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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1992
Eiichiro Takanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Tokyo Electron Sagami Limited, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A wafers transferring method in the heat treatment apparatus of the vertical type comprising providing a boat loading/unloading chamber under a process tube, providing an elevator in the boat loading/unloading chamber, providing a wafer loading/unloading chamber communicated with the boat loading/unloading chamber, providing a robot in the wafer loading/unloading chamber, mounting a boat on the elevator, loading wafers one by one into the boat from the bottom to the top by the robot, while lowering the boat every pitch, heat-processing the wafers in the boat in the process tube, and unloading the wafers one by one from the boat from the top to the bottom by the robot, while lifting the boat every pitch.