US Patent Issued to Globalwafers on Sept. 30 for "Ingot puller apparatus having silicon feed tubes with kick plates" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,750, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Globalwafers Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Ingot puller apparatus having silicon feed tubes with kick plates" was invented by Chun-Sheng Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hong-Huei Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Wei-Chen Chou (Taipei, Taiwan), Chen-Yi Lin (Zhunan Township, Taiwan), Feng-Chien Tsai (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Zheng Lu (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ingot puller apparatus that include a silicon feed tube for adding solid silicon to a crucible assembly are disclosed. The silicon feed tubes include a conduit portion having an inner diameter and a kick plate disposed below the conduit portion...