US 12,325,219 B2
System for introducing a substrate into a nip
Benzion Landa, Nes Ziona (IL); Jitschak Sanders, Givat Shmuel (IL); Yosef Shachak, Kfar Saba (IL); and Ofir Neger, Rishon LeZion (IL)
Assigned to Lumet Technologies LTD, Rehovot (IL)
Appl. No. 18/284,530
Filed by LUMET TECHNOLOGIES LTD., Rehovot (IL)
PCT Filed Apr. 5, 2022, PCT No. PCT/IB2022/053159
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 27, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/214959, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2104962 (GB), filed on Apr. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0173954 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. B32B 37/00 (2006.01); B65G 15/30 (2006.01); H05K 3/20 (2006.01); H10F 71/00 (2025.01)
CPC B32B 37/025 (2013.01) [B65G 15/30 (2013.01); H05K 3/207 (2013.01); H10F 71/00 (2025.01); H05K 2203/1545 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for transferring a substance pattern to a substrate, the system comprising a web carrying the substance pattern, a web drive mechanism for driving the web through a nip between a roller and an opposing surface, and a transport mechanism for advancing in an X-direction a substrate having parallel side edges towards the nip, for the substrate to be gripped in the nip and frictionally driven through the nip at the same time as, and with the same speed as, the web, the web being pressed against a surface of the substrate during passage through the nip to cause the substance pattern to transfer from the web to the substrate; wherein the transport mechanism comprises;
a) lateral abutments located on opposite sides of the transport mechanism and movable relative to one another in a Y-direction traverse to the X-direction and resiliently biased towards one another to grip opposite side edges of the substrate, the lateral abutments serving to align the substrate with the web and to apply a force to advance the substrate towards the nip; and
b) a release mechanism disposed and configured to disengage the lateral abutments from the opposite side edges of the substrate upon detected or predicted engagement of a leading edge of the substrate into the nip.