Mini environment apparatus, inspection apparatus, manufacturing apparatus and cleaning method of space
AssigneeHitachi High-Technologies Corporation
InventorsTakahiro Jingu, Yusuke Miyazaki, Kazuhiro Zama
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Abstract
An outer dust collecting filter covers a casing an intake port and an outer fan flows air from an external environment into the casing via the outer dust collecting filter. A clean chamber has an intake port within the casing, an inner dust collecting filter for covering the intake port, and an inner fan for flowing the air within the casing. A control unit controls fan rotating speeds so that a measured pressure within the casing becomes higher at a set value than a measured pressure in the external environment, and a measured pressure within the clean chamber becomes higher at a set value than the measured pressure within the casing.
Claims1
An inspection apparatus for detecting a defect on a substrate, comprising:
- a first casing having a first fan-filter-unit;
- a second casing having a second fan-filter-unit, the second casing is smaller than the first casing and being adjacent to the first casing;
- a clean chamber which is defined by a part of wall of the first casing and the second casing;
- a shutter arranged on the wall of the first casing to communicate with the clean chamber;
- a third casing having a third fan-filter-unit and surrounding the second casing;
- a pod for accommodating the substrate;
- a carrier apparatus for carrying the substrate from the pod to the clean chamber and being arranged in the first casing;
- an optical type inspection apparatus for inspecting a defect on the substrate and being arranged in the clean chamber;
- a first pressure measuring unit for measuring a first pressure in an external environment;
- a second pressure measuring unit for measuring a second pressure within the first casing;
- a third pressure measuring unit for measuring a third pressure within the clean chamber;
- a fourth pressure measuring unit for measuring a fourth pressure within the third casing;
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- a control unit for controlling the first, second and third fan-filter-units based on the first, second and third pressures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.