Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Substrate treatment apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 基板处理装置
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Application No.: US11662198Application Date: 2005-11-18
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Publication No.: US08257013B2Publication Date: 2012-09-04
- Inventor: Satoshi Takano
- Applicant: Satoshi Takano
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2004-338400 20041124
- International Application: PCT/JP2005/021618 WO 20051118
- International Announcement: WO2006/057319 WO 20060601
- Main IPC: B65H1/00
- IPC: B65H1/00

Abstract:
The present invention provides a substrate treatment apparatus which sets substrate loading intervals to treatment chambers to a fixed value and prevents the occurrence of stagnancy of substrates in the treatment chambers. The substrate treatment apparatus includes a substrate conveyance chamber 5 which has a substrate conveyance device 11, a plurality of treatment chambers 6 to 9 in which a treatment time of at least one treatment chamber differs from treatment times of other treatment chambers and the respective treatment chambers are communicated with the conveyance chamber, and a control part 12 which controls a conveyance operation of the substrate conveyance device by setting treatment schedules of the substrates. In sequentially treating a plurality of substrates by the treatment chambers based on the preset same treatment schedule, the control part, using a time corresponding to a sum of the treatment time of the treatment chamber having the longest treatment time out of the treatment chambers predetermined during the treatment schedule and conveyance times before and after the treatment time with respect to the treatment chamber as a reference substrate loading interval, sets the substrate loading interval of respective substrates to the firstly loaded treatment chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080019809A1 Substrate Treatment Apparatus Public/Granted day:2008-01-24
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