Patent ID: 8774491

Claim:
A substrate processing apparatus comprising: a transport device including a substrate holder configured to hold the substrate, a rotation driver configured to rotate the substrate holder about the center of the substrate holder as a rotational axis, and a movement driver configured to move the substrate holder horizontally; a peripheral exposing device including an irradiation device that irradiates light and configured to perform a peripheral exposing process that exposes a peripheral portion of the substrate by irradiating the light to the peripheral portion of the substrate using the irradiation device while rotating the substrate held by the substrate holder using the rotation driver; a substrate inspecting device including an image pick up device that picks up an image and configured to perform a substrate inspecting process that inspects the substrate based on the picked up image while moving the substrate held by the substrate holder using the movement driver; and a controller configured to control the substrate processing apparatus including the transport device, the peripheral exposing device, and the substrate inspecting device, wherein the controller is programmed to control the transport device, the peripheral exposing device and the substrate inspecting device in order to perform a predetermined substrate processing including either one of the peripheral exposing process and the substrate inspecting process or both, when it is determined by the controller that an error occurs in the peripheral exposing device and the predetermined substrate processing includes the peripheral exposing process, the controller controls the transport device, the peripheral exposing device and the substrate inspecting device such that the predetermined substrate processing is stopped, and when it is determined by the controller that an error occurs in the substrate inspecting device and the predetermined substrate processing includes the substrate inspecting process while no error occurs in both of the transport device and the peripheral exposing device, the controller controls the transport device, the peripheral exposing device and the substrate inspecting device such that the substrate inspecting process is skipped while the peripheral exposing process continues.