Patent ID: 7344349

Claim:
A pod cover removing-installing apparatus to remove and install a cover for an opening of a pod, an inside of which is kept extremely clean, by causing the cover to engage a door for an opening of a high cleanliness room, while maintaining high cleanliness of the pod and the room by closely attaching a circumference of the two openings, the pod cover removing-installing apparatus comprising: a positioning member to determine a position of the cover; a fine adjustment mechanism to finely adjust the position of the positioning member; and a holding mechanism to hold the position of the cover mated with the door of the high cleanliness room, wherein the positioning member includes: an outer casing with a tapered end; an inner casing installed freely movable in an axial direction of the outer casing, having a taper with an angle measuring the same as the taper of the outer casing at the tapered end and arranged so that the two tapers become continuous when protruding; and a pushing device to push the inner casing in a protruding direction.