Patent ID: 7462011

Claim:
A substrate processing system comprising: a substrate processing apparatus that subjects substrates to plasma processing in a cleaned atmosphere; a substrate transferring in/out apparatus having a sealed station unit that is connected to said substrate processing apparatus and has a cleaned atmosphere therein, a mounting stage on which a sealed container housing substrates is mounted, a substrate removal/housing apparatus that carries out removal of substrates from the sealed container and housing of substrates into the sealed container, and a substrate transferring apparatus that transfers substrates between said mounting stage and said substrate processing apparatus via said sealed station unit; and a sealed container storing apparatus having a first sealed container storage portion that stores a sealed container housing substrates that have not been subjected to the plasma processing, a second sealed container storage portion that stores a sealed container housing substrates that have been subjected to the plasma processing, and a sealed container moving apparatus that moves the sealed containers between said first sealed container storage portion and said mounting stage, and between said mounting stage and said second sealed container storage portion.