Nozzle device and processing apparatus

• US 10,220,394 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2015
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masayuki, Terada, Takahiro, Kato, Shiguma, Suzuki, Yusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Gorman, Darren W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barrera, Juan C
• Application Number:
  US15/124,005
• Publication Number:
  US 20170259278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 239548-568
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/14 with multiple outlet openings B05B1/02, B05B1/26 take precedence; with strainers in or outside the outlet opening
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 26/127 in an enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 26/147 Features outside the nozzle for feeding the fluid stream towards the workpiece

Abstract

A nozzle device according to an embodiment includes a first opening, a plurality of second openings, and a first duct part. The first duct part includes at least one first branching part having a first part extending in a first direction and a plurality of second parts connected to a first end of the first part and extending in respective directions intersecting with the first direction. The first duct part connects the first opening and the second openings and is branched at least once by the first branching part in a path extending from the first opening to the second openings. The path lengths and the numbers of first branching parts between the first opening and the respective second openings are the same. The cross-sectional area of the first end of the first part is smaller than the cross-sectional area of a second end of the first part.

Claims

1. A nozzle device comprising:

a first opening;

a plurality of second openings; and

a first duct part including first branching parts each having a first part extending in a first direction and a plurality of second parts connected to a first end of the first part and extending in respective directions intersecting with the first direction, the first duct part connecting the first opening and the second openings, branched at least once by the first branching parts in a path from the first opening to the second openings, and having the same path length and the same number of first branching parts between the first opening and the second openings, wherein

the cross-sectional area of the first end of the first part is smaller than the cross-sectional area of a second end of the first part,

the first part of one of the first branching parts is orthogonal to one of the second parts of another of the first branching parts,

the cross-sectional shape of the first part has a first length and a second length,

the first length is a length in the direction in which the one of the second parts of the another of the first branching parts extends in a planar view from a direction in which the first part extends,

the second length is a length in a second direction orthogonal both to the first direction and to the direction in which the one of the second parts of the another of the first branching parts extends, and

the first length is smaller than the second length.

2. The nozzle device according to claim 1, wherein

the second end of the first part of the one of the first branching parts is connected to the one of the second parts of the another of the first branching parts,

the width of the first end and the second end of the first part is a length in a direction in which the one of the second parts of the another of the first branching parts orthogonal to the first part extends in a planar view from the direction in which the first part extends, and

the width of the first end of the first part is smaller than the width of the second end of the first part.

3. The nozzle device according to claim 2, wherein the width of the first end of the first part is equal to or smaller than 80% of the width of the second end of the first part.

4. The nozzle device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a third opening;

a plurality of fourth openings; and

a second duct part including second branching parts each having a third part extending in the first direction and a plurality of fourth parts connected to a first end of the third part and extending in respective directions intersecting with the first direction, the second duct part connecting the third opening and the fourth openings, branched at least once by the second branching parts in a path extending from the third opening to the fourth openings, and having the same path length and the same number of second branching parts between the third opening and the fourth openings, wherein

the first duct part further includes a first nozzle parts that connects the second parts of the first branching parts closest to the second openings to the respective second openings in the path extending from the first opening to the second openings,

the second duct part further includes a second nozzle parts that connects the fourth parts of the second branching parts closest to the fourth openings to the respective fourth openings in the path extending from the third opening to the fourth openings and that is connected to the first nozzle parts in an intersecting manner,

the first nozzle parts has a first small-diameter parts provided at a position closer to the first opening than a part connected to the second nozzle parts in the path extending from the first opening to the second openings and having a smaller cross-sectional area in the first nozzle parts, and

the second nozzle parts has a second small-diameter parts provided at a position closer to the third opening than a part connected to the first nozzle parts in the path extending from the third opening to the fourth openings and having a smaller cross-sectional area in the second nozzle parts.

5. A processing apparatus comprising:

the nozzle device according to claim 1;

an accommodating unit configured to accommodate a fluid; and

a supply unit configured to supply the fluid in the accommodating unit to the first opening.

6. The nozzle device according to claim 1, wherein the cross-sectional area of the first end of the first part is equal to or smaller than 80% of the cross-sectional area of the second end of the first part.