Abstract: A sharpening tool having a handle having a variable speed switch and a support grip, a removable universal tool adapter rotatably coupled to the handle, a locking feature for locking a position of the removable universal tool adapter, and a motor for driving a tool coupled to the removable universal tool adapter.

Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a wafer processing method is provided. The wafer processing method includes placing a semiconductor wafer on a wafer stage with a backside surface of the semiconductor wafer facing downwardly. The wafer processing method further includes positioning a first brush assembly below the backside surface of the semiconductor wafer. The wafer processing method also includes moving a first brush assembly toward the backside surface of the semiconductor wafer to a first position. At the first position, an inner brush member and an outer brush member of the first brush assembly, made of different materials, are in contact with the backside surface of the semiconductor wafer. In addition, the wafer processing method includes rotating the first brush assembly relative to the semiconductor wafer while the first brush assembly is in the first position.

Abstract: An end-rounding device comprises a movable body comprising an abrasive surface; a gearing for transferring a movement from a motor to the movable body; a providing unit for providing a plurality of bristle filament ends to the abrasive surface, wherein the providing unit comprises a clamping unit for clamping a bunch of filaments, wherein the bunch comprises a multiple of filaments of a bristle tuft; wherein the abrasive surface has a diameter from 80 mm to 300 mm and comprises a concave curvature oriented in the direction of the clamping unit; and wherein the clamping unit is movably spaced from the abrasive surface at a distance. A method of smoothening bristle filament ends utilizes the end-rounding device.

Abstract: An end-rounding device comprises a movable body comprising an abrasive surface; a gearing for transferring a movement from a motor to the movable body; a providing unit for providing a plurality of bristle filament ends to the abrasive surface, wherein the providing unit comprises a clamping unit for clamping a bunch of filaments, wherein the bunch comprises a multiple of filaments of a bristle tuft; wherein the abrasive surface has a diameter from 80 mm to 300 mm and comprises a concave curvature oriented in the direction of the clamping unit; and wherein the clamping unit is movably spaced from the abrasive surface at a distance. A method of smoothening bristle filament ends utilizes the end-rounding device.

Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically re-sharpening a knife includes: receiving a knife at a vice; during a scan cycle, scanning the grind head along a blade of the knife from an initial longitudinal position proximal the vice toward a longitudinal end position and recording a sequence of vertical positions of segments of an edge of the blade at various longitudinal positions of the grind head based on outputs of a sensor arranged in the grind head; calculating a blade profile for the knife based on the sequence of vertical positions; and, during a grind cycle, actuating a grind wheel in the grind head and pitching the grind head while driving the grind head longitudinally along the blade to maintain an axis of the grind wheel substantially parallel to segments the blade profile corresponding to longitudinal positions of the grind head, relative to the vice.

Abstract: A method linear friction welds a rotor blade to a disk. The method includes: providing a linear friction welding machine having disk tooling at which a disk is mounted, and further having blade tooling at which a blade is mountable; mounting a dummy blade at blade tooling, dummy blade carrying one or more first measurement devices which interact with mounted disk to measure position of dummy blade relative to disk; adjusting position and orientation of blade tooling relative to mounted disk until first measurement devices indicate that dummy blade is in a suitable alignment with disk to start linear friction welding a blade to disk; releasing dummy blade from blade tooling and mounting a production blade thereat; and linear friction welding the production blade to the disk with the blade tooling starting at adjusted position and orientation.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for sharpening a cutting tool having a blade portion with a cutting edge, such as but not limited to a kitchen knife. In some embodiments, a powered sharpener has an abrasive medium that is advanced by a motor and an edge guide surface adjacent the abrasive medium, wherein the cutting edge of the cutting tool is sharpened by bringing a first portion of the cutting edge into contacting engagement with the edge guide surface and drawing a second portion of the cutting edge across the abrasive medium. A plurality of spaced apart channels are formed in the sharpened cutting edge by contactingly engaging the sharpened cutting edge with a cold forging member with sufficient force to displace portions of the sharpened cutting edge. The channels in the sharpened cutting edge constitute locally deformed, work hardened notches.

Abstract: A sharpener for sharpening a cutting tool having a blade portion with a cutting edge, such as but not limited to a kitchen knife. In some embodiments, the sharpener has first and second rollers, with the first roller rotatable about a first roller axis and the second roller rotatable about a second roller axis parallel to the first roller axis. An endless abrasive belt is arranged along a belt path that passes over the first and second rollers to define a planar segment that lies along a neutral plane from the first roller to the second roller. A guide assembly adjacent the planar segment of the belt is configured to contactingly engage the cutting edge of the cutting tool and apply a non-uniform surface pressure to a side of the cutting tool adjacent the cutting edge across a width of the belt.

Abstract: A blade processing (e.g., sharpening) device includes two sets of overlapping edge processing rings Inner diameter surfaces of the edge processing rings define a notch suitable for effectively processing a blade with a convex cutting edge profile. Certain types of edge processing rings are movable relative to one another to adjust an edge processing angle of the notch. Certain types of blade processing devices also can also process blades with concave cutting edge profiles. The rings may be contained at least partially within a protective housing. A blade can be processed by inserting a blade through a blade insertion opening in the housing and into the notch while a handle of the blade remains outside the housing. By grasping the handle, the blade can be manually reciprocated within the notch during edge processing.

Abstract: A blade sharpener including a main frame casing having a grip and a grinding chamber and a grinder assembly detachably installed in the grinding chamber in which the grinder assembly is formed by a pair of shaft supports facing each other, a supporting window provided in each of the shaft supports, a rotary shaft supported at both end portions thereof by the vertical shaft supports, an abrasive wheel provided on the rotary shaft at substantially its axial center, and a pair of lateral coil springs each provided on either side of the abrasive wheel. The rotary shaft can be supported by a pair of longitudinal coil springs installed in the shaft supports.

Abstract: A wafer polishing apparatus is provided. The wafer polishing apparatus includes a first polishing roller disposed on a wafer, the first polishing roller extending in a direction in which the wafer extends and a second polishing roller disposed under the wafer, the second polishing roller extending in the direction in which the wafer extends. The wafer polishing apparatus uses the roller to polish the wafer. Thus, the wafer polishing apparatus may easily polish a wafer having a large area.

Abstract: During grinding of mutually parallel edges of glass plates every edge of the glass plate is ground using a grinding tool or two grinding tools disposed one behind the other and cooling agent is directed from a side of the glass plate toward the grinding tool and supplied using a supply line divided via a redirection and separating segment into a plurality of fine streams of cooling agent, and a position of the grinding tool can be adjusted such that at least the position of the grinding tools relative to the assigned edge of the glass plate, which is passing through, is calibrated and the corners of the glass plate are ground to form a chamfer.

Abstract: An electric sharpener having two pairs of interlocking abrasives for sharpening the edge of blades to different sharpening angles. An adjustment assembly simultaneously moves the wheels of each pair either toward or away from each other to adjust the sharpening angle produced by pair of abrasive wheels in a sharpening operation. The adjustment assembly is provided with a rotatable shaft having an external handle which engages a lower platen. The lower end of the shaft is threaded to move the platen in vertical direction to move translation bars affixed to the platen. The translation bars extend through elongated slots in respective pairs of adjustment arms coupled to each pair of abrasive wheels to rotate and vary the spacing between the abrasive wheels and adjust sharpening angles.

Abstract: A blade processing (e.g., sharpening) device includes two sets of overlapping edge processing rings. Inner diameter surfaces of the edge processing rings define a notch suitable for effectively processing a blade with a convex cutting edge profile. Certain types of edge processing rings are movable relative to one another to adjust an edge processing angle of the notch. Certain types of blade processing devices also can also process blades with concave cutting edge profiles. The rings may be contained at least partially within a protective housing. A blade can be processed by inserting a blade through a blade insertion opening in the housing and into the notch while a handle of the blade remains outside the housing. By grasping the handle, the blade can be manually reciprocated within the notch during edge processing.

Abstract: A complex geographical edge finishing system includes a fixture that holds an external part having a complex three-dimensional edge, a track disposed around the fixture and surrounding the edge of the part held in the fixture, and one or more finishing apparatuses that can sand, polish, buff, paint and/or apply coatings to the complex three-dimensional edge. The finishing apparatuses move about the track such that the three-dimensional edge of the part can be polished. The path of the track can substantially match, mimic or otherwise correspond to the path of the three-dimensional edge, such that special requirements for the finishing apparatuses are not required.

Abstract: An apparatus for grinding a continuously cast slab having a longitudinal axis and a rectangular cross-sectional shape with two opposite wide faces and two opposite narrow faces apparatus has a frame, two transversely spaced grinders carried on the frame, and a holder having two transversely spaced grippers engageable with the opposite faces of the slab in a vertical position with the wide faces of the slab vertical for grinding of the wide faces of the slab by the grinders and in a horizontal position offset by 90° to the vertical position with the wide faces of the slab horizontal for grinding of the narrow faces of the slab.

Abstract: There is disclosed a grinding apparatus for fabrication of a liquid crystal display device that is adaptive for improving the adsorption defect of a substrate onto a substrate stage. A grinding apparatus for fabrication of a liquid crystal display device disclosed in the present invention includes a plurality of substrate stage configured to make a linearly bi-directional movement; first and second grinding parts disposed in a series at an area to which the substrate stage moves; first to third aligning parts disposed at both ends of the first and second grinding parts and therebetween; and first and second cleaning parts disposed between the first and second grinding parts and the first and second aligning parts so as to clean the substrate stage.

Abstract: An apparatus for chemical mechanical planarization includes a spindle assembly structure and at least one substrate carrier, which make a linear lateral movement relative to each other while abrasive surfaces of a plurality of cylindrical spindles in the spindle assembly structure contact, and rotate against, at least one substrate mounted on the at least one substrate carrier. The direction of the linear lateral movement is within the plane that tangentially contacts the plurality of cylindrical spindles, and can be orthogonal to the axes of rotation of the plurality of cylindrical spindles.

Abstract: A blade sharpener including a frame casing body having a grip and a grinding chamber and a grinder assembly detachably installed in the grinding chamber in which the grinder assembly is formed by a grinder casing body having a pair of vertical walls facing each other, a supporting window provided in each of the vertical walls, a rotary shaft provided between the vertical end walls with both end thereof in the supporting windows of the vertical walls, an abrasive wheel provided on the rotary shaft at the axial center, and a pair of lateral coil springs each provided on either side of the abrasive wheel. The rotary shaft can be supported by a pair of longitudinal coil springs installed in the vertical walls.

Abstract: A workpiece has two cylindrical workpiece surfaces centered on respective parallel axes and each flanked by a pair of arcuately rounded and annular corners also centered on the respective axes. Some of the corners have a small radius of curvature and others of the corners have a large radius of curvature. The workpiece is held and rotated about a main axis parallel to the axis of one of the workpiece surfaces. A pair of grinders have wheels generally diametrally flanking the workpiece and each having a central cylindrical outer wheel surface centered on the respective wheel axis and a pair of arcuately rounded edge and surfaces also centered on the respective wheel axis. Two of the edge surfaces are the large radius and the other two of the small radius.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for surface treatment of a wind turbine rotor blade (1) comprising a leading edge and a trailing edge separating substantially opposing first and second surfaces of said rotor blade. The method comprises the steps of providing a wind turbine rotor blade, supporting said rotor blade at least at a root end and at a distal position along a longitudinal axis of the rotor blade and providing moveably arranged first and second surface treatment devices (24, 25) adapted to provide surface treatment of the first and second surfaces of the rotor blade, respectively, wherein the first and second surface treatment devices are moved in opposite directions and towards the leading and trailing edges, respectively, during surface treatment of the first and second surfaces of the rotor blade.

Abstract: An apparatus for chemical mechanical planarization includes a spindle assembly structure and at least one substrate carrier, which make a linear lateral movement relative to each other while abrasive surfaces of a plurality of cylindrical spindles in the spindle assembly structure contact, and rotate against, at least one substrate mounted on the at least one substrate carrier. The direction of the linear lateral movement is within the plane that tangentially contacts the plurality of cylindrical spindles, and can be orthogonal to the axes of rotation of the plurality of cylindrical spindles.

Abstract: An electric abrasive sharpener for sharpening edges having pairs of interlocking abrasive wheels formed with opposite abrasive helical threads. Each end of the threads respectively has lead-in section and lead-out section having chamfer edge portion to eliminate kickback. The abrasive wheels of the sharpener is driven by a single phase AC motor connected to a motor drive that steps down the rotational speed of the output shaft of the motor to rotate the abrasive wheels with increased torque.

Abstract: An electric abrasive sharpener for sharpening edges having pairs of interlocking abrasive wheels formed with opposite abrasive helical threads. Each end of the threads respectively has lead-in section and lead-out section having chamfer edge portion to eliminate kickback. The abrasive wheels of the sharpener is driven by a single phase AC motor connected to a motor drive that steps down the rotational speed of the output shaft of the motor to rotate the abrasive wheels with increased torque.

Abstract: Described herein is technology for, among other things, a multi-purpose sanding or filing apparatus. The apparatus includes a motor, a plurality of drive mechanisms in mechanical communication with the motor, and a plurality of drums, where each of the drums has an axis passing therethrough, the drums are coupled with respective drive mechanisms, and the drive mechanisms are operable to rotate the drums about their respective axes.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to an edge deletion module positioned within an automated solar cell fabrication line. The edge deletion module may include a grinding wheel device for removing material from edge regions of a solar cell device and cleaning the edge regions of the solar cell device after removing the material. The edge deletion module may also include an abrasive element, a portion of which is ground as it is periodically, laterally advanced toward the grinding wheel device. A controller is provided for controlling the operation and function of various facets of the module.

Abstract: An electric abrasive sharpener for sharpening edges having pairs of interlocking abrasive wheels formed with opposite abrasive helical threads. Each end of the threads respectively has lead-in section and lead-out section having chamfer edge portion to eliminate kickback. The abrasive wheels of the sharpener is driven by a single phase AC motor connected to a motor drive that steps down the rotational speed of the output shaft of the motor to rotate the abrasive wheels with increased torque.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods related to sharpening blades for rotary cutters. In one illustrative embodiment, a power sharpener system secures a rotary cutting blade between upper and lower columns that form a rotating axle in contact with upper and lower sharpening stones, each positioned at an appropriate angle to contact a cutting edges of the rotary blade for sharpening. The upper column may be rotatably attached to an upper cover or lid and the lower column rotatably disposed in a base. After the rotary blade is secured, an electric motor is used to rotate the column, contacting the edges of the blade against the stones to simultaneously sharpen both edges of the blade. In some embodiments, a retractable plate may be disposed around the lower column for placement of the rotary blade thereon and a lifting lever may be used to facilitate blade removal.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for cutting corner pieces formed of stone or other materials for use as building faces or for cutting flat pieces is disclosed herein. The cutting apparatus includes a frame with a first and a second conveyor operatively attached to the frame. The first and the second conveyors are configured to carry a workpiece from a first end of the frame to the second end of the frame. The first conveyor is disposed at an angle of about 45 degrees to a ground surface supporting the cutting apparatus. The second conveyor is disposed at an angle of about 45 degrees to the ground surface supporting the cutting apparatus, wherein the second conveyor is positioned perpendicularly to the first conveyor so as to form a V-shaped channel therewith.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for converting a convention centerless grinding machine to a centerless grinding machine having a servo motor mounted inside the top slide using an internal servo motor bracket. The servo motor bracket is bolted to the spindle head assembly housing and is cantilevered into the top slide to allow required tilt adjustment of the regulating wheel with respect to the top slide while maintaining correct alignment of the servo motor with the regulating wheel spindle. The bracket includes slots allowing a servo motor belt tension to be adjusted. The tension adjustments are conveniently made through an existing opening in the top slide. Locating the servo motor inside the top slide using the internal servo motor bracket of the present invention significantly reduces conversion costs and servo motor maintenance otherwise required by the environment the centerless grinder is operated in, for example, oils and the presence of metal grindings.

Abstract: An electric sharpener having two pairs of interlocking abrasives for sharpening the edge of blades to different sharpening angles. An adjustment assembly simultaneously moves the wheels of each pair either toward or away from each other to adjust the sharpening angle produced by pair of abrasive wheels in a sharpening operation. The adjustment assembly is provided with a rotatable shaft having an external handle which engages a lower platen. The lower end of the shaft is threaded to move the platen in vertical direction to move translation bars affixed to the platen. The translation bars extend through elongated slots in respective pairs of adjustment arms coupled to each pair of abrasive wheels to rotate and vary the spacing between the abrasive wheels and adjust sharpening angles.

Abstract: A wafer polishing apparatus is provided. The wafer polishing apparatus includes a first polishing roller disposed on a wafer, the first polishing roller extending in a direction in which the wafer extends and a second polishing roller disposed under the wafer, the second polishing roller extending in the direction in which the wafer extends. The wafer polishing apparatus uses the roller to polish the wafer. Thus, the wafer polishing apparatus may easily polish a wafer having a large area.

Abstract: A machining machine with an upper rotatingly drivable machining disc, the annular machining plane of which has a machining coating and is facing a lower machining plane, wherein the machining planes form a machining gap between each other. Plural rotor discs are arranged in the gap, which accommodate workpieces in recesses and which can be brought into rotation by means of a roll-off device, wherein the workpieces move along a cycloid path, wherein plural sensor elements for acquiring at least one machining parameter are arranged in the upper machining disc, distributed across its cross section, the sensor elements are each one coupled to an active or passive RFID chip and a reading device is assigned to the upper machining disc for reading out the RFID chips.

Abstract: A method for continuously removing scale from a hot-rolled carbon steel strip includes: cracking the scale on the hot-rolled steel strip; shot-blasting the cracked scale to remove the scale; deforming the hot-rolled steel strip so as to weaken the bond between scale remaining after the shot-blasting and the hot-rolled steel strip and so as to impart surface roughness to the hot-rolled steel sheet; and polishing the deformed hot-rolled steel strip to remove the remaining scale.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for cutting corner pieces formed of stone or other materials for use as building faces or for cutting flat pieces is disclosed herein. The cutting apparatus includes a frame with a first and a second conveyor operatively attached to the frame. The first and the second conveyors are configured to carry a workpiece from a first end of the frame to the second end of the frame. The first conveyor is disposed at an angle of about 45 degrees to a ground surface supporting the cutting apparatus. The second conveyor is disposed at an angle of about 45 degrees to the ground surface supporting the cutting apparatus, wherein the second conveyor is positioned perpendicularly to the first conveyor so as to form a V-shaped channel therewith.

Abstract: A centerless feed-through super-finishing device including: first and second feed-through rollers having first and second longitudinal outer surfaces; a metallic part having a generally cylindrical section, disposed between the outer surfaces, wherein a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical section is generally aligned with the outer surfaces, the cylindrical section having a metal working surface, the outer surfaces disposed in a near-parallel fashion; a rotating mechanism for rotation of the rollers along respective longitudinal axes thereof, and for effecting thereby a rotation of the cylindrical section, wherein an angle between the rollers is selected such that rotation of the rollers propels the cylindrical section between the rollers; and a lapping system including: a lapping tool having a polymeric contact surface disposed to contact the working surface, and a lapping mechanism, associated with the lapping tool, adapted to exert a load on the contact and working surfaces; and abrasive particles, freely

Abstract: An automatic insulation block milling machine is disclosed. The machine combines a series of operations into a single, automatic, production-line machine. Blocks of rigid insulation material, such as cellular glass blocks, are fed into the automated machine. The blocks are first placed on an automatic programmed moving conveyor belt and are first cut on a pre-determined angle developed from the horizontal and vertical centerline of the block. This cut is made by an angled, vertical band saw mounted with its blade in the center of the moving conveyor, thus producing one angled side on each of the two cut blocks. The remaining three primary sides of the cut blocks are machined to create curved sectional blocks that are used to cover the outer surface of large bore pipe systems or other cylindrical items such as tanks.

Abstract: A grinding machine is provided with first and second grinding wheels selectively used in dependence on the steps of machining operations. The second grinding wheel is grooved so that at least one oblique groove vertically crosses a contact surface on which a grinding surface of the second grinding wheel contacts with a workpiece, and thus, is capable of releasing a dynamic pressure in coolant generated between the grinding surface and the workpiece since coolant supplied from over the contact surface flows out from both of the upper and lower sides of the contact surface through the at least one oblique groove. Since it does not occur that fluctuations in the dynamic pressure generated in coolant cause the distance between the second grinding wheel and the workpiece to be varied, the accuracy in grinding the workpiece with the second grinding wheel can be enhanced.

Abstract: Measuring apparatus (50) of geometrical parameters of cylinders, rolls and similar elements (11), used for the rolling of flat products operating on a machine for the grinding of said cylinders with an autonomous movement, i.e. with a movement independent of the translation movement of the grinding wheel or other parts, characterized in that it comprises at least four sensors (54, 55), situated on a surface orthogonal to the cylinder (11) or roll and in that at least two of said sensors are situated in opposite positions.

Abstract: The arrow blade sharpening apparatus is best suited for precision sharpening of arrow blades, Exacto® knife blades, and other like edges which require precision and fine honing. The transparent lidded apparatus is motorized and counter rotates drive gears and then ceramic abrasive wheels with a single motor. The slot of the housing and the guide of the blade holder provide for exact sharpening work without the possibility of angle misalignment of the blade-to-wheel contact.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for grinding a liquid crystal display panel improving the efficiency of using equipment by independently operating first and second grinding units for grinding the unit liquid crystal display panel. The present invention includes a first grinding unit grinding edges of short or long sides of the unit liquid crystal display panel in a normal mode and a second grinding unit grinding the edges of the short or long sides of the unit liquid crystal display panel that are not ground by the first grinding unit in the normal mode or grinding the edges of the long and short sides of the unit liquid crystal display panel in an emergency mode.

Abstract: A method for preparing a wafer in a cleaning module is described. In this method, slurry is dispensed onto a surface of a wafer. Next, a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) operation is conducted in the cleaning module by contacting a surface of a brush with the surface of the wafer. Subsequently, a cleaning operation is conducted in the cleaning module. A CMP pad and a CMP system also are described.

Abstract: For the machining of a workpiece (18) rotating about a workpiece axis, a first abrasive tool (20), which rotates about a first tool axis, and the workpiece (18) are advanced towards one another, in order to machine a first workpiece face in a first abrasive operation. Further, a second abrasive tool (54), which rotates about a second tool axis (56), is advanced towards the workpiece (18), in order to machine a second workpiece face in a second abrasive operation. The two workpiece faces are designed rotationally symmetrically with respect to the workpiece axis and are arranged adjacently to one another in such a way that a sharp, burr-free, circular transition edge is formed between them. The two abrasive operations are controlled in such a way that they are terminated at the same time.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a circular grinding of a workpiece having first and second workpiece faces which are rotationally symmetrical with respect to the workpiece axis and which form a circular transition edge between them are provided. The workpiece rotating about its axis and a grinding wheel rotating about a grinding-wheel axis are advanced towards one another. During grinding, an auxiliary abrasive tool, which rotates about an auxiliary-tool axis and has a plane abrasive surface arranged at right angles to the auxiliary-tool axis, is pressed against the workpiece in such a way that the abrasive surface is arranged in a tangential plane to the second workpiece face and touches the second workpiece face along a contact line. The plane abrasive surface projects in the direction of the contact line away from the second workpiece face beyond the transition edge.

Abstract: An inline-ready method of finishing the surface of a long material (W) capable of preventing any environmental problem from occurring and the mechanical properties of the long material from deteriorating, comprising the steps of holding the long material (W) by two or more elastic endless belts (1) with a specified force, rotating the elastic endless belts (1) in the same direction as or in the reverse direction to the moving direction of the long material by moving the long material (W) and increasing or decreasing the rotating speed of the elastic endless belts (1) more than or less than the moving speed of the long material, and loading powder and granular grinding material (S) between the elastic endless belts (1), characterized in that the grinding material (S) is moved relative to the long material (W) to rub the grinding material (S) against the long material (W) so as to finish the surface of the long material (W).

Abstract: An apparatus for smoothing gear wheels has a single smoothing wheel and two further smoothing wheels opposite the single smoothing wheel. A clamping device for axially clamping the gearwheel to be smoothed can oscillate in a direction perpendicular to its rotation. The smoothing wheels are mounted on bearing brackets, which may be tensioned against one another in such a way that the gearwheel to be smoothed positioned between them is centered and may have a predetermined force applied to it. The bearing brackets form a separate clamping unit that is movable in parallel in such a way that the axis of rotation of the gearwheel to be smoothed runs coaxially to the central axis of its clamping device, which may oscillate.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing a film layer on a glass plate includes: a supporting base for supporting a glass plate; a pair of removing devices for removing a film layer on the glass plate; a transporting device for transporting the glass plate; and a control unit for defining in a divided manner a region of a film layer to be removed by the pair of removing devices and for causing the pair of removing devices to concurrently effect removal of the film layer on the glass plate in an apportioned manner with respect to divided regions defined in the divided manner.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for removing coatings from generally opposed first and second major surfaces of a substrate. The method includes providing a table having a surface for slidable receipt of the substrate. First and second grinding apparatuses are provided at a mounting portion of the table, opposite one another. As the substrate moves over the table surface, it contacts the first and second grinding apparatuses. The coatings are simultaneously removed from the first major surface with the first grinding apparatus from the second major surface with the second grinding apparatus.

Abstract: In a vertical type of double disc surface grinding machine, an object of this invention is to enable simple adjustment of a parallelism between a grinding surface of a lower grinding wheel and a work end face clamped by a clamping jig of a rotary table, even when a grinding wheel spindle axis is disordered. The vertical type of double disc surface grinding machine is equipped with a pair of grinding wheels 2 & 3 opposing each other in vertical direction and fixed to a pair of vertical grinding wheels 4 & 5 and a rotary table 15 holding a work W and supplying it to a grinding position A1 located between the grinding wheels 2 & 3, and provided on the rotary table 15 with a work clamping jig 17 including a rotary shaft 63 which clamps the work W at a specified position and makes it spin itself.

Abstract: Two imaging equipment are provided at a pair of cutting blade units, and the two imaging equipment image patterns at first positions in proximity to the center of a wafer at the same time. A controller drives drive mechanisms to align the wafer in such a way that current image patterns at the first positions can match with a reference pattern at the first positions. Then, the two imaging equipment are moved to positions for imaging patterns at second positions at the outer circumference of the wafer to image the patterns at the second positions. The controller drives the drive mecha- nisms to align the wafer in such a way that current image patterns at the second positions can match with a reference pattern at the second positions.