Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-27
2006-06-27
Picard, Leo (Department: 2125)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
C700S110000, C700S111000, C700S113000, C700S121000, C700S123000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07069099
ABSTRACT:
A substrate processing apparatus includes a plurality of cells each including a predetermined processing unit, a transport mechanism, and a cell controller. The cell controller independently controls operations in each cell in accordance with transport setting and processing condition setting for each cell described in recipe data determined for each substrate unit to be processed. Because the processing and transport are performed independently of the operations of adjacent cells, substrates belonging to different substrate units are received through a feed inlet or the same substrate inlet, are processed while being present in the same cell, and are transported to a feed outlet and a return outlet which are different substrate outlets. This allows the presence of different process flows in parallel.
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patent: 7-283094 (1995-10-01), None
Hashinoki Kenji
Koyama Yasufumi
Yamada Takaharu
Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.
Masinick Michael D.
Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen, LLP
Picard Leo
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