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US 2011/0048609 A1Published application
Adhesive tape joining method and adhesive tape joining apparatus
AssigneeNitto Denko Corporation
InventorsSaburo Miyamoto, Yukitoshi Hase, Masayuki Yamamoto
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Abstract
A joint detector detects a joint in an adhesive tape supplied from a tape supply section, and a computing unit determines a suitable cutting position of the adhesive tape for removing the joint in accordance with the detected results. A controller controls each mechanism to operate so as to satisfy the determined results by the computing unit. Thereafter, the adhesive tape including the joint is cut and removed.
Claims9
A method of joining an adhesive tape to an adherend, comprising the steps of:
- detecting a joint in the adhesive tape during supplying to the adherend the adhesive tape of a long length in which adhesive tapes of a predetermined length are connected to one another;
- removing the joint in accordance with detected results in the detecting step;
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- joining the adhesive tape with the joint removed therefrom to the adherend.
1 more element
An apparatus for joining an adhesive tape to an adherend, comprising:
- a holding mechanism to holds the adherend;
- a tape supply mechanism to supply the adhesive tape of a long length that is formed of adhesive tapes of a predetermined length connected to one another to a joining portion of the adherend;
- a detector to detect the joint in the adhesive tape to be supplied;
- a tape joining mechanism to join the adhesive tape to the adherend;
- a tape cutting mechanism to cut the adhesive tape;
- a computing unit to detect a length of the joint, determine an allowable length of the adhesive tape from a joining portion to the joint in accordance with the length of the joint, a length of a transportation path determined in advance corresponding to a distance from a detecting position to a tape joining position of the adhesive tape, and a unit length of the adhesive tape joined to the adherend, and determine a removal length including the joint backward from the allowable length;
- a tape pulling mechanism to hold and pull out a removal portion of the adhesive tape including the joint that is determined by the computing unite;
- a controller to control pulling of the removal portion in the adhesive tape including the joint at a tape joining portion in accordance with computed results by the computing unit, and joining the allowable length of the adhesive tape to the adherend with the tape joining mechanism after cutting the removal portion in the adhesive tape with the tape cutting mechanism;
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- a tape collecting section to collect the cut-out removal portion in the adhesive tape including the joint.
7 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.