ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,065, issued on March 17, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Conveying apparatus and peeling apparatus" was invented by Koyo Honoki (Tokyo), Koji Itabashi (Tokyo) and Ryohei Yamamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveying apparatus for conveying a plate-shaped workpiece includes a holding unit that holds the plate-shaped workpiece under suction, a moving unit that moves in a vertical direction together with the holding unit, a detection unit that detects that the holding unit has moved downward and made contact with the plate-shaped workpiece, and a control unit that performs control to stop a downward movement of the m...