C30B 15/24
Using mechanical means
Official title: using mechanical means, e.g. shaping guides (shaping dies for edge-defined film-fed crystal growth C30B15/34)
C30B15/24 (Using mechanical means) appears on 54 US grants and 25 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C30B- Granted patents
- 54
- Published applications
- 25
- Assignees
- 31
- Inventors
- 117
- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods for producing off-orientation single crystal silicon wafers2 Jun 2026US 12,644,200 B2GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
- Non-contact systems and methods for determining distance between silicon melt and reflector in a crystal puller17 Mar 2026US 12,577,700 B2GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
- Cylindrical silicon ingot manufacturing method23 Sep 2025US 12,421,623 B2BCnC Co., Ltd.
- Spool-balanced seed lift6 Feb 2024US 11,891,721 B2Linton Kayex Technology Co., Ltd
- Integrated crucible and die system for sapphire sheet growing1 Aug 2023US 11,713,519 B1Sapphire Systems Inc.
- Methods for producing off-orientation single crystal silicon wafers17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275567 A1GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
- Non-contact systems and methods for determining distance between silicon melt and reflector in a crystal puller2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185262 A1GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
- Cylindrical silicon ingot manufacturing method26 Feb 2026US 2026/0055533 A1BCnC Co., Ltd.
- Process for producing a single crystal from silicon5 Dec 2024US 2024/0401233 A1Siltronic AG
- Methods for producing off-orientation single crystal silicon wafers4 Jul 2024US 2024/0218557 A1GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Melt dumping in string stabilized ribbon growth33US 4,627,887 A1986
- Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 Coated crucible and die means for growing single crystalline silicon sheets31US 4,090,851 ARCA Corporation · 1978
- Apparatus for melt growth of crystalline semiconductor sheets29US 4,594,229 A1986
- String stabilized ribbon growth28US 4,661,200 A1987
- Method and apparatus for forming an elongated silicon crystalline body using a <110>{211}orientated seed crystal22US 4,075,055 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1978