Patent ID: 9050635
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: B08B,H01L

Abstract:
1. A substrate processing apparatus that performs processing to a substrate having a top surface and a back surface, comprising: first and second processing regions, arranged adjacent to each other, for performing the processing to the substrate; a storing and carrying in and out region, arranged adjacent to the first processing region, for storing and carrying the substrate into and out of the first processing region; a first interface provided between the storing and carrying in and out region and the first processing region; and a second interface provided between the first processing region and the second processing region, wherein the first processing region includes a plurality of first processing sections, and a first transport device that has first and second hands provided one above another for holding substrates respectively, and transports the substrate among the first interface, the plurality of first processing sections and the second interface, the second processing region includes a plurality of second processing sections, and a second transport device that has third and fourth hands provided one above another for holding substrates respectively, and transports the substrate between the second interface and the plurality of second processing sections, the storing and carrying in and out region includes a container platform on which a storing container that stores the substrate is placed, and a third transport device that transports the substrate between the storing container placed on the container platform and the first interface, the first interface includes first, second, third and fourth substrate platforms on which the substrates are placed, respectively, wherein the first and second substrate platforms are provided one above another, the third and fourth substrate platforms are provided one above another, and a difference in height between the first hand and the second hand is equal to a difference in height between the first substrate platform and the second substrate platform and is equal to a difference in height between the third substrate platform and the fourth substrate platform, the second interface includes first and second reversing devices that each reverse the top surface and the back surface of the substrate, each of the first and second reversing devices being configured to reverse two substrates simultaneously, the first processing section includes a top surface cleaning processing section that cleans the top surface of the substrate, the second processing section includes a back surface cleaning processing section that cleans the back surface of the substrate, the first transport device is configured to transport the substrate among the first, second, third and fourth substrate platforms, the first and second reversing devices and the plurality of first processing sections, and is configured to be capable of receiving two substrates simultaneously from the first and second substrate platforms, placing two substrates simultaneously on the third and fourth substrate platforms, transporting two substrates simultaneously to the first reversing device, and receiving two substrates simultaneously from the second reversing device, the second transport device is configured to transport the substrate among the first and second reversing devices and the plurality of second processing sections, and is configured to be capable of receiving two substrates simultaneously from the reversing device, and transporting two substrates simultaneously to the second reversing device, and the third transport device is configured to transport the substrate among the storing container placed on the container platform and the first, second, third and fourth substrate platforms, placing substrates on the first and second substrate platforms, respectively, and receiving substrates from the third and fourth substrate platforms, respectively.