Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
414783000 | Orienter has article gripping means | 23 |
20080232945 | Work Positioning Device - A work positioning device has a base and first and second support arms pivotally supported on the base. Each support arm has a primary supporting surface, upon which the object is arranged to be supported, and which is pivotal between an upright position in which the primary supporting surface extends generally upward and a lateral position in which the primary supporting surface extends generally laterally. First and second actuators are coupled between the base and the first and second support arms respectively to displace the first and second support arms between their upright and lateral positions. The arms are located on the base relative to one another such that the primary supporting surfaces confront one another so as to be arranged to clamp the object therebetween when both the first and second support arms are in the upright position. | 09-25-2008 |
20090053029 | ALIGNER - It is an object to provide an aligner for centering a wafer and adjusting an angle of a notch or the like of the wafer while gripping edges of the wafer capable of attaining a shortened takt time and miniaturization of the apparatus by employing a mechanism capable of infinite rotation without being restricted by a rotational range, by eliminating cables and/or tubes at the rotating portion. The link mechanism for causing opening and closing movements of the gripping mechanism for gripping a wafer | 02-26-2009 |
20090110533 | MANIPULATOR SYSTEM AND MANIPULATOR CONTROL METHOD - A manipulator has an operating unit including a trigger lever, a distal end working unit including an end effector and a yaw axis and a roll axis for changing the direction of the end effector, and a connector shaft interconnecting the operating unit and the distal end working unit. The operating unit includes an actuator block housing therein motors for actuating the yaw axis and the roll axis and a gripper operational quantity corrector for mechanically transmitting an operational action of the trigger lever to actuate the end effector. A controller calculates an interference amount caused on the end effector by the attitude angles of the yaw axis and the roll axis. The gripper operational quantity corrector is controlled by the controller to extend or retract a push rod, for correcting the operational quantity of the operational action of the trigger lever to compensate for the interference amount. | 04-30-2009 |
20100135761 | SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT METHOD - A substrate transport apparatus includes: a pair of arm units having a substrate-carrying surface on which a substrate is placed; a support member freely rotatably supporting the arm unit; and an inclination device inclining the arm unit with each of the substrate-carrying surface facing one another. | 06-03-2010 |
20110020103 | Handling device and handling method of quartz glass crucible - An object of the present invention is to provide a crucible handling device that can firmly sandwich and reliably move a quartz glass crucible under a clean environment and a method of handling a quartz glass crucible using the crucible handling device. The present invention provides a crucible handling device | 01-27-2011 |
20110158780 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING A PIECE OF CLOTH AND A LAUNDRY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - The invention concerns a method and corresponding apparatus of transferring a piece of cloth ( | 06-30-2011 |
20110171001 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING SHOCK-SENSITIVE GLASS PLATES IN ULTRA CLEAN ROOMS - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for the contamination-free transfer of thin, shock-sensitive crystalline plates, especially glass plates ( | 07-14-2011 |
20120009051 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ALIGNING SUBSTRATES - The invention relates to a method and a device for aligning substrates ( | 01-12-2012 |
20120009052 | METHOD FOR CENTERING VENEER SHEETS IN A PILE - A method for centering the settling of veneers on top of each other in a veneer pile, the veneers being cut from a log by slicing and dried. A substantially horizontal pile is, freely supported and having in the lateral direction extreme limits with clearance, subjected to a horizontal swinging motion whereby the extreme limits are reduced during the swinging motion. | 01-12-2012 |
20120076630 | Wind Turbine Component Handling Apparatus - A wind turbine component handling apparatus with a docking device, a lifting device, and a turning device is provided. A method for turning a wind turbine component is also provided. A plurality of pins is mounted to the wind turbine component. The wind turbine component is positioned at a support apparatus such that each pin rests in a cradle element of the support apparatus. The docking device is pushed in the horizontal direction such that openings in the docking device engage the pins. The docking device is lifted, wherein the wind turbine component is lifted by the pins and the docking device is rotated about a horizontal axis, wherein the wind turbine component is rotated about the horizontal axis by the pins. Then, the docking device is lowered until the pins mounted to the wind turbine component rest in the cradle elements of the support apparatus. | 03-29-2012 |
20120128459 | POSITIONING DEVICE FOR A SAMPLE CARRIER - The invention relates to an apparatus ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120128460 | Apparatus and Method for Collating Products - A collating conveyor ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120163952 | DEVICE FOR CLAMPING AND ROTATING THE OBJECT - A device, used for clamping and rotating the object, includes two first rods, one ends of which are respectively connected to one ends of the first plate and the second plate through a linked unit; another ends of the first rods are connected to the third rod that is used for balancing the rotating angles of the first rod and two linked units, such that the heights of two ends of the first rods and the second rods can be kept in step. Two second rods are connected to the first plate and the second plate respectively, as well as, another ends of second rods are connected to the fourth rod respectively. Accordingly, the fourth rod can be rotated to drive the second rod, such that the first plate and the second plate can be rotated. Therefore, due to two plates are used for clamping and rotating synchronously, users can take the advantages while the device is used. | 06-28-2012 |
20120213624 | TILTING DEVICE FOR CROPPING A SHEET OF LAMINATED GLASS - A tilting device for cropping a sheet of laminated glass, comprising two side-by-side rows of suckers, each supported by a bar of a frame which is pivoted, on the opposite side with respect to the suckers, to a supporting structure, the bars both resting on the same elements for the alternating lifting and lowering of the bars, which are adapted to produce the simultaneous alternating tilting of both of the frames and of the corresponding rows of suckers. | 08-23-2012 |
20130177378 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATIC LOADING OF AIR TRANSPORT UNITS - A method and a system for the automatic loading of air-transport units. In the method, the piece goods and the air-transport unit, on at least one side of which is an openable loading opening, are transported to the packing location, when the piece goods are packed automatically through the loading opening into the air-transport unit. The air-transport unit is tilted in connection with the packing, in such a way that the side with the loading opening is raised relative to the side opposite to the loading opening, so that the air-transport unit is loaded in at least two different attitudes. | 07-11-2013 |
20130183132 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORIENTATING A SOLID GROWTH CULTURE MEDIUM PLATE - An apparatus for orientating a solid growth culture medium plate from an original orientation to a worked orientation, the plate having a lid and a bottom, the apparatus including an orientation mechanism that includes opposed jaws able to receive and hold a plate therebetween in a held position that defines a notional tube above and below the plate, the orientation mechanism being mounted on a jaw support member such that the jaw support member is rotatable such that at least the plate bottom rotates about a generally horizontal axis that intersects the notional tube to orientate at least the plate bottom from the original orientation to the worked orientation. | 07-18-2013 |
20130223968 | AUTOMATIC HANDLING AND AERATION OF A STACK OF PAPER SHEETS - A method and apparatus for automated aerating and handling a sub stack of a stack of rectangular paper sheets where the sub stack is gripped near or at opposed corners of a common edge of the sub stack by means of two robotic grippers (A, B) having two opposed gripping fingers (A | 08-29-2013 |
20150063969 | Method and Apparatus for Dynamic Alignment of Semiconductor Devices - A semiconductor device is aligned by placing the semiconductor device in a nest between first and second sections of the nest when the nest is in a receiving position in which the first and second sections are spaced further apart from one another than when the nest is in an aligning position. The nest is moved from the receiving position to the aligning position with the semiconductor device in the nest so that the first and second sections are spaced closer to one another and align the semiconductor device in the nest. The semiconductor device is removed from the nest after the semiconductor device is aligned. | 03-05-2015 |
20150307219 | APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING A LARGE AMOUNT OF BAG - An apparatus for supplying a large amount of bags includes: a bag stocking mechanism that stocks a large amount of raised bags and guides the stocked bags to the front end thereof; and a bag transport mechanism that transports the bags of the bag stocking mechanism to a packaging machine. The apparatus further includes, a bag pickup mechanism and a bag delivery mechanism that pick up the bag from the bag stocking mechanism; a detection unit that detects the orientation of the picked up bag; and a bag turning mechanism that turns the bag in the predetermined transport direction of the bag transport mechanism according to the orientation of the bag detected by the detection unit. | 10-29-2015 |
20160101945 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ARRANGING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT RECEIVING TUBES - The present invention relates to an apparatus for arranging integrated circuit receiving tubes. The apparatus comprises a reverse mechanism, a detection element and a discharge mechanism. In use, the reverse mechanism receives a tube and the detection element determines an orientation of the received tube. The reverse mechanism moves to allow the discharge mechanism to receive the tube from itself. If the orientation of the received tube differs from a desired orientation, the movement of the reverse mechanism changes the orientation of the tube before allowing the discharge mechanism to receive the tube. Otherwise, the orientation of the tube is maintained notwithstanding the movement of the reverse mechanism, and is subsequently received by the discharge mechanism. This helps to automatically ensure that all the tubes are received by the discharge mechanism in the same orientation. | 04-14-2016 |
20160159579 | DEVICE FOR REPOSITIONING TUBES IN A TUBE RACK - A device for repositioning tubes in a tube rack is presented. The device comprises a base; a mount movable relative to the base in a first and second direction; an actuator for moving the mount; grippers coupled to and movable with the mount, each gripper comprising arms with portions for gripping a tube; a biasing element coupled to the mount and to the arms to be movable relative to the mount and to move the portions towards/away from each other; a blocking element coupled to the base to engage the biasing element and to block movement of the biasing element with respect to the mount against a force where the mount is moved in the first direction to move the portions towards each other and to disengage from the biasing element when the mount is moved in the second direction to allow the portions to be moved apart. | 06-09-2016 |
20170236739 | HIGH SPEED SUBSTRATE ALIGNER APPARATUS | 08-17-2017 |
20190143391 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FEEDING A SHEET METAL PANEL TO A PUNCH PRESS | 05-16-2019 |