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Vacuum processing system

US5685684A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 7, 1996
Grant dateNov 11, 1997
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Expiry dateMar 7, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S414/14
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A vacuum treating apparatus having a vacuum treating chamber for treating a to-be-treated substrate in vacuum, includes a plurality of substrate cassettes which are installed in the open air and hold substrates that are to be conveyed into the vacuum treating chamber, a device for conveying the substrates between the substrate cassettes and the vacuum treating chamber, and a device which selects either that the to-be-treated substrate after treated in the vacuum treating chamber be held in the substrate cassette from which the to-be-treated substrate was taken out or that the to-be-treated substrate after treated in the vacuum treating chamber be held in another substrate cassette which is different from the substrate cassette.

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