Patent ID: 8196748

Claim:
A wafer container including a container body having a plurality of slots therein for receiving a plurality of wafers and having an opening formed on one sidewall of which for importing or exporting said plurality of wafers, at least a pair of socket holes being disposed at an edge of said opening of said container body; and a door having an outer surface and an inner surface with at least a pair of latch holes corresponding to said pair of socket holes being disposed at the 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 in that: a recess is disposed on said inner surface of said door and located between two platforms, and each said platform is disposed with a latch component, said latch component comprising an oval cam with an arrester disposed at its center, at least a pair of V-shaped notches disposed on one surface of said oval cam, said surface of said oval cam being disposed with at least a groove, an oval platform disposed on said surface of said oval cam, in which said pair of V-shaped notches of said oval cam are disposed on two ends of longer diameter of said oval platform, a pair of moving bars respectively having an engaging portion that are engaged in said groove for said moving bars to be engaged with said oval cam, and a guiding element disposed on said moving bars, wherein said arrester is used to control the rotation of said oval cam for said moving bars to go to and fro between said pair of socket holes and said pair of latch holes.