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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5806174 | Apparatus for mounting electronic components In an apparatus for mounting electronic components of the invention, a moving part is attached to a frame of the apparatus and moved freely in front and rear directions by a moving device. Also, first and second movable members are attached to the moving ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5803979 | Transport apparatus for semiconductor wafers Transport apparatus for semiconductor wafers which have been subject to chemical mechanical polishing (CMP). The risk of malfunction of an articulated arm fitted with a vacuum chuck can be reduced in a number of different ways. The end effector can be con... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5799994 | Wafer handling tool with vacuum pickup A hand operated tool for picking up a semiconductor wafer includes a vacuum cylinder with a piston. The user first pushes the piston to its forward most position against the force of a spring and a catch mechanism locks the piston in this position. Later,... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5795001 | Vacuum device for handling articles A hand held device for manipulating articles having a generally vacuum sustaining face surface. The hand held device includes a suction cup having generally pliable side walls and a hand held portion attached to the suction cup. In a first embodiment the ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5794329 | Support apparatus for circuit board Pin placement and support apparatus for a circuit board that has a rigid support table, a supply of pins, a pin placement head, and an X-Y transporter that moves the pin placement head relative to the table so as to place the pins at desired and variable ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5791861 | Rotatable vacuum lifting and transporting apparatus A suspendable apparatus for the lifting, rotating and transferring of essentially smooth-walled cylindrical objects, where such apparatus is preferably an air cylinder. The apparatus comprises a vertically oriented lifting mechanism consisting of a liftin... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5791709 | Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus having suctorial means for handling wafers A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus using a suctorial device for handling wafers includes a main vacuum line, a manufacturing apparatus for performing predetermined manufacturing processes with respect to the wafers, and a vacuum line for connecting t... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5785370 | Soft contact lens manipulating device A soft contact lens pickup and insertion device (10) featuring a flat, annular terminus (16) designed to engage the apex of the convex side of a soft contact lens without deforming the lens is provided together with a hollow, rigid shank (12) and a hollow... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5782516 | Hand-worn apparatus for lifting compact disks and other delicate articles A hand-worn apparatus for releasably lifting a compact disk or other delicate or hard to handle article includes at least one suction cup element disposed on a housing member such as a glove, a vacuum line connected to the suction cup and a vacuum source,... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5782515 | Rotatable arm mechanism for assembling and disassembling samples A rotatable arm mechanism capable of acquiring two elements simultaneously for purposes of assembly, disassembly and delivery. At one end of the rotatable arm there is mounted a vacuum cup capable of acquiring generally planar elements such as film sample... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5778525 | Component mounting apparatus and method, and component mounting equipment There is provided a plurality of component mounting apparatuses for sucking a plurality of components by a mounting head section and successively mounting the components onto a board located at a board positioning section. The component mounting apparatus... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5772823 | Method for installing automotive windshields For replacement of automotive windshields by aftermarket installers, two mirror image grips have a curved tubular handle which is welded to a sheet metal base with two legs which are at an obtuse angle to one another. The curved handle allows smooth repos... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5772268 | Paper handling aid The present invention relates to devices and aids in the process of handling paper products including page turning, paper and card sorting, paper separating, obtaining a paper coffee filter from a stack of filters and other actions requiring the separatio... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5772170 | Vacuum-suction attachment pad A suction chamber is provided in the rear portion of a pad body remote from an external pad supporting surface. The fore end portion of the pad body facing the pad supporting surface is divided into a plurality of sucking compartments for communication wi... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5768765 | Component mounting apparatus A component mounting apparatus includes a first pair of clamping members installed to face each other and to move toward and away from a hollow rod, and a second pair of clamping members installed to face each other at a predetermined angle with respect t... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5765890 | Device for transferring a semiconductor wafer A device for use in handling a semiconductor wafer from a front face of the wafer on which a finished surface is formed by processing of the semiconductor wafer, the front face including an outer peripheral edge margin. The device includes fingers having ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5765889 | Wafer transport robot arm for transporting a semiconductor wafer An arm structure of a wafer transfer robot for transporting a semiconductor wafer by vacuum absorption, comprising a body, a plurality of fingers extending in parallel from respective ends of a main vacuum line formed in the body, a plurality of branch va... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5765277 | Die bonding apparatus with a revolving pick-up tool A die bonding apparatus for separating a chip from a tested wafer including a plurality of chips and attaching the chip to a lead frame comprising a chip-transferring part for separating the chip from the wafer and transferring the chip to a place where a... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5758410 | Electronic-component mounting head A mounting head, a mounting apparatus, and a mounting method which are capable of contacting an electronic component with a substrate with a small contact load and mounting the component on the substrate, are provided. A suction device 120 is fit on a spl... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5758409 | Conductive ball-placing apparatus An apparatus for placing electrically-conductive balls on electrodes of workpieces so as to form projected electrodes includes a ball-placing head which picks up the conductive balls from a reservoir. Suction holes for respectively suction-holding the con... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5755471 | Actuator stem and actuator design having a D-shaped cross-section An improved actuator stem and actuator design are provided that greatly increase the accuracy of actuator type precision operations, such as surface mounted electrical component placement, die and attach tooling movements, and tape and reel part storage t... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5755550 | Vacuum depalletizer apparatus and method A vacuum apparatus and method are provided for controlling operation of a vacuum force to be applied through a vacuum cup for use in lifting objects such as cardboard boxes, so as to unload a pallet holding one or more of the boxes. The apparatus includes... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5752729 | Vacuum lifting device A vacuum lifting device that is particularly suitable for lifting refractory slabs used to line aluminum smelting cells incudes suction cups which engage the object to be lifted. A plurality of mechanical supports can be moved so that they extend at least... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5749614 | Vacuum pickup tool for placing balls in a customized pattern A vacuum pickup tool (10) is effective to carry balls (18) arranged in a desired pattern. The vacuum pickup tool (10) includes a manifold (12) that includes a carrier plate (22) that has a plurality of manifold bores (28) arranged in a pattern. The manifo... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5746462 | Flexible vacuum pick-up device The present invention discloses a flexible vacuum pick-up device for use in wafer processing that includes a handle portion adapted for holding by a human hand, the handle portion has a passage therein for fluid communication, a flexible conduit for provi... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5743001 | Surface mount placement system with single step, multiple place carriage A surface mount placement system with one or more carriages includes, on each carriage, multiple groups of quills, each group being adjustable on one of two principal orthogonal directions of a plane containing a component mounting zone. The quills of eac... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5743005 | Component mounting apparatus and method A component mounting apparatus and method for mounting components on to-be-mounted positions of works, includes a carrying device for continuously and successively carrying the works in a working area, and a first component-mounting device for picking up ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5729895 | Process for compensating for the position of a camera in a chip mount system and process for mounting chips using the compensation method Disclosed is a process for mounting chips exactly on a PCB without making a camera coordinate system coincide with a table coordinate system of a rotary-type chip mount system. The process comprises the steps of reading positional difference and angular d... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5727922 | Electronic component transfer apparatus and method In an electronic component transfer method and apparatus, an electronic component is placed on a suctional top surface of a suction nozzle brought into a protruded posture relative to a component fixing block while the electronic component is drawn by suc... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5727832 | End effector for transferring articles An end effector for use with an industrial robot and capable of holding a stack of substantially flat, folded articles. The end effector includes a body which defines a vacuum chamber. The vacuum chamber has a port which may be coupled to a vacuum source ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5724722 | Part state detecting device for mounter A component handling device that is adapted to provide determination of a component picked up by a pickup device by different recognition methods depending upon the size of the component picked up. One recognition method employs a light source and a recep... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5724723 | Apparatus for assembling an optical fiber connector An apparatus for assembling a multiple component article such as an optical fiber connector and inspecting assembled multiple component articles. The apparatus includes a fixture or nest for retaining an elongated body of the connector in a selected orien... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5718559 | Apparatus for the removal and transfer of plate-shaped objects from a stack using a suction device The invention relates to a device for the removal and transfer of plate-shaped objects (CD) from a stack using a suction device being movable against a counter-force for generating a vacuum with a predetermined duration at a suction opening. To obtain a s... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5711646 | Substrate transfer apparatus A substrate transfer apparatus for receiving and delivering a substrate among a plurality of process locations and transferring the substrate among the process locations comprises an apparatus body, a transfer member, movably provided on the apparatus bod... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5707093 | Suction pad, rotation--stop and guide mechanism for the same A suction pad comprises a workpiece attracting section made of a metallic material and brought to contact with a surface of a workpiece; a main body made of a flexible material and integrally coupled to the workpiece attracting section; an adapter made of... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5707094 | Battery lift apparatus for electric vehicles A battery lift apparatus, for use with an overhead air hoist, adapted to lift and load heavy vehicle batteries into a tray of an electric powered vehicle including a rectangular-shaped carrier beam of electrically insulative plastic material, formed with ... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5704673 | Large area support label carrier The invention relates to a device for transferring thin sheet material which comprises: a face, a spine which is positioned adjacent to the face, a plurality of ribs which radiate away from the spine and are used to support the face, an apparatus for conn... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5700045 | Universal QFP tray transfer method An improved method for transferring a semiconductor carrier tray is disclosed. The method herein provides for transferring a semiconductor carrier tray from a first location to a second location by first positioning a cap member to cover the mouth of at l... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5697658 | Centering apparatus for component mounting device A mechanism for picking up and centering a component which is to be placed on an object includes a suction nozzle for holding the component. A first actuator moves the suction nozzle vertically to position the component at a preselected height relative to... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5692293 | Automatic electronic part-mounting apparatus There is disclosed an automatic electronic part-mounting apparatus in which acceleration, acting on electronic parts, suction-held respectively by mounting heads, is reduced, thereby enabling stable mounting of the electronic parts. Cam levers 10 are pivo... | 12/02/1997 |
