Patent ID: 7134825

Claim:
Device, for manipulating substrates ( 11 ) inside and outside an ultraclean workroom ( 15 ), with a storage room and a sluice device ( 17 ), the sluice device being provided between the storage room ( 20 ) and the ultraclean workroom ( 15 ), and providing means by which a substrate cassette ( 12 ) accommodated under ultraclean room conditions in a box can be accessed in the box under ultraclean room conditions, and with a first manipulating device ( 51 ) by means of which substrates ( 11 ) can be placed in the cassette ( 12 ) and can be removed from the cassette, is hereby characterized in that the storage room ( 20 ) is adapted for holding a multiple number of the boxes accommodated in row and/or column arrangement, and is extending over substantially the entire ultraclean workroom, and is further characterized in that a second manipulating device is located within the storage room and is operable to pick any of the boxes from any row or column of the row and/or column arrangement in the storage room without reaching across more than one row and without reaching across more than one column.