Substrate storage container
AssigneeShin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
InventorOsamu Ogawa
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Abstract
A substrate storage container includes a container body configured to store substrates, a lid that closes an opening of the container body, and a valve unit that controls the flow of gas to the container body. The valve unit includes an elastic valve having a valve opening that connects a first passage communicating with the outside of the container body to a second passage communicating with the inside of the container body, a holding member that holds the elastic valve, and a clamping cap that is inserted in the elastic valve and secures the elastic valve to the holding member. The valve opening is tightly closed by the elastic force of the elastic valve.
Claims6
A substrate storage container, comprising:
- a container body configured to store a substrate;
- a lid that closes an opening of the container body;
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- a valve unit that controls a flow of gas to the container body, wherein the valve unit comprises:
- an elastic valve having a valve opening that connects a first passage communicating with an outside of the container body to a second passage communicating with an inside of the container body,
- a holding member that holds the elastic valve, and
- a clamping cap that is inserted in the elastic valve and secures the elastic valve to the holding member, and
- the valve opening is tightly closed by an elastic force of the elastic valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.