Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vacuum processing device and method of transporting process subject member
- Patent Title (中): 真空处理装置及其运送方法
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Application No.: US13633155Application Date: 2012-10-02
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Publication No.: US08588962B2Publication Date: 2013-11-19
- Inventor: Keita Nogi , Teruo Nakata , Yoshiro Suemitsu , Michinori Kawaguchi , Satomi Inoue
- Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP.
- Priority: JP2011-241068 20111102
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00

Abstract:
Transportation control in a vacuum processing device with high transportation efficiency without lowering throughput is provided. A control unit is configured to update in real time and holds device state information showing an action state of each of a process chamber, a transportation mechanism unit, a buffer room, and a holding mechanism unit, the presence of a process subject member, and a process state thereof; select a transport algorithm from among transport algorithm judgment rules that are obtained by simulating in advance a plurality of transport algorithms for controlling transportation of a process subject member for each condition of a combination of the number and arrangement of the process chambers and process time of a process subject member based on the device state information and process time of the process subject member; and compute a transport destination of the process subject member based on the selected transport algorithm.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130108400A1 VACUUM PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF TRANSPORTING PROCESS SUBJECT MEMBER Public/Granted day:2013-05-02
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