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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2020
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Sakae Nakazawa, Kitasaku-gun, JP;
Masao Sakai, Niza, JP;
CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
A chuck device for holding a plate material workpiece supplied to a machine tool without deforming the workpiece is provided. A housing has a workpiece contact surface arranged to face workpiece holding claws, and when holding of a workpiece is released, a plurality of rods integrally swings so that the workpiece holding claws are moved away from the workpiece contact surface of the housing and moved away from each other, and when holding the workpiece, after the plurality of rods integrally swing so that the workpiece holding claws are brought close to the workpiece contact surface of the housing and brought close to each other, the plurality of rods moves integrally in parallel with the forward/backward moving direction of a drive body to bring the workpiece holding claws into contact with the workpiece.