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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:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/312 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/312 ;
Abstract
A conveyor element ( ) for conveying wafer receptacles between a conveyor ( ) and a loading station ( ) of a manufacturing system in the semiconductor industry has a lifting mechanism ( ) to move the wafer receptacle from a first position of the conveyor ( ) or the loading station ( ) into a second position of the conveyor ( ) or of the loading station ( ) substantially in a vertical direction. Rollers ( ) are provided to move the wafer receptacle from the second position of the conveyor ( ) along a substantially horizontal direction to the second position of the loading station ( ) or from the second position of the loading station ( ) to the second position of the conveyor ( ).