The printing device includes a support section 17 for supporting a medium 99, a head 28 for ejecting liquid on a print region 19, a carriage 27 on which the head is mounted, a guide 25 for supporting the carriage, a motor for moving the carriage, a rotary encoder, a linear encoder 35 for detecting the position of the carriage, and a control section. The linear encoder has a linear scale 36 and a sensor 37, the linear scale has a first region S1 where slits 38 are positioned and a second region S2 where the slits are not positioned, and when the head faces the printing region, the sensor is positioned in the first region, and the length of the first region in one direction is equal to or longer than the length of the printing region in one direction.

A printing apparatus includes a first shaft around which an adhesive sheet in which a protective sheet is provided at an adhesive layer formed at a base material is wound, a second shaft around which the protective sheet peeled off from the adhesive sheet fed out from the first shaft is wound, a driving mechanism configured to rotate the second shaft, an upper surface configured to support the adhesive sheet from which the protective sheet is peeled off and the adhesive layer is exposed, a guide portion configured to cause a fabric to pass through an upper position in a vertically upward direction of the first shaft and the second shaft and guide the fabric toward the upper surface, and a printing unit configured to perform printing on the fabric attached to the adhesive sheet in the upper surface.

A recording apparatus includes a feeding section that feeds a rolled continuous paper into an apparatus body, a recording section disposed in the apparatus body, the recording section performing recording onto the continuous paper fed from the feeding section in the apparatus body, a first transport path along which the continuous paper is transported during the recording performed on the medium by the recording section, and a second transport path along which the continuous paper is transported to be rewound onto the feeding section. The second transport path is different from the first transport path.

A system includes a component inspection system having a radiation source configured to generate radiation and a radiation detector configured to detect the radiation after the radiation passes through components to be inspected. The system also includes a fixture configured to receive multiple reels that are each configured to receive a tape in or on which the components are located. The fixture includes a base configured to be secured to a support, a shaft, one or more motors mounted to the shaft and configured to rotate the reels, and one or more joints coupling the shaft and base. The one or more joints are configured to allow (i) rotation of the shaft about a longitudinal axis of the shaft to change an orientation of the shaft with respect to the base and (ii) rotation of the shaft to change a direction at which the shaft extends away from the base.

A notching system for an electrode sheet coated with slurry on a surface of a collector includes: an electrode unwinder from which the electrode sheet is unwound; a film unwinder from which a protective film stacked on the electrode sheet is unwound; a notching device configured to notch a non-coating portion, which is a portion that is not coated with the slurry on the electrode sheet, when provided in the state in which the protective film is stacked on the electrode sheet; and a rewinder configured to wind the notched electrode sheet.

Accordingly, the problem such as the cutting and tearing of the electrode sheet and the problem of causing the scratches due to the separation of the graphite powder from the surface of the electrode sheet may be solved.

A tape feeder of feeds a component supply tape to a predetermined supply position and peels off a cover tape from the carrier tape at the supply position to expose a component. The tape feeder includes a pair of feed gears configured to mesh with each other and sandwich the cover tape, a drive motor configured to rotationally drive the pair of feed gears such that the carrier tape is pulled in, a rotation gear directly or indirectly meshed with a first feed gear of the feed gears, a one-way clutch provided in the rotation gear such that the rotation gear idles with respect to rotation of the pair of feed gears in a direction in which the carrier tape is pulled in, and a torque limiter provided in the rotation gear or another rotation gear meshing with the rotation gear.

The present invention relates to a release film replacing device, which comprises a winding assembly and a compression assembly. The winding assembly comprises a first reel and a second reel, wherein the first reel and the second reel are disposed opposite each other and are spaced apart from each other, both the first reel and the second reel are rotatably connected to a frame, the first reel winds up a first end of a release film, and the second reel winds up a second end of the release film. When the second reel is rotated about its own axis in a first direction, the first end of the release film can be unwound and the second end thereof can be wound.

A winding apparatus for a rotor core may include a fiber unwinder that unwinds a fiber material for winding the rotor core. The winding apparatus may include a plurality of guide roller assemblies that guide the fiber material unwound from the fiber unwinder to the rotor core. The winding apparatus may include a tension roller assembly that is provided between the plurality of guide roller assemblies and measures a tension of the fiber material. The winding apparatus may include a core support that is provided so that the rotor core is rotatable with respect to a core shaft, the rotor core is movable in an axial direction of the core shaft, and the rotor core is tilted with respect to the core shaft.

A winding apparatus for secondary batteries includes a first clamp having a first contact portion to be in contact with a separator in a longitudinal direction, a second clamp having a second contact portion to be in contact with the separator in the longitudinal direction, the second contact portion being configured to be engaged with the first contact portion while the separator is therebetween, blades surrounding the first clamp and the second clamp, the blades being configured to allow the separator to be wound therearound, and a driver configured to move the first clamp and the second clamp toward each other and away from each other.

Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a device for controlling a machine for winding a material onto a target, the machine including a storage for the material and a buffer system for buffering the winding material between the storage device and the target. An example includes: a communication port to receive a number of status signals, each of the status signals including a certain indication for a current process status of a material flow of the material; a processor using a neural network to provide a number of output signals to control the storage and/or the buffer system using the received status signals as input; and a controller to control the storage and/or the buffer system using the provided output signals.