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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7900807 | Conductive ball mounting apparatus and conductive ball mounting method In a conductive ball mounting apparatus for mounting one conductive ball on each of a plurality of pads which are provided on a substrate and on which an adhesive is formed, the conductive ball mounting apparatus includes: a conductive ball container for containing ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7810697 | Turntable welding system with light curtain protection A robotic welding system is provided that includes multiple welding cells equidistantly spaced in a circular arrangement, multiple perimeter light curtains to provide safety protection around the welding cells, a turntable centrally located in the circular arrangeme... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7357288 | Component connecting apparatus When a component, that has a connection portion to be connected to an electrode of a board and a weak heat-resistant portion of a lower heat-resisting property than a fusing point of a connection material for connecting the electrode of the board with the connection... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7314343 | Miniature manipulator for servicing the interior of nuclear steam generator tubes A manipulator for servicing tubes extending through a tube sheet having three major components: a base member, a block member, and a foot member. The base member has a holder for supporting tooling or inspection devices. The base member also has at least one gripper... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7238916 | Robotic welding cell unit A portable welding cell unit includes a frame structure in which first and second welding stations are disposed. A robot arm is also provided within the frame. The robot arm can pivot between the first and second welding stations such that a work piece can be welded... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7216408 | Flexible rail multiaxis machine tool and method A flexible rail machine tool couples temporarily to a structure by vacuum cups and positions a tool head at any desired point over an area. The toolhead can perform operations such as drilling, bolt insertion, and acquisition of dimension data. The flexible rail can... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7159751 | Wire bonder The bondhead of a Wire Bonder, that serves to produce a wire connection between two connection points by means of a capillary guiding a wire, is formed as a pantograph mechanism. The pantograph mechanism comprises a first swivel arm driven by a first motor, a second... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7141752 | Electric actuator An electric actuator having an in-line rotation shaft, electric motor and encoder in which the encoder shaft, the motor shaft and the rotation shaft is concentric and integrally formed. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7100271 | Automotive vehicle framing system A vehicle framing system for framing an automotive vehicle body from a plurality of separate body components wherein the body components each include a reference surface. The system includes an assembly station having spaced-apart frame members positioned so that, w... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096912 | Bonding apparatus A bonding apparatus including, on a supporting stand 12, two linear motors 130 and 140 and a bonding head supporting stage 114 which supports the bonding head 120 by means of fluid pressure so that the bonding head 120 is mo... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097091 | Friction stir welding method and component part welded by the method Disclosed is a friction stir welding method for welding two members to be welded which differ in physical properties and/or mechanical properties by abutting the two members to each other, inserting a pin portion of a rotary tool having the pin portion and a shoulde... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7066188 | Interior sewer pipeline scarifying apparatus This application discloses an apparatus for scarifying the interior surface of a sewer pipe, which can remain in the sewer under active flow conditions. The apparatus includes at least one scarifying head, which may transverse back and forth along a rail assembly, w... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7020942 | Portable boring and welding machine A portable boring and welding machine includes a tool shaft adapted to mount tools for boring and welding workpieces. The shaft extends along an axis and is driven by an electric motor. The motor and the shaft are connected by a helical gearwheel and worm pair, the ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6921011 | Work piece holder having top mounted robot and method of use The invention relates to a work piece holder with top mounted robot which optimizes floor space for a work piece positioner and a robot. In general, the work piece positioner assembly and the top mounted robot is supported on a base frame. Attached to the base frame... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6871772 | Wire bonding apparatus A wire bonding apparatus with a bonding head that includes an ultrasonic transducer having a capillary at its tip end, piezo-electric elements that form a pair of complementary action type extension and retraction driving elements which cause the ultrasonic transduc... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6863206 | Bonding apparatus A bonding apparatus including an ultrasonic horn having a capillary, a horn holder holding the ultrasonic horn, a swing arm rotatably supporting the horn holder on horn holder supporting shafts, and auxiliary arms which are rotatably supported by auxiliary arm suppo... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6786392 | Wire bonding device and wire bonding method An object is to reduce impact load applied on a bonding subject at the time of wire contact detection and achieve a stable and highly precise fabrication of a bonding ball so as to shorten the bonding time. A wire bonding arm comprises: a Z driving shaft supported b... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6772932 | Automated welding system utilizing overhead robots An automated welding system utilizing integrally mounted robots within a self-contained and repositionable work station. One or more work tables are shuttled between loading and welding stations. The robot is mounted directly adjacent the operating stage, thereby dr... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6742695 | Soldering machine for tape carrier package outer leads A soldering machine for tape carrier package. The soldering machine includes a cylinder, a linking rod, a cushioning pad, a floating connector and a press head assembly. The cylinder has a first end and a second end. The linking rod passes through the interior of th... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6651866 | Precision bond head for mounting semiconductor chips The present invention relates to a new and improved device adapted for mounting semiconductor components to substrates. More particularly, the device includes a housing and a first member rotatably mounted to the housing. A first interface is formed betwe... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6641025 | Threading tool and method for bond wire capillary tubes A capillary threading tool is used to thread bond wire through the capillary tool of a wire bond machine. The capillary threading tool includes a handle that is grasped to manipulate a body portion into a gap between the upper end of the capillary tube an... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6561408 | Bonding head and component mounting apparatus There is provided an inclination prevention member for preventing a pressing part from inclining to a supporting part. Therefore a pressing face and a stage face can be arranged to be nearly parallel. The pressing face can be thus disposed with the higher... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6533159 | Apparatus for attaching solder balls to BGA package utilizing a tool to pick and dip the solder ball in flux An array of solder balls is formed on a first substrate for interconnecting with conductive sites on another substrate. A ball pickup tool picks up balls with a vacuum suction from a fluidized ball reservoir and utilizes a puff of gas to release the solde... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6471109 | Method and apparatus for soldering and soldering land of a printed circuit board A pair of soldering irons are fixed to a sliding plate at a predetermined interval. The soldering irons are integrally moved so as to reciprocate in a rectangular direction relative to a conveyor belt. One of the soldering irons is conveyed to a working p... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6454155 | Stroke and pressure adjusting device for solder machine A stroke and pressure adjusting device is used for the soldering process of a soldering machine which has a driving device for driving a soldering device of the soldering machine to solder, and the driving device has a driving shaft on which the stroke an... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6364195 | Brazing Apparatus A first electromagnetic induction pump is disposed in a first reservoir, and a second electromagnetic induction pump is disposed in a second, independent, reservoir. Each reservoir is adapted to contain molten brazing filler metal. The electromagnetic ind... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6321970 | Wire bonding machine An extended travel wire bonding machine that includes a first positioning table movable along an X axis in a first horizontal plane, a second positioning table movable along X and Y axes in a second horizontal plane, the second positioning table being sup... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6264089 | Connecting apparatus A heater tool, which bonds by thermocompression outer leads of a TCP to electrodes on an array substrate, is fixed to a support block and is movable between a compression-bonding position, wherein the distal end portion of the heater tool presses the TCP ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6247628 | Ultrasonic vibration bonding tool An ultrasonic vibration bonding tool comprising a square bar-like horn body, bonding working portions projecting from the upper and lower surfaces of the horn body at the central maximum vibration amplitude point, and crooked support portions projecting f... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6234376 | Supplying a cover gas for wire ball bonding Method and apparatus for supplying a protective cover gas during ball formation on a wire bonding machine to permit the use of wire formed from metals which may react with air, such as copper or aluminum.... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6223967 | Extended travel wire bonding machine An extended travel wire bonding machine that includes a first positioning table movable along an X axis in a first horizontal plane, a second positioning table movable along X and Y axes in a second horizontal plane, the second positioning table being sup... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6223971 | Driving unit of a welding equipment A small-sized motor is employed by a driving unit of a welding equipment wherein the inner diameter of a rotary shaft of the motor can be reduced as much as possible, and the entire length of the driving unit is reduced. The driving unit of a welding equi... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6173880 | Friction stir weld system for welding and weld repair A friction stir weld system for welding and weld repair has a base foundation unit connected to a hydraulically controlled elevation platform and a hydraulically adjustable pin tool. The base foundation unit may be fixably connected to a horizontal surfac... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6158649 | Solder ball mounting apparatus and method By providing a mechanism for removing static electricity, even slight electric charge caused by natural electrification is removed before holding solder balls. A necessary number of solder balls are held securely. The solder balls attracted by vacuum suct... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6149047 | Die-bonding machine In a die-bonding machine for picking up a number of semiconductor pellets arranged in the form of a pellet array, one by one, to place a picked-up semiconductor pellet on a predetermined position, when an estimated X-direction coordinate position of the s... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6109501 | Radial wire bonder and selectable side view inspection system A wire bonding machine having a wire bonding head that provides five directions of movement or degrees of freedom. The radial direction of movement supports the wire bonding process and reduces the moving mass of the wire bonder during the generation of t... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6095399 | Pressure welding apparatus and pressure welding method A pressure welding apparatus for pressure-welding an electric wire quickly and surely to a pressure welding terminal in a double-sided solderless connector according to various wire-diameters. A plurality of applicators having various wire pressure weldin... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6068175 | System for replacing a first area array component connected to an interconnect board Apparatus for connecting a first area array component to a substrate with a joining material. The apparatus has a nozzle directing heat toward both the first area array component and the portion of the substrate beneath the first area array component to m... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6059169 | Spot welding system A spot welding system employing parallel link robots arranged densely with one another. When an arrival of a workpiece W being conveyed is detected by a camera CM, a frame moves along guides to start tracking of the workpiece, and a plurality of robots RB... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6057526 | Wire feed unit system to automatically feed filler wire to a weld A wire feed unit system including a base having a lower support surface positionable upon a recipient surface and an upper support surface. A housing is located on the upper support surface with a door mounted on one side face thereof supported by a hinge... | 05/02/2000 |
