Abstract: The present invention relates to gas distributors used in wafer carriers. The gas distributors comprise a body having an interior space, a separator configured at the front side of the body in the interior space, and an air inlet connected with the body. One edge of the separator and the front side of the body together form a passage. The configuration of the passage in the gas distributors enables the gas distributors to evenly distribute gases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wafer transport system and a method of operating the same. The wafer transport system comprises at least one semiconductor apparatus, a track, a transfer device, a positioning device, a carrier and a cleaning device. The wafer transport system transports wafers along the at least one semiconductor apparatus via the carrier riding on the track. The transfer device transfers the wafers from the carrier to the at least one semiconductor apparatus. The positioning device identifies and controls the position of the carrier on the track. The cleaning device maintains the cleanliness of the wafers. The present invention provides advantages for improving the yield rate of a wafer, shortening the fabrication time of a wafer, and offering the flexibility and the extendibility to a wafer transport system.

Abstract: An exemplary fixing device includes an elastically deformable sleeve and a screw extendable through the sleeve. The sleeve includes a hollow column and multiple flanges extending outwardly from an outer circumferential face of the column. A plate assembly incorporating the fixing device is also provided.

Abstract: An exemplary rotating mechanism for positioning a rotation angle of a second body relative to a first body is provided. The first body includes a pair of sidewalls. The second body includes a pair of connecting arms rotatably connected to the sidewalls. The rotating mechanism includes a pair of positioning gears rotatably connected to the sidewalls, a brake slidably connected to the first body, and a button fastened to the brake. Each of the positioning gears includes a positioning block extending out of the sidewalls. The brake is driven to brake the positioning gears by the button when the button is moved towards the sidewalls. The positioning block is fixed at a predetermined position to position the rotation angle of the second body when the positioning gears are braked.

Abstract: An exemplary rotating mechanism for rotating a second body relative to a first body is provided. The first body includes a pair of sidewalls, and the second body includes a pair of connecting arms. A first connecting piece rotatably connects one of the connecting arms to one of the sidewalls, and a second connecting piece rotatably connects the other connecting arm to the other sidewall. A resilient element connects the second connecting piece to a sidewall to provide a restoring force to the second connecting piece along a direction perpendicular to the sidewall. An angle positioner is fixed on the other sidewall and is sleeved on the first connecting piece. The angle positioner defines a positioning gap to engage with a pair of lugs extending from the first connecting piece for positioning a relative rotation angle between the first body and the second body.

Abstract: A supporting device for an electronic device includes a supporting base, a guiding element, an adjusting element, and a latching assembly. The supporting base includes a sleeve portion. The adjusting element includes a first body and an adjusting portion. The adjusting portion is mounted on the sleeve portion. The adjusting portion defines a plurality of adjusting holes. The guiding element defines two latching grooves and is sleeved on the adjusting portion. The latching assembly includes a button, an adjusting rod, and a biasing element. The button is inserted into the coupling portion. The adjusting rod includes a fixing portion and a latching portion. The fixing portion is fixed with the button. The latching portion is latched with the adjusting holes. The biasing element resists the button and the sleeve portion. The button is capable of driving the adjusting rod to move.

Abstract: A supporting device for an electronic device includes a supporting base, a guiding element, an adjusting element, and a latching assembly. The supporting base includes a sleeve portion. The adjusting element includes a first body and an adjusting portion. The adjusting portion is mounted on the sleeve portion. The adjusting portion defines a plurality of adjusting holes. The guiding element defines two latching grooves and is sleeved on the adjusting portion. The latching assembly includes a button, an adjusting rod, and a biasing element. The button is inserted into the coupling portion. The adjusting rod includes a fixing portion and a latching portion. The fixing portion is fixed with the button. The latching portion is latched with the adjusting holes. The biasing element resists the button and the sleeve portion. The button is capable of driving the adjusting rod to move.

Abstract: A support device includes a support base, an adjustment member, and a latching assembly. The support base defines a receiving groove, a cutout, and an operation hole. The cutout and the operation hole communicate with the receiving groove. The adjustment member is rotatably received in the receiving groove. The adjustment member includes a base body and an adjusting gear portion connected with the base body; and a latching assembly received in the receiving groove. The latching assembly includes a slider and a gear mounted on the slider, the slider comprises a main body, an operation portion, and an installation portion, the operation portion and the installation portion protrude from opposite end portions of the main body, the operation portion is received through the operation hole for slidably connecting with the operation hole, and the gear is movably assembled to the installation portion.

Abstract: An exemplary fixing device includes an elastically deformable sleeve and a screw extendable through the sleeve. The sleeve includes a hollow column and multiple flanges extending outwardly from an outer circumferential face of the column. A plate assembly incorporating the fixing device is also provided.

Abstract: An exemplary rotating mechanism for positioning a rotation angle of a second body relative to a first body is provided. The first body includes a pair of sidewalls. The second body includes a pair of connecting arms rotatably connected to the sidewalls. The rotating mechanism includes a pair of positioning gears rotatably connected to the sidewalls, a brake slidably connected to the first body, and a button fastened to the brake. Each of the positioning gears includes a positioning block extending out of the sidewalls. The brake is driven to brake the positioning gears by the button when the button is moved towards the sidewalls. The positioning block is fixed at a predetermined position to position the rotation angle of the second body when the positioning gears are braked.

Abstract: An exemplary rotating mechanism for rotating a second body relative to a first body is provided. The first body includes a pair of sidewalls, and the second body includes a pair of connecting arms. A first connecting piece rotatably connects one of the connecting arms to one of the sidewalls, and a second connecting piece rotatably connects the other connecting arm to the other sidewall. A resilient element connects the second connecting piece to a sidewall to provide a restoring force to the second connecting piece along a direction perpendicular to the sidewall. An angle positioner is fixed on the other sidewall and is sleeved on the first connecting piece. The angle positioner defines a positioning gap to engage with a pair of lugs extending from the first connecting piece for positioning a relative rotation angle between the first body and the second body.

Abstract: A method for providing peripheral technical support is revealed. A search of a peripheral technical problem is performed by a first server or a second server so that a peripheral supplier provides a firm a peripheral technology solution the firm required. Moreover, an external technology solution obtained by the second server is stored in the first server so as to expand the first server. While providing the solution for the problem of the external technique, the peripheral supplier also provides the firm a peripheral technical report or a peripheral technical model. Thus a better technical support is offered, allowing the firm to solve the peripheral technical problem the firm encountered.

Abstract: A wafer container includes a container body, which comprises a plurality of sidewalls, a bottom, and a top to define a space for containing wafers, an opening being formed on one sidewall, and a door with an outer surface and an inner surface. The top of the container body is disposed with a robotic flange which comprises a foolproof structure and a hemi-circular snap-hook portion that are disposed at the center and its circumference of a lower surface of the robotic flange facing the top. The foolproof structure has a geometric hole for a protruding portion on the top of the container body to be plugged in. After the protruding portion is plugged into the geometric hole, the robotic flange is further rotated along the container body about 180 degrees for the hemi-circular snap-hook portion to be engaged in a hemi-circular supporting portion on the top of the container body.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an enclosure and a fixing member. The enclosure includes a bottom wall configured with a plurality of positioning posts. Each of the positioning posts includes a hook and a base connecting between the hook and the bottom wall. The fixing member includes a positioning portion. The positioning portion defines an engaging hole and a plurality of positioning teeth configured on an inner edge of the positioning portion. The positioning teeth surround and communicate with the engaging hole. The positioning teeth and the engaging hole cooperatively form a passageway through which the positioning posts pass. The enclosure is configured to be positioned at different angles relative to the fixing member due to friction between the positioning teeth of the positioning portion and the base as well as tight attachment of the hook to the positioning portion.

Abstract: A reticle storing container is disclosed to include an outer container, an inner container, and a purging valve. The outer container comprises a container body and a container base on which at least a first through-hole is disposed, and a first inner space is formed between the container body and the container base for storing the inner container. The inner container comprises a top cover and a bottom base on which at least a second through-hole connected to the first through-hole is disposed, and a second inner space is formed between the top cover and the bottom base for storing a reticle. The purging valve is disposed in the first through-hole on the outer container base and connected to the second through-hole of said inner container, wherein the purging valve comprises a spring and a valve part. Thus, when the valve part is propped up by a purging head, the valve part compresses the spring for the purging valve to be connected to the purging head.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an enclosure and a locking assembly. The enclosure defines an accommodating hole and includes a bottom wall defining a pair of receiving portions. Centers of the pair of receiving portions define an imaginary line. The accommodating hole is configured on a perpendicular bisector of the imaginary line. The locking assembly includes a guiding part, a pair of sliding portions, and a control portion. The guiding part and the bottom wall cooperatively define a receiving space receiving the sliding portions. Each of the sliding portions includes a securing portion, a blocking portion and a groove closing to the blocking portion. One end of the control portion passes through the accommodating hole, and the other end is received in the receiving space. The control portion defines a pair of guiding grooves symmetrical about and inclined to the perpendicular bisector and used to engage with the securing portions.

Abstract: A container having a top cover and a bottom cover is provided, which includes a canopy disposed on the bottom cover to form therewith a space to accommodate an article. A plurality of locators is disposed on a surface of the bottom cover so that when the bottom cover is tightly combined with the top cover, the locators are clipped between the bottom cover and the top cover to orient the canopy in a fixed position.

Abstract: A wafer container includes a container body, in which a plurality of slots being disposed for supporting a plurality of wafers and an opening being formed on one sidewall of which for importing and exporting the plurality of wafers, and a door is joined with the opening of the container body for protecting the plurality of wafers therein, wherein the characteristic of the wafer container lies in that: at least one latch component is disposed in the door, the latch component including an oval cam with a pair of V-shape notches and on the surface of oval cam being a groove, a pair of moving bars including respectively an engaging portion, and a guiding element located on the moving bars, the engaging portion being engaged in the groove for the pair of moving bars to be respectively engaged with the oval cam.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an enclosure and a fixing member to secure the enclosure to a fastener. The receiving member defines a first receiving portion and a second receiving portion in communication with the first receiving portion. The fixing member includes a control portion received in the receiving member and moving relative to the enclosure along a first axis of the first receiving portion, and a locking portion received in the receiving member and moving relative to the enclosure along a second axis of the second receiving portion perpendicular to the first axis. Movements of the control portion relative to the enclosure along the first axis of the first receiving portion and the locking portion relative to the enclosure along the second axis of the second receiving portion causes the electronic device to toggle in a locked or unlocked position.