A single-substrate electroless (EL) plating apparatus including a workpiece chuck that is rotatable about rotation axis and inclinable about an axis of inclination. The chuck inclination may be controlled to a non-zero inclination angle during a dispense of plating solution to improve uniformity in the surface wetting and/or plating solution residence time across the a surface of a workpiece supported by the chuck. The angle of inclination may be only a few degrees off-level with the plating solution dispensed from a nozzle that scans over a high-side of the chuck along a radius of the workpiece while the chuck rotates. The angle of inclination may be actively controlled during dispense of the plating solution. The inclination angle may be larger at commencement of the plating solution dispense than at cessation of the dispense.

A heated fixture for a multi-axis stage to improve drying of the printing compound and to enable faster movement speeds of the stage. The fixture includes a base that attaches to a multi-axis stage of a three-dimensional (3D) printer, a stands supporting a printing substrate and a heater, a temperature sensor, and a temperature controller.

A material application and curing system incorporating a spray booth connected alongside a curing chamber along with a pivoting cantilever therebetween adapted to swing materials between them, such that materials can be coated with substances in the spray booth and then quickly, easily, and efficiently transferred to the curing chamber.

The invention relates to an impregnation device for trickle impregnation of a stator of an electric machine with a synthetic resin which cures under an increase in temperature, the stator having a hollow cylindrical stator core and at least one winding, a drive shaft being arranged coaxially inside the stator and being drivable by a drive motor, at least one holding device being arranged on the drive shaft, by means of which holding device the stator can be detachably connected to the drive shaft.

A printing assembly is disclosed for thermal transfer printing onto a surface of a substrate. The assembly comprises at least one first printing system comprising a transfer member having opposite front and rear sides with an imaging surface on the front side, a coating station at which a monolayer of thermoplastic particles is applied to the imaging surface, an imaging station at which energy is applied by a thermal print head, optionally via the rear side of the transfer member, to selected regions of the imaging surface to render particles coating the selected regions tacky, a transfer station at which the imaging surface of the transfer member and the substrate surface are pressed against each other to transfer to the substrate the particles that have been rendered tacky to form an adhesive image; and at least one more printing system downstream from the first system.

An embodiment of a line-of-sight coating fixture includes a support structure, a spindle, and a shadow structure. The support structure includes a plurality of compartments disposed below a platter, each compartment having an opening on a periphery of the support structure. Each compartment is adapted to receive and secure a base of a workpiece such that a body of each workpiece to be coated is disposed about a periphery of the support structure and extends above the platter. The spindle is disposed through a center of the platter or support structure for rotating the workpieces thereabout. The shadow structure is disposed about the spindle, inside of the periphery, the shadow structure sized and adapted to shield a portion of each workpiece from line-of-sight coating material.

A liquid discharge device includes a liquid discharge head including nozzles configured to discharge a liquid, a carriage mounting the liquid discharge head and movable, a wiper configured to wipe a nozzle surface of the liquid discharge head, and a wiper mover configured to hold and move the wiper between a facing position at which the wiper faces the nozzle surface and a standby position at which the wiper does not face the nozzle surface. The carriage movably holds the liquid discharge head and the wiper mover as a single unit.

A dispensing system comprises a first dispenser and a second dispenser each including a first end, a second end, a longitudinal axis extending through the first end and the second end, and a set of nozzles arranged about the longitudinal axis. The first dispenser is positioned relative to the second dispenser such that the longitudinal axis of the first dispenser is non-coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the second dispenser. The dispensing system also comprises a substrate chuck configured to hold a substrate and a rotation mechanism configured to rotate the substrate chuck around a rotation axis or configured to rotate the first dispenser and the second dispenser around the rotation axis.

A heated fixture for a multi-axis stage to improve drying of the printing compound and to enable faster movement speeds of the stage. The fixture includes a base that attaches to a multi-axis stage of a three-dimensional (3D) printer, a stands supporting a printing substrate and a heater, a temperature sensor, and a temperature controller.

Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus for performing a predetermined treatment on a substrate. The apparatus includes a design information memory unit configured to store three-dimensional design information, an imaging unit configured to capture a real image containing the target components, a matching processing unit configured to determine which of the target components matches a real image shape as a two-dimensional shape in the real image captured by the imaging unit in accordance with a degree of coincidence of feature points between the real image shape and a two-dimensional design shape based on three-dimensional design information about the target components, and an abnormality detecting unit configured to detect an abnormality of the target component through comparison between the reality information about the matched target component based on the real image and the normal information based on the three-dimensional design information when the target component is normal.