Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – With means to treat gas or vapor
Patent
1992-01-28
1994-04-19
Bennett, Henry A.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
With means to treat gas or vapor
34218, 34 36, F26B 2106
Patent
active
053034821
ABSTRACT:
A wafer keeping apparatus includes a closed wafer keeping space, and an arrangement for circulating an inert gas through a filter and then through the wafer keeping space. In one embodiment, several wafer keeping shelves are each provided within the space, and the inert gas is supplied through a respective filter to flow across each shelf. In another embodiment, a plurality of wafer keeping spaces are each accessible through a respective door which forms an airtight seal when it is closed, and respective filters are provided on opposite sides of the space, the inert gas being supplied to the space through one filter and exiting the space through the other filter. In a further embodiment, several of the wafer keeping spaces are provided at angularly and vertically spaced locations in a rotatable stocker body provided within a casing, and several vertically spaced doors are provided on the casing to provide access to respective wafer keeping spaces in the stocker body.
Hayashi Mitsuhiro
Kawano Hitoshi
Morita Hiromi
Morita Teruya
Murata Masanao
Bennett Henry A.
Shinko Electric Co. Ltd.
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