The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2016
Applicant:

Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hironobu Hyakutake, Kumamoto, JP;

Takafumi Tsuchiya, Kumamoto, JP;

Koichiro Kanzaki, Kumamoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/42 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F 7/423 (2013.01); H01L 21/67028 (2013.01); H01L 21/67086 (2013.01); H01L 21/67253 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a substrate liquid processing apparatus including: a processing bath in which a processing liquid is stored; a chemical liquid component supply unit that supplies chemical liquid components; a concentration detecting unit that detects a concentration of the chemical liquid components; and a controller configured to perform a first control as a feedback control that replenishes the processing liquid with the chemical liquid components such that the concentration of the chemical liquid components contained in the processing liquid within the processing bath does not become less than a predetermined allowable lower limit, based on the concentration of the chemical liquid components detected by the concentration detecting unit. In addition, the controller performs a second control that replenishes the processing liquid with the chemical liquid components in a predetermined amount required to offset a reduction in concentration of the chemical liquid components caused by the introduction of the substrate.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…