Patent ID: 7811440

Claim:
A plating apparatus for performing a plating process while placing an entity to be plated in a pod disposed in a plating bath storing a plating solution, the plating apparatus comprising: a cylinder disposed in the plating bath, the pod being disposed in the cylinder; an anode disposed in the plating bath and outside the pod; a cathode disposed in the pod; and a solution flowing mechanism for flowing the plating solution in the cylinder; wherein the pod has at least a pair of sieve members which allow the plating solution to pass but substantially inhibit the entity from passing, and the pod is disposed in the cylinder so that an opposing direction of the pair of sieve members is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the cylinder, and wherein the solution flowing mechanism flows the plating solution inside the pod out of the pod through a first of the pair of sieve members, flows the plating solution outside the pod into the pod through a second of the pair of sieve members, and generates a liquid flow of the plating solution from the second of the pair of sieve members to the first of the pair of sieve members in the cylinder.