbles from the thinning agent discharged from the first and second tanks, the first and second tanks being connected in parallel between the pressure-exerting unit and the de-gas unit, and the first and second valves being controlled to reduce the thinning agent to a predetermined level in the first tank as detected by the at least one of sensors before discharging thinning agent from the second tank.