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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kouji Obara, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
310 80 ; 310 98 ; 7442 / ; 7442 / ;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a positioning apparatus that, together with rotating an object (driven object), positions and guides said object to an arbitrary position within its rotating plane. This positioning apparatus can easily be made compact in size and its rotary motion is not restricted by a power supply cord and so forth. The above-mentioned effects are obtained by arranging a driving force generation device, more specifically a motor, which generates driving force to be applied to a linear motion table of a linear motion table mechanism, within the base portion of a rotary table mechanism.