

Bearing. Our supplier - Fala offers high performance bearings. We were the first to release thin-section ceramic hybrid bearings for semiconductor robotic applications. Ceramic bearings give clean long-life performance in many vacuum and atmospheric applications. High quality bearings last 2-4 times as long as OEM components and run considerably cleaner. Our design bearing specifications are optimized for every operating conditions. The bearing attributes Include:
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Design |
Full complement gothic |
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Materials |
High stiffness ceramic balls, steel spacer balls |
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Shielding |
Non-magnetic stainless, double sided |
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Dimension |
Fine tolerances |
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Finish |
Ultra fine |
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Lubrication |
Optimized perfluoropolyether (PFPE) grease |
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Attribute |
Advantage |
Benefits |
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Materials |
SiN ball |
Rigidity |
Precision, vibration |
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Materials |
SS spacer ball |
Rolling resistance |
Smoother motion, lifetime |
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Complement |
Full |
Stiffness |
Precision vibration |
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Design |
Gothic |
Stiffness |
Precision vibration |
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Design |
Shielding |
Traps grease |
Lifetime, contamination |
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Tolerances |
<0.0001 in. |
Constant internal X- section |
Lifetime, contamination |
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Finish |
Ultra-fine |
Rolling resistance |
Lifetime |
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Lubrication |
PFPE/PTFE |
Vac. and temp. Resistant |
Lifetime |
All Fala ceramic hybrid bearings and related spare parts are a direct retrofit to existing installed tools. The robots include 200 mm HP™, HP+™ and VHP™ robots.
Full complement ceramic hybrid shielded bearings with PFPE-PTFE grease. Hub bearings use a proven 4-point contact design.
Trouble Free Performance Bearings are an important source of contamination and downtime. Fala bearing combines shielding, 4-point, full complement, and high precision to yield a 70% reduction in contamination, and a 4X improvement in bearing life. They eliminates wafer droop, are sold as integrated maintenance kits that include high performance blade housings.
Warranty, all Fala products are guaranteed 2-year / 600,000 wafer-processed.
Offering

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Name |
PN |
Description |
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HP™ Standard |
H22589 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP™ robot |
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HP™ Buffer |
H22510 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP™ robot with new high |
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HP™ Transfer |
H22520 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP™ robot with new high |
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HP™ Refill |
H22570 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP™ robot already fitted with Fala housing |
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Bearings, pivots, and housings available separately. |
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Name |
PN |
Description |
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HP+™ Standard |
H52980 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings (top & bottom) for HP+™ robot |
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HP+™ Buffer |
H52900 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP+™ robot with new high |
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HP+™ Transfer |
H52920 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP+™ robot with |
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HP+™ Top |
H22570 |
Hub, wrist, and top elbow bearings for HP+™ robot |
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Bearings, pivots, and housings available separately. |
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Name |
PN |
Description |
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VHP™ Standard |
H52194 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for VHP™ robot |
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VHP™ Buffer |
H52110 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for VHP™ robot with two new high |
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VHP™ Refill |
H52199 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for VHP™ robot already fitted with Fala |
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Bearings, pivots, and housings available separately. |
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Name |
PN |
Description |
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HP™ RTP Buffer |
H22540 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP™ robot with new high precision buffer blade housing for quartz blade |
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HP™ Refill |
H22570 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP™ robot already fitted Fala housing |
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HP™ RTP housing |
A2009 |
Blade housing assembly for HP™ RTP robot |
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Bearings, pivots, and housings available separately. |
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Name |
PN |
Description |
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HP™ HDP kit |
H22530 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP™ robot with new high |
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HP™ Refill |
H22570 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for HP™ robot fitted with Fala |
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HP™ HDP Wrist |
A1100 |
High performance housing assembly with pivots and bearings for |
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Bearings, pivots, and housings available separately. |
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Name |
PN |
Description |
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VHP+ etch kit |
H52210-X |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for VHP+™ robot with new high precision buffer blade housing |
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VHP™ Refill |
H52199 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for VHP+™ robot fitted with Fala housing technology |
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VHP+ etch housing |
A2004 |
High performance housing for VHP+ etch application |
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Bearings, pivots, and housings available separately. |
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Name |
PN |
Description |
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Producer® loose |
424000 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for Producer® robot |
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Producer® partial pre-assembled |
R50005 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for Producer® robot with new high precision buffer blade housing |
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Producer® full pre-assembly |
R50004 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for Producer® robot with new high precision transfer blade housing |
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Bearings and spare arms available separately. |
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All Fala ceramic hybrid bearings and related spare parts are a direct retrofit to existing installed tool configurations. The robots include 300 mm Centura®, Endura® and Producer® robots.
Full complement ceramic hybrid shielded bearings with PFPE-PTFE grease. Hub bearings are double-shielded and use an orientation independent 4-point contact design.
Trouble Free Performance Bearings are an important source of contamination and downtime. Fala combines shielding, 4-point, full complement, and high precision to yield a 70% reduction in contamination, and a 4X improvement in bearing life. They eliminates wafer droop, are sold as integrated maintenance kits that include high performance blade housings.
Warranty, all Fala products are guaranteed 2-year / 600,000 wafer-processed.
Offering

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Name |
PN |
Description |
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Producer® loose |
424000 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for Producer® robot |
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Producer® partial |
R50005 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for Producer® robot with new high precision buffer blade housing |
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Producer® full |
R50004 |
Hub, wrist, and elbow bearings for Producer® robot with new high precision transfer blade housing |
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Bearings and spare arms available separately. |
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The Centura® single blade robot can de difficult to repair in the field. Our manufacturer Fala has redesigned the assembly to reuse customer components and mitigate issues associated with the OEM design. Elbow bearings are shielded and carefully aligned, but Centura® PM kits are available pre-assembled only.

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Name |
PN |
Description |
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VHP™ Standard |
211300 |
Hub and elbow bearings, and 2 new housings for VHP™ robot |
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VHP™ refill |
211300R |
Hub, elbow, and wrist bearings for VHP™ robot with Fala housing technology |
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Blade Housing |
A3000 |
High precision reusable blade housing with pivots and bearings. |
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Blade Housing |
A3010 |
High precision reusable blade housing with pivots and bearings - enclosed gears |
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Bearings, pivots, and housings available separately |
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Name |
PN |
Description |
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VHP™ Standard |
211300 |
Hub and elbow bearings, and 2 new housings for VHP™ robot |
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VHP™ refill |
211300R |
Hub, elbow, and wrist bearings for VHP™ robot using Fala housing technology |
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Blade housing |
A3000 |
High precision reusable blade housing with pivots and bearings. |
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Blade housing |
A3010 |
High precision reusable blade housing with pivots and bearings - enclosed gears |
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Bearings, pivots, and housings available separately. |
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XP™ robots are existed in Endura™ tools. As the robots cannot be repaired in the field, the waist assemblies must be taken apart using specialized equipment not available within a fab environment. Thus, a new duplex bearing has developed by our partner - Fala and an internal rework process that yields a cleaner and longer lasting assembly. In 2006, this remanufactured solution has been used worldwide.
All Fala XP™ bearings are warranted for 2 years or 600,000 wafer-processed.

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Name |
PN |
Description |
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VxP™ Rework |
R40200 |
Reworked customer-supplied waist assembly with 2 new duplex bearings, 8 elbow bearings and full pre-assembly. |

We have housing solutions for all 200 mm and 300 mm tools. Our housings are made from 6061 Al with electroless nickel for durability. This design is ideal for high temperature applications. Inside of the housing, bearings are slip fit into the full body pivots.
Fala Pivots are made from tempered stainless steel. Pivots can be reused indefinitely.
Moreover, each pivot tooth is wire-EDM cut with a curve for proper energy transfer. No grease is needed between high precision gears.
Offering

All Fala housings are plated, field-maintenance friendly and reusable due to housings define the pivots' relative and absolute orientations. Our housings use tempered shafts, stiffening ridges and auto-torque design to guarantee proper blade alignment and long-term particle-free performance. Product Fala PN OEM Ref. Description Picture HP™ Buffer A1000 0010-20130 HP™/VHP™ Transfer A1200 0020-21104 200 mm housings may look superficially identical but blade compatibility needs to be verified. HP+™ Buffer A2100 0010-13242 HP+™ Transfer A2200 0021-22492 HDP Buffer A1100 0010-02177 All Fala housings are built around similar design principles: HP™ RTP Buffer A2009 TiCl4 Buffer (CVD Ti-TiN) A2300 VHP™ Ultima® 200 A2004 0200-00834 (blade ref.) VHP™/XP™ 300 A3000 0020-75700 0010-17402 0010-17407 0010-29842 0040-50657 Centura® RTP 300 A3010
0010-20128

0020-21105
0010-75512

0040-23915

0010-02176
1- High precision wrist bearing (ceramic hybrid)
2- Tempered full body pivot with wire EDM teeth
3- Stainless steel shrunk fit shaft insert
4- Screw torque does not affect bearing loading
5- 6061 base and cover with electroless nickel finish






Fala Pivots are made from tempered stainless steel. All design is ideal for high temperature applications. OEM pivots are soft and deform over time, carry the off-axis load, and maintain left-right synchronization. We uses tempered steel and advanced machining to yield reusable high-precision parts that eliminate long-term droop, increase bearing life and reduce contamination.
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Product |
Fala PN |
OEM Ref. |
Description |
Picture |
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HP™/VHP™ thin pivot |
P1001 |
0020-70271 |
Thin pivot, |
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HP™/VHP™/RTP |
P1101 |
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Full-body pivot, |
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HP+™/VHP+™ |
P2001 |
0010-02170/ |
Full-body pivot, |
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VHP™ Ultima® 200 |
P2005 |
0040-08075 |
Full-body pivot, |
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HP™ HDP |
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Full-body pivot, |
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VHP™ 300/XP™ |
P3001 |
0010-02177 |
Full-body pivot, |
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Today, cost-effective is an important issue controlled in every company, we can offer rework services for most 300 mm robot assemblies including XP™ Waist Assemblies, Producer® Arm Assemblies, Centura® 2-blades Preassembly, Centura® 1-blade Preassembly and Varian/TEL® MB2, M2i. In many cases,
we have replacement components and spares. Broken or worn out components are repaired or replaced from press-fit to slip-fit for an end user to do PM. All robots are carefully reassembled, this saves 4-5 hours per PM and eliminates torquing errors that result in wafer droop or compromised bearing life.
We have developed various processes that take existing robot arms and waist assemblies and bring them back to their original condition. Higher quality bearings are used to ensure that robot life is longer than OEM specification.
Offering

We maintain several XP™ spare waists that are used to shorten the lead time and help maintenance planning. Our XP™ Waist Assemblies includes PN R40001 & 40002. Basically, Endura™ XP™ robots cannot be repaired in the field. The waist assemblies must be taken apart using specialized equipment not available within a fab environment; therefore, Fala experienced technology have been extended the XP™ robots life time as longer as customer expectation.

Producer arm rework includes Producer® Arm Assembly and Producer® Full Preassembly. As we found out the producer robot arm’s which elbow bearings are major source of particles and bearings are difficult to replace. In addition, since OEM bores are eccentric; therefore, our producer arm assembled including all bores restores concentricity and parallelism3-dimensional inspection. Re-machining robot arm bores are converted to slip fit from press-fit. Inner bore Ni plating. Honing. Exterior surfaces reconditioned. High-precision shielded ceramic hybrid bearings used.
Our producer arm aassemblies have three choices shown in the table. All products’ normal lead time is 2 weeks, warranted to 600,000 wafer processed or 24 months.
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Item |
Hub & Hub bearing |
Producer arm |
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424000 2 hub bearings
and 2 reworked arms |
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R50000 2 hubs |
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R50004 preassembled hubs |
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We have Centura® 2-blades Preassembly, PN 211300 and Centura® 1-blade Preassembly, PN R30000. Our skillful experiences save customers’ money for buying new robots to do PM. The reworked Centura robots are with shielded upper and lower elbow bearings. All products are warranted to 600,000 wafer processed or 24 months. Normal lead time: 2 weeks.


We have Centura® 2-blades Preassembly, PN 211300 and Centura® 1-blade Preassembly, PN R30000. Our skillful experiences save customers’ money for buying new robots to do PM. The reworked Centura robots are with shielded upper and lower elbow bearings. All products are warranted to 600,000 wafer processed or 24 months. Normal lead time: 2 weeks.


Varian/TEL® MB2, M2i. Our manufacturer - Fala has developed a set of high precision ceramic hybrid bearings for replacement parts and repairingthe M2i/MB2 Varian/TEL robot. We sell individual replacement bearings and mechanical repair services.
Each robot is taken apart, old bearings are moved, components are cleaned, repaired or replaced as needed and the robot ships back fully assembled.
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Name |
PN |
Description |
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MB2™ Repair |
R70000 |
Mechanical overhaul of MB2 robot. Includes replacement bearings and component repair. Broken or missing components are remanufactured or replaced. |
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MB2 elbow |
E2600 |
Bearing, ceramic hybrid, shielded |
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MB2 elbow |
E2200 |
Bearing, ceramic hybrid, shielded |
Spindle rework, Fala has very skillful experience and many cases done in semiconductor industries。 Our DNS SU bearings have been success applied to OEM DNS tools. The total repair lead time is 2 weeks, and the replaced bearings are 100% tested for internal clearance。
Offering

SEZ Da Vinci™ is a popular single wafer wet clean tool widely used in the industry. The many spindles are periodically replaced. Fala integrates numerous upgrades in the actual repair to yield reliable and long lasting parts.
In particular:
• Ceramic Hybrid High-Speed Ball Bearings
• Shielded Design
• Multiply Alkyl Cyclopentane Grease
• OEM PN 2328877 / 2352492
• Rated to 16,000 rpm!

DNS™ cleaning and wet etch tools contain high-speed chucks. Fala has developed a replacement bearing for those chucks that improves life by a factor of 3! The redesigned bearing incorporates state of the art technology:
• Ceramic Hybrid High-Speed Ball Bearing
• Shielded Design
• Multiply Alkyl Cyclopentane Grease
• Dual ball path
• PN E6000