Patent ID: 7809460

Claim:
A coating and developing apparatus including a coating unit adapted to coat a resist liquid on a substrate so as to form a resist film, a heating section adapted to heat the substrate after it has been subjected to a dipping exposure process in an exposing apparatus, and a developing section adapted to perform a developing process, the coating and developing apparatus comprising: a washing section adapted to wash the surface of each substrate after it has been subjected to the dipping exposure process; a first substrate carrying means adapted to transfer each substrate to the washing section, the substrate having been subjected to the dipping exposure process and carried out from the exposing apparatus; and a control section adapted to control the first substrate carrying means such that the substrate is washed in the washing section in a period of time prior to a time zone in which the size of liquid drops remaining on the substrate due to the dipping exposure process becomes smaller rapidly, based on a carrying-out ready signal for the substrate from the exposing apparatus, by using a relationship between the time elapsed after the end of the dipping exposure process and the size of liquid drops remaining on the substrate due to the dipping exposure process, wherein the size of liquid drops remaining on the substrate gradually becomes smaller initially and, in the time zone, become smaller more rapidly.