Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshio Tsuda

Yusaku Azuma

Tsuyoshi Orikasa

Masaki Inaba

Toshihiko Miura

Katsumi Ishihara

Sachio Umetsu

Taizo Shimada

Eiji Mizote

Tomomi Nakagawa

Teiji Ohsaka

Tomoaki Tajima

Shigeo Yazawa

Shuichi Komuro

Osamu Miyata

Takashi Watanabe

Kazuaki Masuda

Akira Goto

Masateru Yasuhara

Toshihiro Yamamoto

Takeshi Yakou

Shozo Kasai

Takeo Tanita

Masayuki Nishiwaki

Takashi Ohba

Norio Nikaido

Fumio Ichikawa

Tsuyoshi Baba

Yasushi Aoki

Hiroshi Kohno

In a laser process apparatus, a plurality of holes each having a predetermined shape are formed in a work upon radiation of light from an excimer laser. The apparatus is provided with a mask, in which a plurality of predetermined small holes are formed in correspondence with the plurality of holes to be formed in the work, and which allows laser light from the excimer laser to pass through the small holes thereof toward the work, a projection optical system for projecting optical images each having a predetermined shape onto the work through the small holes of the mask, a measurement optical system for measuring a work position, and a moving stage for moving the work on the basis of a measurement result form the measurement optical system.

Laser process apparatus for forming holes in a workpiece

Disclosed in an ink-jet head assembling method for executing alignments between a top plate and a heater board. The method comprises steps of holding the top plate by fingers, moving the fingers to bring the top plate to a position above the heater board with adhesives having been applied, releasing the holding of the fingers, enabling them to engage with an ink reception port of the top plate, and moving the fingers sideways to abut against the ink reception port, and adjusting a relative position between heaters of the heater board and nozzles of the top plate.

Ink-jet head assembling method

There is disclosed an apparatus and a method for feeding articles, the apparatus containing a tape transporting apparatus, including a transporting member having plural containing portions in succession, a cover tape for covering the apertures of the containing portions of the transporting member, a first reel for simultaneously winding the transporting member and the cover tape, a second reel for winding the transporting member only, a third reel for winding the cover tape only, a drive assembly for rotating the first, second and third reels, intermittent drive unit for driving the transporting member, control unit for driving the drive assembly and intermittent drive unit, an aperture for loading or removing the articles into or from the containing portions of the transporting member, a first detector for detecting the presence or absence of the article in the containing portion, and a guide member for defining the position to an article assembling apparatus or an article manufacturing apparatus, wherein each of these apparatus is provided with a robot hand and a main control unit to be connected to the control unit mentioned above.

Method for supplying articles and apparatus therefor

A handling device for a stocker, for storing various articles or containers, has a pair of engaging members for storing or extracting the articles, in which the engaging members have unbalanced engaging forces and the articles are aligned in one direction by the unbalanced engaging forces.

Handling device for articles or containers

An article gripping apparatus selectively grips a first article having a functional surface and a non-functional surface, and an elastically deformable second article. A first contact mechanism contacting the first article includes a plurality of contact members contacting the non-functional surface of the first article, and a suction member which chucks the first article at a position where the suction member does not contact the functional surface of the first article in a state wherein the contact members are in contact with the first article.

Article gripping apparatus

There is disclosed an apparatus for feeding articles, containing a tape transporting apparatus, including a transporting member having plural container portions in succession, a cover tape for covering the apertures of the container portions of the transporting member, a first reel on which ends of the transporting member and the cover tape are fixed, for simultaneously winding the transporting member and the cover tape, a second reel on which the other end of the transporting member is fixed, for winding the transporting member only, a third reel on which the other end of the cover tape is fixed, for winding the cover tape only, a drive assembly for rotating the first, second and third reels, intermittent drive unit for intermittently driving the transporting member by engaging with successive perforations formed on the transporting member, a control unit for driving the drive assembly and intermittent drive unit, an aperture for loading or removing the articles into or from the container portions of the transporting member, a first detector provided in the vicinity of the aperture, for detecting the presence or absence of an article in a container portion, and a guide member for defining the position to an article assembling apparatus or an article manufacturing apparatus, wherein each of these apparatus is provided with a robot hand and a main control unit to be connected to the control unit mentioned above.

Apparatus for supplying articles

Variable swirl intake apparatus (24) controls a swirl of intake air in cylinder chamber (22) of an engine. Variable swirl intake apparatus (24) has intake port (25) which has entrance portion (25a) formed on cylinder head (23) of the engine and extending from the side surface of cylinder head (23) and swirl chamber (25b) which communicates with entrance portion (25a) and is formed to provide a swirl to a gas flow flowing from entrance portion (25a), intake valve (26), arranged on the lower surface of cylinder head (23), for opening/closing between swirl chamber (25b) and cylinder chamber (22) of the engine, swirl control path (28), one end of which is open to swirl chamber (25a) on the side of entrance portion (25a) with respect to a line connecting the axis along a piston sliding direction at the center of cylinder chamber (22) and the axis of the intake valve, and the other end of which is open to the side surface of cylinder head (23), and a control apparatus (29) for controlling a gas flow into swirl control path (28). According to variable swirl intake apparatus (24), a swirl of a gas taken in the engine can be controlled in accordance with an operating condition of the engine so as to reduce NO.sub.x and a fuel consumption rate.

Variable swirl intake apparatus for engine

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Yokohama, Japan

Toshio Tsuda