With Cutting, Punching, Piercing, Severing, Or Tearing Patents (Class 156/510)
  • Publication number: 20110048629
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved vacuum drum for handling labels in labelling machines to be used for labelling containers such as bottles. In particular, the present invention relates to a vacuum drum system (1) for labelling machines, comprising a vacuum drum (2) rotatably supported on a non-rotating base (12), a feeding and cutting group (4) for the labels and a gluing group (5) having a gluing drum for the label, characterised in that it comprises a suction system (3) for withdrawing hot glue filaments originating from the glued label assisted by air jets emitted from the drum surface, the said suction system (3) being positioned adjacent to and downstream the gluing drum of the said gluing group (5), along the direction of rotation of the said vacuum drum (2). A method of operating the said system is also claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: James Frederick Robertson Carmichael, Marco Domeniconi
  • Patent number: 7896047
    Abstract: A grinding unit grinds an annular convex portion formed at an outer periphery of a back face of a wafer such that the wafer has a uniform thickness. After such process, a robot arm of a transport unit transports the wafer to an inspection unit for inspecting occurrence of damage at the wafer. Then, the robot arm transports the wafer without damage to a mount frame preparation unit. Herein, the wafer is joined to a ring frame through a dicing tape, and then a protective tape is separated from a front face of the wafer. Thus, a mount frame is prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7896050
    Abstract: An outer edge of a protective tape projected from a semiconductor wafer is fixed and held by a tape holding section. In the condition, a part of the projected protective tape is caught and supported with a tape supporting section with a face having lower adhesive property provided in the outside of the traveling groove for the cutter. Furthermore, the part of the protective tape having the outer edge fixed and held with the tape holding section is compulsorily deformed and inserted into a depression provided between the tape holding section and the tape supporting section. Thereby, the part of the protective tape located in a traveling groove for the cutter is tensioned outward. A cutter blade is stuck into this tensioned part, and cuts the protective tape all over the peripheries of the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Yasuji Kaneshima
  • Patent number: 7887653
    Abstract: A manufacturing device for manufacturing a reclosable-tape-having bag manufactures a reclosable-tape-having bag in which a reclosable tape is mounted on an inner surface of a bag body 10 while an open tape 23 for ripping and opening the bag body 10 is provided between a mounting base 212 and an upper film 11 of the bag body 10. The manufacturing device for manufacturing the reclosable-tape-having bag includes a notching instrument 110 for forming a notch on the bag body 10. The notching instrument 110 includes: a whole-notching instrument 110A for punching the upper film 11, a lower film 12, the open tape 23 and the mounting base 212 to form a tab on a side seal of the bag body 10; and a half-notching instrument 110B for forming an incision on the lower film 12 and a portion of the mounting base 212 corresponding to a position of the open tape 23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Idemitsu Unitech Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Goto, Takehiro Iwamoto, Kenichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20110025978
    Abstract: A downward eyeball movement measuring jig which measures downward eyeball movement corresponding to a distance between a distant eye point and a near eye point of a spectacle lens attached to a spectacle frame to be worn by a wearer of the spectacle lens includes: a mask which is provided on the surface of an examination spectacle lens attached to the spectacle frame and has a reference line passing the distant eye point and extending in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Osamu WADA
  • Publication number: 20110017391
    Abstract: A wafer holding table that suction-holds a wafer of a mount frame moves downward below a frame holding table when a joining roller passes over an exposed portion of an adhesive tape between the wafer W and the ring frame f. Here, the exposed portion of the adhesive tape inclines obliquely downward, thereby joining the adhesive tape to the mount frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Chouhei Okuno
  • Publication number: 20110017393
    Abstract: There is described a method for applying foil material (200) onto successive sheets (S), especially sheets of securities. In a first step, individual sheets (S) are transported in succession along a sheet transport path. In a second step, at least one continuous band of foil material (200) is applied onto the individual sheets (S) along a direction substantially parallel to a direction of displacement of the individual sheets, thereby forming a continuous flow of sheets linked to one another by the said at least one continuous band of foil material (200). In a third step, the said at least one continuous band of foil material (200) is cut by means of a laser beam such that the continuous flow of sheets is again separated into individual sheets (S) with portions of foil material (200*) remaining on the sheet. The cutting is performed at positions located on the sheets (S) such that said portions of foil material (200*) remaining on the sheets do not extend beyond leading and trailing edges of the sheets (S).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: KBA-GIORI S.A.
    Inventors: Johann Emil Eitel, Matthias Gygi, Kurt Georg Nagler
  • Publication number: 20110011528
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a conductive plate includes providing a base substrate and a conductive material that includes a plurality of nanounits. The conductive material is placed on the base substrate, where a portion of the conductive material placed on the base substrate is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicants: INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: JEAH-SHENG WU, JIA-SHYONG CHENG, PO-SHENG SHIH, CHIH-HAN CHAO, CHEN FENG
  • Patent number: 7866361
    Abstract: A device for the manufacture of an absorbent product including a rotatable slitting tool having an extent in a radial direction and an extent in an axial direction perpendicular to the radial direction, the slitting tool being divided in the axial direction into two lateral parts and lying between them a central part. The central part has a circular cross section in the radial direction, and the lateral parts include, in the axial direction, intermittent protuberances projecting from the central part. The protuberances are the same distance from the center of the slitting tool as the circular cross section. The central part between the protuberances, in the direction of curvature of the envelope surface, forms a plurality of cutting edges, each of which has a width which, at a given pressure, permits slitting of a layer of material intended for the absorbent product, and the protuberances form supporting surfaces between the cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Thomas Böhm, Daniel Carlsson
  • Publication number: 20110000621
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a tack labeler capable of automatically adhering this type of tack labels without using release papers to articles to be adhered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI SEAL INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Masahide Ikeda, Toshiya Yamada, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hiroyuki Fujita, Akihiko Fujihira
  • Publication number: 20100326589
    Abstract: An optical display device manufacturing system for bonding a first optical member to an optical display unit, comprising an excluding device for excluding a second optical member as an object to be excluded from a long release film that carries the first and second optical members, wherein the excluding device includes a tape member; a tape member rolling means on which the tape member is rolled; a roller for exclusion around which the tape member unrolled from the tape member rolling means is wound; a drive mechanism for shifting the roller for exclusion; and a take-up means for taking up the tape member wound around the roller for exclusion, wherein the excluding device being configured so that when the roller for exclusion is shifted, the second optical member is attached to the tape member and taken up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Koshio, Kazuo Kitada, Tomokazu Yura, Takuya Nakazono
  • Publication number: 20100319845
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for interleaving a module comprising the cutting out of the module on a strip, the gripping of the cut-out module, the conveying of the module right up to a station for affixing and adhesively bonding modules, the module being heated by heating means via heat conduction of an affixing system upon said conveying and then affixing of the preheated module consisting of positioning the head of a first guiding member on the upper portion of a second guiding member forming a mask showing the imprint of the module or chip (4), preformed on the card (3), by displacement of the affixing system (10) and of positioning the lower portion of said second guiding member (13) on the surface of the card (3) by displacement of the assembly formed by the affixing system (10) and the second guiding member (13). The invention also relates to a device (1) for interleaving a module with which the interleaving method may be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: DATACARD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benoit Berthe, Frederic Beulet, Sebastien Michenet
  • Publication number: 20100319857
    Abstract: An end of a sheet drawn out form a feeder is clamped by a pair of upper and lower clamping devices of two or more pairs. The sheet is drawn out from the initial position to the end position in a spread state. While the spread sheet is being tentered on pin tenters, another pair of upper and lower clamping devices at the end position is separated from each other and moved along the respective rails into the initial position. The end of the sheet drawn out from the feeder is clamped from above and below at the initial position with the upper and lower clamping devices that has returned to the initial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicants: FUKUI Prefecture Government, MITSUYA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Kawabe, Kichiro Ishida
  • Patent number: 7849903
    Abstract: A motorized head for applying fiber composite material to an application surface includes a drive roll and a backup roll for feeding fiber composite material toward the application surface, a compaction roll for pressing fiber composite material onto the application surface, and a restart pinch roll assembly located between the drive roll and the compaction roll for driving fiber composite material received from the drive roll to the compaction roll. The drive roll nip between the drive roll and the backup roll forms a drive zone that grips and drives the composite material, a clamp zone that prevents movement of the composite material after it has been cut, and a free zone that allows composite material to be freely pulled through the head. Two cutters mounted on the drive roll mesh with a single anvil on the backup roll to cut the composite material to the desired length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Cincinnati Machine, LLC
    Inventor: Milo M. Vaniglia
  • Publication number: 20100307689
    Abstract: A variable tension tape pivoting dispenser having an ergonomic handle, a pivot arm and an adjustable bias element. The ergonomic handle includes a tape roll mount connected to the handle at a first pivot. A tape roll is concentrically disposed on the tape roll mount. The pivot arm has a first end and a second dispensing end. The first end is connected to the handle at a second pivot, and a swath of tape extends from the tape roll to the second dispensing end on the pivot arm. The adjustable bias element is disposed at the second pivot and is adapted to provide variable resistance to the rotation of the pivot arm relative to the handle. In use, the angle of the handle remains substantially unchanged in position as the swath of tape being dispensed from the second dispensing end of the pivot arm is adapted to traverse onto various surfaces oriented at various angles upon which the swath of tape is being applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventor: Michael James Huebner
  • Patent number: 7842151
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a layered product having a curved surface part with an extremely small radius of curvature while lowering the rate of occurrence a defective product is provided. The manufacturing apparatus is for a layered product in which a decorative material is laminated on a surface and side of a base material, and includes a cutting unit for forming a first cut portion at the corner of the base material and forming a second cut portion having an arc-shaped portion at a portion of a rear surface side of the decorative material opposing to the first cutout part and a bending member for bending the decorative material at the circular arc-like part of the second cutout part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Katomokuzai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hisaya Kato
  • Publication number: 20100291352
    Abstract: The present invention relates to films with reinforced borders and edges which have a lower risk of the edges tearing during processing, to a method for producing such films, to a device for producing such films and to the use of such films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: DUO-PLAST AG
    Inventor: Norbert Jäger
  • Publication number: 20100288432
    Abstract: A manufacturing system of an optical display device in which the following can be attained in the case of bonding optical members to optical display units, respectively: an optical member to be excluded, which is, for example, an optical member judged as a defective member, can be appropriately excluded so that the optical member is not bonded onto any optical display unit and a manufacturing method of an optical display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Kitada, Satoru Koshio, Takuya Nakazono, Tomokazu Yura
  • Publication number: 20100288441
    Abstract: [Objects] To make it possible to carry out automatically and accurately a laminating operation of an optical element to a sheet-shaped body. [Means for Accomplishing the Objects] A strip-shaped polarizing film has a protective film strip conformably adhered to one surface thereof and a releasable liner conformably adhered to the other surface thereof and delivered from a film delivering station 1. After an appearance inspection, a lamination of the protective film strip and the polarizing film strip F is half-cut using a laser unit 11 to form an array of laminations each consisting of a protective film and a polarizing film F, with the releasable liner being left intact. Then, the polarizing films F are fed to a peeling mechanism 4. The peeling mechanism 4 feeds a forwardmost one the polarizing films F to a laminating mechanism 5 while peeling off the releasable liner therefrom by a knife-edged member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo KITADA, Yoshihiro KAMEDA, Kanji NISHIDA, Tomokazu YURA, Takaichi AMANO, Hiromichi OHASHI, Atsushi HINO, Naoyuki MATSUO
  • Patent number: 7833367
    Abstract: A strip-shaped supporting adhesive tape is joined to a ring frame, and then is stuck with a cutter blade such that the cutter blade penetrates the adhesive tape. In a state where a cutting edge of the cutter blade is brought into contact with a tape joined side of the ring frame, thereafter, the adhesive tape is cut along a contour of the ring frame while electric current is fed to each of the cutter blade and the ring frame. Herein, a sensor monitors a conduction status in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Masaru Irie
  • Patent number: 7832446
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a crosslaid fiber web on the basis of two parallel longitudinal fiber webs and segments of another longitudinal fiber web comprises a fixing table on which the longitudinal fiber webs and the segments come together. Furthermore, the device comprises a pair of high-voltage bars, movably arranged with respect to the fixing table. When a segment is in a correct end position with respect to the longitudinal fiber webs on the fixing table, the pair of high-voltage bars is activated and moved with respect to the segment and the longitudinal fiber webs, wherein the segment and the longitudinal fiber webs are situated between the high-voltage bars. As a consequence, the segment is fixed with respect to the longitudinal fiber webs, before being supplied to another device in order to get definitively connected to the longitudinal fiber webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Beiler Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Martinus Cornelus Adrianus Van Den Aker
  • Patent number: 7828032
    Abstract: An end of a sheet drawn out form a feeder is clamped by a pair of upper and lower clamping devices of two or more pairs. The sheet is drawn out from the initial position to the end position in a spread state. While the spread sheet is being tentered on pin tenters, another pair of upper and lower clamping devices at the end position is separated from each other and moved along the respective rails into the initial position. The end of the sheet drawn out from the feeder is clamped from above and below at the initial position with the upper and lower clamping devices that has returned to the initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignees: Fukui Prefecture Government, Mitsuya Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Kawabe, Kichiro Ishida
  • Patent number: 7819161
    Abstract: A system for measuring a glucose level in a blood sample includes a test strip and a meter. The test strip includes a sample chamber, a working electrode, a counter electrode, fill-detect electrodes, and an auto-on conductor. A reagent layer is disposed in the sample chamber. The auto-on conductor causes the meter to wake up and perform a test strip sequence when the test strip is inserted in the meter. The meter uses the working and counter electrodes to initially detect the blood sample in the sample chamber and uses the fill-detect electrodes to check that the blood sample has mixed with the reagent layer. The meter applies an assay voltage between the working and counter electrodes and measures the resulting current. The meter calculates the glucose level based on the measured current and calibration data saved in memory from a removable data storage device associated with the test strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Nipro Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary T. Neel, Douglas E. Bell, T. Philip Wong, Houston F. Voss, Allan Javier Caban, David K. Boehm
  • Publication number: 20100263786
    Abstract: A wirelaying apparatus (2) includes a tool arm (21) with a tool head (22) which carries a wirelaying tool (30). The tool (30) has a cutting tip (31) through which a wire (12) is laid into a working surface (11) of a workpiece (10). The workpiece (10) is retained in a retainer (40) and is moved relative to the wirelaying tool (30). In use, the cutting tip (31) follows along an arcuate path while laying the (10) wire into the working surface (11) of the workpiece (10). Thus, more complex wirelaying configurations are achieved, such as a bi-helical wirelaying pattern in a generally cylindrical pipe fitting or a bi-spiral wirelaying pattern in a semi-cylindrical saddle coupler pipe fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: MSA ENGINEERING SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventor: Morgan Jones
  • Patent number: 7815766
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying adhesive sheets includes a sheet applying base which is placed on a placement base so as to be withdrawable from the placement base and which has a sheet applying region to which adhesive sheets positioned closely before and after a junction portion are to be applied. In the sheet applying base, an upstream-side end portion of the sheet applying region in the adhesive sheet feed direction is placed so as to confront an end portion of the sheet applying head, and moreover a sheet escaping space opened downward is set in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kozo Odawara, Atsushi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20100258249
    Abstract: Provided is a system for manufacturing an optical display unit and a feed mechanism, which can well prevent an optical film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer from being peeled from a release film. A pressure-sensitive adhesive type sheet material, wherein the optical film and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (film main body (F)) are cut without cutting a release film (F12, F22) which is laminated to the optical film with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in between, is fed along a feed path (12A, 22A). A press member (200) is arranged at a position opposed to a bent portion or a curved portion in the feed path (12A, 22A). Since the film main body (F) which is peeled from the release film (F12, F22) can be pressed to the release film (F12, F22) by the press member (200), the film main body (F) can be well prevented from being peeled from the release film (F12, F22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Kitada, Takuya Nakazono, Satoru Koshio, Tomokazu Yura
  • Publication number: 20100252193
    Abstract: An assembly and method for placing a desired length of tape material, fed as a moving continuous strip of tape material, onto a moving continuous web of material, wherein the orientation of the placed tape material is substantially perpendicular to the direction of movement of the moving continuous web of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Paul Cassoni, Terrence Curtis Hooker
  • Patent number: 7807004
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a method for joining an adhesive tape having the steps (1) separating, from a first adhesion face of a double-sided adhesive tape having first and second separators attached to front and back adhesion faces thereof, the first separator, and joining the double-sided adhesive tape to a surface of a substrate; (2) joining the double-sided adhesive tape to the substrate while a joining roller provided in a tape joining unit presses the second separator with rolling, and taking up the second separator wound and turned around by the joining roller and separated from a second adhesion face of the double-sided adhesive tape in a second separator collecting unit provided in the tape joining unit while rolling the joining roller synchronously; and (3) cutting the double-sided adhesive tape joined to the substrate with the adhesion faces thereof being exposed along with a contour of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Yukitoshi Hase
  • Publication number: 20100243148
    Abstract: An apparatus for laminating a solar module includes a form-cutting unit for form-cutting lamination foil, a holding apparatus for holding the laminating foil in a form-cutting position when form-cutting with at least one cutter, and a laying unit for laying a form-cut laminating foil piece in a laying position on a carrier plate. The apparatus further includes a cutting-off unit for cutting-off the piece of lamination foil from a foil unroller and a pull-out unit for pulling-out the lamination foil into the form-cutting position on a cutting table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Stefan Kaufmann, Walter Gratzer
  • Publication number: 20100236719
    Abstract: Wafers W are supported respectively on inner tables 52 of a table 13, and after a strip of sheet S is fed out to the upper surface side of the wafers W, a press roller 14 imparts a press force. The adhesive sheet S is cut along the outer periphery of the wafers by a cutter blade 63 mounted at the free-end side of a robot 15. The robot 15 has a function to exchange the cutter blade 63 with a suction arm 100, to transfer the wafer W from a magazine 200 to the table 13 and to transfer the wafer W stuck with the sheet to the next process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: LINTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki NONAKA, Kneji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100230040
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin pellet are provided which can smoothly carry out a continuous drawing-out operation for a reinforcing fiber bundle (continuous fiber-reinforced resin strand). With respect to a terminal end of a reinforcing fiber bundle A of a roving package being exhausted and a front end of a reinforcing fiber bundle B of a new roving package, fiber quantity-halved end portions A1 and B1 each about half of the original fiber quantity are formed respectively, then reinforcing filaments in those fiber quantity-halved end portions are entangled by an air splicer to form an entangled portion C1, and reinforcing filaments in a portion downstream of the fiber quantity-halved end portion in the reinforcing fiber bundle B of the new roving package are entangled by an air splicer to form an entangled portion C2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Naoyuki Tashiro, Takayasu Fujiura, Kaduya Takamura, Seiji Zenke
  • Patent number: 7793696
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a roll sheet holder for producing labels which can be easily put on a slim stick-type member used in foods without being wound on and adhered to the stick-type member, and be completely removed from the stick-type member. The roll sheet is made of a continuous thermal sheet having self-coloring property having no adhesive layer on its back side, and the like, and wound on a roll sheet holder with a back face facing outward. A plurality of encoder marks are provided on an edge of the back face of the roll sheet in a width direction, with predetermined pitch size in a feeding direction. The predetermined pitch size of the encoder marks is arranged to be equal to a length between cutting lines along which the printed roll sheet is cut. Behind the encoder marks in the feeding direction, a dog-leg shaped slits, projecting backward in the feeding direction are made in each substantially center between the cutting lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Haruki Matsumoto, Yasunori Nakamura, Terumasa Hoshino, Hiroshi Takami
  • Publication number: 20100218899
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for bonding integrated circuits uniquely suited to high volume tag production is described, where conductive material of a substrate at the die-attach-area is cut before an IC chip or transponder is placed on the conductive material over the cut and bonded. The apparatus performs the method of placing a first chip on a substrate having a conductive layer, measuring the location of the first chip on the substrate, cutting the conductive layer at a location of an expected subsequently placed chip to form a cut based on the measured location of the first chip, and placing the subsequently placed chip on the substrate over the cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Clare, Andre Cote, Eric Eckstein
  • Publication number: 20100218888
    Abstract: The invention which is the subject of this application is apparatus and a method for the application of labels to articles-, via adhesive or other mechanical location means. The labels are provided in a label supply (2) with respective labels (8) defined by a line of weakening (6) formed by slits (12) or perforations and the line of weakening includes at least one aperture (12) provided for engagement by a tool (12) at the time when the line of weakening is required to be broken to separate the leading label and allow the same to be applied to the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: CATCHPOINT LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael Cooper, David Ashmore
  • Patent number: 7784515
    Abstract: Wafers W are supported respectively on inner tables 52 of a table 13, and after a strip of sheet S is fed out to the upper surface side of the wafers W, a press roller 14 imparts a press force. The adhesive sheet S is cut along the outer periphery of the wafers by a cutter blade 63 mounted at the free-end side of a robot 15. The robot 15 has a function to exchange the cutter blade 63 with a suction arm 100, to transfer the wafer W from a magazine 200 to the table 13 and to transfer the wafer W stuck with the sheet to the next process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Lintec Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Nonaka, Kenji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100212822
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for manufacturing an optical display device comprising an optical film including a polarizing plate and a rectangular optical display unit having a surface to which the optical film is bonded, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a material roll which is a roll of a long sheet material obtained by lengthwise slitting a long material comprising an optical film into a width corresponding to a short or long side of the optical display unit, wherein the optical film includes a polarizing plate having a longitudinal direction parallel to its absorption axis; and unwinding the long sheet material from the material roll, cutting at least the optical film of the long sheet material to form an optical film having a length corresponding to a long or short side of the optical display unit, and then bonding the optical film to a surface of the optical display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Kitada, Takuya Nakazono, Satoru Koshio, Tomokazu Yura
  • Patent number: 7779880
    Abstract: A tube connecting apparatus that can carry out self reset operation without giving damage to the apparatus and that safety of an operator is considered. The tube connecting apparatus has an EEPROM memorizing information with respect to a connecting process state of tubes. When electric power is inputted, the apparatus judges whether power supply was shut off during tube connecting operation based upon the information memorized in the EEPROM with respect to the connecting process state of tubes and a detecting result of a wafer 41 according to a wafer position detecting sensor 421, and carries out reset operation. In the reset operation, the apparatus restarts and completes connecting operation (S620 to 632) by heating the wafer again to fuse the tubes adhered to the wafer (S614, 616). Error indication is displayed at a LCD display to secure connecting strength and the like (S634). A locking state is not cancelled during cooling time after heating of the wafer is stopped to secure safety (S628 to S632).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sano, Masaru Nagashimada, Shinji Ishida, Hideya Fujihara, Satoshi Yamanushi
  • Patent number: 7779881
    Abstract: A machine for making collapsible cellular structures folds two fabric webs into a V-shape or C-shape, connects the webs together with strands of adhesive, applies glue lines and collects the webs on a wheel. A variable speed motor, a fabric drive system which enables glue to be applied when the fabric is not stretched and a lay-on wheel assembly with movable arm that directs the fabric onto the collector can be provided in the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Inventors: Ren Judkins, John D. Rupel
  • Patent number: 7780052
    Abstract: A system for removing chips from a web is disclosed, the system having a rotationally variable speed shoe for receiving a chip, a rotationally constant speed transfer roll for receiving a portion of a web from a die and anvil system, with the shoe initially rotating at a constant speed, slowing to allow a portion of the web to rip away from the chip at a leading rotational edge of the chip, next increasing in rotational speed to allow the chip to rip away from the web at a trailing rotational edge of the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Curt G. Joa, Inc.
    Inventor: John A. McCabe
  • Patent number: 7775248
    Abstract: A system including a supply roll of a laminate, a mandrel for wrapping the laminate therearound, feed rollers that spool the laminate off the supply roll onto the mandrel, the feed rollers being attached to a mounting plate by an adjustable bracket that sets an angle of the laminate with respect to the mandrel, adjacent windings of the laminate being joined to one another at overlaps thereof, wherein each winding of the laminate makes at least one complete revolution around the mandrel before the laminate advances to its next adjacent winding so as to form a seal at the overlaps of the adjacent windings, and a cutting station adapted to cut cylindrical tubes formed by windings of the laminate about the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Polyraz Plastics Industries
    Inventor: Yaron Cina
  • Patent number: 7771553
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a processing apparatus, such as a laminator, for performing operations involving effecting adhesive bonding on substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Esselte Corporation
    Inventors: Paul J. Lemens, Christopher A. Holman, Adam J. Becker, Andrew Goodfellow
  • Publication number: 20100186890
    Abstract: Provided are a manufacturing system and a manufacturing method for an optical display device, which are enabled to adhere upper and lower optical films to an optical display device by using two rolls having optical anisotropies such as absorption axes in the same direction, so that the optical anisotropies may be orthogonal to each other. In the manufacturing system for the optical display device, the optical films are adhered to an optical display unit (W). The manufacturing system comprises a feeding device (M2) for a first optical film (F11) to be fed after cut to a predetermined length, and a feeding device (M5) for a second optical film (F21) to be fed after cut to a predetermined length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Kitada, Tomokazu Yura, Takuya Nakazono, Satoru Koshio
  • Publication number: 20100186900
    Abstract: The invention relates to a friction weld assembly of a plurality of superposed plates, said plates being held together by a connection body which rests on the upper plate by means of a collar and is formed as a slender cone ending in a tip. The connection body comprises a driving element in the region of the collar thereof, for the attachment of a pressure and rotation tool. A girder formed from the slender cone and penetrating from the upper plate into the lower plate, and a girder protruding from the lower plate along the inner surfaces thereof, form a friction welding region extending onto the slender cone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: EJOT GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Eberhard Christ
  • Publication number: 20100186901
    Abstract: A component feeder capable of enhancing productivity is provided by that the component feeder includes a tape feeding device intermittently feeding a component housing tape constituted of a carrier tape having component housing parts formed with predetermined interval to contain respective electronic components, and a cover tape covering the component housing parts to prevent the components from jumping out from the component housing parts while the component housing tape wound on a housing tape reel is sequentially fed to a component extracting position, and an electronic component exposing device exposing the electronic components in the component housing parts to be allowed to be extracted, wherein the tape feeding device is constituted of a first feeding device and a second feeding device, and the electronic component exposing device is provided between the first feeding device and the second feeding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroshi IKEDA, Yoshinao Usui, Kazuyoshi Oyama, Tsutomu Yanagida, Isao Takahira
  • Publication number: 20100181028
    Abstract: An integrally-formed contamination-resistant adhesive tape dispenser includes an integrally-formed injection-molded dispenser body, which has a curvedly recessed tape dispensing mouth and a cover that are connected to each other in an integrated and rotatable manner to provide a frame- or box-like stable and stiff configuration. Two side plates form in lower sides of central sections thereof symmetric folding lines to allow for outward bending of half portion of the two sides. Opposite central portions on inside surfaces of the bendable side plates are provided with projecting shaft cylinders that engage each other to allow for a body of adhesive tape to fit thereon, so that the projecting shaft cylinders of the side plates can mate and couple to each other to form a complete structure of the adhesive tape dispenser, which allows the dispenser to be molded with a single mold and suits the needs for safe and sanitary operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventor: CHI-TSAI CHANG
  • Patent number: 7753098
    Abstract: A tooling head for bi-directional tire cord application to an annular surface reciprocates in a forward and a reverse direction across the annular surface. The tooling head includes a housing; a nose block assembly coupled to the housing and reciprocating in an axial direction relative to the tooling head housing; a pair of cord engaging rollers mounted to a remote end of the nose block assembly and moving therewith in a forward and a reverse direction across the annular surface, the rollers positioning at least one cord against the annular surface in the forward and reverse directions; and a biasing element engaging against the nose block assembly for alternatively biasing the rollers against the annular surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Andres Ignacio Delgado, Jean-Claude Girard
  • Patent number: 7730922
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for visualizing air stream by little threads on aerodynamic surfaces such that strips of adhesive tape populated with threads are automatically fabricated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Eva Maria Montilla Mendez, Susanne Wyrembek, Tim Moenning
  • Publication number: 20100132882
    Abstract: The invention provides a device and a method for cutting through an adhesive bead of a pane using a motor-driven winding-up device. The winding-up device includes a coil adapted to wind up a cutting wire for cutting through the adhesive bead and can be coupled, via a coupling that can be disengaged, to a suction disk that can be located on the vehicle inside in such a way that, preferably, the winding-up device is rotatably received on the suction disk. When the winding-up device is driven, it will therefore align itself automatically to the cutting wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Matthias Hess, Joachim Clabunde, Olaf Klabunde, Juergen Blickle
  • Publication number: 20100136293
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments concern a curved structural part composed of a composite material with reinforced, continuous fibers whose cross section includes at least two wings, with said fibers extending from one wing to the other, with said structural part having a variation in the width of its section parallel to the local radius of curvature. The structural element that results from assembling the parts in the disclosed embodiments therefore has local widening of the section at the connections between the parts constituting a structural element, such as an aircraft fuselage frame, and widening at the connection with the floor profiles, if such a profile is used to make an aircraft fuselage structure. The disclosed embodiments also concern a process for manufacturing such a part, as well as a device for advantageously implementing such a process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SOCIETE PAR ACTIONS SIMPLIFIEE)
    Inventors: Vanessa Kubryk, Nathalie Hellard-Lambic
  • Patent number: RE42176
    Abstract: Machine for manufacturing mesh bags from a continuous roll of tubular mesh, and for filling and closing said mesh bags, which comprise an expansion device which is perimetric to the tubular mesh, the core expander of which is equipped with a vertical aperture which, as if it were a slot, traverses said core expander and connects the two frontal faces thereof and extends from its base to an intermediate point, for which the core expander adopts an inverted “U” shape, the machine also being fitted with preventive welding means, adapted for partially welding the two frontal faces of the tubular mesh and, as the case may be, the adjoining laminates of thermally weldable material through the aperture of the core expander; a traction device which drags a section of the tubular mesh provided with a bottom; conveyor means; and second and third filling and closing stations, respectively, both being arranged linearly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Girnet Internacional, S.L.
    Inventor: Ezequiel Giro Amigo