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US 2011/0210470 A1Published application
Crucible and method for furnace capacity utilization
Assignee6N Silicon Inc.
InventorsScott Nichol, Dan Smith, Damon Dastgiri, Fritz Kirscht
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Abstract
The present invention relates to efficient furnace capacity utilization in the production of ingots. The present invention includes a crucible and use of the same. The crucible approximately matches the interior shape of the furnace in which the ingots are produced.
Claims22
A crucible comprising:
- an interior for the production of an ingot;
- and,
- an exterior shape approximately matching the interior shape of a furnace in which the ingot is produced.
The crucible of claim 7, wherein the first sides are longer than the second sides.
A crucible comprising:
- an interior for the production of an ingot;
- an exterior shape approximately matching the interior shape of a furnace in which the ingot is produced;
- wherein the ingot comprises a multiplicity of blocks;
- wherein the multiplicity of blocks comprise a grid;
- wherein the exterior shape matching the interior shape of the furnace allows the generation of a larger number of blocks than the number of blocks that can be generated from the furnace using a crucible with a square shape;
- wherein the interior shape of the furnace comprises an approximately round shape;
- and,
- wherein the perimeter of the crucible comprises approximately eight major sides, wherein the eight sides comprise two sets of approximately opposing longer sides of approximately equal length, and two sets of approximately opposing shorter sides of approximately equal length, wherein the longer sides alternate with the shorter sides.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.