Patent ID: 8413814

Claim:
A front opening unified pod, comprising a container body, having a pair of sidewalls and a top surface and a bottom surface joined with said pair of sidewalls, an opening being formed on one sidewall and a backwall being formed on another sidewall opposite to said opening, a supporting module being respectively disposed on said pair of sidewalls sustaining a plurality of wafers and a purgeable supporting module being respectively disposed at junctions of said pair of sidewalls and said backwall, and a door, having an outer surface and an inner surface, said door being joined with said opening of said container body via said inner surface for protecting said plurality of wafers in said container body, wherein the characteristic of said front opening unified pod is in that: said each purgeable supporting module has a buffer gas chamber and a gas inlet is disposed at one end of said buffer gas chamber, said gas inlet being connected to one gas valve of said bottom surface, an outgassing channel being disposed on said purgeable supporting module facing said opening and a long slot being disposed on one side of said outgassing channel, and an airflow channel being disposed between said outgassing channel and said buffer gas chamber and thus connecting said outgassing channel and said buffer gas chamber, and a plurality of supporting ribs are vertically disposed at intervals on one side of said long slot.