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Robert B. Lowrance

Applied Materials: 74 patents #80 of 7,310Top 2%
KAKateeva: 17 patents #10 of 76Top 15%
SCSokudo Co.: 1 patents #34 of 74Top 50%
San Jose, CA: #295 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,521 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #16,345 of 4,157,543Top 1%
94 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 51–75 of 94 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7506746 System for transporting substrate carriers Michael R. Rice, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2009-03-24
7506747 Break-away positioning conveyor mount for accommodating conveyor belt bends Michael R. Rice, Eric A. Englhardt, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens 2009-03-24
7503448 Break-away positioning conveyor mount for accommodating conveyor belt bends Michael R. Rice, Eric A. Englhardt, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens 2009-03-17
7455172 Break-away positioning conveyor mount for accommodating conveyor belt bends Michael R. Rice, Eric A. Englhardt, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens 2008-11-25
7433756 Calibration of high speed loader to substrate transport system Michael R. Rice, Eric A. Englhardt, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Kirk Van Katwyk +1 more 2008-10-07
7374391 Substrate gripper for a substrate handling robot Michael R. Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Charles T. Carlson, William T. Weaver, Eric A. Englhardt +6 more 2008-05-20
7374393 Method of retaining a substrate during a substrate transferring process Mike Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Charles T. Carlson, William T. Weaver, Eric A. Englhardt +6 more 2008-05-20
7367446 Methods and apparatus for transporting substrate carriers Michael R. Rice, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2008-05-06
7359767 Substrate carrier handler that unloads substrate carriers directly from a moving conveyor Michael R. Rice, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2008-04-15
7357842 Cluster tool architecture for processing a substrate Tetsuya Ishikawa, Rick J. Roberts, Helen R. Armer, Leon Volfovski, Jay D. Pinson, II +10 more 2008-04-15
7346431 Substrate carrier handler that unloads substrate carriers directly from a moving conveyer Michael R. Rice, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2008-03-18
7299831 Substrate carrier having door latching and substrate clamping mechanisms Martin R. Elliott, Michael R. Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2007-11-27
7293642 Methods and apparatus for transporting substrate carriers Michael R. Rice, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2007-11-13
7258520 Methods and apparatus for using substrate carrier movement to actuate substrate carrier door opening/closing Martin R. Elliott, Michael R. Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt, Loy Randall Stuart 2007-08-21
7243003 Substrate carrier handler that unloads substrate carriers directly from a moving conveyor Michael R. Rice, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2007-07-10
7234584 System for transporting substrate carriers Michael R. Rice, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2007-06-26
7230702 Monitoring of smart pin transition timing Michael R. Rice, Eric A. Englhardt, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Kirk Van Katwyk +1 more 2007-06-12
7221993 Systems and methods for transferring small lot size substrate carriers between processing tools Michael R. Rice, Eric A. Englhardt, Vinay Shah, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens 2007-05-22
7168553 Dynamically balanced substrate carrier handler Michael R. Rice, Eric A. Englhardt, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens 2007-01-30
7156221 Break-away positioning conveyor mount for accommodating conveyor belt bends Michael R. Rice, Eric A. Englhardt, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens 2007-01-02
7077264 Methods and apparatus for transporting substrate carriers Michael R. Rice, Martin R. Elliott, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2006-07-18
6955197 Substrate carrier having door latching and substrate clamping mechanisms Martin R. Elliott, Michael R. Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Eric A. Englhardt 2005-10-18
6799939 Multiple independent robot assembly and apparatus for processing and transferring semiconductor wafers Howard Grunes 2004-10-05
6352403 Controlled environment enclosure and mechanical interface Boris Fishkin, Seiji Sato 2002-03-05
6102164 Multiple independent robot assembly and apparatus for processing and transferring semiconductor wafers William McClintock, Howard Grunes 2000-08-15