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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7798759 | Modular terminal for high-throughput AMHS The present invention generally comprises an apparatus for transporting containers between a first transport system and a second transport system. In one embodiment, the first transport system comprises a ceiling-based conveyor and the second transport system compri... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7396200 | Multiple loader adapted to operate as a magazine for vertically arranged panels A multiple loader, also adapted to operate as a magazine for storing vertically arranged panels, comprises, at a front head portion thereof, a step-by-step pushing device including a carriage driven by pneumatic cylinders causing the carriage to slide with a rectili... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7063301 | Facilities connection bucket for pre-facilitation of wafer fabrication equipment A facilities connection locator is provided for use with a support apparatus for supporting manufacturing equipment. The facilities connection locator comprises a fluid tight bucket having a bottom surface, a plurality of side walls extending upwardly from the botto... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6971808 | Card printing devices Card printing apparatus, for example, for printing identification cards, pass cards and the like generally comes with a relatively restricted size card input hopper. The number of cards that can be processed in a single operation is accordingly limited. The capacity... | 12/06/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6846147 | Loading and unloading device for a furnace wagon A device for loading firing, sintering or drying material onto and unloading it from the shelving frame of a furnace wagon is disclosed herein as having a first lifting device (3) that includes a shifting cradle (45), and a second lifting device (2 | 01/25/2005 |
| 6817821 | Wafer handling for a reflow tool The invention is an improved reflow tool for performing a reflow process on a wafer. An input robot may be used to transport wafers from an input carrier to an oven where a reflow process is performed. After processing the wafers in the oven, the wafers are transpor... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6729838 | Automated barrel panel transfer and processing system An automated system for preparing weld land areas of panels to be welded to each other is disclosed. Generally, the system of the present invention includes a system for cleaning contaminants from such weld land areas. In one embodiment, the system for cleaning cont... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6223975 | Method and apparatus for the temperature regulation of components, for example semiconductor circuits, printed circuit boards and the like A method and apparatus for the temperature regulation of components such as semiconductor circuits, printed circuit boards and the like. The components are conveyed on carriers through an inlet slot into a temperature regulating housing provided with temp... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6164961 | Vertical conveying apparatus, continuous furnace having such a vertical conveying apparatus, and carrier therefor A vertical conveying apparatus is used particularly advantageously in a vertical continuous furnace, for example, in semiconductor production. Since rubbing contacts are avoided and there is thus barely any wear, continuous furnaces provided therewith are... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5915910 | Semiconductor wafer transfer method and apparatus A wafer transfer mechanism and method involves inserting a wafer carrying arm into position within a wafer cassette so that a wafer may be detachably coupled to the arm. The arm is moved linearly to position the arm for coupling to the wafer, with the mot... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5895195 | Rack loader/unloader system and method of using same The rack loader/unloader system includes a rack unloader and a container elevator disposed on opposite sides of a rack conveyor to unload containers from a rack at a transfer station. The container elevator enables unloaded containers to be transported aw... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5882166 | Magazine conveying device A lead frame magazine conveying device including magazine guides that guide the lead frame magazine to be conveyed. The magazine guide comprises a fixed guide and a movable guide which is a bar attached at the end of a swing lever. When the movable guide ... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5868542 | Magazine conveying device A lead frame magazine conveying device including vertically provided magazine loader and unloader sections and an elevator system which transfers the lead frame magazine between the magazine loader and unloader sections after bringing the magazine to lead... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5501565 | Device for storing thin plate-form parts A device for storing plate-from parts such as lead frames including an elevator which carries and positions a storing magazine that receives the lead frames and a loading conveyor which conveys the lead frames to the storing magazine. The loading conveyor... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5380138 | Automatic article feeding system An article feeding apparatus which feeds articles from a feed source to a section to be subjected to feeding includes a stocker for stocking a plurality of pallets retaining a plurality of articles in units of types of articles, with the stocker being cap... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5261774 | Device for loading and/or unloading the racks of a lyophilization tank A device for loading and/or unloading the racks of a lyophilization tank operates such that vials 5 are collected and stored on a vibrating table 2 equipped with a mobile arm 8 blocking the vials on at least a part of the tray 3 of the vibrating table. A ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 4979862 | Automatic loading mechanism An automatic loading mechanism for use in the manufacture of thin, metallic circuit board panels. The invention includes a lower drum unit which accepts the metallic panels from a conveyor system. The lower drum unit is rotatably mounted within a frame as... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4844680 | Automatic article feeding apparatus An automatic article feeding apparatus which includes a stocker for housing pallets for containing articles such as parts for assembly, interchangeable tools or the like, a first pallet operating device for transferring the pallets from the stocker to an ... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4651863 | System for assembling electronic component kits A system for machine assembly of component kits for electronic printed circuit boards is disclosed. Components for assembling the kits are stored in a plurality of standardized machine recoverable trays, more specifically a multi-level carousel. An elevat... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4643629 | Automatic loader In an automatic loader for automatically loading a flat unprocessed substrate to a substrate processing apparatus for processing the flat substrate and automatically unloading a processed substrate, the automatic loader has: a plurality of cassette stages... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4561819 | Flat article conveyor A roller drive conveyor for conveying a rectangular, planar rigid article is disclosed. The conveyor includes two opposed, spaced apart rows of individually mounted wheels having a bottom flange, the upper surface of which provides the only constantly con... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4474525 | Yarn package storage apparatus The present invention relates to the construction of a storage apparatus for temporarily storing a large number of yarn packages (yarn wound on cones or taper cones). The storage apparatus is so arranged that many yarn packages automatically aligned are a... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4388034 | Processing apparatus comprising a cassette member temporarily swingable to vertically hold a plurality of substrates In a processing apparatus comprising successively arranged inlet, processing, and outlet chambers, a cassette member for holding a plurality of substrates in either or each of the inlet and the outlet chambers is reversibly moved between home and temporar... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4368001 | Machine, particularly for loading and unloading ceramic material on to and from stake trucks An improved machine for loading and unloading ceramic material on to and from stake trucks comprises a vertically moving slide of L configuration in plan view; from one of the sides of the L there branches a plurality of cantilevered motorized rollers to ... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4029222 | Apparatus for loading sheet material on a plurality of shelves on a book truck In order to automatically load sheet materials on a plurality of shelves piled on a book truck, an apparatus comprises a loading mechanism provided adjacent to the book truck for loading predetermined numbers of the sheet material on the shelves of the bo... | 06/14/1977 |
