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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenji Kiyota, Kumamoto-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Tokyo Electron Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
137-1 ; 13762411 ; 1374875 ;
Abstract
In the case of a feeding apparatus which automatically performs drainage of a processing solution from a first tank and replenishment of the first tank with a processing solution by the use of a timer, when a pipe for sending NH4OH from the first tank to a scrubbing unit (SCR) is clogged, no liquid level is detected by a lowermost limit sensor before a set time of a replenishment timer expires, whereby replenishment of NH4OH is not started. Consequently, there never arises such a situation that remaining NH4OH and new NH4OH are mixed in the first tank.