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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2018
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
John J. Mazzocco, San Jose, CA (US);
Edward Ng, San Jose, CA (US);
Douglas MacLeod, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Phillips, Austin, TX (US);
Ayan Majumdar, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey C. Hudgens, San Francisco, CA (US);
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and assemblies are provided for a substrate carrier adapter insert including an adapter frame including a support rail adapted to support one or more substrates in a substrate carrier, a frame extension coupled to, or integral with, the adapter frame, and a mapping feature formed on the frame extension and disposed to be detected by a sensor for determining whether an adapter insert is present or absent in a substrate carrier. Numerous additional features are disclosed.