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US 12,703,908 B2Granted
Surface treatment apparatus and surface treatment method
AssigneeShibaura Machine Co., Ltd.
InventorsMitsunori Kokubo, Satoshi Fukuyama, Yoshiaki Kurihara, Takeshi Namba
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Abstract
In a surface treatment apparatus, a conveyance device houses a placement device having a treated member placed thereon, into a housing unit. A rotation device rotates the treated member to face a direction facing a surface treatment device in a predetermined rotation pattern, in a state in which the placement device is housed in the housing unit.
Claims10
A surface treatment apparatus comprising:
- a housing unit for housing a treated member;
- a placement device on which the treated member is placed;
- a conveyance device for conveying the placement device into the housing unit with the treated member placed thereon;
- surface treatment devices which are installed inside the housing unit for performing at least one type of surface treatment on the treated member housed in the housing unit;
- a first selection device for selecting one surface treatment device performs surface treatment on the treated member;
- a rotation device for rotating the treated member to face a direction facing the surface treatment device in a predetermined rotation pattern, in a state in which the placement device is housed in the housing unit;
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- a shielding member having an opening only on a side of the surface treatment device selected by the first selection device and shield the treated member against a surface treatment device not selected by the first selection device.
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A surface treatment method comprising
- conveying a placement device having a treated member placed thereon, into a housing unit which has surface treatment devices for performing at least one type of surface treatment on the treated member;
- selecting one surface treatment device to perform surface treatment on the treated member, the treated member to be treated and a surface treatment device not selected are shielded by a shielding member having an opening only on a side of the selected surface treatment device;
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- rotating the treated member to face a direction facing the selected surface treatment device in a predetermined rotation pattern, to perform the surface treatment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.