Patent ID: 9698036
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H01L

Claim:
1. A substrate cassette loading system for docking substrate cassettes to a substrate processing system, comprising a plurality of ports for passing substrates into the substrate processing system, wherein a first port of the plurality of ports is vertically above a second port of the plurality of ports and wherein the first port is in a row of upper ports and the second port is in a row of lower ports; and a plurality of cassette loaders for providing substrate cassettes to the plurality of ports, comprising a first cassette loader for providing substrate cassettes to the first port and a second cassette loader for providing substrate cassettes to the second port, wherein at least one of the first cassette loader or second cassette loader is movable, wherein if the first cassette loader is movable the first cassette loader is movable horizontally along the row of upper ports and wherein if the second cassette loader is movable the second cassette loader is movable horizontally along the row of lower ports.