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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360322 | Non-contacting conveyance equipment A non-contacting conveyance equipment comprises: a body having an end face that opposes an object to be conveyed, and a concave opening formed in the end face and surrounded by a cylindrical inner side wall; and a fluid passageway having a plurality of pairs of spou... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7309204 | Articulated arm robot In a multi-axis articulated arm robot for transferring workpieces, there is a robot base, on which a movement unit is able to be pivoted about a first axis, which is vertical in an operational state. The movement unit has a pivoting part adjacent to the base, an art... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7296834 | Air-powered vacuum tool for handling multiple workpieces An air-powered vacuum tool for handling multiple workpieces includes vacuum ports formed in a vacuum manifold body and associated air-powered vacuum generators operatively connected with the vacuum manifold body such that each of the vacuum ports is provided with va... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7284318 | Apparatus for mounting semiconductor chips An apparatus for mounting semiconductor chips has a pick and place system arranged stationary in vertical direction for the picking, transport and placement of a semiconductor chip onto a substrate. The pick and place system comprises a bondhead with a chip gripper ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7261350 | Negative pressure attraction device and attraction confirming sensor An air suction passage (4A, 4B) is provided with a pick and place confirming sensor (1) comprising a gas flow sensor. The pick and place confirming sensor (1) measures the flow rate of air sucked in from an air suction port (33) of... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7210219 | Cir-clip to shaft insertion tool The fastener to shaft insertion tool is disclosed which consists of a shaft holding member, a fastener insertion member, and force transmitting member. The fastener holding member facilitates the holding of the fastener and the application of forces to the fastener ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7144056 | Detection and handling of semiconductor wafers and wafers-like objects An end-effector includes multiple vortex chucks for supporting a wafer. Vortex chucks are located along the periphery of the end-effector to help prevent a flexible wafer from curling. The end-effector has limiters to restrict the lateral movement of a supported waf... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7134833 | Servo adjustable gripper device A servo adjustable gripper device for gripping and transporting at least two objects such as boxes includes a frame and at least two gripper assemblies connected with carriages slidably connected with the frame. The gripper device further includes a robotic arm whic... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131999 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam; a support configured to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120996 | Component mounting apparatus having component supply tables provided on opposite sides of a component transfer path 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 apparatuses are arra... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7108471 | Transporting tool for object to be tested, and object-to-be-tested transporting system A transporting tool of this invention transports a cracked wafer between an unload table and a test position through fork, having a vacuum suction mechanism, and a main chuck. The transporting tool of this invention has a first groove formed in a first surface of th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7100954 | Ultra-thin wafer handling system An improved Bernoulli end effector for holding, handling, and transporting ultra-thin substrates includes edge guides to aid in the positioning of the substrate and may include friction pads that impede motion of the substrate lifted by the end effector. The Bernoul... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7063499 | Conveyor system A conveyor system able to safety convey a workpiece having a thickness of less than 100 μm and easily position the workpiece, provided with a plate-shaped member provided movably and swivelably and a moving and swiveling means moving and swiveling the plate-shaped ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044706 | Apparatus for manipulating a vehicle body panel Manipulating a vehicle body panel includes utilizing a base plate, left and right screw rods, a motor, and clamping units. The base plate is connected to the arm of the robot. The left and right screw rods are rotatably mounted below the base plate by bearing blocks... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044332 | Product contact sensor for an article handler A product contact sensor of the type shown and described herein. ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7036212 | Apparatus for performing operation on circuit substrate An apparatus for performing an operation on a circuit substrate, the apparatus including a plurality of operating devices which are provided in a space that is closed and opened by a safety cover and one of which performs the operation on the circuit substrate, a sa... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028392 | Device for fitting a substrate with a flip chip A freely positionable placement head (1) removes presented flip chips (6) from a wafer (5), the connection side of said chips being directed upward. The placement head has a turning device (9), in which, by the time they are placed onto a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7017961 | Compressive end effector Apparatus and method for holding an uncompressed bundle of product from the top with a vacuum assisted end effector and then simultaneously compressing the bundle from all sides at the same time with thin compression plates located about the periphery of a vacuum as... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6994386 | Gripper A gripper (1) for contact lenses comprises a gripper head (10) which has a bearing surface (100) for a contact lens (CL) and in which one or more openings (101, 102) are provided through which an underpressure can be applied in order to s... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6979032 | Vacuum pick-up head with vacuum supply valve A vacuum pick-up device includes a vacuum supply valve mounted to a distribution manifold to which a plurality of suction cups is attached. The vacuum supply valve is operational to control the vacuum pressure supplied to the suction cups of the device. The vacuum p... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6974168 | System and method for performing simultaneous precision die bond of photonic components onto a single substrate Embodiments of the present invention overcome the disadvantages of the metal bond head systems while also providing a method for performing precision die bond of multiple die at once. A mounting system is adapted for simultaneous high accuracy placement of multiple ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6942265 | Apparatus comprising a flexible vacuum seal pad structure capable of retaining non-planar substrates thereto A flexible vacuum seal pad structure capable of, for example, sealingly securing a bowed substrate to a finger apparatus or “endeffector” used to robotically engage and/or move the substrate from one processing station to another, or capable of securing a wafer ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6935017 | Component mounting apparatus having component supply tables provided on opposite sides of a component transfer path 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 apparatuses are arra... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929298 | Wafer transfer apparatus and device and method for cleaning robot arm in wafer transfer apparatus A wafer transfer apparatus includes a robot arm and a robot arm cleaning device that injects purge gas into a vacuum nozzle of the robot arm under a normal stand-by state wherein the robot arm does not suction a wafer, to clean the vacuum nozzle. The robot arm clean... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6920687 | Component mounting method employing temperature maintenance of positioning apparatus A component mounting method for picking up an electronic component, positioning the electronic component on a circuit substrate and mounting the electronic component to the circuit substrate adapted to perform an idling operation during a pause of component mounting... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6915561 | Electronic component mounting apparatus This invention relates to an electronic component mounting apparatus. In the apparatus, a rotary body for changing the direction of a component mounting section is fixed to a hollow rotary shaft with a flange. The hollow rotary shaft is provided in a hollow motor an... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6896304 | Automatic sensing wafer blade and method for using An automatic sensing wafer blade for picking up wafers that is equipped with a sensor capable of self-diagnosing potential failure conditions of the blade and a method for using the wafer blade are described. The automatic sensing wafer blade is equipped with a V-sh... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6893070 | Integrated end effector An integrated robot end effector for use in a robotic manufacturing environment. The integrated robot end effector generally includes a circular body having a generally circular rim on an edge thereof. The integrated robot end effector also includes a plurality of o... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6860531 | Gripping and vacuum end effector for transferring articles An end effector for a robot is used to unpack flattened stackable items from a container using a fixed sized vacuum plenum and simple adjustable gripping elements. The gripping elements comprise a pair of adjustable, smooth blades. In addition, the end effector incl... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6837293 | Heated nozzle assembly An interface block (300) carries a removable electrical connection (310, 312) that can be quickly connected and removed from a high speed machine for picking and placing electronic components. The interface block is attached to a vacuum ported tool cha... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6837672 | Apparatus for and method of transferring substrates A substrate transfer apparatus capable of preventing contaminants from sticking to a substrate again when the substrate is unloaded, wherein a first support member and a second support member are provided on an arm, the first support member supporting the substrate ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6827544 | Suction control unit in a plate suction and lifting device A suction control unit in a plate suction and lifting device that can suck and lift even the plate with process holes or the corrugated plate by finding the suckable flat part of the plate. A suction control unit 1 controls a plate suction and lifting device ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6817639 | Under pressure handling device Under pressure handling device comprising an under pressure generator, a device for controlling the under pressure and several grippers which engage on a work piece to be handled, wherein each gripper is provided with a device for controlling the under pressure, a s... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6810297 | System and methods for imaging employing a levitating conveyor A system and methodology for conveying generally planar substrates such as printed circuit board, flat panel display and interconnect device substrates, in a levitated state, to and from a scanning or imaging location, including an air flow conveyor having a substra... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6808216 | Methods and apparatus for handling workpieces Methods and apparatus for grasping and moving workpieces are disclosed. A device in accordance an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises a disk including an outer edge. The disk has a generally planar resting shape in which the disk has a first diam... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6752581 | Apparatus for removing and transporting articles from molds This invention relates to a device for removing and transporting articles, such as ophthalmic lens mold sections, or packaging elements from a mold. The invention, in one embodiment includes first, second, and third assemblies; the first of which removes the article... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6748649 | Method of operating a component holding head A holding head includes an axially driveable shaft having a nozzle at one end of the shaft for holding a component, a motor for driving the shaft in an axial direction in response to power supplied to the motor, and a detecting device for detecting movement of the s... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6739638 | Work transfer device Relating to improvement in a hand of an apparatus for taking out a workpiece such as liquid crystal glass from a cassette and carrying it to a predetermined position, and aiming at reducing a weight of an arm portion for holding the liquid crystal glass and a quanti... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6704998 | Port door removal and wafer handling robotic system An I/O minienvirornent including a port door within an I/O port, and a system for removing the port door and pod door coupled thereto, and setting down the pod and port doors at a convenient location within the I/O minienvironment. After wafer processing has been co... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6705827 | Robotic seed-handling apparatus and methods Robotic apparatus for transferring and distributing small particles, such as seeds, contained in covered or uncovered containers, such as capped jars, are disclosed. An exemplary apparatus includes a vacuum-activated probe configured to pick up a selected number of ... | 03/16/2004 |
