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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6502834 | Holding chuck for a tire-wheel with a chatter-suppressing device A holding chuck has a clamping device for firmly holding the tire-wheel in the position aligned with a center axis of a holding chuck. Chatter-suppressing dampers are disposed on an intermediate plate fitted around the chuck. The dampers are disposed on c... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6342944 | Vertical alignment table mechanism A vertical alignment table mechanism 21 for a board 25 to form a printed wiring board has a vertical support wall 43, and an alignment table 33 disposed in vertical attitude opposite to the front surface of the support wall 43, having an opening in which ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6308614 | Actuator device An actuator device includes a housing having a bore and an internal moving body movable within the bore in the direction along the center axis of the bore. The housing is composed of two housing members which divide the housing along the center axis. An i... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6293183 | Coupling construction between an actuator and a base A rodless cylinder is coupled to an elongated base. The construction for coupling the rodless cylinder to the base includes a hollow duct formed in the bottom wall of the base and extending along the entire length of the base. A projection extending along... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6253660 | Rodless cylinder An inner seal band having flat surfaces on both sides is used for closing a slit formed on the cylinder tube of a rodless cylinder. An internal moving body is disposed in the cylinder tube and moves along the longitudinal axis of the cylinder tube. The in... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6211942 | Double-sided exposure system A double-sided exposure system (1) has a first work holding device (21L) for holding a substrate (P) opposite to an exposure mask (55) to expose a first surface of the substrate (P) through the exposure mask (55) to light, and a second work holding device... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6186484 | Elastomer damper for an actuator cylinder The elastomer dampers are disposed at both ends of the actuator cylinder in order to stop the piston moving in the cylinder at its stroke ends. The elastomer damper includes a pair of the protruding portions which abut the piston at its stroke end. The pr... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6092456 | Rodless power cylinder A rodless power cylinder includes a tube having an oblong circular cross section bore and a slit extending along the longitudinal axis of the bore and penetrating the wall of the tube. The bore includes a slit-side inner surface on which the slit opens an... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6047534 | Stopping and restarting device in independent driven spindle in spinning machine Regarding an independently driven type spindle in a spinning machine, when a yarn breakage is occurred in a spindle 10, a brake operating member 35 of the spindle 10 is moved toward a spindle shaft 13. During the movement of the brake operating member 35,... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6023111 | Linear actuator The linear actuator includes a tube provided with a slit which penetrates the wall of the tube and extends parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube. In the tube, an internal moving body is disposed. The internal moving body moves in the tube along th... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5992295 | Slide unit The slide unit includes a rodless power cylinder having a cylinder tube. End caps are attached to both ends of the cylinder tube. A slit extending in parallel with the axis of the cylinder tube is formed on the wall of the cylinder tube. A piston is dispo... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5974947 | Rodless power cylinder According to the rodless power cylinder of the present invention, a pressure relieving passage which opens to the space between the inner seal band and the outer seal band at one end, and to the outside of the cylinder barrel at the other end is provided ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5957632 | Tool position correcting device A tool position correcting device comprises a draw bar supported for axial movement in a central bore of a spindle of a machine tool, a tool holder supported for turning about an eccentric axis displaced from the axis of rotation of the spindle on the nos... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5688214 | Tool changing method and apparatus Tools are classified into small type tools that can pass through the space between a pair of grippers in its open position and large type tools that cannot pass through the space between the pair of grippers in the open position, when the headstock suppor... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5688215 | Tool magazine for machine tool A tool magazine disclosed is fundamentally the same in construction as a corresponding prior art tool magazine but is capable of handling tools of diameters greater than those of tools which can be handled by the prior art tool magazine. The tool magazine... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5464233 | Finger chuck for use with machine tool A finger chuck for use with a machine tool comprises a chuck main body having a front wall and a rear wall, the front wall and the rear wall defining a space therebetween. A centering device is supported by the front wall for centering the workpiece on th... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5461758 | Roller device for sensing and controlling unevenness of silver in a carding machine A short cycle unevenness control device in the delivery part of a carding machine. The device includes a set of measuring rollers 26 and 37 for receiving a sliver from a funnel and a set of drafting rollers 23 and 42 for issuing the sliver S to a coiler. ... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5341633 | Apparatus for winding a roving applied to a roving frame In a roving winding apparatus applied to a roving frame provided with a plurality of draft parts and corresponding bobbin wheels, a bobbin shaft for driving the bobbin wheel, a bobbin rail on which the bobbin shaft is rotatably horizontally mounted along ... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5158307 | Chuck for machine tools A machine tool chuck in which a wedge member is provided to cause radial displacement of workpiece clamping pawls for replacement. The replacement can be made with minimum variations in radial position at which the clamping pawls are relocated. To this en... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5155473 | Torque and thrust overload detection system for a machine tool A toolholder assembly is divided into a drive toolholder coupled to the drive spindle of a machine tool, and a driven toolholder carrying a cutting tool such as a drill. The driven toolholder is coupled end to end to a drive toolholder so as to be rotatab... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5088157 | Unit drafting mechanism having air jet apertured slide metals and rollers A unit drafting mechanism of a spinning machine, having at least one unit drafting mechanism and provided with a pair of slide metals disposed on roller stands facing each other, and a plurality of bottom rollers and top rollers journaled on these slide m... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5033183 | Chuck jaw changer for a machine tool A chuck jaw changer for a machine tool has a jaw changing arm which is swingable about a vertical rotating shaft. The two ends of the arm have elongated magazine holders extending transversely to the length of the arm. The magazine holder has a guide groo... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4856415 | Rodless cylinder assembly A rodless cylinder assembly comprises a cylinder barrel provided with an axial bore in which a piston is slidably fitted and a slit formed in the outer surface thereof so as to be directed upwardly. A slide mount is operatively connected to the piston thr... | 08/15/1989 |
