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Chuck for transporting a wafer carrier
Assignee: Tokyo Electron Ltd
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Filing: 1988-10-12
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Granted: 1990-06-26
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Expires: 2008-10-12
Abstract
Abstract A chuck for transporting wafer carriers is designed to hold the wafer carriers in a cantilever manner and with support members supporting one sides of the wafer carriers. This enables the whole chuck to be extremely compact. This also enables the wafer carriers to be made freer fron any limit while they are being transported and prevents them from being damaged because they can be steadily transported.
Inventors
- 👤 Atsushi Osada
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-31 08:25
CPC Classifications
H; H10; H10P; H10P72/00; H10P72/30; H10P72/32; H10P72/3218; H10P72/34; H10P72/3404; H10P72/70; H10P72/76; H10P72/7602; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S294/00; Y10S294/902; Y10S414/00; Y10S414/135; Y10S414/14
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
167 words
A chuck for transporting wafer carriers comprising at least a pair of chuck pieces respectively connected to a pair of sliders housed in a frame, said pair of chuck pieces being contacted with both end faces of one side of a carrier which is to be chucked between the paired chuck pieces, each of said chuck pieces having an inner face defining a groove which cooperates with a projection on each of said end faces of said one side of the carrier; driver means for reciprocating the paired sliders along guide rails in the frame to change the interval between the chuck pieces; and a support member located on one side of the frame between the paired chuck pieces and being positioned for contact with said one side of the carrier; wherein said carrier defines a box-like compartment, and said support member and said chuck pieces do not extend, in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the slider, beyond a midpoint of the carrier.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
167 words
A chuck for transporting wafer carriers comprising at least a pair of chuck pieces respectively connected to a pair of sliders housed in a frame, said pair of chuck pieces being contacted with both end faces of one side of a carrier which is to be chucked between the paired chuck pieces, each of said chuck pieces having an inner face defining a groove which cooperates with a projection on each of said end faces of said one side of the carrier; driver means for reciprocating the paired sliders along guide rails in the frame to change the interval between the chuck pieces; and a support member located on one side of the frame between the paired chuck pieces and being positioned for contact with said one side of the carrier; wherein said carrier defines a box-like compartment, and said support member and said chuck pieces do not extend, in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the slider, beyond a midpoint of the carrier.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
48 words
A chuck for transporting wafer carriers according to claim 1, wherein there are a plural number of said paired chuck pieces and the paired chuck pieces are connected to the sliders in the longitudinal direction of the sliders with a predetermined interval kept between the paired chuck pieces.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
33 words
The chuck for transporting wafer carriers according to claim 2, wherein said driver means drives one of the paired chuck pieces while another driver means drives the other of the paired chuck pieces.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
16 words
The chuck for transporting wafer carriers according to claim 1, wherein said driver means are cylinders.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
19 words
The chuck for transporting wafer carriers according to claim 1, wherein said support member is made of fluorocarbon resin.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
22 words
The chuck for transporting wafer carriers according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of semi-conductor wafers are housed in the wafer carrier.
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