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US 12,220,782 B2Granted
Cutting apparatus
AssigneeDisco Corporation
InventorsZhibo Su, Kazuki Terada
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Abstract
A cutting apparatus includes a cutting unit including a spindle as a rotational shaft and a mount flange for mounting a cutting blade thereon, the mount flange being fixed to a distal end of the spindle, a support unit for supporting a cutting blade housed in a blade case, the support unit including a blade case support for supporting the blade case for housing the cutting blade therein, a changing mechanism for dismounting a cutting blade that has been mounted on the mount flange from the mount flange and mounting the cutting blade that has been supported on the support unit on the mount flange, and a moving mechanism for moving the changing mechanism between a changing position, a blade transfer position, and a retracted position.
Claims19
A cutting apparatus comprising:
- a cutting unit including a spindle as a rotational shaft and a mount flange for mounting a first cutting blade thereon, the mount flange being fixed to a distal end of the spindle;
- a plate-shaped support unit for supporting a plurality of further cutting blades, each cutting blade of the plurality of further cutting blades being housed in a respective one of a plurality of blade cases, the plate-shaped support unit including a plurality of blade case supports, each blade case support supporting a respective one blade case of the plurality of blade cases, wherein each blade case of the plurality of blade cases has a respective storage casing for storing a respective one of the plurality of further cutting blades and has a respective openable and closable lid for closing the corresponding storage casing;
- a changing mechanism for dismounting the first cutting blade that has been mounted on the mount flange from the mount flange and mounting one of the plurality of further cutting blades that has been supported on the plate-shaped support unit on the mount flange;
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- a moving mechanism for moving the changing mechanism between a changing position in which the first cutting blade is able to be mounted on and dismounted from the mount flange, a blade transfer position in which one of the plurality of further cutting blades is able to be transferred to and from the plate-shaped support unit, and a retracted position spaced from the changing position and the blade transfer position.
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A cutting apparatus comprising:
- a cutting unit including a spindle as a rotational shaft and a mount flange for mounting a first cutting blade thereon, the mount flange being fixed to a distal end of the spindle;
- a support unit for supporting a second cutting blade housed in a blade case, the support unit including a blade case support for supporting the blade case for housing the second cutting blade therein;
- a changing mechanism for dismounting the first cutting blade that has been mounted on the mount flange from the mount flange and mounting the second cutting blade that has been supported on the support unit on the mount flange;
- a moving mechanism for moving the changing mechanism between a changing position in which the first cutting blade is able to be mounted on and dismounted from the mount flange, a blade transfer position in which the second cutting blade is able to be transferred to and from the support unit, and a retracted position spaced from the changing position and the blade transfer position;
- a reading unit for reading identification marks;
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- a blade case determining unit for determining whether information acquired when an identification mark attached to the second cutting blade is read by the reading unit and information acquired when an identification mark attached to the blade case is read by the reading unit correspond to each other or not.
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A cutting apparatus comprising:
- a cutting unit including a spindle as a rotational shaft and a mount flange for mounting a first cutting blade thereon, the mount flange being fixed to a distal end of the spindle;
- a support unit for supporting a second cutting blade housed in a blade case, the support unit including a blade case support for supporting the blade case for housing the second cutting blade therein;
- a changing mechanism for dismounting the first cutting blade that has been mounted on the mount flange from the mount flange and mounting the second cutting blade that has been supported on the support unit on the mount flange;
- a moving mechanism for moving the changing mechanism between a changing position in which the first cutting blade is able to be mounted on and dismounted from the mount flange, a blade transfer position in which the second cutting blade is able to be transferred to and from the support unit, and a retracted position spaced from the changing position and the blade transfer position;
- a table for holding a dressing board for use in dressing the first cutting blade or an inspection board for being cut by the first cutting blade to form an inspection groove therein,
- wherein the support unit further includes a board support for supporting the dressing board or the inspection board,
- wherein the moving mechanism moves the changing mechanism between a board transfer position in which the dressing board or the inspection board is able to be transferred to and from the support unit, a loading and unloading position in which the dressing board or the inspection board is able to be loaded to and unloaded from the table, the changing position, the blade transfer position, and the retracted position, and
- wherein the changing mechanism removes the dressing board or the inspection board from the table on which the dressing board or the inspection board has been held, and places, on the table, the dressing board or the inspection board that has been supported on the support unit;
- a reading unit for reading identification marks;
- a board determining unit for determining whether information acquired when an identification mark attached to the second cutting blade is read by the reading unit and information acquired when an identification mark attached to the dressing board or the inspection board is read by the reading unit correspond to each other or not;
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- a blade case determining unit for determining whether information acquired when an identification mark attached to the second cutting blade is read by the reading unit and information acquired when an identification mark attached to the blade case is read by the reading unit correspond to each other or not.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.