Wafer indexing device
AssigneeBTU International, Inc.
InventorSteve McKinley
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Abstract
An indexing device including a housing, a cassette support mechanism, a cassette, and transport apparatus carried by the housing. The transport apparatus includes a bed of rollers having a common plane and a drive assembly coupled to the bed of rollers. The cassette support mechanism is mounted in the housing and movable along a pathway between a raised position and a lowered position relative the bed of rollers. The cassette is mounted on the cassette support mechanism.
Claims16
An indexing device for loading disks into and unloading disks from a cassette, the indexing device comprising:
- a housing including a cassette support mechanism moveable along a pathway between a raised position and a lowered position, for receiving a cassette;
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- transport apparatus carried by the housing, the transport apparatus including a bed of rollers having a common plane and a drive assembly coupled to the bed of rollers, the bed of rollers extending into the pathway of the cassette support mechanism, for receiving disks from a cassette directly thereon.
An indexing device comprising:
- a housing;
- transport apparatus carried by the housing, the transport apparatus including a bed of rollers having a common plane and a drive assembly coupled to the bed of rollers;
- a cassette support mechanism mounted in the housing and movable along a pathway between a raised position and a lowered position relative the bed of rollers;
- a cassette mounted on the cassette support mechanism and movable by the cassette support mechanism between the raised position and the lowered position;
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- wherein the bed of rollers extends at least partially into the pathway of the cassette support mechanism.
An indexing device comprising:
- a housing;
- transport apparatus carried by the housing, the transport apparatus including a bed of rollers having a common plane and a drive assembly coupled to the bed of rollers;
- a cassette support mechanism mounted in the housing and movable along a pathway between a raised position, above the bed of rollers, and a lowered position, below the bed of rollers, the cassette support mechanism positioned so the bed of rollers extends at least partially into the pathway;
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- a cassette, containing a plurality of disks, mounted on the cassette, support mechanism and movable by the cassette support mechanism between the raised position and the lowered position, the disks being substantially parallel to the plane of the bed of rollers and receivable directly thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.