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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7435046 | Dynamic carousel robotic workcell A dynamic workcell includes a three dimensional positioning robot positioned adjacent a plurality of operation stations. A plurality of movable part fixtures located adjacent to the robot is also provided. A fixture location controller directing positioning of the p... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7371041 | Assembly station with rotatable turret which forms and unloads a completed stack of articles Method and apparatus for forming and unloading a completed stack of articles. An assembly station includes a rotatable turret from which at least one stacker arm projects. The turret rotates to each of a number of article loading positions to sequentially load artic... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7284941 | Method and apparatus for picking up a semiconductor chip, method and apparatus for removing a semiconductor chip from a dicing tape, and a method of forming a perforated dicing tape A method and apparatus for picking up a semiconductor chip, a method and apparatus for removing a semiconductor chip from a dicing tape, and a method of forming a perforated dicing tape are provided. Air may be blown through air holes in a dicing tape to at least pa... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275633 | Device for changing the direction of conveyance of flat postal items and the position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance A device for changing a direction of conveyance of flat postal items and a position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance includes a driven carousel tray to which one or more gripper arms whose lengths are modifiable in a controlled manner ar... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7211033 | Machine tool A machine tool has at least one working spindle, in which a tool receptacle for tool holders is provided. Furthermore, there is a tool-changing arm with a gripper, for a tool holder in order to transfer this tool holder between its magazine position, which is spaced... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207611 | Tool handling device A tool handling device for a machine tool with a support construction movable along at least two coordinate axes by means of a motor and a gripper arrangement mounted to the support construction. The grippers have two gripper claws pivotable against each other as we... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7179043 | Manipulating arrangement and cell A manipulating arrangement having a horizontal portal on which a slide is horizontally traversable, an arm being pivotably mounted on the slide about a pivot axis which runs parallel to the portal, and a gripper for at least one of workpieces and tools being arrange... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7165711 | Substrate alignment method and apparatus A substrate that is not lying flat on its substrate tray can present significant process problems when a vacuum pickup attempts to pick up the substrate and fails due to the lack of a proper bond forming between the pickup and the substrate. The substrate left behin... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7114903 | Apparatuses and method for transferring and/or pre-processing microelectronic workpieces An apparatus and method for handling and/or pre-processing microelectronic workpieces. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an input/output station configured to removably receive a plurality of microelectronic workpieces at an input/output location, a transfer... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7115082 | Machine tool A machine tool has a working spindle in which a tool receptacle for tool holders is provided. Furthermore, there is at least one tool-changing arm with a gripper in which a tool holder is held in a peripheral alignment with respect to the gripper in order to transfe... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7111998 | Adjustable camera with belt tensioning apparatus A camera assembly including first and second rotating members and a motor assembly defining a first axis and operably coupled to first rotating member to drivingly rotate first rotating member. A flexible member operably couples first and second rotating members suc... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7066703 | Chuck transport method and system A method and system for transporting a plurality of substrates between a transfer chamber and at least one processing chamber. The system includes a chuck assembly with a plurality of chucks configured to receive wafer substrates, where the chuck assembly is movably... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7052225 | Apparatus for handling mass produced work pieces A high speed device and method for transporting work pieces from one container to another is disclosed. This high speed device utilizes a rotary wheel having a number of pick heads located along the circumference of the rotary wheel. These pick heads are utilized to... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047618 | Single stroke O-ring insertion device An apparatus and method of applying an expandable member, such as an O-ring, to a part to from an installed part. The apparatus and method comprise a piston slidably positioned within a housing with a slidable sleeve interposed between the housing and the piston. Th... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7013198 | Robotic carousel workstation A storage and retrieval apparatus including a robotic device capable of gripping items stored in the apparatus and delivering the item to a separate, proximate instrument. The items to be stored are loaded from the outside of the apparatus at each face of the hexago... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6968753 | Vibration-dampening base for ball-type lead screw of load port transfer system A vibration-dampening base for a ball-type lead screw of a load port transfer system is disclosed. A load port transfer system includes a vertical arm drive motor assembly, a ball-type lead screw, and a vibration-dampening base connecting the vertical arm drive moto... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967475 | Device transfer mechanism for a test handler The invention provides a mechanism for a test handler using for electrical testing of electronic devices. The devices are placed on a platform configured to move semiconductor devices from an onloading position to an offloading position along a predetermined path. A... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6918735 | Holding device for wafers The invention relates to a holding device for wafers in an arrangement for wafer inspection, comprising two grippers (11, 12), each of which, in the closed state of the holding device (8), encloses a subsection of the wafer circumference and which are ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6818108 | Chamber for the transport of workpieces in a vacuum atmosphere, a chamber combination and a method for transporting a workpiece A vacuum chamber for transporting at least one workpiece has two or more openings defining respective opening areas for treating or handling the at least one workpiece. A transport device is arranged relative to the openings and includes a drive shaft rotatable arou... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6748995 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing panels from wood pieces An apparatus having several stations that receive, apply adhesive to, crowd, press and cure the wood pieces into a continuous wood panel. A singulation station engages an individual one of the wood pieces oriented in a cross-machine direction from an infeed station,... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6742981 | IC handler A disk (6) is horizontally rotated a half-turn by a motor (7) in a rotational direction and, then, is rotated a half-turn in an opposite rotational direction. Two servomotors (8, 9) are symmetrically disposed, on an upper surface of the disk ( | 06/01/2004 |
| 6736590 | Lifting device for substrates The aim of the invention is to make it as easy as possible to change a spindle in a lifting device (2) for substrates, which device comprises a support (10). To this end the support is configured such that it can be made to engage the substrate holder ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6513640 | Pallet exchange apparatus The present invention provides an apparatus provided with a turn driving device rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the plane of a pallet and also movable in the direction of the axis, a sliding device disposed on only the lower side of the pallet, a... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6491250 | Rotary-type circuit-component supplying apparatus A rotary-type circuit-component supplying apparatus including a plurality of feeders each of which stores a plurality of circuit components of a same sort and which supplies the components one by one from a component-supply portion thereof, at least one r... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6468353 | Method and apparatus for improved substrate handling A method and apparatus are provided for substrate handling. In a first aspect, a temperature adjustment plate is located below a substrate carriage and is configured such that a substrate may be transferred between the temperature adjustment plate and the... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6439822 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A substrate processing apparatus comprises a processing section for performing processing for a substrate, a substrate carrier transfer section into/out of which a substrate carrier holding a plurality of substrates is carried, and a substrate transfer me... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6368435 | Device and method for transporting separate substrates A device and a method for separately transporting substances are provided. The device and method according to the invention can especially be used in connection with an unit for producing DVDs. Preferably, the device according to the invention has for eac... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6296434 | Product supply unit with offset wheel axes for non-tilting horizontal product supports A product supply unit which has a pair of plate members disposed opposite to each other and connected together by a number of supports that are in between the two plate members and disposed around the circumference of the plate members. Each support has a... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6189206 | Rotary-type circuit-component supplying apparatus A rotary-type circuit-component supplying apparatus including a plurality of feeders each of which stores a plurality of circuit components of a same sort and which supplies the components one by one from a component-supply portion thereof, at least one r... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6137628 | Stereomicroscope having a specimen changer The invention is directed to a stereomicroscope having a specimen changer which is at least so configured that it is rotatable about a column of a column stand and the specimen changer has receptacles for specimens arranged on a circular path passing thro... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6054029 | Device for gripping, holdings and/or transporting substrates Apparatus 1 for gripping, holding and/or transporting substrates 2, components of which are an entry station 3 and several processing station 4 to 9 arranged in series or in a circle for receiving the substrate 2, to which the substrate 2 is passed on by ... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6019564 | Semiconductor device transporting and handling apparatus An IC handler affords ICs to be tested for a sufficiently long period of time for them to take up either heat or cold. A turntable is formed with N circular rows of positioning recesses lying on concentric circles. ICs to be tested are successively fed in... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5990585 | Two-axis magnetically coupled robot A robot having a pair of magnetic couplings that each couple a motor in a cylindrical first chamber to an associated cylindrical ring closely spaced from the cylindrical wall of said first chamber. The robot includes a mechanism to convert rotation of eac... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5951770 | Carousel wafer transfer system The present invention generally provides a rotary wafer carousel and related wafer handler for moving wafers or other workpieces through a processing system, i.e., a semiconductor fabrication tool. Generally, the present invention includes a rotary wafer ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5943238 | High-speed personalization machine A high-speed personalization machine has a portable object transfer device for transporting objects that incorporate an integrated circuit which contains at least one memory. The machine has a turning plate whose axis of rotation is inclined or parallel w... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5662785 | Method for masking a workpiece and a vacuum treatment facility A vacuum treatment facility and method are provided for the surface treatment of workpieces, particularly for the covering of the central and/or peripheral area of circular-disk-shaped workpieces, as in the manufacturing of CD's or storage plates. The fac... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5612068 | Apparatus for the transfer of substrates In an apparatus for the transfer of substrates (9) from an initial station (3) through several process stations (4 to 8) and back to this initial station (3), manipulators (10 to 14) having pivoting gripper arms (15 to 19) and carousel transfer systems (2... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5456570 | Rotary placer A rotary placer for picking, transferring and placing a carton from a stack of cartons or sleeves in a magazine to an assembly position. The rotary placer includes a frame driven for rotation about a first axis and supporting an arm having an inner end an... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5451130 | Method and apparatus for the step-by-step and automatic loading and unloading of a coating apparatus A first turntable (4) has a plurality of posts (6) equidistantly distributed and arranged in a circle on the turntable (4), wherein a plurality of substrates (7) can be stacked on each post (6). Stationary loading (9) and unloading stations (10 11) are pr... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5443358 | Indexing part loader An indexing part loader for orientating a part for transfer and subsequent use. A transfer machine has a carousel magazine mounted thereon, with each magazine containing a stack of parts. The parts are sequentially lifted out of the magazine by a pickup h... | 08/22/1995 |
