Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
414749600 | Including aligning structure (e.g., rollers and rails, dovetail joint, rod and channel) | 24 |
20080219825 | Article Transport Facility - An article transport facility includes an article carrier movable along a track, and an article rack arranged along the track. Each article rack has a fixed frame, and a movable frame supported to be movable relative to said fixed frame between an extended position projecting toward the track and a retracted position retracted away from the track. A movable guide shiftably supports and guides the movable frame to be movable relative thereto in a shifting direction. A fixed guide is mounted on the fixed frame for supporting and guiding the movable guide to be movable in the shifting direction. | 09-11-2008 |
20080286084 | Substrate transporting apparatus and substrate guide unit for use therein - An apparatus for transporting substrates includes a plurality of shafts arranged in a row and transporting rollers installed at the respective shafts to rotate with the shafts. A guide unit is provided to prevent a substrate from shaking in a side direction when the substrate is transported by the rotation of the transporting roller. The guide unit includes an inner ring where formed is a through-hole into which a shaft is inserted, an outer ring where formed is a through-hole into which the inner ring is formed, and bearings provided between the inner ring and the outer ring to allow the inner ring and the outer ring to rotate independently. The outer ring includes a ring-shaped guide protruding from an outer circumferential surface of the outer ring in a side direction. The outer circumferential surface of the outer ring comes in contact with the bottom edge of a substrate to support the substrate, and a side surface of the guide comes in contact with the side of the substrate to prevent the substrate from traveling in a side direction. The inner ring rotates with the shaft, and the outer ring rotates by a friction force with the substrate. | 11-20-2008 |
20090047111 | MOVING CARRIER FOR LEAD FRAME AND METHOD OF MOVING LEAD FRAME USING THE MOVING CARRIER - Provided are a moving carrier for a lead frame, and a method of moving a lead frame using the moving carrier. The moving carrier includes a base which supports the lead frame including a body and a chip attach pad on which a chip is disposed. The moving carrier includes a groove portion which is integrated with a part of the base and contains the chip attach pad of the lead frame. The lead frame is inserted or withdrawn into or out from a magazine using the moving carrier and thus without deformation of the lead frame or damage to the chip. | 02-19-2009 |
20090074553 | DEVICE HANDLING SYSTEM - An apparatus and associated method for handling a device in a manner that enhances a self-purging efficiency with which debris in the device is ameliorated. The apparatus and associated method includes rocking the device along a rocker conveyor path defined by opposing rails supporting respective rows of cantilevered eccentric rollers, wherein the rollers supported by one rail of the opposing rails are clearingly disengaged from the rollers supported by the other rail of the opposing rails, and wherein the device is instantaneously supported by one or more of the rollers supported by the one rail and one or more of the rollers supported by the other rail. | 03-19-2009 |
20090208318 | Carousel for the Warehousing of Goods | 08-20-2009 |
20090220327 | Material Handling Apparatus - A handling apparatus can be used to transfer objects from a first location to a second location along a defined path, without the need for a conveyor along the path. Instead, the handling apparatus can be moved along the path by a controllable transport device, such as a robot arm. The handling apparatus can comprise a plurality of unpowered rollers which are selectively rotated by way of a transfer assist mechanism during loading and/or unloading of the objects to be transferred. The transfer assist mechanism can comprise a separate component that can power the rollers directly or indirectly. The transfer assist mechanism can comprise a belt which imparts rotational force to the support rollers via contact in some embodiments, with the amount of force controlled by varying the relative inclination of the support rollers and the transfer assist mechanism. | 09-03-2009 |
20090245992 | Suspension type robot whose robot body runs along traveling rail - A suspension type robot comprises posts, support arms having apical ends, a traveling rail mounted between the apical ends of the support arms and robot body. Each of the support arms has at the apical end a U-shape-cut portion providing a U-shape opening and a U-shape upper surface surrounding the U-shape opening. The traveling rail has an attachment portion comprising a first cylinder portion and a second cylinder portion. The first cylinder portion is inserted into the U-shape-cut portion. The second cylinder portion is disposed on the first cylinder portion, engaged with the U-shape upper surface, and is larger in diameter than the first cylinder portion. The first cylinder portion is inserted deep into the U-shape-cut portion, and both sides of the U-shape opening of the U-shape-cut portion are extended from the plane of projection of the second cylinder portion. | 10-01-2009 |
20090257859 | Vehicle tire loading device - The present invention relates to a loading device for a tire of a vehicle that facilitates installation of the tire in a tire assembly processes as a consequence of supplying the tire to a mounting position of the tire in a vehicle body. A loading device for a tire of a vehicle according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, which transfers the tire supplied by a traverse to a mounting position of the tire at a vehicle body in a tire assembly process, may include: at least one rail frame fixedly mounted at an upper portion of a workplace corresponding to a position of the vehicle body by a supporter and having a rail formed at a lower surface thereof; a transfer unit including a moving frame that is movably mounted on the rail frame by roller means and a first operating cylinder, a post mounted downward on the moving frame in a vertical direction, and a moving beam inserted in the post and being configured to move upwardly and downwardly by a vertical transfer unit; and a tire basket movably mounted on a lower end of the moving beam by a horizontal transfer unit, and receiving the tire supplied by the traverse. | 10-15-2009 |
20090297318 | Glass sheet guidance system and method for guiding glass sheets - A glass sheet guidance system includes a guidance member ( | 12-03-2009 |
20100068026 | STACKER CART - This is a stacker cart useful to collect a paper stack in a paper-handling system. The stacker cart has movables so that it can be moved into and out of a housing in the system. At a top section of the stacker cart is a transfer plate that receives the paper stack after processing, finishing, or marking. This transfer plate and the stacker cart have on their lower surface movables that allow both easy moving of the slidable plate off the stacker cart and easy moving of the stacker cart from one location to another. The transfer plate has at least one hook that is connected to a rope or for moving the transfer plate to a second surface. The movables used in both the transfer plate and the stacker cart can be wheels, slides, or bearings. | 03-18-2010 |
20100215470 | TRANSPORTATION APPARATUS - A transportation apparatus includes a base, a pair of guideways fixed on the base in parallel, a rodless cylinder installed on one of the pair of guideways and including a sliding block operable to be driven by the rodless cylinder to slide along one of the pair of guideways, a supporting member fixed on the sliding block, a lift cylinder installed on the supporting member, and a manipulating member installed on the cylinder. Each of two opposite sides of the supporting member is configured with an upper roller and a side roller abutting against an upper side and an inner side of one of the pair of the guideways, respectively. The manipulating member is operable to be driven by the cylinder to move along a direction different from an extending direction of the pair of guideways. | 08-26-2010 |
20100322754 | Apparatus for Substrate Alignment, Apparatus for Substrate Processing Having the Same, and Substrate Alignment Method - Disclosed are a substrate alignment apparatus precisely and automatically aligning a mask on a substrate by sequentially moving the substrate and the mask horizontally on a susceptor being driven up and down, a substrate processing apparatus including the same, and a substrate alignment method. The substrate alignment apparatus includes a position fixing unit protruding from an upper surface of the susceptor driven up and down in a chamber so as to form a reference line for alignment of the substrate and the mask, a horizontal transfer unit connected at outer surfaces of two sidewalls of the chamber and extended into the chamber to align the substrate and the mask according to the up and down movement of the susceptor until the substrate and the mask are stopped by the position fixing unit from horizontally moving, and a control unit adapted to control the susceptor and the horizontal transfer unit. | 12-23-2010 |
20110008144 | PICK AND PLACE APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE INSPECTION EQUIPMENT, PICKING APPARATUS THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR LOADING ELECTRONIC DEVICES ONTO LOADING ELEMENT - A technology related to a pick-and-place apparatus for electronic device inspection equipment is provided. The pick-and-place apparatus includes the guiding unit that can interact with a loading element and can guide the picker to load the electronic devices at a correct position on the loading element. Therefore, the pick-and-place apparatus can allow the electronic devices, for example, semiconductor devices having a ball type of electrical contact lead (BGA, FBGA, etc.), to electrically contact the tester in a stable manner when the tester inspects the electronic devices. | 01-13-2011 |
20120063875 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDGE JUSTIFICATION OF MAIL ITEMS - An edge justification device for a mail processing machine. The device shifts the mailpiece from bottom edge justified to top edge justified. The amount of shift is determined as a function of the height of the mail piece. One embodiment solves the problem of switching from bottom to top registration by having a series of steerable nips, which are arranged in line, parallel to the mail flow direction. As the mail piece travels though the justifier, the nips will rotate to impart a lateral velocity to the mail piece, shifting it over to properly justify it. In a further embodiment, the nips of the justification device are not steerable. Rather, a whole nip assembly that is transporting the mail piece is moved laterally to switch from bottom to top justification. | 03-15-2012 |
20120128457 | Reconfigurable Guide Pin Design for Centering Wafers Having Different Sizes - An apparatus includes a robot arm, and a plurality of guide pins mounted on the robot arm. Each of the plurality of guide pins includes a plurality of wafer supports at different levels, with each of the plurality of wafer supports configured to support and center a wafer having a size different from wafers configured to be supported and centered by remaining ones of the plurality of wafer supports | 05-24-2012 |
20120237328 | DEVICE FOR ALIGNMENT OF TWO SUBSTRATES - Device and method for alignment of a first contact surface of a first substrate with a second contact surface of a second substrate which can be held on a second platform. The device includes first X-Y positions of first alignment keys located along the first contact surface, and second X-Y positions of second alignment keys which correspond to the first alignment keys and which are located along the second contact surface, wherein the first contact surface can be aligned based on the first X-Y positions in the first alignment position and the second contact surface can be aligned based on the second X-Y positions in the second alignment position. | 09-20-2012 |
20130272834 | Pick-and-Place Apparatus for Glass Substrate - A pick-and-place apparatus for handling glass substrate is disclosed and which comprises a chassis and a transportation platform which includes a transferring device disposed on the chassis and includes a first frame and a plurality of transferring rods rotationally disposed across the first frame along a first reference direction. A vertical displacing mechanism is provided for moving the transportation platform to move vertically to a pre-determined height. And a horizontal displacing device is provided for moving the transportation platform to more along the first reference direction such that the transferring device can be moved in and out of the cartridge, wherein the first transferring rods rotationally move the glass substrate into the cartridge or out of the cartridge. | 10-17-2013 |
20130287533 | LINEAR RAIL MAGNETIC BIASING FOR A STORAGE LIBRARY - Systems and methods are described for providing magnetic biasing of a carriage in context of linear guides. In one embodiment, a robotic mechanism is configured to travel on a platform assembly within a structural context. The platform assembly transports a carriage in a Z direction, and the carriage transports the robotic mechanism in an X direction. The carriage moves in the X direction along rails (e.g., and/or other types of linear guides) in a substantially floating or unbiased manner. For example, one or more alignment features on the carriage are in communication with the rails to allow the carriage to move relatively freely within an alignment region defined by the alignment features. When the carriage reaches its desired X location, magnetic features bias the carriage into a substantially accurate, secure, and repeatable position. | 10-31-2013 |
20130302128 | PALLET TRANSPORT SYSTEM OF MACHINE TOOL - A pallet transport system of a machine tool promoting transport of a pallet for workpiece mounting use from a first stand to an adjoining second stand, wherein the first stand has a first mounting part which defines a first mounting surface, the second stand has a second mounting part which defines a second mounting surface, and the pallet has a mounted part attachable to the first and second mounting parts, along a transport direction of the pallet, includes a support mechanism turnably supporting at least one of the first stand, the second stand, and the pallet so that the orientations of a mounted surface defined by the mounted part and the second mounting surface match due to contact force between the mounted part and the second mounting part along with transport of the pallet from the first stand to the second stand along the first mounting surface. | 11-14-2013 |
20140030052 | Kinematic Holding System For A Placement Head Of A Placement Apparatus - A kinematic holding system for a placement head of a placement apparatus comprises a placement head alignment device which comprises at least one length-variable holding member arranged at a distance from a joint between a placement head support and the placement head. This holding member determines the pivoting position of the placement head relative to the placement head support. The length of the holding member is changeable during the placement operation depending on a deformation of the placement head guide device caused by the pressing force of the placement head against the substrate in such a way that an axis error (tilt) of the placement head caused by the deformation of the placement head guide device is compensated. | 01-30-2014 |
20140178168 | TRANSPORTING DEVICE - A transporting device includes a support frame, a driving mechanism, a first picking mechanism, and a second picking mechanism. The driving mechanism is mounted on the support frame. The first picking mechanism includes a first sliding member slidably mounted on the support frame and driven by the driving mechanism, a first driving member mounted on the first sliding member, a hinge member comprising a hinge portion driven by the first driving member, a first connection portion rotatably connected to the hinge portion, and a second connection portion rotatably connected to the first connection portion. The second driving member includes a driving portion capable of telescoping and selectively latching with the second connection portion. Thus, the first connection portion and the first picking member are rotatable relative to the second connection portion. | 06-26-2014 |
20140334908 | TOOL AND A METHOD FOR MOVING A WIND TURBINE DRIVETRAIN COMPONENT - The invention provides a tool for moving a drivetrain component ( | 11-13-2014 |
20150117999 | TRANSPORT UNIT AND TRANSPORT APPARATUS - The present invention provides a transport unit comprising a base member, a transport mechanism and a positioning mechanism. The base member includes a bottom wall extending in a transport direction and a pair of side walls standing upright from two side portions, respectively, of the bottom wall. The transport mechanism is supported by the base member and transports an object to be transported. The positioning mechanism is supported by the base member, and positions the object relative to the base member. | 04-30-2015 |
20160167237 | Kinematic Holding System For A Placement Head Of A Placement Apparatus | 06-16-2016 |