Patents by Inventor Gerarld M. Friedman

Gerarld M. Friedman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Reduced capacity carrier and method of use
    Patent number: 9881825
    Abstract: A substrate transport apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a casing and a door. The casing is adapted to form a controlled environment therein. The casing has supports therein for holding at least one substrate in the casing. The casing defines a substrate transfer opening through which a substrate transport system accesses the substrate in the casing. The door is connected to the casing for closing the substrate transfer opening in the casing. The casing has structure forming a fast swap element allowing replacement of the substrate from the apparatus with another substrate without retraction of the substrate transport system and independent of substrate loading in the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulysses Gilchrist, Michael L. Bufano, William Fosnight, Christopher Hofmeister, Gerarld M. Friedman
  • REDUCED CAPACITY CARRIER AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20150155192
    Abstract: A substrate transport apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a casing and a door. The casing is adapted to form a controlled environment therein. The casing has supports therein for holding at least one substrate in the casing. The casing defines a substrate transfer opening through which a substrate transport system accesses the substrate in the casing. The door is connected to the casing for closing the substrate transfer opening in the casing. The casing has structure forming a fast swap element allowing replacement of the substrate from the apparatus with another substrate without retraction of the substrate transport system and independent of substrate loading in the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Ulysses Gilchrist, Michael L. Bufano, William Fosnight, Christopher Hofmeister, Gerarld M. Friedman