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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157496 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate transfer method A substrate processing apparatus includes a cassette placing table; a first transfer mechanism having a first substrate holding hand capable of advancing/retreating and using this first substrate holding hand to transfer a substrate with respect to the cassette; a s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8083457 | Mill relining apparatus A mill relining apparatus (1) for handling articles such as liners and lifters within a mill (3). The relining apparatus (1) includes a mast (5), with top (23) and bottom (19) engagement members, which supports one or more a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8047755 | Plate material stocker facility The present invention provides a plate material stocker facility with a simplified pallet loading and unloading mechanism. The plate material stocker facility includes a plate material stocker 4 in which pallets 9 each allowing a plate material to be s... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7997847 | Automated robotic system for handling surgical instruments Systems and methods that process a plurality of surgical instruments for cleaning and/or packaging. A device identifies a robot-ready insert having a predetermined configuration for accepting at least one type of surgical instrument. The surgical instruments are ide... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7988400 | Vial conveyance device and arm for the same A vial conveyance device which includes, in order to hold and release a vial, at least two arms that can be opened and closed, an urging member that urges the arms in an opening direction, a frame body for opening and closing the arms, and a frame body stopper that ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7976260 | Work handling apparatus A work handling apparatus includes a pair of traveling guides (20, 20′) provided so as to extend in a front-and-rear direction X at right and left sides, and a pair of direct-acting arms (30, 30′) provided so as to travel independently on the pair ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7976261 | Apparatus for moving and securing a substrate An apparatus for transferring and securing a substrate is shown. A pressure source is provided that is adapted to provide positive and negative pressure. A vacuum chuck is provided having a top side with a plurality of vacuum chuck portals formed therein. Each vacuu... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7914246 | Actuatable loadport system A system adapted to exchange wafer carriers between an overhead transport mechanism and a platform is provided. The system employs a wafer carrier having at least one handle extending therefrom, an overhead transfer mechanism, a transporter coupled to the overhead t... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7862284 | Pallet transfer system A pallet transfer system capable of smoothly transferring a pallet between a machine tool and a pallet conveying device is provided. The pallet transfer system includes an intermediated station to temporally place a pallet between a front ward position of a pallet s... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7857571 | Apparatus for manufacturing flat panel display and method of manufacturing the same An apparatus for manufacturing capable of reducing footprint and a working time for loading substrates as short as possible, and a method using the same are disclosed. The apparatus includes a cassette to accommodate a plurality of substrates, a stocker in which the... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7806643 | Elevator-based tool loading and buffering system A substrate processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a casing, a low port interface and a carrier holding station. The casing has processing devices within for processing substrates. The load port interface is connected to the casing for loading substrate... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7798758 | Reduced capacity carrier, transport, load port, buffer system A semiconductor workpiece processing system having at least one processing apparatus for processing workpieces, a primary transport system, a secondary transport system and one or more interfaces between first transport system and second transport system. The primar... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7731469 | Component feeder According to the type of the plate placed in a plate placing device of a component feeder, appropriate holding operation and expanding operation are performed selectively and automatically according to the type of the plate by regulating the lowered position of a pl... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7661919 | Discontinuous conveyor system The present invention generally comprises a transport system for transporting containers throughout a fabrication facility, and more specifically through a tool bay in the fabrication facility. The present invention generally includes a first container transport sys... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7637707 | Apparatus for storing and moving a cassette A cassette stocker includes a plurality of cassette storage shelves positioned adjacent a cleanroom wall above a cassette docking station, and a cassette mover to carry a cassette between the shelves and the docking station. An interstation transfer apparatus includ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7597520 | Apparatus and method for transferring samples from a source to a target A transfer unit for transferring a sample from a source vessel to a target vessel. The transfer unit includes a transfer device having a pin tip with a central bore terminating at a bottom wall, an actuating element movably disposed in the pin tip bore, an actuator ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7534081 | Apparatus and method for transferring samples from a source to a target A control system for transferring a sample from a source vessel to a target vessel generally includes a vessel unit, a primary transfer unit, an x-drive, a y-drive, a z-drive and a control unit for controlling the drives. The vessel unit includes a support plate for... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7407363 | Substrate transport apparatus and substrate transport method A substrate transport apparatus includes a first substrate transport robot, a second substrate transport robot and a substrate transfer mechanism. The first substrate transport robot includes an upper hand and a lower hand vertically arranged. The second substrate t... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7396199 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus for processing a substrate while transferring the substrate among a plurality of units with which the substrate is to be processed or on which the substrate is to be placed. This apparatus is provided with: a first unit group dispose... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7390158 | Handling device for electronic chip components and handling method for electronic chip components A handling device for electronic chip components includes an indexing table having a plurality of cavities for holding electronic chip components therein and a circulatory feeder for supplying the electronic chip components to the indexing table. One or more cavitie... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7364028 | Glass substrate transporting facility Glass substrates are transported to a plurality of processing devices to be processed. Certain of the processing devices have associated storage shelf for storing glass substrates and a transfer device. The transfer device is adapted to move the glass substrate betw... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363107 | Substrate transfer system A substrate transfer system is used in fabricating a liquid crystal display (LCD) device. The system includes a cassette having a bar code, a cassette stocker to store the cassette; an auto guided vehicle that is able to transfer the cassette; a moving path unit to ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358192 | Method and apparatus for in-situ film stack processing Embodiments of a cluster tool, processing chamber and method for processing a film stack are provided. In one embodiment, a method for in-situ etching of silicon and metal layers of a film stack is provided that includes the steps of etching an upper metal layer of ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7347959 | Information recording medium and method of manufacturing same Two substrates are simultaneously produced by an injection molding apparatus, and the injection-molded substrates are alternately arranged and cooled by a cooling apparatus. The cooling apparatus has a feed screw mechanism for feeding the alternately arranged substr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7334314 | Work treatment installation A work treatment installation comprises several side-by-side machine tools and at least one work supply and discharge device. It further comprises a work transport device which bridges both of them and comprises a displaceable and vertically sliding lifting skid wit... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7335394 | Substrate supporting frame A substrate supporting frame, a substrate supporting frame assembly including the frame, a method of framing a substrate using the frame, a method of fabricating a donor substrate using the substrate supporting frame assembly, and a method of fabricating an Organic ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333872 | Product processing system A product processing system applicable to a production process for producing an electronic device is disclosed. The product processing system includes a plurality of processing apparatuses installed according to processing stages in the production process of the ele... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329081 | Apparatus for transporting containers An automated apparatus suitable for transporting containers arranged in a row of stacks or partial stacks includes an overhead gantry system. The overhead gantry system has a moveable support for supporting at least one stack or partial stack of containers and movin... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328836 | Smart tag holder and cover housing A smart-tag housing and method for securing a dedicated data card affixed to a SMIF-pod. A molded housing package for holding a data card for communication with a two-way receiver/transmitter mounted on a workstation, the smart-tag is a small battery operated microc... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325760 | Automatic guided system for transferring scrap glass An automatic guided system transfers scrap glass resulted from at least one scrap glass source of a clean room to a scrap exit. The automatic guided system for transferring the scrap glass includes a rail module and a vehicle module. The rail module connects the scr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323060 | Substrate treating apparatus A forward direction-only path (first substrate transport path) is formed for transporting substrates in a forward direction to pass the substrates on to an exposing apparatus. A separate, substrate transport path (second substrate transport path) is formed exclusive... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324869 | Tool information display device for processing machine The present invention provides a tool information display device for a processing machine which can display information on tools installed in appropriate parts of the processing machine, in an easy-to-understand manner. The present invention allows even the identifi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7311488 | System and method for conveying flat panel display A panel conveying system includes a panel cassette for receiving a plurality of panels, and a conveying vehicle for conveying the panel cassette. The conveying vehicle includes a loading/unloading unit installed on the main body to load and/or unload the panel casse... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313452 | Substrate transfer controlling apparatus and substrate transferring method A substrate transfer controlling apparatus can easily maximize throughput of a substrate processing apparatus such as a semiconductor fabrication apparatus, and can satisfy a demand for immediacy of actions of a transfer device. The substrate transfer controlling ap... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7278198 | Mandrel segment loader A mandrel segment loader provides a reliable means of assembling the segments of a large multi-piece mandrel designed for the lay-up of composite materials in the manufacture of large structures such as one-piece fuselage barrels for wide-body aircraft and can also ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277774 | Transportation state notification system and method, and information storage medium A server includes a communication section which receives event information from an event detection device which detects a plurality of types of events occurring in a plurality of temporary storage devices provided at different locations, and transmits transportation... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274971 | Methods and apparatus for electronic device manufacturing system monitoring and control In a first aspect, a computer program product is provided. The computer program product includes a medium readable by a computer. The computer readable medium has computer program code adapted to (1) create a band map that indicates an expected status of one or more... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272881 | Production installation A production installation comprises a loading transport means with a transport rail connecting processing machines. It also comprises workpiece grippers for supplying the processing machines with workpieces to be processed and for removing processed workpieces from ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270510 | Device and method for transporting wafer-shaped articles An apparatus for treating wafer-shaped articles includes at least one linear arranged array of a plurality of at least two process units wherein in each such process unit one single wafer-shaped article can be treated, a cassette-holding unit for holding at least on... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7264432 | Device and method for transferring objects A device for transferring and characterizing objects positions the object on a horizontal work field. The device includes at least one rail extending parallel to the X direction and a displacement unit, movable back and forth in the X direction, having a motorized g... | 09/04/2007 |
