Patent 9869022 was granted and assigned to Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. on January, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A substrate processing apparatus includes a shower head configured to disperse a gas; a process vessel installed at a downstream side of the shower head and configured to have a process space that allows a substrate to be processed by a process gas therein; a gas supplier connected to the shower head; a shower head gas exhauster connected to the shower head; and a capturing assembly configured to capture a component different from the process gas within the shower head.