POD OPENER

To provide an inexpensive pod opener opening a container and allowing cassettes stacked in the container to be accessible by a finger of a transportation robot. The pod opener of the invention includes an elevating mechanism elevating the cassette in a vertical direction, a first hook member engagin...

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Main Author SAKATA, Katsunori
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 07.06.2023
Subjects
BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
ELECTRICITY
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
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Summary:To provide an inexpensive pod opener opening a container and allowing cassettes stacked in the container to be accessible by a finger of a transportation robot. The pod opener of the invention includes an elevating mechanism elevating the cassette in a vertical direction, a first hook member engaging with an engagement means of the cassette and supporting the cassette, a second hook member supported by the first hook member, a forward and backward movement mechanism moving the first hook member and the second hook member forward and backward with respect to the cassette, an urging member urging the second hook member upward, and an atmosphere maintaining device maintaining an internal space having the cassette disposed therein in a predetermined atmosphere and the second hook member is displaceable with respect to the first hook member.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20180865737