Patent ID: 9024488
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: H02K,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A substrate transport for transporting substrates to and from at least one substrate seating surface, the substrate transport comprising: a substrate transport arm; a drive section located within a frame and connected to the substrate transport arm through a coaxial spindle, the drive section being configured to operate the substrate transport arm through a spindle rotation or spindle displacement; and at least one substrate support coupled to the substrate transport arm; wherein the drive section has a solid state actuator that includes at least one stator attached to the frame that interfaces with and is configured to magnetically support the coaxial spindle substantially without contact and to effect a substantially solid state change, free of stator movement, in an orientation of a predetermined axis of rotation of the coaxial spindle relative to the at least one stator of the solid state actuator to spatially orient the at least one substrate support with respect to one of the at least one substrate seating surface.