US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 9 for "Adjustable support for arc chamber of ion source" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,725, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Adjustable support for arc chamber of ion source" was invented by Po-Tang Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Heng Yen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tai-Kun Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Sheng-Tai Peng (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly present in an ion source for supporting an arc chamber upon a base plate includes a first arc support plate, a first screw, and a second screw. The first screw passes through a smooth through-hole in an arm of the first arc support plate and extends into a bore in the base plate. The...