Patent ID: 6290405
Filing Date: 2001-09-18
Classification: H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
A substrate processing apparatus, comprising:a cassette station including a mounting section where a substrate cassette is mounted, said substrate cassette housing a plurality of substrates thereon and delivery transfer arm that receives and transfers the substrate from/to the substrate cassette mounted on the mounting section; anda processing station, connected to said cassette station, that processes the substrate transferred by the delivery transfer arm, said processing station further comprising:a first processing unit in which a plurality of processing sections are arranged in a direction orthogonal to the lengthwise direction of said, cassette station;a second processing unit in which a plurality of processing sections are arranged so as to be parallel to and face the processing sections of said first processing unit;a first transfer apparatus, disposed at a position-facing onto the row of said first processing unit, that receives and transfers the substrate from/to the processing sections composing said first processing unit; anda second transfer apparatus, disposed at a position facing onto the row of said second processing unit, that receives and transfers the substrate from/to the processing sections composing said second processing unit as located on a plane parallel with said first transfer apparatus in the first and second processing units direction, wherein a working space is formed in an area between said first processing unit and said second processing unit and adjacent to said cassette station in said processing station.