Coating apparatus and method for applying a liquid to a semiconductor wafer, including selecting a nozzle in a stand-by state

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PATENT NO 5002008
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07357279

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Disclosed is a coating apparatus for applying a resist or developing solution to a semiconductor wafer. This coating apparatus comprises a plurality of nozzles supplied with various resist from a resist source and each adapted to drip the different solution onto the wafer, a vessel in which the nozzles is kept on stand-by, while maintaining the liquids in a predetermined state in the vicinity of discharge port portions of the nozzles, when the nozzles need not be operated, and a nozzle operating mechanism for selecting one of the nozzles kept on stand-by in the vessel, and transporting the selected nozzle to the location of the wafer, whereby the resist is applied to the wafer by means of only the nozzle transported by the nozzle operating mechanism.

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TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED3-1 AKASAKA 5-CHOME MINATO-KU TOKYO 107-6325

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Akimoto, Masami Kikuyo, JP 112 3903
Anai, Noriyuki Kumamoto, JP 28 852
Hirakawa, Osamu Kumamoto, JP 43 730
Kimura, Yoshio Taimei, JP 109 2871
Ushijima, Mitsuru Tama, JP 14 648

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