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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2018
Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;
TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A substrate processing apparatus disclosed herein is capable of communicating with an external control apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes: a container placing portion configured to place thereon a transport container accommodating a product substrate therein; a dummy substrate accommodating unit configured to accommodate dummy substrates therein; a transport chamber provided with a transport mechanism configured to transport the product substrate and the dummy substrates; a processing chamber configured to process the product substrate and the dummy substrates transported thereto by the transport mechanism; and a controller configured to determine whether or not a number of unusable dummy substrates among the dummy substrates accommodated in the dummy substrate accommodating unit is equal to or greater than a set value, and notify the external control device of a warning when it is determined that the number of dummy substrates is equal to or greater than the set value.
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