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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1983
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
414757 ; 198394 ; 414754 ; 414787 ;
Abstract
An automatic wafer orienting apparatus comprising a first orienting device for driving and rotating a wafer thereby orienting the wafer while utilizing a peripheral edge and an orientation cut thereof as the guide, a device for disengaging the thus oriented wafer from the first wafer orienting device, and a second wafer orienting device for re-orienting the wafer by pressing a lateral edge and an orientation cut thereof against orienting members provided on a wafer chuck.