US 2014/0230858 A1Published application

Workpiece Surface Treatment System

AssigneeC. Uyemura & Co., Ltd.

InventorsYutaka SUGIURA, Ryosuke HAMADA, Tetsuro UEMURA, Hideki NAKADA

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Abstract

A method for rinsing a treatment cell of a workpiece surface treatment system, which obtains a surface-treated workpiece by sequentially carrying the treatment cell containing the workpiece to a series of apparatuses for operations in the respective apparatuses is provided. A surface treatment apparatus performs a surface treatment on the workpiece by receiving the treatment cell from a carrying apparatus and supplying a surface treatment liquid to the inside of the treatment cell while rotating the treatment cell. A workpiece collection apparatus collects the workpiece by receiving the treatment cell from the carrying apparatus, inverts the treatment cell, and squirts the inside of the treatment cell with water from below to flow out the workpiece. The carrying apparatus carries the treatment cell to the surface treatment apparatus, and then to the workpiece collection apparatus.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A method for rinsing a treatment cell, comprising:

receiving a treatment cell on a receiving plate having a concave portion into which a convex portion of the treatment cell is fittable;
fixing the treatment cell onto the receiving plate with a fixing device having gripping plates displaceable by operating cylinders, wherein the fixing device is operably configured to increase and decrease a space between the gripping plates via displacement by the operating cylinders such that the treatment cell is sandwichable on two sides between the gripping plates when the space is decreased;
inverting both the receiving plate and the treatment cell by an inverting device;
covering the inverted treatment cell from below by a hopper having interiorly arranged a sprinkler for upwardly ejecting a cleaning water, the hopper including a height adjustment mechanism;
bringing an inlet of the hopper into contact with an opening of the treatment cell when the hopper is raised;
and
squirting an inside of an inverted treatment cell with water from the sprinkler in order to water-rinse the inside of the treatment cell only.

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Facts

Application: 14/259,635Filed 23 Apr 2014
Priority: JP 2007-1504946 Jun 2007
Published: 21 Aug 2014
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Classification10 codes

B08B 9/0821
Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks: handling or manipulating containers, e.g. moving or rotating containers in cleaning devices, conveying to or from…
B08B 9/28
By using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought: the apparatus cleaning by splash, spray, or jet…
C25D 17/00
Constructional parts, or assemblies thereof, of cells for electrolytic coating
C25D 17/16
Constructional parts, or assemblies thereof, of cells for electrolytic coating: apparatus for electrolytic coating of small objects in bulk

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