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Semiconductor wafer cassette transfer system

US5556248A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 30, 1995
Grant dateSep 17, 1996
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Expiry dateJan 30, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S414/139
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A semiconductor cassette and transfer system for facilitating the direct loading and unloading of wafers from different sides of a cassette by a first robot handling device moveable along a first extension axis and second robot handling device moveable along a second extension axis intersecting said first extension axis at an acute angle, and at a predetermined point concurrent with the center of the cassette as it is disposed in a fixed position within a loadlock chamber of a wafer processing apparatus.

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