Patent ID: 7412981

Claim:
A liquid processing apparatus comprising; a processing container formed so as to surround a processing chamber in which a plurality of substrates are accommodated with their surfaces to be processed arranged generally parallel with each other, central axes of the substrates being a horizontal direction; a plane nozzle for supplying the substrates with a chemical liquid thereby to carry out a chemical treatment, the plane nozzle having ejecting plane orifices juxtaposed with the plural substrates to eject the chemical liquid in the form of a plane, and a conical-shaped nozzle for supplying the substrates with water thereby to carry out rinsing, the conical-shaped nozzle having ejecting conical orifices to eject water in the form of a conical-shape, wherein the plane ejecting orifices are arranged (i) above a horizontal plane including the central axes of the substrates to be processed and (ii) outside of an upper projection of the substrates, whereby droplets of chemical liquid falling from the plane ejecting nozzles will not interfere with the substrates.