US 12,648,397 B2Granted

Dummy panel transport apparatus and dummy panel transport method using the same

AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.

InventorsKang-Hyuk Lee, Eun Su Jun

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Abstract

A dummy panel transport apparatus includes: an adsorption unit including an injection hole into which compressed air is injected, a discharge hole to which the compressed air is discharged, and a suction hole in which an external air is sucked; an adsorption unit holder supporting the adsorption unit, and movable in a first direction and a direction opposite to the first direction; a plate disposed under the adsorption unit holder; a plate holder supporting the plate, and movable in a second direction crossing the first direction and in a direction opposite to the second direction; a dummy storage part disposed under the plate; a brush unit disposed on the plate; and a brush unit holder supporting the brush unit, and movable in the first direction, in the direction opposite to the first direction, in the second direction, and the direction opposite to the second direction.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A dummy panel transport apparatus, comprising:

an adsorption unit comprising an injection hole into which compressed air is injected, a discharge hole to which the compressed air is discharged, and a suction hole in which an external air is sucked, wherein the injection hole is defined in a frame provided in a flow path between the discharge hole and the suction hole;
an adsorption unit holder, which supports the adsorption unit, and is movable in a first direction and a direction opposite to the first direction;
a plate disposed under the adsorption unit holder;
a plate holder, which supports the plate, and is movable in a second direction crossing the first direction and in a direction opposite to the second direction;
a dummy storage part disposed under the plate, and spaced apart from the adsorption unit holder in the direction opposite to the second direction;
a brush unit disposed on the plate;
and
a brush unit holder, which supports the brush unit, and is movable in the first direction, in the direction opposite to the first direction, in the second direction, and in the direction opposite to the second direction.

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A dummy panel transport method, comprising:

disposing a display panel and a dummy panel adjacent to at least one side of the display panel under a suction hole of an adsorption unit, wherein the adsorption unit comprises an injection hole into which compressed air is injected, a discharge hole to which the compressed air is discharged, and the suction hole in which an external air is sucked, wherein the injection hole is defined in a frame provided in a flow path between the discharge hole and the suction hole;
disposing the suction hole adjacent to the dummy panel by moving an adsorption unit holder supporting the adsorption unit in a first direction;
adsorbing the dummy panel by injecting the compressed air into the injection hole;
moving the adsorption unit holed in a direction opposite to the first direction;
disposing a plate under the adsorbed dummy panel by moving a plate holder supporting the plate in a second direction crossing the first direction;
moving the dummy panel on the plate by stopping the adsorption of the dummy panel;
moving the plate on a dummy storage part by moving the plate holder in a direction opposite to the second direction;
and
moving the dummy panel in the dummy storage part.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/081,025Filed 14 Dec 2022
Priority: KR 10-2022-00017475 Jan 2022
Published: US 2023/0215748 A16 Jul 2023
Granted: 2 Jun 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H10P 72/17
Using carriers specially adapted therefor, e.g. front opening unified pods [FOUP]: specially adapted for supporting large square shaped substrates
B65G 19/00
Conveyors comprising an impeller or a series of impellers carried by an
B65G 25/08
The carrier or impeller having identical forward and return paths of movement, e.g. reciprocating conveyors: having impellers, e.g. pushers
B65G 47/911
Incorporating pneumatic, e.g. suction, grippers: with air blasts producing partial vacuum