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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6514032 | Substrate transfer system A substrate transfer system employs a robot hand which is composed such that a sum length of a first arm and a third arm equal a length of a second arm, and a length of the first arm becomes longer than a length of the third arm. A ratio between arm lengt... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6505528 | Device for fast taking out and putting in The invention is a device for fast taking out and putting in, especially the device can fast take out a chip from a wafer to put in another chip receptacle, wherein, the invention includes a gear set, which consists of a first big gear, a second big gear ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6484602 | Six-degree of freedom micro-positioner A positioning device is provided. The positioning device includes a movable platform and a monolithic base. Struts are attached to both the movable platform and the monolithic base. The monolithic base moves each of the attached struts to cause the movabl... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6481309 | Transfer arm A transfer arm is formed of a first short link, a first parallel link pivotally connected to the first short link, a second short link pivotally connected to the other ends of the first parallel link, a second parallel link pivotally connected to the seco... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6408225 | Device and method for balancing the weight on a robot arm The invention relates to a device for balancing the weight carried by a robot arm of a robot. Said device comprises a fluid spring, rotably a pneumatic spring, and a control device for controlling the movements of the robot. The device is characterized by... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6397699 | Oscillating actuator An oscillating actuator is provided which includes a coil-holding member, and a carriage member. The carriage member has a bearing hole and at least one arm, and the at least one arm has a head portion and an intermediate portion arranged between the head... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6378190 | Method for stress-free assembly of components An apparatus and a method for compliant positioning of an object during an assembly operation wherein the apparatus includes a base plate, a locator plate for mounting an object such as a clamp or a tool spaced from the base plate and a plurality of linea... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6354167 | Scara type robot with counterbalanced arms A SCARA type robot with counterbalanced arms and tilting base. This apparatus enables accurate planar movement of a probe. Weak or flexible foundations or footings do not affect positioning accuracy of the probe. Positioning accuracy, relative to the move... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6339969 | Three-degree-of-freedom parallel planar manipulator A pair of five-bar mechanisms having their pivotal axes parallel are each mounted at one end to a base and are interconnected at their other ends by a crankshaft to obtain a manipulator generating three degrees of freedom planar motion of an end-effector.... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6336375 | Coordinate positioning machine A coordinate positioning machine comprises a fixed structure including a table and a supporting frame, rigidly connected together. A movable arm is suspended from the frame by means of three powered telescopic struts, each of which is universally pivotall... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6324933 | Planar movable stage mechanism Apparatus for moving a platform in X and Y directions including a first shaft secured along a first edge of the platform and oriented axially in the X direction and a second shaft secured along a second edge of the platform and oriented axially in the Y d... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6314828 | Skew pantograph robotic apparatus The apparatus has four links pivotally coupled together. First and second links each includes a first portion having an angular portion extending therefrom at an angle of between 120-135 degrees. The first link is pivotally coupled to the angular portion ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6301526 | Master device having force reflection function A master device for generating motion instruction of the slave robot by sensing motion of the arm with fixed to the arm of the operator, and reflecting motion limit information by external force and physical articulation limit sensed by the robot may be s... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6299404 | Substrate transport apparatus with double substrate holders A substrate processing apparatus having a supply of substrates, a substrate transport module, and a substrate processing module. The transport module has a movable arm assembly and two substrate holders mounted to the movable arm assembly. The substrate h... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6298282 | Robot crash sensor system A method of detecting object scratching during robotic arm movement of the object. The method includes providing a robotic arm for grasping and placing of an object into a cassette and providing a cassette having an entrance for receiving an object therei... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6286386 | Passive orientation apparatus An apparatus that can return a payload to a known orientation after unknown motion, without requiring external power or complex mechanical systems. The apparatus comprises a faceted cage that causes the system to rest in a stable position and orientation ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6279412 | Corrosion resistant exoskeleton arm linkage assembly A system for shielding a robot arm against being splashed with fluids comprises a protective shell-like cover of thin-walled plastic material impervious to fluids which is removably attached to the robot arm. The protective cover has a contoured shape gen... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6267022 | Articulated robot In the invention, the structure of an articulated robot is a hollow structure, and the entire body of the arms and closing cover is formed as an enclosed structure. Therefore, an air flow communication passage is maintained, so that dust formed in the rob... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6263755 | Robotic manipulator and method A robotic manipulator. The manipulator includes an end. The manipulator includes a drive limb comprising N concentrically nested tubes, where N is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer. The limb has a top and a bottom and is connected to the end at... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6236906 | Process and apparatus for hand-controlled guiding of an instrument in a predetermined movement region A process for guiding an instrument in space, in which the instrument is arranged at the free end of an articulated arm whose arm sections are caused to pivot and/or travel with respect to each other by drive units. The instrument is caused to travel in a... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6231297 | Substrate transport apparatus with angled arms A substrate transport apparatus having a movable arm assembly, two substrate holders and a coaxial drive shaft assembly. In a first embodiment, the movable arm assembly has a general X-shaped section that has its center connected to the coaxial drive shaf... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6219589 | Remote manipulator with force feedback and control A haptic interface for a remote manipulator uses a tunable spring to provide force reflection. The remote manipulator has an operating member coupled to the tunable spring. The operating member is also coupled to a manipulator member. A controller monitor... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6214057 | Overload protection device for robotic tooling An overload protection device includes a cup-shaped cap member defining a cavity receiving a cup-shaped yoke member defining a pressurized air chamber receiving a piston having a rounded end surface engaging the cap member. An annular cam member is insert... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6210097 | Burden loading robot having balancer for compensating for off-center loading of weight A burden loading robot includes a loading portion installed in a robot main body and a balancer for offsetting off-center loading of weight of the loading portion. The loading portion includes a loading plate which can be moved away from a fixing portion ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6190114 | Transfer robot A transfer robot includes a first pantograph assembly, a second pantograph assembly, a handling member carried by the second pantograph assembly, a rotation-transmitting mechanism for associating the first pantograph assembly with the second pantograph as... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6186023 | Automatic balancing apparatus for balancing stand According to the invention, a latch 17 provided at a distal end of a lever 16 is urged to engage with a gear 13 fixed at a joint fulcrum 2 jointing a vertical arm 1 and a horizontal arm 3, for effecting angular displacement, thereby actuating a switch 20a... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6178842 | Industrial robot An industrial robot is provided which has a compact and of low height body operable within an operating range not exceed the height of the robot during operation, and yet is able to secure a wide operating range of the near front side of the robot. The ro... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6155131 | Handling robot A handling robot includes at least four bosses (20a, 20b, 20c, 20d) disposed in a transfer chamber so as to be coaxial with one another and rotatable independently of one another. The bosses are deviated (staggered) in their positions along the axis of a ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6145403 | Robot arm with weight compensation A driven robot arm (1) has a torque compensation unit for a motional degree of freedom (4). A separate magnetic compensation unit (9) is proposed which is independent of the robot arm drive.... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6145517 | Method of removing agglomerations of polyethylene from reactor A method of removing a solidified body of polyethylene from a Unipol reactor using a robotic apparatus extended through a porthole on top of the reactor.... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6145404 | Modular manipulation unit A modular manipulation unit is disclosed. The unit includes a body (11) formed of three extruded, profiled elements. The elements include a base plate (15), a top element or cover (16) fixed on the base plate, and an intermediate slide (17) arranged and g... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6145405 | Coordinate positioning machine A coordinate positioning machine comprises a fixed structure including a table and a supporting frame (314), rigidly connected together. A moveable arm (310) is suspended from the frame by means of three powered telescopic struts (316), each of which is u... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6109394 | Lubricant impregnated wear pads for extendable booms on material handling devices An extendable boom for a material handling device includes a first boom section for connection to a support frame, the first boom section having a plurality of first structural members. A second boom section is slidable with respect to the first boom sect... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6065364 | Stopper for use in an industrial robot A stopper includes a frame (51) fixed to a mount base (1) of an industrial robot, a retaining shaft (52) which is fixed to the frame (51) in an upright position in relation to the plane of rotation of the turning base (2), a rod-shaped engagement lever (5... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6062099 | Robot for handling A robot for handling comprises at least four bosses (20a, 20b, 20c, 20d) coaxially provided and displaced from each other axially of the center of rotation to permit independent rotation, arms (21a, 21b, 21c, 21d) provided on the bosses, respectively, lin... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6050739 | Robot end effector for automated wet wafer processing A robot end effector for automated processing facilitates wet wafer processing by improving the maintenance of the end effector. In particular, the end effector may be exposed to a variety of chemical conditions in the course of its operation. By making t... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6019013 | Machine tool operated by gyroscopic precession A machine tool operated by gyroscopic precession is disclosed. The machine tool is provided with a rotatable member disposed for rotation in a single plane, the member mounted to a base. A gyroscopic mass supported by a gimbal is mounted to the rotatable ... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5993140 | Apparatus for loading pipes onto processing machines An apparatus for loading pipes onto processing machines, in particular pipe-bending machines, is provided which comprises a handler arm (8) consisting of a first segment (9) and a second segment (10) disposed in succession, and kinematic members (12) adap... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5983744 | Robot apparatus for installing both a robot movable section and a robot controller A robot apparatus having no need for securing a space for installing both a robot movable section and a robot controller. The robot apparatus includes a frame having strength enough to support the robot movable section, and containing the robot controller... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5964124 | Overload protector for robotic tooling An overload protector is provided which is secured to a robot arm and a tool to protect the tool form being overloaded or forced into an abnormal position. A rocker assembly is located within the cavity in the protector and the cavity is pressurized in or... | 10/12/1999 |
