Patent ID: 8777548

Claim:
A pick-and-place apparatus for handling glass substrate, comprising: a chassis; a transportation platform including a transferring device disposed on the chassis, and including a first frame and a plurality of transferring rods rotationally disposed across the first frame along a first reference direction, the transportation platform further including a lifting mechanism for lifting the transferring rods; a vertical displacing mechanism for moving the transportation platform to move vertically to a pre-determined height; an assisting device including a supporting frame and a plurality of supporting rods arranged across the supporting frame along the first reference direction, the supporting rods being arranged to move in and out of a cartridge from its side along a second reference direction which is perpendicular to the first reference direction, the first frame being supported by the assisting device; a horizontal displacing device for moving the transportation platform to move along the first reference direction such that the transferring device can be moved in and out of the cartridge, wherein the first transferring rods rotationally move the glass substrate into the cartridge or out of the cartridge; and wherein the first frame is arranged with a first plurality of slots corresponding to each of the transferring rods, the lifting mechanism including a plurality of slides corresponding to each of the transferring rods, each of the slides being defined with a second slot, a linkage interlinking the slides, and a driving device driving the linkage to move the slides to move along the first reference direction, the first transferring rod passing through the first and second slots, and being lifted upward and downward long with the up and down movement of the slides with the help of the first and second slots.