Abstract: An insert molding sheet to be used for insert molding has a positioning rib to be fixed to a mold facing a cavity.

Abstract: A robot system 100 includes an operator 2 to be operated by a user, a robot 1 having an end effector 11 that acts on an object W and a robot arm 12 that moves the end effector 11, and a controller 3 that outputs a command for the robot arm 12 such that the end effector 11 moves according to operation information input via the operator 2. The controller 3 performs coordinate conversion to adapt a reference surface RP in an operation coordinate system set for the operator 2 to the surface of the object W, and generates the command for the robot arm 12 based on the operation information.

Abstract: A glass plate separating apparatus, as one example, includes: a trigger device that forms a start point flaw in a first main surface of a glass ribbon on a division-planned line; a pair of holding members disposed at the first main surface side of the glass ribbon; and a heater disposed at a second main surface side of the glass ribbon. The pair of holding members, each of which extends parallel to the division-planned line, is brought into contact with the glass ribbon at both sides of the division-planned line while being lowered together with the glass ribbon. The heater extends along the division-planned line, and is brought into contact with and pressed onto the glass ribbon on the division-planned line while being lowered together with the glass ribbon.

Abstract: A glass plate separating apparatus, as one example, includes: a trigger device that forms a start point flaw in a first main surface of a glass ribbon on a division-planned line; a pair of holding members disposed at the first main surface side of the glass ribbon; and a heater disposed at a second main surface side of the glass ribbon. The pair of holding members, each of which extends parallel to the division-planned line, is brought into contact with the glass ribbon at both sides of the division-planned line while being lowered together with the glass ribbon. The heater extends along the division-planned line, and is brought into contact with and pressed onto the glass ribbon on the division-planned line while being lowered together with the glass ribbon.

Abstract: A method of dividing a plate member made of a brittle material includes; first, forming a minute start point flaw 16 in a first main surface of a plate member on a division-planned line; then holding the first main surface of the plate member on a pair of lines; and thereafter, for example, bringing a dividing member, which heats up a second main surface of the plate member by contact heating, into contact with the second main surface of the plate member to generate a tensile thermal stress on the first main surface and applying bending force in a thickness direction of the plate member to the second main surface of the plate member, such that a tensile stress derived from the bending force and the tensile thermal stress are combined together. In this manner, the plate member is divided along the division-planned line.