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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2004
Joy A. Duban-hu, Burnsville, MN (US);
Steven P. Kolbow, Chaska, MN (US);
Joy A. Duban-Hu, Burnsville, MN (US);
Steven P. Kolbow, Chaska, MN (US);
Entegris, Inc., Chaska, MN (US);
Abstract
A shipper for memory disks comprises a cassette having an open top and an open bottom, a top cover to cover the open top, and a bottom cover to cover the bottom. The body portion has opposing side walls and opposing end walls. The two side walls each have with a vertical upper portions and an inwardly converging bottom portion. Said sidewalls have inwardly facing elongate teeth or spacers defining slots to hold the substrates in a vertically positioned and spaced array. Each tooth is continuous from the open top to the open bottom and each tooth has a upper vertical portion at the vertical upper portion of the side wall and a converging lower portion at the bottom portion of the side walls. The converging lower portion of each tooth follows the convergence of the bottom portions of the sidewalls. The converging lower portion of each tooth is configured to be different than the configuration of the tooth at the upper portion providing for improved performance in receiving disks to minimize or eliminate the incomplete receipt of disks in the slots such as by the disks catching and resting on the top of the teeth.