Patent ID: 8375884
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. A substrate processing apparatus comprising: a heating part configured to subject a substrate to a heating process; a transport part through which a substrate is transported; a first substrate transfer means; and a second substrate transfer means having a plate-like substrate holding part; wherein the substrate, which has been subjected to the heating process by the heating part, is received and placed on the transport part, by one of the first substrate transfer means and the second substrate transfer means, the substrate placed on the transport part is received from the transport part and transferred, by the other of the first substrate transfer means and the second substrate transfer means, and the transport part includes: a table having a cooling surface on which the substrate is placed; a temperature-adjusting channel disposed in the table, through which a temperature-adjusting water is circulated for cooling the table to a temperature lower than a temperature of the heating process; and a recess formed in the cooling surface of the table, the recess having a shape that is similar to a planar shape of the substrate holding part of the second substrate transfer means and slightly larger than the planar shape of the substrate holding part; wherein the recess has such a depth and such a width that the substrate holding part of the second transfer means is not allowed to come into contact with the substrate, when the substrate holding part enters the recess with the substrate being placed on the table, wherein the substrate holding part of the second substrate transfer means includes a Y-shaped member forming a curved edge, and the recess has a curved edge corresponding to the curved edge of the Y-shaped member, and wherein the table has a circular shape and the first substrate transfer means has a circular inner edge corresponding to the circular shape of the table.