Patent ID: 7775362

Claim:
A substrate accommodating apparatus, comprising: a plurality of accommodation bodies, each accommodation body configured to accommodate a substrate and having a buffer and a load receptacle disposed on a periphery of the buffer so as to receive a load to the accommodation body when the accommodation bodies are stacked; and a rigid plate for supporting said plurality of accommodation bodies such that said plurality of accommodation bodies are stacked on an upper surface of the rigid plate, wherein said buffer has a surface for supporting the substrate and a substrate protect layer on the surface with which a mounting surface of the substrate is in contact so as to protect the mounting surface when the substrate is placed on the surface, wherein said each accommodation body has an insertion hole extending from an upper surface to a lower surface thereof, the substrate accommodating apparatus further comprising, a holder including a loop-shaped binding member attached to the rigid plate and penetrating through the insertion hole of said each accommodation body, such that said each accommodation body is transferable between a stacked state, in which at least one of the accommodation bodies is placed on the rigid plate, and a spread state, in which said at least one of the accommodation bodies is flipped over by sliding said at least one of the accommodation bodies along the loop-shaped binding member.