Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving material between zones having different... – For carrying standarized mechanical interface type
Patent
1979-12-21
1982-01-19
Blix, Trygve M.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving material between zones having different...
For carrying standarized mechanical interface type
414225, 414417, 198339, 294 99R, C23C 1500
Patent
active
043114270
ABSTRACT:
A system for the automated handling and transfer of wafers individually and repetitively to and between processing stations and cassettes. A track-like conveyor engages a cassette holding a plurality of wafers in vertically facing alignment, to move same horizontally past a loading station of a processing chamber. A vertically moveable blade passes between the conveyor tracks and through the cassette to engage a wafer edgewise from below and move same upwardly to the processing chamber entrance. Vacuum means mounted to the door of the chamber entrance engages and holds the wafer during insertion into the chamber by closure of the door. Clip means are mounted within the periphery of an aperture of a vertical support plate just within the chamber entrance, to engage edgewise the wafer and support it within the plate aperture while in the processing chamber. The wafer is removed after processing by operating the foregoing apparatus in reverse order. The processing chamber may be a vacuum chamber, and minimal-volume load lock means therefor are advantageously provided by the system with the aid of a sealing member within the chamber compressible against the wafer support plate and chamber wall while the chamber door is open, to seal off the entrance area from the remainder of the chamber. The wafer support plate is moveable within the processing chamber to various wafer processing stations once the door is closed and the sealing member withdrawn.
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Coad George L.
Hutchinson Martin A.
Shaw R. Howard
Blix Trygve M.
Cole Stanley Z.
Sgarbossa Peter J.
Siemens Terrance L.
Varian Associates Inc.
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