Patent ID: 9595460
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: C23C,H01L

Claim:
1. A substrate processing apparatus comprising: a plurality of process chambers that process a substrate; a mounting section on which one or more housing vessels, that house the substrate, is mounted; a vacuum transfer chamber that has a vacuum transfer machine to transfer the substrate under a negative pressure; an atmospheric transfer chamber that has an atmospheric transfer machine to transfer the substrate under an atmospheric pressure; and a control section that determines a timing for the atmospheric transfer machine to take out the substrate from the housing vessel based on a recipe remaining time, which is a remaining time of substrate processing in each of the plurality of process chambers, and an approach time, which is a time from when the substrate is taken out from the housing vessel till when the substrate is mounted to the vacuum transfer machine, when the substrate is transferred from the housing vessel to a predetermined process chamber among the process chambers after the substrate is transferred to the plurality of process chambers from the housing vessel mounted to the mounting section via the atmospheric transfer chamber and the vacuum transfer chamber and the substrate processing is started in the plurality of process chambers.