Patent ID: 9472430
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: F26B,H01L

Claim Text:
1. An exposure apparatus comprising: a chamber; a mounting plate that is installed in the chamber and allows a reticle storage container to be mounted thereon, wherein the reticle storage container: a reticle loading window that is provided adjacent to the mounting plate so that one of the reticles is able to be moved from the reticle storage container to be carried into the chamber when the reticle storage container that is storing the reticles is mounted on the mounting plate; a composite member including: a lifting mechanism that together lifts up the door unit of the composite member and the outer container of the reticle storage container up to a predetermined position in a state where the mounting unit of the composite member remains on the mounting plate when the one reticle is carried into the chamber from the reticle storage container.