Patent ID: 8047379

Claim:
A wafer container including a container body formed by a top surface, a bottom surface and a pair of sidewalls, with an opening formed between said pair of sidewalls and a back wall formed opposite said opening, a pair of supporting modules being disposed on said pair of sidewalls for supporting a plurality of wafers; and a door with an outer surface and an inner surface, 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 in that: a purgeable supporting module is disposed respectively at a junction between each of said pair of sidewalls and said back wall of said container body, said purgeable supporting module comprising a main body, on which a plurality of supporting ribs extending out of said main body are vertically disposed at intervals in a row, a long slit being further disposed perpendicular to said main body, said long slit and said plurality of supporting ribs being vertically adjacent to each other without overlapping and said long slit facing said opening, a hollow conduit being further formed in said purgeable supporting module, said hollow conduit being connected to said long slit, wherein, a gas inlet is disposed on one end of said hollow conduit and connected to a gas valve on said bottom surface.