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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10742092
APP PUB NO 20160164382A1
SERIAL NO

14540058

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A transport apparatus including a housing, a drive mounted to the housing, and at least one transport arm connected to the drive, where the drive includes at least one rotor having at least one salient pole of magnetic permeable material and disposed in an isolated environment, at least one stator having at least one salient pole with corresponding coil units and disposed outside the isolated environment where the at least one salient pole of the at least one stator and the at least one salient pole of the rotor form a closed magnetic flux circuit between the at least one rotor and the at least one stator, at least one seal partition configured to isolate the isolated environment, and at least one sensor including a magnetic sensor member connected to the housing, at least one sensor track connected to the at least one rotor where the at least one seal partition is disposed between and separates the magnetic sensor member and the at least one sensor track so that the at least one sensor track is disposed in the isolated environment and the magnetic sensor member is disposed outside the isolated environment.

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BROOKS AUTOMATION US LLC15 ELIZABETH DRIVE CHELMSFORD MA 01824

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Coady, Matthew W Hollis, US 17 191
Gilchrist, Ulysses Reading, US 104 1845
Gunn, Branden Reading, US 3 6
Moura, Jairo T Marlboro, US 43 229
Saeidpourazar, Reza Nashua, US 10 327

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