Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tape feeder
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Application No.: US16207230Application Date: 2018-12-03
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Publication No.: US10694650B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Minoru Kitani
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Pearne & Gordon LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@623bdc60
- Main IPC: H05K13/04
- IPC: H05K13/04 ; B65H20/22

Abstract:
A tape feeder includes a tape guideway that has an insertion port, a first tape transporter that transports a leading tape to a component extraction position in the tape guideway, a second tape transporter that transports the following tape from the insertion port to the first tape transporter, a following tape holder that has a first supporter that supports one side of an uninserted portion of the following tape in a width direction from a lower side, and a second supporter that supports the other side of the uninserted portion in a width direction from the lower side, and holds the uninserted portion of the following tape, and a displacer that displaces the uninserted portion of the following tape from the following tape holder. A width of one end portion of the second supporter decreases toward the insertion port.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190200492A1 TAPE FEEDER Public/Granted day:2019-06-27
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