US 12,145,233 B2
Conditioning disk replacement apparatus and method
Hoseop Choi, Hwaseong-si (KR); Minseop Park, Suwon-si (KR); Jubong Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); Sung Yong Park, Suwon-si (KR); Kiju Sohn, Gunpo-si (KR); and Jaeyoung Eom, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on May 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/745,618.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0068620 (KR), filed on May 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0379432 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. B23Q 3/155 (2006.01); B24B 53/017 (2012.01); B24D 9/08 (2006.01)
CPC B23Q 3/15513 (2013.01) [B24D 9/085 (2013.01); B24B 53/017 (2013.01); Y10T 483/174 (2015.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conditioning disk replacement apparatus, comprising:
a detacher configured to separate a conditioning disk from a holder;
a transporter configured to transfer the conditioning disk; and
a container configured to store the conditioning disk,
wherein the detacher includes a detachment body and a rotator that is coupled to the detachment body,
wherein the rotator includes a key protruding outward from the rotator in a first horizontal direction,
wherein the rotator is configured to rotate the key about an axis extending in the first horizontal direction, and wherein rotating the key about the axis, after the key is inserted into a groove between the conditioning disk and the holder, causes an upper surface of the key to press on a portion of a lower surface of the holder and causes a lower surface of the key to press on a portion of an upper surface of the conditioning disk so as to separate the conditioning disk from the holder,
wherein the container includes a plurality of cantilever members, and
wherein each cantilever member of the plurality of cantilever members includes a respective coupling magnet and at least one respective guide pin, the at least one respective guide pin coupled to a lower surface of the corresponding cantilever member.