Substrate processing unit

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6773510
APP PUB NO 20020148566A1
SERIAL NO

10122389

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The present invention relates to a processing unit for processing a substrate, which comprises a chamber for housing the substrate and forming a hermetically closeable processing room, and an exhauster for exhausting an atmosphere in the processing room from an upper portion of the chamber to reduce a pressure in the processing room. The processing unit of the present invention includes a current plate for controlling an atmospheric current formed in the processing room when the pressure is reduced, and the chamber has a mounting table for mounting the substrate thereon, an almost cylindrical lid body with its lower face open for covering the substrate on the mounting plate from above and forming the processing room integrally with the mounting table, and a supporting member for supporting the current plate so that the current plate is parallel to the mounting plate. According to the present invention, the speed of an atmospheric current flowing between the current plate and the substrate becomes uniform within the surface of the substrate, and consequently when a coating film on the substrate is dried, the film is planarized to have a uniform thickness.

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TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED3-1 AKASAKA 5-CHOME MINATO-KU TOKYO 1076325 ?1076325

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fukutomi, Akira Kumamoto, JP 9 94
Hirakawa, Naoya Kumamoto, JP 5 70
Ishizaka, Nobukazu Kumamoto, JP 17 317
Kitano, Takahiro Kumamoto, JP 154 1801
Kobayashi, Shinji Kumamoto, JP 245 2196
Sugimoto, Shinichi Kumamoto, JP 98 1451

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