Patent ID: 7797855

Claim:
A heating apparatus, comprising: a treatment chamber; a flat heating chamber provided in the treatment chamber, with its one side opening for carrying in and carrying out a substrate; a heating plate disposed on the heating chamber; a cooling plate provided in the treatment chamber such located in the vicinity of the opening of the heating chamber and which cools the substrate which has been heated by the heating plate; and a carrying unit provided in the treatment chamber and which carries the substrate such that a heat treatment for the substrate can be performed for the substrate being held by the carrying unit in the heating chamber, wherein the flat heating chamber accommodates the substrate in a horizontal manner, the cooling plate supports the substrate in a horizontal manner, and the carrying unit carries the substrate along a carrying route extending in a horizontal direction between an upper position of the cooling plate and the interior of the heating chamber, and wherein the carrying unit comprises a plurality of wires extending in a direction crossing the carrying route for the substrate and which carries the substrate while holding it thereon.