Workpiece Surface Treatment System

Abstract

A workpiece surface treatment system, which obtains a surface-treated workpiece by sequentially carrying a treatment cell containing a workpiece to a series of apparatuses for operations in the respective apparatuses, is characterized by including: a carrying apparatus for sequentially carrying the treatment cell to a series of the apparatuses in the system; a carrying-in/out apparatus for carrying the treatment cell in and out of the carrying apparatus; a surface treatment apparatus for performing a surface treatment on the workpiece by receiving the treatment cell from the carrying apparatus and supplying a surface treatment liquid to the inside of the treatment cell while rotating the treatment cell; and a workpiece collection apparatus for collecting the workpiece by receiving the treatment cell from the carrying apparatus, inverting the treatment cell, and squirting the inside of the treatment cell with water from below to flow out the workpiece, wherein the carrying apparatus carries the treatment cell to the surface treatment apparatus, and then to the workpiece collection apparatus.

1 . A water rinsing apparatus, comprising:
 a receiving plate on which a treatment cell is placeable, the receiving plate having a concave portion into which a convex portion of the treatment cell is fittable;   a fixing device for fixing the treatment cell onto the receiving plate, the fixing device having gripping plates displaceable by operating cylinders wherein the fixing device is operably configured to increase and decrease a space between the gripping plates via displacement by the operating cylinders such that the treatment cell is sandwichable on two sides between the gripping plates when the space is decreased;   an inverting device for inverting both the receiving plate and the treatment cell;   a hopper for covering the inverted treatment cell from below, the hopper having interiorly arranged a sprinkler for upwardly ejecting a cleaning water, the hopper further having a height adjustment mechanism; and   whereby the apparatus is configured to squirt an inside of an inverted treatment cell with water from the sprinkler in order to water-rinse the inside of the treatment cell.