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US9354637B2 - Method and system for controlling operation of a pump based on filter information in a filter information tag - Google Patents
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This application is a continuation of, and claims a benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. 120 of the filing date of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/714,126 by inventors Paul J. Magoon, Raul A. Ramirez and Traci L. Batchelder, entitled “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A PUMP BASED ON FILTER INFORMATION IN A FILTER INFORMATION TAG” filed on Feb. 26, 2010, which is hereby fully incorporated by reference herein.
According to other embodiments, feed stage 105 and dispense stage 110 can be a variety of other pumps including pneumatically or hydraulically actuated pumps, hydraulic pumps or other pumps. One example of a multi-stage pump using a pneumatically actuated pump for the feed stage and a stepper motor driven hydraulic pump is described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/051,576 entitled “PUMP CONTROLLER FOR PRECISION PUMPING APPARATUS” by inventors Zagars et al., filed Feb. 4, 2005, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,476,087 on Jan. 13, 2009, hereby incorporated by reference. The use of motors at both stages, however, provides an advantage in that the hydraulic piping, control systems and fluids are eliminated, thereby reducing space and potential leaks. Examples of multi-stage pumps using motors in both the feed stage and dispense stage are provided in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/602,464 entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PUMP WITH REDUCED FORM FACTOR” by inventors Cedrone et al., filed Nov. 20, 2006, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,087,429 on Jan. 3, 2012, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/218,325 entitled “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH VISCOSITY PUMP” by inventors Cedrone et al., filed Jul. 14, 2008, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,753,097 on Jun. 17, 2014, which are hereby fully incorporated by reference herein.
The following provides a summary of various stages of operation of multi-stage pump 25. However, multi-stage pump 25 can be controlled according to a variety of control schemes including, but not limited to those described in U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/741,682 entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESSURE COMPENSATION IN A PUMP” by Inventors Cedrone et al., filed Dec. 2, 2005; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/502,729 entitled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLUID FLOW CONTROL IN AN IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY SYSTEM” by Inventors Clarke et al., filed Aug. 11, 2006, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,443,483 on Oct. 28, 2008; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/602,472, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING FOR PRESSURE VARIATIONS USING A MOTOR” by Inventors Cedrone et al., filed Nov. 20, 2006, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,172,546 on May 8, 2012, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/292,559 entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF FLUID PRESSURE” by Inventors Gonnella et al., filed Dec. 2, 2005, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,850,431 on Dec. 14, 2010 U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/364,286 entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING OPERATION OF A PUMP” by Inventors Gonnella et al., filed Feb. 28, 2006, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,878,765 on Feb. 1, 2011, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/602,508, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESSURE COMPENSATION IN A PUMP” by Inventors Cedrone et al., filed Nov. 20, 2006, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,029,247 on Oct. 4, 2011, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/602,449, entitled “I/O SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR INTERFACING A PUMP CONTROLLER” by Inventors Cedrone et al., filed Nov. 20, 2006, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,940,664 on May 10, 2011, each of which is fully incorporated by reference herein, to sequence valves and control pressure.
During the filtration segment, dispense pump 180 can be brought to its home position. As described in U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/630,384, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VARIABLE HOME POSITION DISPENSE SYSTEM” by Laverdiere, et al., filed Nov. 23, 2004; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/666,124, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VARIABLE HOME POSITION DISPENSE SYSTEM” by Laverdiere, et al., filed Sep. 30, 2008, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,292,598 on Oct. 29, 2012, and PCT Application No. PCT/US2005/042127, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARIABLE HOME POSITION DISPENSE SYSTEM”, by Applicant Entegris, Inc. and Inventors Laverdiere et al., filed Nov. 21, 2005, and published as International Publication No. WO2006/057957 A2 on Jun. 1, 2006, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference, the home position of the dispense pump can be a position that gives the greatest available volume at the dispense pump for the dispense cycle, but is less than the maximum available volume that the dispense pump could provide. The home position is selected based on various parameters for the dispense cycle to reduce unused hold up volume of multi-stage pump 25. Feed pump 150 can similarly be brought to a home position that provides a volume that is less than its maximum available volume.
FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic representation of one embodiment of filter 35 connected to manifold 325. Manifold 325 can include a quick change mechanism 377 for filters to allow filters to be easily connected to or removed from manifold 325. Any quick change mechanism or other mechanism known or developed in the art for connecting a filter 35 to manifold 325 or to otherwise connect filter 35 to the pump can be used. One embodiment of a connection mechanism for a filter is described in PCT Patent Applicant No. PCT/US2008/082289, filed Nov. 3, 2008, and published as International Publication No. WO2009/059324 A2 on May 7, 2009, entitled “O-Ringless Seal Couplings”, by Towle et al., which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/985,103, which are hereby fully incorporated by reference herein. According to one embodiment, filter 35 can include a bowl 380 and head 387. Bowl 380 can be shaped to accommodate a filter cartridge and head 387 can be shaped to accommodate a quick change mechanism of manifold 325. Tag reader 50 is positioned to read a filter information tag attached to or embedded in filter 35.
According to one embodiment, a sheet of material 405 is sandwiched between valve plate 320 and dispense block 305 to form the diaphragms of the various valves. According to one embodiment material 305 can be a sheet of PTFE or other flexible material. Valve plate 320 forms a valve seat 410 into which material 405 can move. According to one embodiment, valve seat 410 has a shape to which material 405 can contour without leaving dead space. An O-ring 415 can be disposed in an annular groove 420 around the edge of each valve. O-ring 415 can be disposed on the valve plate side, dispense block side or O-rings can be disposed on both sides. Fluid can flow into and out of valve 400 through fluid flow passage 425 and 430. Flow passages 425 and 430 can be placed and sized as needed or desired. According to one embodiment, valve plate 320 can be configured to reduce the hold-up volume of the valve, eliminate volume variations due to vacuum fluctuations, reduce vacuum requirements and reduce stress on the valve diaphragm. Example valve configurations are described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/602,464 entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PUMP WITH REDUCED FORM FACTOR” by inventors Cedrone et al., filed Nov. 20, 2006, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,087,429 on Jan. 3, 2012, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/218,325 entitled “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH VISCOSITY PUMP” by inventors Cedrone et al., filed Jul. 14, 2008, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,753,097 on Jun. 17, 2014, which are hereby fully incorporated by reference herein.
According to one embodiment, pump controller 20 can also include an interface 80 to connect to a pump management system. Interface 80 can allow pump controller 20 to connect to a network (e.g., Ethernet, wireless network, global area network, DeviceNet network or other network known or developed in the art), a bus (e.g., SCSI bus) or other communications link. An I/O interface connector can be used to connect pump controller 20 to a variety of interfaces and manufacturing tools. Example I/O interface connectors can be found in U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/741,657, entitled “I/O INTERFACE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PUMP,” by Cedrone et al., filed Dec. 2, 2005; and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/602,449, entitled “I/O SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR INTERFACING A PUMP CONTROLLER,” by Cedrone et al., filed Nov. 20, 2006, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,940,664 on May 10, 2011, which are hereby fully incorporated by reference herein.
an electronic tag reader positioned and configured to read filter information for the removable filter from an electronic tag on the removable filter when the removable filter is connected to the pump; and
a pump controller comprising a pump controller processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a set of control instructions executable by the processor to control operation of the pump to perform pump controller steps comprising:
receiving filter information for the removable filter from the electronic tag reader; and
communicating the filter information to the pump management system; and
a pump management system coupled to the pump controller via a communications link, the pump management system comprising a management system processor and a pump management system non-transitory computer readable medium storing a set of pump management system instructions executable by the pump management system processor to cause the pump management system to perform pump management system steps comprising:
receiving the filter information from the pump controller;
applying one or more rules to the filter information to determine if the removable filter connected to the pump is an appropriate filter and, if the removable filter is an appropriate filter, determine further operation of the pump including how to prime the removable filter connected to the pump in preparation for dispense cycles; and
providing operation instructions to the pump controller;
wherein the pump controller steps further comprise operating the pump according to the operating instructions.
2. The pump system of claim 1, wherein the pump management system step further comprise accessing a first priming routine associated with a first filter type and a second priming routine associated with a second filter type, applying the one or more rules to select the first priming routine or the second priming routine depending on whether the removable filter is the first filter type or the second filter type, wherein the operation instructions comprise operation instructions corresponding to a selected priming routine.
3. The pump system of claim 1, wherein the electronic tag reader comprises an RFID reader.
4. The pump system of claim 1, wherein the filter information comprises a part number.
5. The pump system of claim 4, wherein applying the one or more rules further comprises comparing a received part number for the removable filter connected to the pump to an expected part number to determine whether to prime the removable filter connected to the pump.
6. The pump system of claim 1, wherein the pump management system is further configured to update the one or more rules to reclassify acceptability of filters based on dispense results.
7. The pump system of claim 1, wherein the pump management steps further comprise updating the one or more rules to reclassify a set of filters having a previously acceptable part number as unacceptable.
8. The pump system of claim 1, wherein determining the further operation of the pump further comprises determining a dispense cycle and wherein the operation instructions include operation instructions corresponding to the dispense cycle.
one or more motors to draw fluid into a pump inlet and dispense fluid from pump outlet;
an electronic tag reader positioned and configured to read filter information from the electronic tag;
applying one or more rules to the filter information to determine if the removable filter connected to the pump is an appropriate filter and determine further operation of the pump including how to prime the removable filter connected to the pump in preparation for dispense cycles;
controlling operation of the pump to prime the removable filter.
10. The pump of claim 9, wherein the pump controller steps further comprise accessing a first priming routine associated with a first filter type and a second priming routine associated with a second filter type, wherein:
applying the one or more rules to the filter information comprises applying the one or more rules to the filter information to select first priming routine or second priming routine depending on whether the removable filter is of the first filter type or the second filter type prime the removable filter according to the first priming routine or the second priming routine; and
controlling operation of the pump to prime the removable filter comprises controlling operation of the pump to prime the removable filter according to the selected priming routine.
11. The pump of claim 9, wherein the electronic tag reader comprises an RFID reader and the electronic tag comprises an RFID tag.
12. The pump of claim 9, wherein the filter information comprises a part number.
13. The pump of claim 12, wherein the applying the one or more rules further comprises comparing a received part number for the removable filter to an expected part number to determine whether to prime the removable filter.
14. The pump of claim 9, wherein applying the one or more rules further comprises applying the one or more rules to information specific to the removable filter to determine further operation of the pump.
15. The pump of claim 9, wherein the pump controller steps further comprise updating the one or more rules to reclassify a set of filters having a previously acceptable part number as unacceptable.
16. The pump of claim 9, wherein determining the further operation of the pump further comprises determining a dispense cycle and wherein the operation instructions include operation instructions corresponding to the dispense cycle.
17. A method of controlling operation of a pump comprising:
communicating the filter information for the filter from the electronic tag reader to a pump controller coupled to the electronic tag reader;
applying one or more rules to the filter information to determine if the removable filter connected to the pump is an appropriate filter and, if the removable filter is appropriate, to determine further operation of the pump;
operating the pump according to the determined further operation; and
updating the one or more rules based on a set of dispense results to reclassify a set of filters having a previously acceptable part number as unacceptable.
18. The method of claim 17, further comprising storing a first priming routine associated with a first filter type and a second priming routine associated with a second filter type, wherein the one or more rules are applied by to select from the first priming routine or second priming routine depending on whether the filter is of the first filter type or the second filter type.
19. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more rules are applied by a system in communication with the pump controller.
20. The method of claim 15, wherein the tag is an RFID tag and the electronic tag reader is an RFID reader.
21. The method of claim 15, wherein applying one or more rules to the filter information comprises comparing a part number in the filter information to an expected part number to determine if the part number in the filter information matches the expected part number.
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