Patent ID: 7661921

Claim:
A semiconductor material handling system which has a frame mounting a wafer cassette and a plurality of load ports thereon, and a wafer moving robot, the wafer moving robot comprising: a robot body which has a lifting member mounted in the frame and vertically moving along a predetermined lifting shaft; an articulated arm which has a driving link mounted in the lifting member and a plurality of driven links whose end part transversely moves along the frame having the load ports; a swing unit which is mounted in the end part of the driven links and rotates along a vertical rotation shaft; and a crossing arm which comprises a base mounted in the swing unit, a plurality of sliding units mounted in the base and reciprocating transversely, and a wafer hand mounted in the sliding units and picking up a wafer from the wafer cassette and storing the wafer back in the wafer cassette; wherein the crossing arm includes a plurality of driven rollers each of which has a wafer grip groove to insert the wafer stably seated on the wafer hand into a circumference thereof, and mounted in an end of the wafer hand along the circumference of the wafer; a driving roller which is mounted in the base to be engaged with the circumference of the wafer and rotate the wafer when the wafer hand picking up the wafer returns back to the base; and a wafer aligner which has a sensor to sense a rotation position of the wafer; wherein each of the driven rollers comprises an upwardly tapering upper end portion with an inclined circumferential surface above the wafer grip groove to guide the wafer onto the wafer hand.