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Apparatus for polishing hard disk substrates

US5140774A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 31, 1991
Grant dateAug 25, 1992
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Expiry dateOct 31, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB24B27/0069
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus capable of simultaneously polishing a plurality of hard disk substrates at the same time includes at least three substrate carriers which are rotatably disposed on an index table and which carry and transfer a plurality of hard disk substrates, are moved successively through a substrate loading station, a substrate polishing station and a substrate removing station in response to intermittent rotation of the index table.

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