Patent ID: 8764902

Claim:
A film-forming apparatus, comprising: a vacuum chamber; a discharge plate having a first face and a second face opposite to the first face; a plurality of reactive gas introduction holes and a plurality of feedstock gas introduction holes, each of which penetrates the discharge plate; a heating device for heating an object to be film-formed located inside the vacuum chamber, wherein the first face is exposed inside the vacuum chamber, when a feedstock gas and a reactive gas are supplied to the feedstock gas introduction holes and the reactive gas introduction holes from a feedstock gas tank and a reactive gas tank arranged outside the vacuum chamber, and the feedstock gas is discharged from a plurality of feedstock gas openings feedstock gas opening located in the first face of the feedstock gas introduction hole to the inside of the vacuum chamber, and a reactive gas is discharged from a reactive gas opening located in the first face of the reactive gas introduction hole to the inside of the vacuum chamber, so that a thin film is formed on a surface of the object to be film-formed by using the discharged feedstock gas and the discharged reactive gas; the film-forming apparatus further comprising, a top plate arranged on the second face; a plurality of feedstock gas discharge devices; and the respective feedstock discharge device includes, a plurality of the feedstock gas openings; a groove formed in the second face and covered by the top plate wherein the groove comprises a plurality of grooves which are isolated from one another and wherein only the feedstock gas auxiliary vertical pipes pass through them; a plurality of feedstock gas introduction holes formed in a bottom face of the grooves and arranged along an extending direction of the groove, the feedstock gas introduction holes penetrate the discharge plate; a plurality of feedstock gas through-holes formed in the top plate at a position above the groove; a cooling medium supply path connected to a groove space surrounded by the groove and the top plate and separated from an internal space of the vacuum chamber so as to supply a liquid cooling medium to the groove space; a cooling medium discharge path connected to the groove space so as to discharge the cooling medium flowing through the groove space; and a first auxiliary pipe for connecting the feedstock gas introduction hole and the feedstock gas through-hole, wherein the feedstock gas respectively flows through the plurality of first auxiliary pipes of the respective feedstock gas discharge device and is discharged from the plurality of the feedstock gas openings of the respective feedstock gas discharge device.