A method and apparatus for replacement of damages display shield (typically glass) covering a display screen on a device, typically a mobile phone. Mobile phones have an electronic display protected by a glass shield. Between the glass and the display is often a plastic polarizing or other intermediary sheet. Removal of a damage glass can be accomplished by cutting thru the polarizer with a moving wire or blade. This separates the glass from the sensitive display and allows replacement of the glass without damaging the more expensive display.

A winder unit (1) for winding cutting line (41), for vehicle glazing panel removal, has a rotatable spindle shaft (61) for winding the cutting line (41) and a ratchet device (90) mounted to the spindle shaft (61) by means of a one-way rotational bearing or clutch (75). Typically the ratchet device (90) has a component mounted to rotate in unison with the one-way rotational bearing or clutch. The improvement provides a rotational directional control providing 2 one-way rotational control devices in concert.

Methods of processing a first substrate bonded to a second substrate include moving a wire along an interface to propagate a debonding front and debond the first substrate from the second substrate. In some embodiments, the first substrate includes a thickness less than or equal to about 300 m. In further embodiments, the wire includes a tensile strength less than a critical failure stress of the first substrate. In still further embodiments, the wire is configured to conform to a shape of the debonding front during the step of moving the wire such that one or more edges of the first substrate are debonded from the second substrate prior to a debonding of a corresponding interior portion of the first substrate from the second substrate.

An optical fiber coating removal device which heats a coating of an optical fiber with a heater and removes the coating with a blade includes a communicator which receives information based on optical fiber type information to specify an optical fiber type selected by a user from among a plurality of optical fiber types, transmitted from an external device to which the optical fiber type information has been input, and a heater which heats a coating of an optical fiber using the received information based on the optical fiber type information. The heater can heat a coating under a plurality of conditions according to the optical fiber type information.

Systems and methods are provided for removing adhesive features. One embodiment is a method for operating a cryogenic-assisted adhesive a removal tool. The method includes dispensing a cryogenic fluid onto an adhesive feature disposed at a surface of a structure, cooling the adhesive feature to cause a physical change making the adhesive feature brittle, and operating the cryogenic-assisted adhesive removal tool to cleave the adhesive feature from the surface while the adhesive feature is physically changed.

The present invention provides method and apparatus for removing a sealant from a surface. More specifically the present invention provides methods an apparatus for efficiently and consistently removing polysulfide sealant from a surface on an aluminum airplane wing without damaging the wing.

A blade includes an edge to be pressed against an end portion of a carrier film to fold the end portion upwards from a sheet. A clamp mechanism peels the carrier film off from the sheet by moving while clamping the upwardly folded end portion of the carrier film.

In a method and a device for recycling a thermoplastic fibre-reinforced composite material, which is in at least one deposition layer in a component (1), it is suggested that said fibre-reinforced composite material should be pulled off from the remaining component (1), in the direction of a main fibre direction, in at least one pull-off layer (10) comprising fibres and matrix material.

A label applicator with a label peeling function includes a frame supported by a support machine, a suction unit that is supported by the frame and has a suction pad, a claw member having a sharp tip that is disposed under the suction pad, a moving mechanism that is supported by the frame, and supports the claw member so as to be movable in an up-down direction relative to the suction pad, and a lock device that locks movement of the claw member in the up-down direction relative to the suction pad, in a state where the suction pad is placed on top of and in contact with an end of a label lying on the tip of the claw member.

A component supply device is a device for supplying components housed in a component storage tape to a component extraction position. The component storage tape traveling toward a component exposure part is guided by a tape guide. This tape guide includes a guide body, and first and second positioning guide members. In the tape guide, the guide body includes a pair of side wall parts that defines a fourth tape traveling path wider than a maximum allowable width of the component storage tape. In the tape guide, the first and second positioning guide members and include first and second bent parts respectively that function as a pair of tape side surface guide parts that guides side surfaces of the component storage tape. The first and second bent parts are apart from each other at a distance shorter than a width of the fourth tape traveling path.