Patent ID: 7559730

Claim:
A supporting structure for supporting mother substrates having a length, a width and a thickness, comprising: a frame having a length, a width and a height, the length being substantially greater than the width, wherein the length and width of the frame corresponds to the length of width of inserted mother substrate, respectively; a plurality of first support members protruding from a first side of the frame and a plurality of second support members protruding from a second side of the frame opposing to the first side; first rectangular supporting bars connected to two support members of the first support members and second rectangular supporting bars connected to two support members of the second support member, wherein the first and second supporting bars are disposed at a distance of about 170 mm from the frame; and a robot arm for loading the mother substrates onto first and second the support members and the first and second rectangular supporting bars, wherein the first and second supporting bars contact and support a lower surface of inserted mother substrate along first and second parallel sides of the inserted mother substrates at opposing parallel regions of the lower surface, wherein the length of the first supporting bars are longer than the distance between the two first support members so that the first supporting bars cross the two first support members and extend to the outer portion of the region between the first supporting members and the length of the second supporting bars are longer than the distance between the two second support members so that the second supporting are crossed the two second support members and extend to the outer portion of the region between the second support members, thereby the first supporting bars are slightly spaced from each other and the second supporting bars are slightly spaced from each other, so that the first and second supporting bars are in contacted with substantially the whole width of the first and second parallel side of the inserted mother substrate to uniformly distribute a load to the patterned spacers in substantially the whole width of the first and second parallel sides of the inserted mother substrate, wherein the robot arm transfers the mother substrates into the frame at a height a little higher than the supporting bars and descends into a space at a center portion of the frame so that the mother substrates are contacted with the support members and the first and second rectangular supporting bars.