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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2014
Brooks Automation, Inc., Chelmsford, MA (US);
Ulysses Gilchrist, Reading, MA (US);
Michael L. Bufano, Belmont, MA (US);
William Fosnight, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Christopher Hofmeister, Holderness, NH (US);
Gerarld M. Friedman, New Ipswich, NH (US);
Brooks Automation, Inc., Chelmsford, MA (US);
Abstract
A substrate transport apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a casing and a door. The casing is adapted to form a controlled environment therein. The casing has supports therein for holding at least one substrate in the casing. The casing defines a substrate transfer opening through which a substrate transport system accesses the substrate in the casing. The door is connected to the casing for closing the substrate transfer opening in the casing. The casing has structure forming a fast swap element allowing replacement of the substrate from the apparatus with another substrate without retraction of the substrate transport system and independent of substrate loading in the casing.