Patent ID: 8276758

Claim:
A wafer container, comprising a container body, in which a plurality of slots being disposed in said container body for supporting a plurality of wafers and an opening being formed on one sidewall of said container body for importing and exporting said plurality of wafers, at least a pair of socket holes being disposed in an edge of said opening of said container body, and a door, having an outer surface and an inner surface, at least a pair of latch holes being disposed in an edge of said door and corresponding to said pair of socket holes, said door being joined with said opening of said container body via said inner surface for protecting said plurality of wafers therein, the characteristic of said wafer container in that: each of said pair of socket holes in said edge of said opening of said container body has an inner groove with an inclined surface for forming an externally wide and internally narrow groove structure, a recess is disposed on said inner surface of said door and is located between two platforms, and a latch component is disposed in each of said platforms, said latch component including an oval cam and a pair of moving bars, a first end of each of said moving bars connecting to one of two opposite sides of said oval cam and a second end of each of said moving bars having a guiding structure, a pair of moving grooves being disposed between said first end and said second end, at least a pair of rollers being disposed in each of said platforms of said door and each of said rollers being embedded in each of said moving grooves of said moving bars, and a locating spring being formed as an integral part of each of said moving bars for controlling the turning of said oval cam to drive each of said moving bars to move to and fro between each pair of said socket holes and said latch holes.