Patent ID: 7909166

Claim:
A wafer container including a container body that having a plurality of slots therein for receiving a plurality of wafers and an opening formed by a sidewall of said wafer container for exporting said plurality of wafers or importing said plurality of wafers, at least a pair of socket holes being disposed at one edge of said opening of said container body; and a door with an outer surface and an inner surface with at least a pair of latch holes corresponding to each said pair of socket holes being disposed at one edge of said door, said door joining with said opening of said container body via said inner surface for protecting said plurality of wafers in said container body, the characteristic of said wafer container is that: a recess is disposed on said inner surface of said door and located between two platforms, and each of said two platforms is disposed with a latch component, each said latch component including an oval cam, a pair of moving bars and one end of said respective moving bar contacting said oval cam, at least a pair of rollers disposed in each of said two platforms of said door and a respective said roller fixed in a slide groove of said respective moving bar, and a locating spring being an integral part of said respective moving bar for controlling the turning of said oval cam to drive said respective moving bar to move to and fro between said pair of socket holes and each said pair of latch holes.