When a length in a conveying direction of a margin to be cut off is shorter than a predetermined distance between a cutting part and a second conveying part, a sheet cutting machine feeds a first sheet to the cutting part using a first conveying part while keeping the second conveying part positioned at a conveying path. When the length is equal to or longer than the predetermined distance, the machine feeds the first sheet to the cutting part using the first conveying part after upwardly retracting the second conveying part from the conveying path using a retracting mechanism.

A cutting device includes a fixed blade and a movable blade that slides with respect to the fixed blade during cutting, the movable blade having a first end that engages with the fixed blade at cutting start and a second end that engages with the fixed blade at cutting end, an urging member connected to the movable blade to urge the movable blade towards the fixed blade and a rotation of the movable blade in a first rotational direction, and a support for the movable blade having a shaft that rotates as the movable blade moves, the shaft having a center portion and first and second ends rotatably connected to the movable blade, wherein points of connection of the first and second ends are at locations that urge a rotation of the movable blade in a second rotational direction opposite the first rotational direction.

The disclosure discloses a cutting apparatus including a movable blade and a guide device. The movable blade is configured to move along a sliding direction to a cutting position. The guide device includes an upper guide part including a contact part and a lower guide part including at least one guide surface. The contact part is disposed at a position separated from a first blade edge of the fixed blade by a first distance in the transport direction and by a second distance in an upper direction. The at least one guide surface that inclines in an inclination direction in which the at least one guide surface inclines downward at a predetermined angle toward a downstream in the transport direction and is disposed to have an interval of a third distance against the contact part in a direction orthogonal to the inclination direction.

Each of a first rotary blade and a second rotary blade includes a rough surface portion and a smooth surface portion. The rough surface portion has a predetermined width from a blade edge at its circumferential edge portion and has an arithmetical mean roughness of greater than 0.5. The smooth surface portion is provided radially inward of the rough surface portion and has an arithmetical mean roughness less than the arithmetical mean roughness of the rough surface portion.

When a length in a conveying direction of a margin to be cut off is shorter than a predetermined distance between a cutting part and a second conveying part, a sheet cutting machine feeds a first sheet to the cutting part using a first conveying part while keeping the second conveying part positioned at a conveying path. When the length is equal to or longer than the predetermined distance, the machine feeds the first sheet to the cutting part using the first conveying part after upwardly retracting the second conveying part from the conveying path using a retracting mechanism.

A sheet of absorbent material having opposite sheet side edges spaced apart from one another to define an overall width of the absorbent sheet, the sheet of absorbent material including zones of weakness spaced along the sheet of absorbent material according to a machine direction, each zone of weakness extending substantially transversally to said machine direction, each zone of weakness defining two adjacent individual absorbent sheet portions, each zone of weakness being a tear line. The tear line comprises two edge regions and a central region, a first edge region beginning at one of the sheet side edges towards the central region, a second edge region beginning at the other sheet side edges towards the central region, the central region including alternating perforated segments and unperforated segments. The edge regions are unperforated so as to constitute attachment areas within the tear line between two adjacent individual absorbent sheet portions.

Provided is a tape adhering apparatus capable of uniformizing the length of an anisotropic conductive tape to be adhered to a workpiece.

In a tape adhering apparatus (1), a conveying unit (30) intermittently performs an operation of conveying a tape member (T) by a length obtained by adding a gap length (L2) to a predetermined length (L1), and a cutting unit (10) includes a blade holding unit (12) that holds a downstream cutting blade (13) and an upstream cutting blade (14) in a state where the length from the downstream cutting blade (13) to the upstream cutting blade (14) is the predetermined length (L1), and advances toward an anisotropic conductive tape (t1) to cut the anisotropic conductive tape (t1) into the predetermined length (L1) when the conveying unit (30) stops the operation of conveying the tape member (T).

A separator cutting apparatus includes: a fixing part configured to fix temporarily the electrode assembly; a cutter supporting part disposed above the fixing part; a cutter part disposed below the cutter supporting part, and configured to cut a separator among the electrode assembly temporarily fixed to the fixing part; and a spring part configured to connect elastically the cutter supporting part and the cutter part to each other, and return the cutter part to an initial position after cutting the separator; the spring part includes a spring bush coupled to a supporting shaft provided in the cutter supporting part and the cutter part, respectively, a spring holder integrally coupled to the spring bush, and a spring that expands and contracts according to the elevation of the cutter part by coupling both ends to the spring holder, and the spring holder and the spring bush are made of a non-metallic material.

A tape adhering apparatus is provided for attaching an anisotropic conductive tape to a workpiece with uniform length. In the tape adhering apparatus (1), a a conveying unit (30) intermittently performs an operation of conveying a tape member (T) by a length obtained by adding a gap length (L2) to a predetermined length (L1), and a cutting unit (10) includes a blade holding unit (12) that holds a downstream cutting blade (13) and an upstream cutting blade (14) in a state where the length from the downstream cutting blade (13) to the upstream cutting blade (14) is the predetermined length (L1), and advances toward an anisotropic conductive tape (t1) to cut the anisotropic conductive tape (t1) into the predetermined length (L1) when the conveying unit (30) stops the operation of conveying the tape member (T).

A recording device includes: a conveying mechanism; a recording unit; and a controller. The conveying mechanism selectively conveys a first sheet-shaped medium and a second sheet-shaped medium. The controller performs, based on a recording command, recording processing in which the conveying mechanism is caused to convey the sheet-shaped medium from one of a first and a second accommodation portions. The recording unit is caused to record an image on the sheet-shaped medium. The controller does not cause the recording unit to record the image in one or both of a case where accommodation portion information regarding an accommodation portion included in the recording command indicates the first accommodation portion and medium information regarding the sheet-shaped medium included in the recording command indicates the second sheet-shaped medium, and a case where the accommodation portion information indicates the second accommodation portion and the medium information indicates the first sheet-shaped medium.