Joining jig and joining apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12286745-B2
Application number	US-202318116514-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 2, 2023
Priority date	Mar 3, 2022
Publication date	Apr 29, 2025
Grant date	Apr 29, 2025

Abstract

In a joining jig for disposing a sheet-shaped adherend on one surface side of a sheet-shaped material, folding back the adherend in an end edge portion of the sheet-shaped material, and causing adhesion of an end edge portion of the adherend on the other surface side of the sheet-shaped material, by a tip portion of an attachment piece pivoting in the end edge portion of a placement surface of a placement base, the attachment piece is switchable between a deployment position where an attachment surface to which the adherend is attached is deployed outside the end edge portion of the placement surface of the placement base and a facing position where the attachment surface faces the end edge portion of the placement surface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A joining jig configured to join a sheet-shaped adherend on a sheet-shaped material, the joining jig comprising:
a placement base including a placement surface on which the sheet-shaped material is configured to be placed and to be superimposed on the sheet-shaped adherend, wherein an end edge portion of the placement surface is formed in a shape corresponding to an end edge portion of the sheet-shaped material; and
a plurality of attachment pieces configured to have the sheet-shaped adherend attached, the plurality of attachment pieces disposed side by side along the end edge portion of the placement base, and each attachment piece of the plurality of attachment pieces including a tip portion that pivots and an attachment surface configured to be attached to the sheet-shaped adhered,
wherein each attachment piece of the plurality of attachment pieces is switchable between a deployment position and a facing position by pivoting the tip portion of each attachment piece adjacent to the end edge portion of the placement surface of the placement base, and
when the sheet-shaped material is superimposed on the sheet-shaped adhered on the placement surface, the joining jig is configured to fold back the sheet-shaped adherend over the end portion of the sheet-shaped material and adhere the sheet-shaped adherend to the sheet-shaped material by switching from the deployment position to the facing position, and
in the deployment position the attachment surface of each attachment piece extends away from the end edge portion of the placement surface so that the sheet-shaped adherend is in an unfolded position when adhered to the attachment surface of each attachment piece, and
in the facing position the attachment surface of each attachment piece faces the placement surface so that, when adhered to the attachment surface of each attachment piece during switching, the sheet-shaped adherend is folded back and adhered over the sheet-shaped material.

2. The joining jig according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a biasing section that pivots each attachment piece of the plurality of attachment pieces to the deployment position.

3. The joining jig according to claim 1 , wherein each attachment piece of the plurality of attachment pieces includes i) a pivoting portion having the tip portion and the attachment surface of the attachment piece and ii) a support portion attached to the placement base.

4. The joining jig according to claim 3 , wherein each attachment piece of the plurality of attachment pieces includes a bent portion formed at a boundary between the pivoting portion and the support portion, the bent portion enabling pivoting of the pivoting portion.

5. The joining jig according to claim 3 , wherein
in the plurality of attachment pieces disposed along the end edge portion of the placement base, the support portion of each attachment piece of the plurality of attachment pieces is integrally connected to the support portion of an adjacent attachment piece of the plurality of attachment pieces via a groove-shaped flexible portion formed at a boundary between the support portions, and the plurality of attachment pieces are attachable to the placement base via the groove-shaped flexible portion to follow a shape of the end edge portion of the placement base.

6. A joining apparatus comprising:
the joining jig according to claim 1 ; and
a switching section that switches the plurality of attachment pieces of the joining jig between the deployment position and the facing position.

7. The joining apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the switching section pressurizes the attachment surface of each attachment piece of the plurality of attachment pieces at the facing position to a placement surface side in addition to position switching with respect to the plurality of attachment pieces.

8. The joining apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the switching section comprises a plurality of switching sections, wherein each of the plurality of switching sections executes the switching of the plurality of attachment pieces.

9. The joining apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein each of the plurality of switching sections includes an adsorption portion capable of switching between an adsorption state and a release state to enable releasable attachment at any position on a mounting surface.

10. The joining apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein
each of the plurality of switching sections have an abutting body having a tip portion for abutting against at least one of the plurality of attachment pieces to perform switching from the deployment position to the facing position,
the abutting body of some the plurality of switching sections is provided with a projecting portion widening the tip portion, and
the abutting body of others of the plurality of switching sections has a notch portion in the tip portion to avoid interference with the projecting portion.

Assignees

• Juki Kk

Inventors

• Shiina Takayuki
• Shiraishi Norihisa
• Iijima Takaaki

Classifications

• B65H45/04

  Folding sheets · CPC title

• Y10T156/1051

  by folding · CPC title

• B29C63/046 Primary

  using a folding shoulder · CPC title

• B29C63/0034

  the strip material being folded · CPC title

• B05C13/02

  for particular articles · CPC title