Hello David.
The best wafer handling systems I know using the Bernoulli's principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%27s_principle and the manipulator arm has similarities to a forklift.
So I looked at youtube and found this clip :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxkEfLpB3RU
Well, being cost-effective and reliable I'd suggest to use components similar to CD or DVD players. Their drawers mechanic is in principle all we need when the cassette always could stand vertically. Open up the drawer and slide into the cassette, grep the wafer onto drawer, slide out of the cassette while closing the drawer back into our instrument..
BTW, I would transport the wafer batches as seen many times with rail-mounted cages on ceiling.
Regards, Hagen.
On 1/24/22 9:05 PM, David Lanzendörfer wrote:
Hi Since I seem to have accidentally hit myself into the face while I was asleep, due to a nightmare, and now have a kind of swollen eye, I've put off recording my batch load video and went deeper into the research for example clips instead. During that research I realized, that the most common method for loading and unloading has shifted from rubber bands to full blown robot arms, and I was thinking, we could actually also use robot arms. I could actually 3D print that robot arm and control it with an Arduino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B3gWd3A_SI&ab_channel=HowToMechatronics
Opinions?
-lev
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