US Patent Issued to RAONTEC on July 15 for "Wafer transfer robot apparatus based on direct drive motor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,734, issued on July 15, was assigned to RAONTEC INC. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wafer transfer robot apparatus based on direct drive motor" was invented by Jin Ho Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Chan Choi (Gunpo-si, South Korea) and Zheng Yuan Li (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wafer transfer robot apparatus based on a direct drive motor, includes: a hand module including a hand loading a wafer from one surface and a hand arm coupled to the hand to transfer the wafer; an R-axis module; a connecting enclosing module having one end coupled to the R-axis module; and a T-axis module rotatably coupled to the connectin...