Patent ID: 9390946
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H01L

Claim Text:
1. A cleaning apparatus comprising: a holding table for holding a plate-shaped workpiece; a motor for rotating said holding table; a cleaning nozzle for spraying a cleaning fluid to said plate-shaped workpiece held on said holding table; and a cover for absorbing said cleaning fluid sprayed from said cleaning nozzle and scattered from said holding table holding said plate-shaped workpiece and rotating at a predetermined speed, said cover including a top plate having an opening for exposing an upper surface of said holding table and a side plate connected to said top plate so as to extend downward therefrom, said top plate being positioned above an upper surface of said plate-shaped workpiece held on said holding table, said side plate being provided with a netlike mesh sheet sufficiently spaced from an inner surface of said side plate such that cleaning fluid absorbed by the netlike mesh sheet is discharged downwardly therefrom without an effect of surface tension between the netlike mesh sheet and the inner surface of said side plate.