Patent ID: 9728435
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: C25D,H01L

Claim:
1. A plating apparatus comprising: a substrate holder for holding a substrate; a table on which the substrate holder is placed when the substrate is mounted to and removed from the substrate holder; a stocker having a substrate holder storage area, the substrate holder being stored in a vertical orientation within the substrate holder storage area; a stocker setting section within the plating apparatus for storing the stocker therein, the stocker setting section including: a processing section located between the table and the stocker setting section and having a plurality of processing tanks for processing the substrate; a transport shaft extending horizontally, the stocker setting section being located alongside the transport shaft; and a substrate holder transporter configured to transport the substrate holder along the transport shaft between the table, the processing section, and the stocker, the substrate holder transporter having an arm for hanging the substrate holder in a vertical orientation; and a frame in which the substrate holder, the stocker, the stocker setting section, the processing section, and the substrate holder transporter are arranged; wherein the stocker includes a moving mechanism for allowing the stocker to move into and out of the stocker setting section; and wherein the stocker setting section includes a top portion having an opening, the shutter being located at the top portion of the stocker setting section so as to cover the opening, the top portion of the stocker setting section being located vertically lower than the arm of the substrate holder transporter.