Device for handling wafers

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414941, 2941031, 294907, B66C 142

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055954120

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a device for handling wafers with every group of more than one that is built in a cassette-less automatic wafer cleaning apparatus, wherein the group of wafers are washed at a time which does not require very high accuracy in positioning the wafers and may accommodate the wafers of any different diameters, the device for handling wafers comprising: external hollow shafts and internal shafts inserted and freely slidable within the inside of the external hollow shafts; a drive mechanism, wherein each pair of the external hollow shafts and the internal shafts are movable in their respective opposed directions by the same distances with a timing belt and a drive motor for driving the timing belt; a pair of handling members respectively held fast at pairs of ends side by side of each pair of the external hollow shafts and the internal shafts; and a plurality of supporting structures holding the wafers provided on the respective opposed surfaces of handling members.

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