POLISHING HEAD AND POLISHING APPARATUS

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APP PUB NO 20100210192A1
SERIAL NO

12682458

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The present invention is a polishing head having at least: an approximately discoid mid plate; a rubber film covering at least a lower face portion and a side face portion of the mid plate; and a space portion surrounded by the mid plate and the rubber film; in which pressure of the space portion can be changed by a pressure adjustment mechanism, a back surface of a workpiece is held on a lower face portion of the rubber film and a front surface of the workpiece is brought into sliding contact with a polishing pad attached onto a turn table for performing polishing; wherein the mid plate and the rubber film do not contact one another to have a gap at least throughout a whole of the lower face portion of the mid plate. As a result, there is provided a polishing head etc by a rubber chuck method in which a uniform polishing load is applied over the workpiece without influence of stiffness or flatness of the mid plate.

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SHIN-ETSU HANDOTAI CO LTD2-1 OHTEMACHI 2-CHOME CHIYODA-KU TOKYO 1000004
FUJIKOSHI MACHINERY CORP1650 KIYONO MATSUSHIRO-MACHI NAGANO-SHI NAGANO 381-1233

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Arakawa, Satoru Nagano, JP 11 56
Kishida, Hiromi Nagano, JP 11 28
Kitagawa, Koji Nishishirakawa, JP 30 214
Masumura, Hisashi Nishishirakawa, JP 44 582
Morita, Kouji Nishishirakawa, JP 40 262

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