Patent ID: 9349625
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G05B,H01L,Y02P

Claim Text:
1. A substrate conveyance method, for a system including a segment capable of simultaneously holding M substrates, where M is an integer equal or greater than, and a substrate conveyance part capable of simultaneously conveying from the segment or toward the segment, N of said substrates, where N is an integer equal or greater than 2 and N is not a divisor of said integer M, wherein the substrate conveyance method comprises: repeatedly performing the step of: simultaneously conveying, when N pieces of variables ik defined by integers k of 1 to N are arbitrary integers of 0 or more and not more than (M/N) and satisfy a following formula 1, (N−k−1) of said substrates ik times, where the number of times of said conveying steps is defined by each variable which is a natural number out of said N of said variables ik.