Patent ID: 8454293
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: B65G,H01L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A substrate processing apparatus having a station for loading and unloading substrates from the apparatus, the station comprising: an aperture closure for sealing a loading and unloading aperture of the station; a fluidic magazine door drive configured for movement in two degrees of freedom for removing a door of a substrate magazine and thus opening the substrate magazine, and for operating the aperture closure to open the aperture; and a sensor, for mapping vertical locations of the substrates, mounted to the fluidic magazine door drive of the station separate and independent from the aperture closure where the two degree of freedom movement of the fluidic magazine door drive is configured to position the sensor for mapping; wherein the fluidic magazine door drive further comprises an encoder different from the sensor, the encoder being configured for determining the vertical position of the sensor.