Provided is an inkjet printer with an unwinding portion and an adjacent winding portion in an uneven arrangement, which enables easy replacement of a web-shaped print base material on an unwinding portion and a winding portion for the web-shaped print base material at the time of printing on the web-shaped print base material with an aqueous ink, is capable of dealing with small-lot and wide-variety printing, and enables further space saving as compared to related arts. The inkjet printer includes: an unwinding portion for a web-shaped print base material; a single-pass inkjet head portion configured to discharge an aqueous ink to a surface of the web-shaped print base material unwound by a single-pass method; and an adjacent winding portion, which is provided adjacent to the unwinding portion, and is configured to wind the web-shaped print base material, wherein the unwinding portion and the adjacent winding portion are both installed side by side in an uneven arrangement on any one of an upstream side and a downstream side of the single-pass inkjet head portion.

Disclosed are systems for applying materials to components. The system comprises a tool operable for transferring a portion of a material from a supply of the material to a component. A first portion of the tool may be configured for cutting along a side or edge of the portion of the material. A second portion of the tool may be configured for tamping, pressing, or pushing against the portion of the material to cause uncut sides or edges of the portion of the material attached to the supply of the material to be torn, severed, detached, or separated from the supply of the material.

A method of conveying a glass film composite uses a roll-to-roll process for winding a glass film composite wound on a feed roller by a winding roller through a plurality of conveyance rollers. The glass film composite includes an elongated glass film, and linear resin tapes disposed on one side of the glass film along a longitudinal direction of the glass film at both ends in a width direction of the glass film. The method includes a step of conveying the glass film composite from the feed roller to the winding roller through the plurality of conveyance rollers without passing a state in which the glass film composite is bent so that the resin tapes are directed to the inside.

An apparatus for manufacturing electrical energy storage devices, comprising a path for feeding material with intermittent feed and two machining stations arranged one after the other in the feed path, in which each machining station is movable on a linear guide at the command of a motor to vary its position along the feed path and enable the mutual distance between the two machining stations to be adjusted in function of the step of intermittent feed of the material, so that the apparatus is adaptable to the change in product size.

Provided is a printing apparatus including: a holder unit provided with a holding member, a contact portion, and a shaft member, and an apparatus body provided with a support portion, and a fixing portion, wherein the shaft member is configured to be detachably attached to the support portion, the holder unit is configured to be rotatable between a first position and a second position with reference to the shaft member in a state where the shaft member is supported on the support portion, the first position is a position where the shaft member is attached to the support portion, and the second position is a position where the apparatus body fixes the holder unit by the fixing portion, the second position being a position where the contact portion is separated from the installation surface.

Provided are an adhesive tape pasting device, mechanism and method for zero-tension double-faced adhesive tape pasting, which belong to foil adhesive tape pasting apparatuses. The adhesive tape pasting device comprises an unwinding station, a winding station, a winding electric motor and an adhesive tape pasting assembly, where after the unwinding station unwinds a double-faced adhesive tape and the adhesive tape pasting assembly pastes an adhesive tape of the double-faced adhesive tape onto a foil, the winding electric motor drives the winding station to wind a remaining release paper of the double-faced adhesive tape. The adhesive tape pasting device further comprises an unwinding driving assembly, where the unwinding driving assembly drives the unwinding station to carry out unwinding work, and in the adhesive tape pasting process, the unwinding work and winding work are carried out synchronously.

An image forming apparatus, comprises: a setting unit configured to set a divider region in a group of images that are continuously printed during feeding from a feeding apparatus in which a roll-shaped printing medium has been set, the divider region being for separating the roll-shaped printing medium into a plurality of rolls. The setting unit sets the divider region based on the number of rolls indicating the count of the plurality of rolls, the number of rolls being required in terms of a configuration of a post-processing device that executes post-processing with respect to the roll-shaped printing medium on which printing has been performed by the printing unit.

Disclosed are systems for applying materials to components. The system comprises a tool operable for transferring a portion of a material from a supply of the material to a component. A first portion of the tool may be configured for cutting along a side or edge of the portion of the material. A second portion of the tool may be configured for tamping, pressing, or pushing against the portion of the material to cause uncut sides or edges of the portion of the material attached to the supply of the material to be torn, severed, detached, or separated from the supply of the material.

The present application discloses a module bonding installation apparatus, detection device and detection method, thereby controlling recovery of cushion material through detecting by the detection device a feeding length of the cushion material at a cushion material supply end in a unit time.

Apparatus and techniques for laser-processing workpieces can be improved, and new functionalities can be provided. Some embodiments discussed relate to use of beam characterization tools to facilitate adaptive processing, process control and other desirable features. Other embodiments relate to laser power sensors incorporating integrating spheres. Still other embodiments relate to workpiece handling systems capable of simultaneously providing different workpieces to a common laser-processing apparatus. A great number of other embodiments and arrangements are also detailed.