Polishing head and polishing apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9278425
APP PUB NO 20120289129A1
SERIAL NO

13522370

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A polishing head including, below a polishing head body, a rubber film held by a disk-shaped mid plate and an annular guide ring disposed around the rubber film holding the back surface of the workpiece on a lower face portion of the rubber film. The polishing head also includes a base member that is coupled to a polishing head body through an elastic film and holds the guide ring and the mid plate such that the lower surface of the guide ring does not contact the polishing pad during polishing. The polishing head and polishing apparatus, are operable in both of the rough polishing process and final polishing process, that can stably achieve predetermined high flatness and high polishing stock removal uniformity in polishing of a workpiece and can obtain a workpiece with fewer fine particles having a diameter of 45 nm or more.

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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 Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Arakawa, Satoru Nagano, JP 11 56
Aratani, Takashi Nishishirakawa, JP 3 8
Hashimoto, Hiromasa Nishishirakawa, JP 64 984
Kishida, Hiromi Nagano, JP 11 28
Morita, Kouji Nishishirakawa, JP 40 262

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