Patent ID: 8387799

Claim:
A wafer container including a container body formed by a top surface and a bottom surface a pair of sidewalls, with an opening 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 further respectively disposed between each of said pair of sidewalls and said back wall of said container body, a long slit being disposed on said purgeable supporting module facing said opening and a porous material being disposed within said long slit, a gas inlet being disposed on one end of said purgeable supporting module and connected to a gas valve on said bottom surface, wherein said purgeable supporting module is composed of a plurality of supporting ribs vertically arranged at intervals, and the plurality of supporting ribs are separated from the long slit.