ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,746, issued on June 10, was assigned to Rorze Corp. (Japan).
"FOUP transfer device" was invented by Yoshiyuki Fujishiro (Ibara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a FOUP transfer device for transferring FOUPs between load ports and which is capable of reducing remodeling work on a pre-installed conveyance device as much as possible. FOUP transfer devices 1-1, 1-2 are installed in the vicinity of the load ports of the conveyance device, comprising one or more load ports 18-1, 18-2, and transfer FOUPs 3 between the load ports 18-1, 18-2. The FOUP transfer devices 1-1, 1-2 have first optical I/O communication devices 31-3,...