Patents by Inventor Wayne A. Lasante

Wayne A. Lasante 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).

  • Load station
    Patent number: 9812343
    Abstract: A substrate loading station including a frame forming a chamber configured to hold a controlled environment, a transfer robot connected to the frame and one or more substrate cassette holding locations each capable of having a substrate cassette holder disposed within the frame. Each of the one or more substrate cassette holding locations being configured to removably support a respective substrate cassette in a predetermined position for communication with the transfer robot to effect substrate transfer between a respective cassette and the transfer robot where the one or more substrate cassette holding locations are configured to effect the interchangeability of one or more substrate cassette holders with other substrate cassette holders for changing a substrate cassette holding capacity of the substrate loading station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.
    Inventors: Leigh F. Sharrock, Tsepa Bayul, Christopher J. Dancewicz, Wayne A. Lasante
  • LOAD STATION
    Publication number: 20150249029
    Abstract: A substrate loading station including a frame forming a chamber configured to hold a controlled environment, a transfer robot connected to the frame and one or more substrate cassette holding locations each capable of having a substrate cassette holder disposed within the frame. Each of the one or more substrate cassette holding locations being configured to removably support a respective substrate cassette in a predetermined position for communication with the transfer robot to effect substrate transfer between a respective cassette and the transfer robot where the one or more substrate cassette holding locations are configured to effect the interchangeability of one or more substrate cassette holders with other substrate cassette holders for changing a substrate cassette holding capacity of the substrate loading station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Brooks Automation, Inc.
    Inventors: Leigh F. Sharrock, Tsepa Bayul, Christopher J. Dancewicz, Wayne A. Lasante