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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162128 | Component mounting apparatus, mounting-component producing method, and conveyor apparatus A component mounting apparatus includes: a load area to load a substrate; an unload area to unload the substrate; a main area interposed between the load and unload areas, including a first area including a first mounting area, a second area including a second mount... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8037996 | Transfer apparatus for handling electronic components An apparatus for transferring a plurality of electronic components includes a row of pick heads operative to pick up the electronic components simultaneously from a first location and to place them at a second location. Additionally, there is a driving mechanism ope... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7861850 | Conveyance apparatus, cleaning apparatus, and manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display A conveyance apparatus includes: a stage section having: a feeding stage on which a work to be fed is placed; a first working stage on which the work is subjected to a working process; a second working stage on which the work is subjected to the same working process... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7464807 | Transfer device of handler for testing semiconductor device A transfer device of a handler for testing semiconductor devices is provided in which a pitch between each of a plurality of picker heads may be adjusted without replacing a cam plate. The transfer device may include a base part, a plurality of picker heads movably ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7390040 | End effector with multiple pick-up members An end effector for use with a moving device has a frame and a plurality of operational members mounted for movement on the frame. The effector also has an actuation mechanism directly connected to a first operational member and is operable to move the first operati... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7367601 | Substrate transfer apparatus and substrate transfer method The present invention provides a substrate carrying apparatus capable of surely carrying a substrate with electronic parts mounted thereon, at low costs without causing the electronic parts to fall off the substrate, and without damaging the substrate. A substrate c... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7347313 | Method of equally spacing items in article handling systems To equally space items along a first path, a predetermined number of items is moved towards each other to minimize distances between the items, and a gear mechanism is engaged with each item. The gear mechanism includes crossed bars, wherein pairs of the bars are co... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7303382 | Coil bridge conveyor A conveying apparatus for directing material into a die. The die includes a material opening to accept the material from a material feed system and is positioned in a press. The conveying system comprises a frame, including a front stanchion, a rear stanchion, a fir... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7244222 | Apparatus for and method of positioning a slider on mating zipper elements An apparatus used in the manufacture of a thermoplastic zipper having a slider mounted thereon includes a pair of clamp arms disposed on opposing sides of a path of the zipper. The clamp arms are movable in directions substantially perpendicular to the zipper path s... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7234744 | Rotatable, squeeze-spread end effector for industrial robot An end effector (10) for an industrial robot has the ability to pick up plural objects, selectively rotate same and adjusts the spacing between the plural objects as the products are being carried by the robot to a desired deposit location. This functionality... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7226270 | Apparatus for transferring semiconductor device in handler An apparatus for transferring semiconductor devices in a semiconductor device handler is provided which simplifies set up procedures when a species of device to be tested, and the associated change kit, is changed. A reference picker and three variable pickers are p... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7163133 | Apparatus for and method of moving a slider along mating zipper elements A manufacturing apparatus, for moving sliders for opening and closing mating zipper elements along the mating zipper elements, includes a roller and a projection. The roller rotates about an axis substantially perpendicular with a path of a film including the mating... | 01/16/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7083374 | Gripping members gripping and moving packets stacked by a conveyor A stacking conveyor conveys packets so that the conveyed packets become stacked together in a standing up configuration as an array of packets. First and second gripping members are automatically controlled so that the first and second gripping members mechanically ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077641 | Preform conveying device An object of this invention is to provide a preform conveying device of high production efficiency under the technical theme of aligning the plurality of preforms in single rows at high speed, while eliminating contact of individual preforms with other preforms and ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073312 | Device for transferring articles in a controlled configuration from a feeding line to a receiving line In a device for transferring articles in a controlled configuration from a feeding line to a receiving line, an oscillating arm having suction grippers picks up the articles, arranged in a first configuration, at an inlet station and transfer the articles up to an o... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6993935 | Method for blowing and removing glass containers Vertically aligned first (30) and second (32) combined blowhead and takeout mechanisms are provided to sequentially blow glass parisons (P) into containers (C) in a mold set (22) and to transfer blown containers to a deadplate (40) of a g... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6964150 | Apparatus for supplying articles to a transferring line, in particular for feeding a container filling machine In an apparatus for feeding articles to a transferring line leading to a container filling machine, a conveyor moves a plurality of articles to an inlet section of the apparatus, where a plate moves vertically from the inlet section to an outlet section of the appar... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6962248 | Printed circuit board support A printed circuit board conveying and processing system. In accordance with the present invention, a printed circuit board conveying system is provided comprising a pair of conveyor rails and a printed circuit board support. The conveyor rails are positioned to enga... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6837662 | Device and method for handling molded articles Non-symmetrical molded articles, such as large preforms, are handled by a handling system into which an array of molded articles are transferred from a mold having a pitch separation The handling system has an arranging station configured to receive and align a firs... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6787096 | Device for treating preforms to obtain containers made of plastics A device for treating preforms to obtain containers made of plastics, for example bottles for food applications, comprising an ejector adapted to pick up and release one or more preforms, arranged so that their neck is directed upwardly, a heating conveyor, and a un... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6618633 | Method and apparatus for calibrating a first co-ordinate frame of an indexing means in a second frame of reference of a sensing means A method for calibrating a first co-ordinate frame of a robot and effector in a second frame of reference of a sensor when the sensor is substantially rigidly attached to the robot and effector, including the steps of measuring first positions of a plural... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6589008 | Container handling device and method An apparatus and method for packaging containers, of the type having an engagement lip, wherein the apparatus includes tacks to engage the engagement lip to move the containers from starting point to a delivery point. The containers are moved by the appar... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6550601 | Aligning and feeding device for panel-shaped workpieces In order to monitor the adjustment state of the entrainers (1), which are arranged in each case in pairs transverse to the feed direction (4), of a feed chain (2), it is proposed to arrange an adjusting station along the guide of the feed chain (2) and to... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6464069 | Quadruple pick and place head construction A pick and place quadruple head construction for transferring as many as four small workpieces such as computer chips and the like simultaneously from a first matrix to a second matrix. The four individual head units are arranged to form a rectangular are... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6217093 | Device for individually engaging on a configuration of a number of products with a certain mutual distance This invention relates to a device for engaging on a configuration of a number of products with a certain mutual distance. The present invention has a frame and a number of pushing members mounted on the frame for movement between a first and a second pos... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6199680 | Method and apparatus for bunching PTPs and for transferring the bunched-PTPs A method and apparatus adapted to bunch together a predetermined number of inverted PTPs and uninverted PTPs into a bundle, and then transfer each PTP bundle to a bucket conveyor which moves intermittently in parallel with a conveying passage. A multitude... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6131721 | Lead frame transporting apparatus In a lead frame transporting apparatus for transporting lead frames on which package portions are located, slide shafts are included on a frame conveyor plate. Pad support members are slidably mounted on the slide shafts. Suction pads for holding the pack... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5950802 | IC package transfer and relocation mechanism A transfer mechanism for transferring molded IC device packages or the like between different types of trays which have IC package holder nests in differently spaced arrays. The transfer mechanism includes a suction gripper assembly supported on a horizon... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5931279 | Pick-up device The pick-up device comprises a plurality of pick-up members connected together and articulated by means of arms so as to be disposed at the vertices of a polygon. Cam surfaces defined by the sides of slots provided in one or more motion plates allow the g... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5643619 | Article repositioning apparatus for an injection stretch blow molding machine An article repositioning apparatus for an injection stretch blow molding machine is disclosed for simultaneously molding a plurality of containers from plastic parisons. Between work stations, the apparatus repositions articles from a compact, evenly spac... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5630311 | Apparatus for forming lots of products for the packing thereof An apparatus for forming, for their packing, lots of products fed by a conveyor and arranged in adjoining rows. The apparatus comprises a transfer chain or belt (1) stretched between two drive wheels (11, 12) having vertical axes (111, 121) and provided with ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5584374 | Method and apparatus for row-wise separation of rectilinear, plastic porous concrete bodies In this method for row-wise separation of rectilinear, plastic porous concrete bodies formed by longitudinal and transverse cutting of a rectilinear plastic porous concrete block preferably standing on edge. After turning back through 90°, the cut block ... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5575376 | Product-handling device arrangement for pick and place machine A product handling device having at least one carriage provided with at least one product engagement element and movable between different positions, and a drive element for driving the at least one carriage between the different positions. With the at le... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5484050 | Catalog stacker and loader A catalog stacker and loader having a conveyor, a cage assembly associated with the conveyor, and a loader for unloading catalogs from the cage assembly and loading them into shipping containers. The cage assembly has a first cage and a second cage, each ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5481794 | Device for handling objects and method of using same A device for simultaneously receiving objects arranged in a first positional arrangement and for simultaneously delivering such objects arranged in a second positional arrangement, and a method of using such device. More particularly, the apparatus includ... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5415295 | Method and device for automatically sorting nuclear-fuel pellets The automatic sorting device allows nuclear-fuel pellets to be distributed into correct, acceptable or scrapped pellets. It comprises: a station for presenting pellets, which is intended to move n strings of pellets simultaneously along parallel paths unt... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5354571 | Method for aligning and bending individual round elongated dough pieces A device (24) for aligning with a feeding line (8) of a moving transfer conveyor (3) and for bending a round elongated dough piece (13) randomly placed on the moving transfer conveyor for transfer, comprising a pair of stoppers (26, 26) symmetrically arra... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5273152 | Apparatus for positioning articles An apparatus for positioning articles, especially plastic articles including an upstream workstation for articles spaced from each other at a first center spacing, a downstream workstation for the articles spaced from each other at a second center spacing... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5207986 | Automatic analyzer A rack supply part, an analysis unit part and a rack storage part are formed as units which are separable from each other, and a rack carrier part is integrally mounted on the analysis unit part. The respective units are provided with locating members for... | 05/04/1993 |
