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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:
Jun. 15, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 08, 2019
Applicant:

Kokusai Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Mamoru Oishi, Toyama, JP;

Yasuhiro Matsuda, Toyama, JP;

Masaya Nishida, Toyama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/12 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G01H 13/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/677 (2006.01); G01H 11/06 (2006.01); H01L 21/607 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01H 11/06 (2013.01); G01H 13/00 (2013.01); G01N 29/12 (2013.01); G06F 9/3004 (2013.01); H01L 21/67092 (2013.01); H01L 21/67288 (2013.01); H01L 21/67769 (2013.01); H01L 2021/607 (2013.01);
Abstract

A substrate processing apparatus includes: a placement part whereon a substrate container is placed; a substrate retainer supporting the substrate; transfer mechanisms configured to transfer the substrate between the substrate container and the substrate retainer and to perform a transfer operation; a detector provided at one or more of the transfer mechanisms to detect vibration; a memory device that registers, in advance, natural frequencies of the substrate and one or more of the transfer mechanisms and threshold values of the substrate and the plurality of transfer mechanisms; and a monitoring part to monitor whether an intensity of the vibration, based on transformed data obtained by transforming detection data, exceeds at least one of the threshold values of the substrate and the plurality of transfer mechanisms and whether a vibration frequency is equal to at least one of the natural frequencies of the substrate and the plurality of transfer mechanisms.


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