Patent ID: 7876575

Claim:
A substrate housing container comprising: a substrate housing portion of chassis shaped having a ceiling portion, a bottom portion, and a plurality of side wall portions, a plurality of supporting plates arrayed with intervals between main surfaces from the side of the ceiling portion to the side of the bottom portion on the inner surface of the pair of side wall portions which configures the substrate housing portion, slit portions formed in each of the pair of side wall portions in an extended manner along the array direction of the supporting plates, a slide portion movably arrayed in the slit portions and an edge portion of the slide portion is protruded from at least the ceiling portion or the bottom portion, and a substrate securing piece parallely arrayed with substantially the same intervals as the intervals of the supporting plates on the inner surface of the slide portion, wherein a substrate housed in the substrate housing portion is freely placed between the supporting plate provided on one of the pair of side wall portions and the other of the pair of the side wall portions as if bridged therebetween, the substrate is freely secured on the supporting plates with the substrate securing piece abutting the circumferential portion of the substrate in a state in which one end portion of the slide portion is protruded from the bottom portion, a substrate securing state is freely released with the substrate securing piece moving apart from the circumferential portion of the substrate in which the other end portion of the side portion is protruded from the ceiling portion.