A cutting unit for providing transversal cuts and/or perforations to a string of packaging containers connected by transversal seals is provided. The cutting unit comprises a knife assembly and an anvil assembly rotatable against each other to form a nip for receiving a transversal seal of the string of packaging containers. The anvil assembly comprises an anvil blade having a first region and a second region such that when the first region is aligned with a knife blade of the knife assembly at the nip a cut is produced, and when the second region is aligned with the knife blade at the nip a perforation is produced. A method, a computer program and a computer-readable medium storing the computer program for providing transversal cuts and/or perforations to a string of packaging containers connected by transversal seals are also described.

A recording apparatus including: an apparatus main body; a conveyance mechanism; a recorder; two first contact portions disposed in different positions in a conveyance direction of the recording medium and contactable with one surface of the recording medium; a cut mechanism configured to cut the recording medium, the cut mechanism being disposed between the two first contact portions and including a first blade, a second blade, and a second contact portion contactable with the other surface of the recording medium; and a cover configured to take an open position and a closed position in which a conveyance path of the recording medium is formed between the cover and the apparatus main body, the cover being formed with a groove, and the first blade being located in the groove when the cover is located in the closed position.

This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for severing a cable tie with a rounded cut. Using a cable tie severing tool, a cable tie may be looped around an object and a tail portion received through a nosepiece assembly. A head of the cable tie may be aligned using an alignment indicator to ensure a rounded cut of the serrated portion of the cable tie at a finite distance from the head portion of the cable tie. A blade member may be displaced to sever the serrated portion of the cable tie and produce a rounded cut free of sharp edges. In this manner, the likelihood of abrasive damage from contacting the rounded cut may be reduced.

A printer includes a transport part that transports a sheet, a printing part that prints on the sheet, a cutting part that cuts the sheet by moving a movable blade toward a stationary blade, and a controller that controls the transport part and the cutting part. When the sheet is label paper having an adhesive layer, the controller controls the transport part and the cutting part to transport the sheet rearward before moving the movable blade that cut the sheet, move the movable blade in a direction away from the stationary blade in a state where the sheet is fed in rearward, and thereafter transport the sheet frontward.

A pear feeder for multi-lane processing has, on a frame (1), a shuffle feeder (2), a plurality of chutes (3), a plurality of feed channels (4), small belts (5) running on respective pairs of belt holder pulleys (9, 90) mounted on each feed channel (4) and moved by a motor (10) through a first transverse shaft (11) so as to be transmitted to the belts (5) a retrograde motion with respect to the pear advancement and allow each pear to continue advancing along its own advancement channel (4) with the stem downward up to the exit end, and a plurality of aligned jaws of reception (15) which can be opened simultaneously. On the frame (1) of the apparatus, in a position below the plurality of aligned receiving jaws (15), a cutting device (18) is mounted movably by means of a second pneumatic piston (19) on horizontal end guides (20).

A carton sizing system that has a frame, a controller, one or more cutters movably mounted to the frame and operatively connected to the controller, one or more markers movably mounted to the frame and operatively connected to the controller. The carton sizing system also has a measuring means that is operatively connected to the controller and configured to determine, in use, the footprint of an open top carton and to determine the height of one or more objects contained within the carton. The controller is configured to position the one or more cutters based on the determined footprint and to cut vertical edges of the carton based on the determined height and also to position the one or more markers based on the determined footprint and height and to score or crease vertical walls of the carton between the vertical edges to at least partially define foldable panels.

An inspection system for inspecting a secondary battery cell is generally described. An example inspection system includes a thickness measurement unit, an electrical characteristics measurement unit, a print processing unit, a tab cutting unit, a mass measurement unit, a tab inspection unit and a defect selection unit. The thickness measurement unit, the electrical characteristics measurement unit, the print processing unit, the tab cutting unit, the mass measurement unit, the tab inspection unit and the defect selection unit are arranged in series, and a plurality of secondary battery cells are transferred in line throughout the inspection system.

The present invention relates to an electrode cutting device including a cutting unit configured to cut an electrode sheet and a fixing unit configured to fix the electrode sheet, wherein the cutting unit includes a cutter configured to cut the electrode sheet by shearing and a cutter lifting portion configured to move the cutter so as to be perpendicular to a surface of the electrode sheet, and the fixing unit includes a gripper configured to press the electrode sheet so as to be fixed, a driving portion configured to drive the gripper so as to be moved, and a sensor configured to monitor the driving portion, whereby it is possible to rapidly and accurately check whether air leaks from the driving portion, which drives the gripper.

A three-axial ribbon cutter and an implementation method thereof are disclosed, which relates to a technical field of ribbon cutting. The cutter includes a base, a traversing cutter set, a ribbon guiding mechanism, a first guide rail, a second guide rail, a cutting cylinder, a lifting cylinder, a traversing cylinder and a ribbon. An mounting block is provided on the base, the mounting block is connected with the traversing cutter set, the ribbon guiding mechanism, the first guide rail, the cutting cylinder, the lifting cylinder and the traversing cylinder; cutters of the traversing cutter set and the ribbon guiding mechanism are provided in multiple sets; the traversing cutter set includes special-shaped cutters which are connected to the cutting cylinder and the traversing cylinder, edges of the special-shaped cutters extend by a certain volume, and the traversing cutter set and the lower cutter are both connected to the lifting cylinder.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a secondary battery and an apparatus for manufacturing a secondary battery. The method for manufacturing the secondary battery according to the present invention comprises: an electrode supply process of supplying an electrode through an electrode supply part; a first inspection process of detecting the supplied electrode to distinguish a normal electrode portion and an abnormal electrode portion through the first inspection part; and a notching process of notching the electrode, which is subjected to the first inspection process, in the notching part, wherein the notching process perform the notching through a laser so that the normal electrode portion and the abnormal electrode portion, which are detected in the first inspection process, are divided from each other.