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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2017
Screen Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Shuichi Yasuda, Kyoto, JP;
Michinori Iwao, Kyoto, JP;
Noriyuki Kikumoto, Kyoto, JP;
Mitsutoshi Sasaki, Kyoto, JP;
SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A substrate treatment apparatus is provided with a plurality of substrate treatment parts and a liquid treatment system. The substrate treatment part has a substrate retaining part, which retains a substrate, and a discharge nozzle, which discharges a treatment liquid to the substrate retained by the substrate retaining part. The liquid treatment system has: a storage tank that stores in the treatment liquid; a supply piping part that is connected to the storage tank and forms a supply passage through which the treatment liquid to be supplied to the discharge nozzle passes; a return piping part that is connected to the storage tank and forms a return passage that returns the treatment liquid passed through the supply piping part to the storage tank; and a gas supply part that supplies a nitrogen gas different from oxygen dissolved in the treatment liquid into the return passage of the return piping part.