Automatic handling of different magazines by standardized pick-ups and identification codes

Claim 1

A robotized handling and transfer system for magazines of different configurations for semiconductor device production lines comprising: at least one self-propelled robot having a plurality of transfer platforms of receiving respectively different types of magazines having different configurations to be transferred, a mobile arm terminated with a pick-up head, and a bar code reader means on a fixed position on said robot for reading a bar code indicia affixed no a surface of said magazines, said bar code indicia identifying a position on one of said transfer platforms or depositing each of said magazines, each magazine to be handled irrespective of its functional configuration being provided with at least a pair of opposed seats formed respectively on two facing spaced-apart counter-opposed vertical surfaces of the magazines, which surfaces define a space therebetween which is accessible from above by said pick-up head of said mobile arm, said pick-up head having projectable and retractable pick-up pins capable of being engaged in said opposed seats on said surface of the magazine when in a projected position, the magazine further including said bar code indicia affixed in a geometrically fixed spatial position in respect to said seats receiving opposed pick-up pins.