Patent ID: 7083706

Claim:
A substrate processing apparatus for processing a substrate, said substrate processing apparatus comprising: a plating unit including (i) a plating section having a plating bath for holding a plating liquid therein, (ii) a head assembly for holding a substrate in contact with a substrate contact portion and a sealing member, and immersing the substrate in the plating liquid when in said plating bath so as to form a plated film on a surface of the substrate, (iii) a cleaning section for cleaning the substrate contact portion, the sealing member, and a peripheral edge of the substrate after the plated film is formed thereon, and (iv) a drive mechanism for moving said head assembly between said plating section and said cleaning section so as to transfer the substrate, while held by said head assembly, between said plating section and said cleaning section; a cleaning unit for cleaning the substrate after the plated film is formed thereon; and a transfer device for transferring the substrate, after the plated film is formed thereon, from said plating unit to said cleaning unit.