Patent ID: 6736582
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
Device for manipulating an object for loading and unloading a clean room, with a housing open toward the clean room, the housing comprising a stationary outer piece and an inner piece which can be telescopically extended from the outer piece, which contains a receptacle element for the object in a cover which can be adjusted between at least two levels one above the other and lowered into the inner piece, and the outer as well as the inner piece of the housing are provided with air exit openings in a wall of the housing away from the clean room, characterized in that for the telescopic extension of the inner piece and for the lowering of the receptacle element into the inner piece, a common guide rail and a common drive for the inner piece and the receptacle element are provided, while the drive is connected to the receptacle element and the receptacle element engages with a driver on the inner piece for the telescopic extension of the inner piece by vertical upward movement, and after reaching one of the two level where a fixation of the inner piece with a locking mechanism occurs, the receptacle element can be lowered into the inner piece, and the inner piece of the housing is arranged in the region of each of the two levels with an open side facing the clean room being next to at least one air passage opening, of the clean room.