Patent ID: 7404409

Claim:
A substrate processing system comprising: first and second carrier tables placed side by side and each adapted to hold thereon a substrate carrier; a substrate processing unit having a substrate holding device and adapted to collectively process, by using a processing liquid, a plurality of substrates while they are collectively held by the substrate holding device; a plural-substrate conveyer, disposed to face the first carrier table, adapted to hold a plurality of substrates collectively, adapted to collectively deliver and remove a plurality of substrates to and from a substrate carrier held on the first carrier table, and adapted to collectively deliver and remove a plurality of substrates to and from the substrate holding device of the substrate processing unit, the plural-substrate conveyer including a plurality of substrate holding members each adapted to hold a substrate; a single-substrate conveyer, disposed beside the plural-substrate conveyer to face the second carrier table, adapted to hold only one substrate at a time, adapted to deliver and remove a substrate to and from any one of a plurality of substrate holding slots of a substrate carrier held on the first carrier table, and adapted to deliver and remove a substrate to and from any one of the substrate holding members of the plural-substrate conveyer; and a partition wall having a window, disposed between an area where the plural-substrate conveyer and the single-substrate conveyer are disposed and an area where the substrate holding device is disposed so that the partition wall allows the plural-substrate conveyer to access the substrate holding device through the window but inhibits the single-substrate conveyer from accessing the substrate holding device, wherein the first carrier table, the plural-substrate conveyer, and the substrate holding device are aligned in a row in plan view.