Cleaning apparatus and cleaning method
AssigneeSugino Machine Limited
InventorsYoshiteru KAWAMORI, Toyoaki MITSUE, Takuya KANEMOTO
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Abstract
Provided is a cleaning apparatus for cleaning a portion where a seating pad contacts or a hole into which a pin is inserted when a workpiece is placed. The cleaning apparatus for cleaning a workpiece having a placing portion and a reference hole, including: a table plate, a seating pad on which the workpiece is placed at the placing portion, a first nozzle that ejects a cleaning fluid, a pin inserted into the reference hole, and a second nozzle that ejects the cleaning fluid toward inside of the reference hole.
Claims20
A cleaning apparatus for cleaning a workpiece having a placing portion and a reference hole, the cleaning apparatus comprising:
- a table plate;
- a seating pad disposed on the table plate, the workpiece configured to be placed on the seating pad at the placing portion;
- a first nozzle disposed on the table plate, the first nozzle configured to eject a cleaning fluid toward the placing portion;
- a pin disposed on the table plate, the pin configured to be inserted into the reference hole;
- and
- a second nozzle disposed on the table plate, the second nozzle configured to eject the cleaning fluid toward inside of the reference hole.
A cleaning apparatus for cleaning a workpiece having a placing portion, the cleaning apparatus comprising:
- a table plate;
- a seating pad disposed on the table plate, the workpiece configured to be placed on the seating pad at the placing portion;
- a clamp disposed on the table plate, the clamp including a clamp arm configured to contact a clamp portion of the workpiece, the clamp configured to fix the workpiece;
- a first nozzle disposed on the table plate, the first nozzle configured to eject a cleaning fluid toward the placing portion;
- and
- a third nozzle configured to eject the cleaning fluid toward the clamp portion.
A cleaning method, comprising:
- moving a workpiece to a standby position where a reference hole of the workpiece is positioned on an extended line of a pin and apart from a seating pad by a standby distance;
- ejecting a cleaning fluid from a first nozzle toward a placing portion of the workpiece where the seating pad is to be in contact;
- ejecting the cleaning fluid from a second nozzle toward the reference hole in which the pin is to be inserted;
- placing the workpiece on the seating pad;
- stopping the ejecting of the cleaning fluid from the first nozzle and the second nozzle;
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- fixing the workpiece to a table with a clamp.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.