Transfer apparatus
AssigneeDuplo Corporation
InventorsKazutaka Tsunoda, Yukitaka Higuchi, Shuhei Yamamoto
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Abstract
A transfer apparatus transfers a transfer substance or a surface shape of a transfer web in a transfer section from the transfer web that is carried along a web route to a transfer target object that is carried along a carrying surface. The transfer apparatus includes a gap adjustment mechanism that adjusts the size of a gap between the carrying surface and the web route in the transfer section, and a controller that controls the gap adjustment mechanism to adjust the size of the gap to be a size corresponding to the thickness of the transfer target object.
Claims19
A transfer apparatus that transfers, in a transfer section, a transfer substance or a surface shape of a transfer web from the transfer web, the transfer web being carried along a web route, to a transfer target object that is carried along a carrying surface, the transfer apparatus comprising:
- a gap adjustment mechanism that adjusts a size of a gap between the carrying surface and the web route in the transfer section;
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- a controller that controls the gap adjustment mechanism to adjust the size of the gap to be a size corresponding to a thickness of the transfer target object,
- wherein the gap adjustment mechanism is able to adjust the gap at two locations in a width direction individually.
A transfer apparatus that transfers, in a transfer section, a transfer substance or a surface shape of a transfer web from the transfer web, the transfer web being carried along a web route, to a transfer target object that is carried along a carrying surface, the transfer apparatus comprising:
- a gap adjustment mechanism that adjusts a size of a gap between the carrying surface and the web route in the transfer section;
- a controller that controls the gap adjustment mechanism to adjust the size of the gap to be a size corresponding to a thickness of the transfer target object, and
- an ultraviolet light source unit that emits ultraviolet light in the transfer section from an emission position on a side opposite to the carrying surface with respect to the web route,
- wherein the ultraviolet light source unit is retractable from the emission position to a retracted position that is farther away from the carrying surface than the emission position.
A transfer apparatus that transfers, in a transfer section, a transfer substance or a surface shape of a transfer web from the transfer web, the transfer web being carried along a web route, to a transfer target object that is carried along a carrying surface, the transfer apparatus comprising:
- a gap adjustment mechanism that adjusts a size of a gap between the carrying surface and the web route in the transfer section;
- a controller that controls the gap adjustment mechanism to adjust the size of the gap to be a size corresponding to a thickness of the transfer target object, and
- a sensor that is able to detect an arrival of the transfer target object carried toward the transfer section,
- wherein the controller controls the gap adjustment mechanism to adjust the gap to be larger than the gap corresponding to the thickness of the transfer target object until the sensor detects the arrival of the transfer target object, and adjust the gap, when the sensor detects the arrival of the transfer target object, to be the gap corresponding to a thickness of the transfer target object.
A transfer apparatus that transfers, in a transfer section, a transfer substance or a surface shape of a transfer web from the transfer web, the transfer web being carried along a web route, to a transfer target object that is carried along a carrying surface, the transfer apparatus comprising:
- a gap adjustment mechanism that adjusts a size of a gap between the carrying surface and the web route in the transfer section;
- a controller that controls the gap adjustment mechanism to adjust the size of the gap to be a size corresponding to a thickness of the transfer target object, and
- first and second rollers that define the web route in the transfer section,
- wherein the first roller is disposed to have an axial direction that coincides with the width direction,
- wherein the second roller is disposed to have an axial direction that coincides with the width direction and such that the web route in the transfer section defined between the first roller and the second roller is opposite to the carrying surface, and
- wherein the gap adjustment mechanism adjusts positions of the first and second rollers in an up-down direction and thereby adjusts the size of the gap.
A transfer apparatus comprising:
- a web carrying mechanism that carries a transfer web along a web route;
- a transfer-target-object carrying mechanism that carries a transfer target object;
- an ultraviolet light source unit that emits ultraviolet light from an emission position on a side opposite to a carrying surface of the transfer-target-object carrying mechanism with respect to the web route in a transfer section in which a transfer substance of the transfer web or a surface shape of the transfer web is transferred to the transfer target object;
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- a gap adjustment mechanism that raises and lowers the web route in the transfer section and thereby adjusts a gap between the web route and the carrying surface in the transfer section,
- wherein the ultraviolet light source unit is raised and lowered together with the web route when a size of the gap is more than a threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.