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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2012
Eiichi Sugawara, Miyagi, JP;
Eiichi Sugawara, Miyagi, JP;
TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a substrate processing apparatus, including: transportation chamber maintained in an atmospheric environment where a substrate is transported; a vacuum processing chamber connected with the transportation chamber through a load lock chamber; a substrate placing table installed in the vacuum processing chamber and having a body part and a surface part that is attachable to/detachable from the body part; a storage unit installed in the load lock chamber or the transportation chamber and configured to receive the surface part; and a transportation mechanism configured to transport the substrate from the transportation chamber to the vacuum processing chamber through the load lock chamber and transport the surface part between the storage unit and the body part of the vacuum processing chamber.