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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2003
Akira Higuchi, Fukuoka, JP;
Akira Higuchi, Fukuoka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In the distribution apparatus and the method for detaching distribution tips of the present invention, the detaching plate provided with openings being larger in diameter than outer diameter of the nozzle and smaller in diameter than outer diameter of the distribution tip which are disposed in accordance with the arrangement of the nozzles is held to the distributing head with the nozzles set through the openings, and with the stopping portion of the detaching plate stopped by the stop portion of the stop member disposed at the tip detaching stage, the distributing head and the stop member are relatively moved in a direction of vertically moving apart, and thereby, the distribution tips are detached from the bottom ends of the nozzles. In this way, the distribution tip detaching operation can be automatically performed by a simple mechanism.