Sony Corporation

Motosuke Usui

Tamiaki Matsuura

Hiroshi Toi

Toru Takamiya

Kiyohiko Akanuma

Tsuneyoshi Kon

A transporting direction controlling or translating device employs a rotor member having a plane contacting with an object to be transferred. The rotor member is rotatably supported by a rotary shaft which is tiltable in variable directions for tilting the plane. By the tilting direction of the plane and the rotating direction of the rotor member, the transporting direction can be changed. Preferably, the rotor member comprises a substantially cylindrical or disc-shaped roller with the contacting plane. The roller is adapted to contact with the object at a point on the contacting plane. In such case, the force to feed the object is exerted on the object in tangential direction relative to the circular trace of the contacting point. Therefore, by adjusting the position of the contacting point, at which the contacting point comes in contact with the object, transporting direction can be changed.

Transporting direction controlling device in conveyor system

A roller conveyer system employs a plurality of driven roller assemblies. Each driven roller assembly comprises a roller and a driven pulley, wherein the driven pulley is connected to a driving device, such as a drive motor via a drive belt for transmitting driving torque. On the other hand, the roller is frictionally cooperates with the driven pulley so as to be driven by the driving torque transmitted from the driven pulley. An auxiliary driving mechanism may be provided in the conveyer system for driving some of the driven roller assemblies. The auxiliary driving mechanism is variable of the driving speed so as to facilitate rapid stop and feed of the object at each production station.

Roller conveyer system

A manufacturing apparatus for a tape cassette includes: a rotary table having at least one pair of hub chucks for demountably holding a pair of hubs supplied to the rotary table; a mechanism for clamping an initial end of a supplied tape to one of the hubs held by the hub chucks; a tape winding member for winding a predetermined length of the supplied tape onto the one hub; a cutting member for cutting the trailing side of the wound tape on the one hub; another mechanism for clamping the terminal end of the cut tape to the other of the hubs; and an assembling mechanism for transporting the hubs to which the ends of the tape are clamped and on which the tape is wound, to a position adjacent to a mounted cassette half, demounting the hubs from the hub chucks and assembling the hubs into the mounted cassette half.

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Shinagawa, Japan

Motosuke Usui