Patent ID: 6470596
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: B01J,B41J,C23C,H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus for treating samples in a vacuum, comprising:vacuum processing chambers for treating the samples; cassette tables for mounting a set of cassettes in which plural samples are stored; a transfer device for supplying said set of cassettes to said cassette tables, said transfer device moving in front of said cassette tables located along lock chambers; and a transfer structure for carrying in samples from said cassettes to said vacuum processing chambers through said lock chambers, and for carrying out treated samples to said cassettes through said lock chambers, wherein said transfer structure is provided with a device which faces to a set of samples disposed in said cassettes and sequentially transfers said samples one by one to said lock chambers in which one sample is to be disposed, and another device which is disposed in a conveyor chamber of a vacuum loader and which transfers sequentially said samples one by one to vacuum processing chambers substantially at a same height as said vacuum processing chambers.