Material or article handling – Horizontally swinging load support – Swinging about pivot
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-20
2006-06-20
Underwood, Donald W. (Department: 3652)
Material or article handling
Horizontally swinging load support
Swinging about pivot
C294S064200, C901S040000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07063499
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor system able to safety convey a workpiece having a thickness of less than 100 μm and easily position the workpiece, provided with a plate-shaped member provided movably and swivelably and a moving and swiveling means moving and swiveling the plate-shaped member, the plate-shaped member being provided together with a lifting means for uniformly lifting in its entirety a workpiece carried at the carrying location and a holding means for holding a workpiece lifted by the lifting means by chucking its entirety on a workpiece chucking surface of the plate-shaped member, and a plurality of Verneuil nozzles serving as the lifting means and a plurality of vacuum chucking nozzles serving as the holding means being formed in the workpiece chucking surface near an outer periphery of the plate-shaped member along the outer periphery.
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Shinko Electric Industries Co. Ltd.
Staas & Halsey , LLP
Underwood Donald W.
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