Room temperature bonding machine and room temperature bonding method

A room temperature bonding machine, comprising:

• an evacuation apparatus evacuating gas from a chamber;
• a gas supply apparatus supplying introduction gas into said chamber;
• a pressure gauge measuring a pressure in said chamber;
• a cleaner apparatus cleaning first and second substrates in said chamber when said pressure is at a predetermined degree of vacuum;
• a pressure controller controlling both of said evacuation apparatus and said gas supply apparatus so that said pressure is regulated to a target pressure;
• a pressing mechanism pressing and bonding said first and second substrates when said pressure is set to said target pressure;
• and
• a roughing vacuum apparatus provided separately from said evacuation apparatus to evacuate gas from said chamber, said evacuation apparatus and said roughing vacuum apparatus being provided parallel with respect to said chamber,
• wherein said evacuation apparatus includes:
• a flow path providing a communication between an interior space of said chamber and a vacuum pump;
• and
• a valve controlling an opening of said flow path,
• wherein said gas supply apparatus includes at least one flow rate adjustment valve controlling a flow rate of gas flowing through a supply-side flow path providing a communication between an introduction gas supply source and the interior of said chamber,
• wherein said pressure controller controls an evacuation speed at which said evacuation apparatus evacuates the gas from said chamber, based on said target pressure by controlling said opening, and controls a supply flow rate at which said gas supply apparatus supply the introduction gas into said chamber, based on said pressure, by controlling said at least one flow rate adjustment valve, so that said pressure is regulated to said target pressure,
• wherein, when said target pressure is set higher than an allowed maximum pressure of said evacuation apparatus, said pressure controller controls said gas supply apparatus to supply said introduction gas in a state in which gas is not evacuated from said chamber by using said evacuation apparatus, and to stop the supply of said introduction gas at a timing when said pressure is increased up to said set target pressure,
• wherein said pressure controller controls said roughing vacuum apparatus to evacuate gas from said chamber, when said set target pressure is higher than the allowed maximum pressure of said evacuation apparatus after said first and second substrates are bonded, and
• wherein said pressure controller controls said evacuation apparatus to evacuate gas from said chamber after said pressure is reduced below said allowed maximum pressure by evacuation of gas from said chamber by said roughing vacuum apparatus.