Patent ID: 6517304
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for transporting a substrate between a carrier, which holds the substrate, and a semiconductor manufacturing unit, which receives the substrate, the method comprising the steps of:setting the carrier, which holds the substrate, on one of a plurality of loading ports; applying the carrier to an exterior of a wall of a chamber, which houses the semiconductor manufacturing unit, in which chamber the environment of the semiconductor manufacturing unit is controlled; removing a door of the carrier and a door of the chamber, as a unit, from the carrier and the chamber wall by one of a plurality of openers that includes a rotating unit attached to the interior of the chamber wall for rotating the carrier door and the chamber door as a unit into the chamber, each opener being provided at each loading port; and transferring the substrate from the carrier and to the carrier, when the door of the carrier and the door of the chamber have been rotatably removed as a unit by the opener in said removing step.