PURPOSE: To provide a vacuum treating apparatus for baking a vessel body for constituting a vacuum vessel and a lower plate for blocking an opening of the body by heating from an outer surface.
CONSTITUTION: A vacuum treating apparatus comprises a vacuum vessel 1 for receiving and conveying a material to be treated such as a wafer, etc., a load locking chamber 10 connectible to the vessel 1 to deliver and receive the material to and from the vessel 1, and a vacuum processing chamber connected to the chamber 10 through a gate valve to vacuum-process the material. The apparatus also comprises a vessel body heater 4 for heating the body of the vessel 1 from its outer surface, and a lower plate heater 20 for heating a lower plate 3 for openably blocking a lower opening of the vessel from its outer surface.
TAKEUCHI NORIYUKI
MATSUMURA MASAO