Patent ID: 7431158
Filing Date: 2008-10-07
Classification: B65D,H01L

Abstract:
1. A flexible substrate storage equipment comprising: at least a pair of opposed members that constitute an outer frame of a storage equipment main body, wherein said pair of opposed members are disposed so as to maintain a predetermined interval to wedge a plurality of flexible substrates in between to hold them in a shape of a curve, wherein each of said pair of opposed members includes a plurality of holding members for holding the plurality of flexible substrates in alignment, said plurality of holding members in a pair being spaced apart from each other, wherein each of said holding members has a single finger; wherein said plurality of substrates do not form a right angle with respect to said pair of opposed members, and wherein the holding members are angled so as to define an angle which is not a right angle between each holding member and the corresponding one of the opposed members, and each of the flexible substrates contacts both of the pair of opposed members, and wherein each of the plurality of flexible substrates is stored along and between adjacent ones of the plurality of holding members, and the adjacent ones of the plurality of holding members hold each of the plurality of flexible substrates; and wherein each of said holding members on each of the opposed members is angled upwardly and has a single finger, and said pair of opposed members are disposed so as to maintain a predetermined interval to wedge a plurality of flexible substrates in between to hold them in a shape of a curve so that the flexible substrates contact the opposed members and are bowed upwardly.