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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113084 | Mounting device A mounting device includes a vertically movable mounting table for mounting thereon a target object and a rotational driving mechanism for rotating the mounting table within a predetermined angle. The mounting table is vertically raised and rotated by the rotational... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7849762 | Constrained tri-sphere kinematic positioning system A scalable and adaptable, six-degree-of-freedom, kinematic positioning system is described. The system can position objects supported on top of, or suspended from, jacks comprising constrained joints. The system is compatible with extreme low temperature or high vac... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7707907 | Planar parallel mechanism and method A planar parallel mechanism having a platform movable in a plane along three degrees of freedom is described Existing technology fails to provide a manipulator with three degrees of freedom, wherein the mechanisms for moving the manipulator move in a decoupled fashi... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7624661 | Supporting unit, and moving table device and linear-motion guiding device that use the supporting unit A supporting unit in a moving table device, easily connected to a base and a table, is provided. A supporting unit (Uα) has a pair of planar bearing plates. Inside the planar bearing plates are positioned spherical bearing plates, respectively. Further, a spherical... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7448295 | Tilting circular table device A tilting circular table device includes: a frame; a tilting table supported on the frame so as to angularly rotate about a first axis; a circular table disposed in the tilting table so as to angularly rotate; an input shaft for rotating the circular table and dispo... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7392722 | Control unit with three parallel branches This controller, between a fixed base (1) and a control handle (4), comprises three similar arms (2) of which each comprises three links (5,6,7) jointed between the base and the handle platform by a pivot (8), two rotation joints (... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7325981 | Optical module, mounting method of the same and optical system having optical module mounted on substrate An optical module mounting method for mounting an optical module including a plurality of light emitting points onto a substrate including an optical waveguide is provided. The method includes mounting the optical module on the substrate such that a surface of the o... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320265 | Article transfer system A system for controlling an axial movement of an article is presented. The system comprises a support stage assembly and a spring suspension arrangement mounted on the support stage assembly. The spring suspension arrangement comprises first and second assemblies ar... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312541 | Actuator and bonding apparatus In an actuator of a bonding apparatus, a rotating body 16 that has a bonding head is rotatably supported on a supporting carrier having the same shape as magnetic path members 32L and 32R, and coil portions 40 and 42 are disposed o... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7265461 | Actuator and bonding apparatus In an actuator of a bonding apparatus, a rotating body 16 that has a bonding head is rotatably supported on a supporting carrier having the same shape as magnetic path members 32L and 32R, and coil portions 40 and 42 are disposed o... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7243571 | Ultra-precision positioning system Provided is an ultra-precision positioning system. The system comprises a base, a motion stage movably provided to the top of the base, and first to sixth feeding mechanisms for moving the motion stage to have six degrees of freedom. The first to sixth feed mechanis... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7201078 | Transporting apparatus A transporting apparatus includes a supporting part, first and second driving axles rotatably supported by the supporting part, a plurality of driving links respectively combined to the first and second driving axles, a plurality of transporting links rotatably conn... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7195441 | Manipulator having arm mechanism for hand According to this invention, there is provided a manipulator which can be suitably used as a compact manipulator apparatus which manipulates a minute target object. A manipulator of this invention includes, for example, a plurality of arm members whose attitudes can... | 03/27/2007 |
| 6983670 | Pinion gear type rotating device A pinion gear type rotating device, in particular, is used in electromagnetic interference characterization of a fiber optics transceiver, by which a member, such as a fiber optics transceiver can be held and rotated by at least 360 degrees about x, y and z axes. Th... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6930412 | Closed box structure of the horizontal linear motor machine tool A closed box structure of a horizontal linear motor machine tool, comprising a frame, serving as a machine platform, carrying an X-movable part, a Y-movable part, and a Z-movable part, with said Y-movable part mounted on said X-movable part, said Z-movable part moun... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6923085 | Self-moved robot A robotic portion 1 has X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis modules 2, 3, 4 and can move in three axial directions. This robotic portion 1 is mounted in such a manner as to move on a second base 10 in the X-axis direction. Furthermore, the second b... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6776065 | Lockable elastic joint for anthropomorphous robot serving industrial machines, particularly for sheet metal machining machines A lockable elastic joint for anthropomorphous robot with a wrist and a handling organ, having a first part that is fastenable to the wrist of the robot and a second part that is fastenable to the handling organ of the robot. A first coupling is provided between the ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6748819 | Robot A robot is disclosed in which load torque imposed on motors is reduced and therefore small-sized motors can be used. In the robot, an arm member, a first link, a second link and a third link constitute a parallel linkage, and the first link and the third link are co... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6682157 | Panel driving device A panel driving device turns an openable panel inside out by rotating the openable panel by 180° about a rotation center shaft and moving the rotation center shaft upward or downward during a specific period while the openable panel is rotated. The panel... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6666122 | Web or sheet-fed apparatus having high-speed mechanism for simultaneous X, Y and θ registration and method High speed, extremely accurate web or sheet-fed segment die cutting or lamination apparatus (30, 300) has a processing station (32, 300), which receives a sheet or web segment, and is provided with a vacuum hold-down plate (142, 306) for holding initially... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6640660 | Pick-up and placement apparatus Pick-up and placement apparatus including an arm that executes pick-up and placement motions and an arm drive mechanism. The drive mechanism comprising a driven rotating member having an appointed range of rotation, a swiveling member slidably attached to... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6638625 | Linear nanopositioning translational motion stage based on novel composite materials A nanopositioner made of novel materials is provided. The materials exhibit desirable properties such as low density and low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) derived from their ceramic matrices, but show even better (higher) Young's modulus of elast... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6622586 | Positioning device Conventional positioning devices in which a body is displaceable in a plane and rotatable by three drives have the drawback that at least one of the drives is displaced together with the body, whereby these apparatus are relatively heavy and sluggish. In ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6503033 | Parallel mechanism structure for controlling three-dimensional position and orientation Disclosed is a parallel mechanism structure for controlling three-dimensional position and orientation. In the parallel mechanism structure according to the present invention, three links are connected to the main spindle of the mechanism and driven in ve... | 01/07/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6336778 | Orthogonal axes module with parallel kinematic movement Module with parallel kinematic movement and orthogonal axes, characterised because it has a fixed structure; and a passive structure that has at least one kinematic shears joined at one end to the fixed structure and at the other end to a flat mobile stru... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6301989 | Medical imaging instrument positioning device A positioning apparatus for adjusting the position of medical imaging instruments, such as ultrasound probes, is disclosed. The preferred implementation of the apparatus includes controls for translational movement along three axes; and controls for rotat... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6196138 | Movable table unit A movable table unit capable of carrying out an operation for rotating a movable table at a position other than an original point and an operation for moving it in parallel after rotating at a predetermined angle by a simple control, capable of moving the... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5982132 | Rotary wafer positioning system and method A method and apparatus for positioning rectilinearly a wafer holding platform by performing rotations in a positioning system. A method comprises coupling a first clamp to a wafer holding platform, decoupling a second clamp from the wafer holding platform... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5599159 | Pellet conveying device A pellet conveying device used with a bonding machine for, for example, semiconductor devices, including a conveying arm that has a collet for holding pellets. The conveying arm can move vertically and pivot horizontally by two different driving sources s... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5524502 | Positioning apparatus including a hydrostatic bearing for spacing apart a supporting surface and a guide surface A base board supported on an X-Y stage or the like of an exposure apparatus includes a cylindrical fixed member. Porous pads held on the fixed member support the inner circumferential surface of a guide member provided as one body with a holding member fo... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5481936 | Rotary drive positioning system for an indexing table A rotary drive mechanism, which is capable of precisely controlling the rotational angle of an output shaft or a rotor. In the rotary drive system of the present invention, a first moving guide is provided in parallel to first guides, each end section of ... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5451134 | Material handling devices and controllers A powered material handling apparatus or lift provides for the movement and positioning of large, heavy and/or bulky objects using six degrees of freedom of motion. The lift may be used for the handling of virtually any such materials, but is especially s... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5340400 | Linear motor surface coating system Surface treating apparatus employing at least two linear motors driving a multiple linkage system for positioning the outlet of treatment apparatus such as a radiation head or a sprayer for coating objects and especially large objects. A combination of di... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5323712 | Table moving apparatus A table moving apparatus includes a reference table, a object movable holizontally to generate a driving force acting holizontally, a lever member receiving the driving force to swing round a fulcrum and change the driving force to a vertical force, and a... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5282393 | Precision component positioner A precision component mounting and positioning apparatus comprises a frame member and a stage member suspended in the frame member. The frame member is adapted to be mounted on a support surface, and the stage member is adapted to receive a precision comp... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5148716 | Plane motion mechanism In a plane motion mechanism, a table is mounted on a top planar surface of a base for movement thereon in plane motion. One end portions of respective first, second and third power transmitting elements adjacent respectively to one ends thereof are wound ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5109724 | Micromanipulator A micromanipulator for the displacement of a sample carrier according to different degrees of freedom by means of displacement members (26) fixed to elastic bellows (211, 212, 213, 23), which participate in the transmissio... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5036723 | Movable table A movable table has a fixed platen, a movable platen, a plurality of balls for supporting the movable platen over the fixed platen, a retainer provided between the fixed platen and the movable platen for retaining the balls, and a restrictor for restricti... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4306464 | Multi-directional mechanical positioning apparatus A low cost multi-directional movement cam controlled mechanical positioning apparatus is described for automatically tracing out the path of movement for the working head of a machine tool or the like. The apparatus may be embodied in a single machine pro... | 12/22/1981 |
