A fixture assembly for supporting a plurality of blanks during a welding operation. The fixture assembly includes a frame. A plurality of electromagnets are positioned on the frame for supporting the blanks and for drawing the blanks toward the electromagnets to secure the blanks into a desired position. A plurality of intensifiers are moveably connected to the frame for selectively overlying the top face of one of the electromagnets for clamping the blank against the electromagnet to intensify a magnetic force provided by the electromagnet. A plurality of electromagnet adjusters are each coupled with the frame and with at least one of the electromagnets for moving the electromagnets relative to the frame. A plurality of adjusting pins are each connected to the frame and moveable relative to the frame for adjusting a position of the blanks.

A connection structure of laminate cells is provided. Each of the laminate cells includes a pouch including a laminate film, an electrode assembly enclosed in the pouch, and a plate-shaped terminal connected internally of the pouch to the electrode assembly and extending out of the pouch along one side edge of the pouch. The plate-shaped terminal includes a bent tip. The pouches are stacked on each other, the bent tips of the plate-shaped terminals are overlapped with each other, and the bent tips are intermittently joined together in an overlapped portion where the bent tips are overlapped with each other.

A system for reflowing a semiconductor workpiece including a stage, a first vacuum module and a second vacuum module, and an energy source is provided. The stage includes a base and a protrusion connected to the base, the stage is movable along a height direction of the stage relative to the semiconductor workpiece, the protrusion operably holds and heats the semiconductor workpiece, and the protrusion includes a first portion and a second portion surrounded by and spatially separated from the first portion. The first vacuum module and the second vacuum module respectively coupled to the first portion and the second portion of the protrusion, and the first vacuum module and the second vacuum module are operable to respectively apply a pressure to the first portion and the second portion. The energy source is disposed over the stage to heat the semiconductor workpiece held by the protrusion of the stage.

The invention relates to a device (2) for welding hard material elements (4) onto teeth (6) of a saw blade (8), comprising a saw blade feed device (12) for moving the saw blade (8) in a feed direction (14), such that a tooth (6a) of the saw blade (8) can be brought into a target position (16) in a working region (10) of the device (2), comprising a first centering device (30) for centering the saw blade (8) transversely to the feed direction (14), comprising a second centering device (32) for centering a respective hard material element (4) transversely to the feed direction (14), comprising a resistance welding device (24) having a welding electrode (26) that can be deployed into and withdrawn from the working region (10), comprising a supply device (28) for supplying and transferring a respective hard material element (4) to the welding electrode (26), and it being possible for the welding electrode (26) to be deployed in such a way that the hard material element (4) can be brought toward the tooth (6a) to abut the tooth (6a). According to the invention, the hard material element (4) can be centered relative to the centered and fixed saw blade (8) by means of the second centering device (32), and the first and second centering device (30) are provided in a common assembly (38), such that the centering of the saw blade (8) by the first centering device (32) predetermines a centering position for the subsequent centering of the hard material element (4) by the second centering device (32).

A process fiber including a core extending along a central axis and a clad covering a circumference of the core includes an outer edge portion constituting an outer edge of a core cross section obtained by vertically cutting the core. The outer edge portion includes seven sides and seven corner portions respectively connecting the sides adjacent to each other. Each of the corner portions has an R shape along a circumscribed circle circumscribed to the outer edge portion. When a diameter of the circumscribed circle is O, a diameter of an inscribed circle inscribed to the outer edge portion is I, and the number of the corner portions is n (n is an odd number), a diameter ratio α, which is a ratio between the diameter O of the circumscribed circle and the diameter I of the inscribed circle, fulfills a predetermined condition.

A jig apparatus is used for assembling a trunk lid including an upper panel, an extension panel, and a lower panel. The jig apparatus may include: a jig frame; a first activation jig unit configured to align and fix the upper panel and the extension panel and installed at the jig frame in front and rear directions to be tilting-rotatable; and a second activation jig unit aligning and fixing the lower panel and installed at the jig frame to be linearly movable in the front and rear directions with respect to the first activation jig unit.

A welding jig (3, 103, 203) for holding a horizontal member relative to a vertical member is disclosed. The jig has a base (5, 105, 205) having a clamp (8, 108, 208) able to clamp the base to the vertical member and constituting a first, coarse, vertical adjustment mechanism. A frame (11, 111, 211) is interconnected to the base by a first threaded member (12, 112, 212) constituting a second, fine, vertical adjustment mechanism. A pair of supports (21, 121, 221) is slidingly mounted on the frame and movable between predetermined positions to constitute a first, coarse, horizontal adjustment mechanism. First and second vise parts (43, 44, 143, 144, 271, 272) each threadably mounted on a corresponding one of the supports and movable towards and away from each other constitute a vise mechanism for clamping the horizontal member.

A display processing mask manufacturing apparatus includes a stage, a clamp arranged outside the stage, and a chuck configured to move in a direction and arranged above the stage. The clamp includes a first clamp and a second clamp spaced apart from the first clamp in a first direction and arranged at a position opposite to a position of the first clamp with respect to the stage, and the chuck includes a first chuck and a second chuck spaced apart from the first chuck in a second direction crossing the first direction.

A soldering component and a method of fitting it to boards are introduced. The soldering component includes a body and a fitting portion. The fitting portion is fitted to an object. The body has an engaging portion with an elastic retraction space conducive to elastic retraction of two or more engagement portions, allowing the engagement portions to engage with another object. The soldering component has a weldable surface to be soldered to a weldable surface of the object. The weldable surface of the object has a built-in solder layer adapted to be heated for soldering the soldering component and the weldable surface of the object together. The soldering component is disposed in a carrier, taken out with a tool, compared with the object by a comparison device to determine a fitting position on the object, positioned at the fitting position with the tool, thereby being fitted to the object.

Disclosed is a pressing jig for welding an electrode lead located in a lead slit formed at the bus bar to the bus bar in a closely adhered state. The pressing jig includes a first frame having a first distance adjusting unit and a first pressing unit, and a second frame having a second distance adjusting unit facing the first distance adjusting unit and a second pressing unit facing the first pressing unit. The first frame and the second frame are coupled so that a distance between first pressing unit and the second pressing unit is increased when a distance between the first distance adjusting unit and the second distance adjusting unit is decreased, and the distance between first pressing unit and the second pressing unit is decreased when the distance between the first distance adjusting unit and the second distance adjusting unit is increased.