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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:
Apr. 19, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2002
Applicants:
Michael Lering, Bubenreuth, DE;
Reiner Missale, Hemau, DE;
Martin Peiter, Dresden, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies SC300 GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G049/07 ; B07C005/344 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus for handling, storing and reloading carriers for disk-shaped items, such as semiconductor wafers or CDs, has at least one cleaning unit and at least one storage unit for the carriers containing the disk-shaped items. The apparatus further has at least one sorting unit for the disk-shaped items. The cleaning unit, the storage unit and the sorting apparatus are integral component parts of the apparatus and are operated by a common automatic control.